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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Darning
3Apr 2024Come and learn the art of darning, a time-tested technique for repairing holes in your favourite garments. Bronwen practices this technique visibly as a way to reclaim and celebrate our beloved...
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Dorian de Rijk
Artist/Curator
A Master's graduate from the Film Academy in 2016, Dorian clinched the AHK Eindwerkprijs with her graduation film "Valerius." Since then, she has delved into various film and social design projects.
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet-a-Maker: Vera Lelie
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Vera Lelie is open...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet-a-Maker: Yvonne Dröge Wendel
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Yvonne Dröge Wendel...
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Clemens Tomlow
Clemens Tomlow is an alumni from Design Academy Eindhoven. He graduated with his work “monster under the bed” which is a project about otherness and finding your voice in the world of normality. ...
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Across the Multiverse
Chris Martin's poetic way to a neurodiverse future
Chris Martin is a poet and an educator. What's unique in his practice that resonates with our attention to autistic minds and neurodiversity?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at the Japanese Knotweed Symposium
Knotweed on a pedestal
We look back at a two-day gathering with researchers, designers, and artists, which aimed to explore Japanese knotweed and our relationship with this contested plant. Japanese knotweed was put on a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
22Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
30Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
29Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
15Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
23Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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373 words to insult a plant
In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad
Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...
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Understanding Japanese knotweed
In conversation with Virgile Durando
Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
14Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Harvesting Knotweed Responsibly
Please prevent unintended spreading of knotweed
Japanese Knotweed is a hyper-local resource in the Netherlands, and a wonderful edible and medicinal plant, full of beneficial qualities. However, it is important to approach harvesting with caution...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Exhibitions
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Japanese Knotweed Symposium
14Apr 202315Apr 2023Mediamatic invited experts and creatives from various disciplines to discuss all things Japanese knotweed. We will unpack the plant that is so often described as invasive. The symposium focussed on...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Paper Making Workshop
16Apr 2023Touch, feel and enjoy the texture of Japanese Knotweed fibre and learn how to make paper in a workshop led by Marieke de Hoop of PapierLab and Lucie Havel . Y ou will make paper with three or four...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freedom Meal
5May 2023Artists Aslı Hatipoğlu (Thailand/Turkey), Alaa Abu Asad (Palestine/Netherlands) and Uno Fujisawa (Japan/Netherlands) have put together a special Freedom Meal at Mediamatic. Join us and be part of...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Knotweed Mosaic
14Apr 202330Apr 2023The open studio of designer Virgile Durando shows an array of different applications of Japanese Knotweed stems. From weaves to joints and from marquetry to complete furniture, these diverse...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Invasive Energy Harvesting: EROI Drink
14Apr 202325Jun 2023EROI Drink ( エロいドリンク ) is an energy drink made from invasive Japanese Knotweed harvested within the Netherlands. By focusing on unpolluted strains obtained through water companies and a nature...
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Mediamatic Eten Luna Thissen
The Dog Dinner v0.8
17Jan 2023Mediamatic has joined forces with academic and artist Eva Meijer to organise a dinner experience for dogs and their human companions. This is a report about our first internal beta test edition that...