Autism
Autistic ASS
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Making 'Penny for your Thoughts' more accessible
A/Artist roundtable about funding applications
During this roundtable, we talked about Mediamatic's open call for project proposals, 'Penny for your Thoughts' . What thoughts do the neurodiverse artists around the table have about the application...
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The Ins and Outs of Stimming
Sensing Self through Movement roundtable
Before the public event Sensing Self through Movement , we invited our three speakers for a roundtable dinner with the A/Artist team and artists from our network. We talked about a number of topics...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Mind my Mind with Peter Wassink
- A/Artist roundtable19Sep 2022Animator Peter Wassink joined us at the A/Artist roundtable to talk about his work on the film Mind my Mind (2019) by director Floor Adams. Mind my Mind delves into the mind of Chris, a man...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Opening: Playful Jewelry for the Inner World
- Celebrate the opening of Wei Min Zhu's exhibition, and join the Gentle Disco after!26Aug 2022Celebrate the opening of Playful Jewelry for The Inner World on Friday, Aug. 26. At 4:30 p.m., artist Wei Min Zhu will share something about her work and process and after we invite you to toast with...
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A/artist presentation and discussion Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sensing Self through Movement
- With Wei Min Zhu, Ludmila Rodrigues and Jenny Konrad5Sep 2022Three artists share their perspective on work that involves motion and the mind. With the A/Artist program, we're exploring neurodiverse experience in the practice of the arts. We discover the power...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Playful Jewelry for the inner world
26Aug 2022- Wei Min Zhu1May 2023'Playful Jewelry for the Inner World' is a collection of silver jewelry that invites the wearer to move meditatively. The rhythmic movements bring you closer to your inner world, make you more aware...
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How do you identify?
Finding the right words to communicate your identity to the world can be useful for anybody. You get to identify yourself and name your identity in a way that fits. You also get to share that...
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Patricia Ranft
Author and Professor of History
Patricia Ranft is a professor emeritus at Michigan State University and the author of various books, including 'Women and the religious life in premodern Europe' and 'Women and spiritual equality in...
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Was Hildegard von Bingen Autistic?
A summary of 'Ruminations on Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and autism' by Patricia Ranft
Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th century German nun, and one of the most influential women of her time. She wrote several scientific treatises, composed music, and invented her own language, all of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
NFTs and crypto
- A/Artist roundtable25Jul 2022During this A/Artist discussion round, analyst Sven (name changed for privacy) and designer Arjan van Amsterdam gave a presentation about a very timely topic: non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. We...
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Inspiring confusion with photographs
A/Artist discussion round with Marna Slappendel
Marna Slappendel is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. Since she received her autism diagnosis five years ago, she has evolved from knowing nearly nothing about it to researching and learning about...
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Using autism to imagine alternative worlds
A/Artist discussion round with research duo Liminal Vision
Liminal Vision is a creative research duo consisting of artistic maker Victor Evink and film maker Emilia Tapprest. Victor is open about his autism diagnosis, while Emilia is not on the spectrum.
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Can an Artwork be Autistic?
Using keywords to identify autistic characteristics in artworks
Repetition, extreme consistency, radical truth, cataloging, systematising, questioning, over- and understimulation. All of these words are part of a list the A/Artist team brainstormed last year...
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We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…
Project Nursery
There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended. Penny for your Thoughts is our project nursery
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Processing Stimuli through Drawings
A/artist discussion about art, self-perception and inclusion
Visual artist Ida (name changed for privacy) gave a presentation about her work and her artistic process. Ida's work consists of drawings of impressions from her daily runs, which she constructs...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anna Lina Litz
Discussing Art, Autism and Subsidies
- How can art funds become more accessible for neurodiverse applicants?28Feb 2022On Monday the 28th of February artists from the Mediamatic network gathered to discuss the topic of art and autism for the first time since last summer. The evening started with artist Laura (name...
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The artistic/autistic: The work of Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman once famously said: “If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.” Living a retreated life on his ranch in New Mexico, Nauman’s work...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Linh Nguyen
"But you don't look autistic at all" Book Review
I finished Bianca Toeps’ “but you don’t look autistic at all” book on a sunny, but cold afternoon.
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Language used to discuss autism
Which is correct: an autistic person or a person with autism?
I was spending the first week of my internship reading blogs, scientific papers, or articles. Things were going well, I was easing myself into the structure of a 9 to 5.
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Gender-biased research
Can women be autistic?
Two weeks into my research and I'm falling down a rabbit hole. Admittedly, before diving into this project, I have little to no knowledge about autism. Then with the amount of bombarded information...
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A/artist Blog
About Autism / ADD in the Arts and Culture
At Mediamatic we're developing a platform for neurodiverse artists and designers. We'll be focusing those who identify as/with the ASS (Autism) and ADD spectrum. How can we better value the...
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March - Nov 2021
Linh Nguyen
Autistic Artist Researcher and Programs and Events Assistant
My name is Linh. I'm 21, born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I'm completing the last year of my Communication science Bachelor degree at the University of Amsterdam. I wrote my thesis on...
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Tessa van Leeuwen
Cognitive neuroscientist specializing in synaesthesia
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De autist die een diervriendelijk slachthuis…
Ze behaalde een PhD in dierwetenschappen en ontwierp dankzij haar autisme een veel beter model voor slachthuizen. Temple Grandin is volgens velen een van de meest opmerkelijke autisten op aarde. Zie...