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Eating the future
Exploring food beyond the plate
Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future? In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Museumnacht voor Blinden & Slechtzienden
- Ontdek Mediamatic10Nov 2018Op 10 november herontdekken we de museumnacht, met alle zintuigen behalve onze ogen. Deze avond wordt speciaal georganiseerd voor mensen met een visuele beperking. Kom naar Mediamatic en ervaar de...
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Isabel Burr Raty
Isabel Burr Raty is an independent filmmaker and performance artist. She is fascinated by the hybrid nature of female sexual organs. In her artistic research she interweaves new media, body/live art
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Waag Society
The Beauty Kit Focus Group at the Waag Society
- With Isabel Burr Raty15Nov 2018On October 11th, Isabel Burr Raty, who is in residence at both Mediamatic and The Waag this year, will be presenting her first Beauty Kit Focus Group. In this project, artist Isabel Burr Raty...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Museumnacht Amsterdam Blind
3Nov 2018- Ontdek Mediamatic zonder zicht4Nov 2018Op 3 november ontdekken we de museumnacht met alle zintuigen behalve onze ogen. Kom naar Mediamatic en ervaar de beroemdste kunstwerken in het donker. Proef verschillende gerechten die zonder zicht...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Natural Soap-Making
- Make Soap from Scratch (Cold Process) with Liza Witte14Oct 2018During this workshop you will learn how to make your own natural soap from scratch. You are guided into making your first own block, and learn how to do it yourself. Under expert eyes of product...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Natural Soap-Making
- Make Soap from Scratch (Cold Process) with Liza Witte9Sep 2018During this workshop you will learn how to make your own natural soap from scratch. You are guided into making your first own block, and learn how to do it yourself. Under expert eyes of product...
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What makes the essence of a city?
Diffusion: Essence de Rabot by Yeb Wiersma and Lotte Geeven
Diffusion: Essence de Rabot is a project by Dutch multidisciplinary artists Yeb Wiersma and Lotte Geeven . It is about capturing the scent of a certain day, of emotions, and of a city through the...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Natural Soap-Making
- Make Soap from Scratch (Cold Process) Liza Witte28Jul 2018During this workshop you will learn how to make your own natural soap from scratch. You are guided into making your first own block, and learn how to do it yourself. Under expert eyes of product...
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Capturing human scent through enfleurage
In reference to Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum
To smell culture and our own Odorama series, Patrick S ü skind’s Das Parfum (or Perfume: Story of a Murderer) can be considered as our cult classic. It tells us a story of a man with a superhuman...
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When can we start to objectify our hair?
Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar
Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...
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Cuban Blood Sausages
Blood Sausage Performance by ENEMA Art Collective
Although we live in a world filled with different cultures, cuisines, and languages, there is one dish that is shared among cultures and one that has lasted through different traditions. That dish is...
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Organization:
Etiket
What do we do each morning when we get up? What do we do each night before we go to sleep? And what do we do in between to help ourselves look and feel better about who we are? The answers to each of...
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Intimate Currency
Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim
With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...
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Visiting Hours
Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday between 14.00 and 16.00, you are very welcome to step by our Open Aroma Lab. Smell our selection of aroma-molecules, learn about working with scent as a...
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Neo Futurist Dinner 6 Mediamatic Biotoop
A La Mano
26Sep 2018- Neo Futurist Dinner 6: Extending taste to Touch in six courses29Sep 2018In this six course dinner, Italian food designer Giulia Soldati and chef Tommaso Buresti present a culinary experience that extends taste to touch. No cutlery and plates are involved, instead our...
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The Dirt We Carry
Self Portrait by Amanda Cotton
For three months, Amanda Cotton documented her life using her face wipes for her ‘Self Portrait’ . These face wipes not only show the removed makeup, but also the dirt and oil that is inevitably...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Playhouse: How Not to Hurt Yourself and Others
- with Kendra Gaeta, Julianne Lee, Maxwell Williams, and Saskia Wilson-Brown16Jul 2018Always wanted to set up your own at-home perfume lab? Great! Let's show you how. This night is all about making Lab-safety fun, while teaching you how not to hurt yourself and others. You will...
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How to Cook with Semen
Semenology and The Natural Harvest Cookbooks by Paul Photenhauer
At what point does the taboo of consuming human secretions start and end? Taboos such as these perhaps become normalized as sexual fetishes. From there on we would think ‘ah right, just one of those...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Tiger Penis: The Future of Chinese Medicine
- Workshop by Kuang-Yi Ku6Oct 2018In traditional Chinese medicine, Yi Xing Bu Xing, means eating an animal organ to nourish the corresponding human organ. In this workshop you will be guided into making your own (vegan) aphrodisiac.
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Summer 2018
Overview of our all our Art Olfaction Amsterdam events
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Scent Design
- Make Your Own Perfume8Apr 2018During this workshop, you will develop your own unique scent together with olfactory artist Klara Ravat . You will explore a variety of different scents and learn various tricks that help you...
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Neo Futurist Dinner 4 Mediamatic Biotoop
Endor-Fine Dining
14Mar 2018- Neo Futurist Dinner #4 with Schueller de Waal and Haagse Hapjes17Mar 2018Boost your happiness hormones in an adventurous but light-hearted dinner experience. With Endor-Fine Dining, 14, 15, 16, 17 March, fashion designers Schueller de Waal and food designers Rosa Hagen...
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Research Internship: Secretopia
Research on the wonders of bodily secretions in art and science
Secretopia is Mediamatic’s inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts...