CleanLab

The Clean Lab at Mediamatic is a sterile laboratory workspace that facilitates the growing requirements of designers and artists who want to expand their work into biological fabrication. It is a clean space that makes use of disinfectants and a ‘sterile air laminar flow hood’, which keeps a constant stream of filtered air flowing through the lab. The clean airflow is vital for microbial work to keep out contaminants. Fungi, yeast, micro-organisms, bacteria, and algae are all living materials that we are able to work with.

Fermentation Lab

Our fermentation lab is a controlled kitchen environment, next to the 'clean' part of Mediamatic’s Clean Lab. This workspace is dedicated to our fermentation experiments and events. There you can distill your liquors, brew beer, grow Tempeh and build strange objects out of mycelium. It is a fermentation experimentation kitchen designed for biological work that does not require a sterile airflow.