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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nesie Wang
The Mind Garden Project
- A/artist Roundtable13Mar 2023A/artist is planning to start a new project, Mind Garden, to explore connections between gardening and neurodiversity. In this roundtable, we would like to have an open discussion on how the garden...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Japanese Knotweed Symposium
14Apr 2023- Lets talk Japanese knotweed!15Apr 2023Over the course of two days Mediamatic invites experts and creatives from various disciplines to discuss all things Japanese knotweed. During the event we will unpack the plant that so often is...
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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Knotweed Burek Exchange
11Apr 2023- with Krater22Apr 2023Japanese knotweed can’t be sold for consumption in the European Union. Only the extract from its roots in its purest form, resveratol, is traded on the international market. In the knotweed Borek...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Liberation Day Dinner
- Japanese Knotweed Festival5May 2023During the 5th of May liberation celebration, Mediamatic will host a lunch and dinner focusing on using Japanese Knotweed as an ingredient for different dishes. The event will concentrate on...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alaa Abu Asad
The Dog Chased its Tail To Bite it Off
14Apr 2023- Exhibition by Alaa Abu Asad18Jun 2023How does language shape our perception of reality? What are the words we use to interpret invasive species? What are its connotations? How do we become aware of the language we use and its influence...
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AI, autism and creativity - does it matter if…
- A/artist roundtable about Lynn’s diagnostic interview with ChatGPT30Jan 2023A few months ago, A/artist colleague Lynn Clemens published a blogpost about her experimental diagnostic interview with the AI text generator ChatGPT. She concluded that despite the limitations that...
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The Links between Tattoo Culture and Autism
Beautiful stimming; the experience of getting a tattoo and giving a tattoo as an autistic person
Our latest interest within the A/artist Project is researching the link between the tattoo culture and autism. The idea came up when I mentioned in my interview at Mediamatic that I do stick and poke...
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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Japanese Knotweed Festival
Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Linking Tattooing with Autism
- A/artist Round Table13Feb 2023We've found a positive correlation between tattooing and autism and want to deepen our knowledge about it. I will present my own experience as an amateur stick and poke tattoo artist. Furthermore, I'...
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Words, randomness and rules
A/artist roundtable with Arjan van Amsterdam
Arjan van Amsterdam is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. During this round table discussion, he introduced us to his work, from his application to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy up...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Grieving, Healing, Laughing
- Project Presentation with Qiaochu Guo, Sophia Schullan, Ginevra Petrozzi and Cecilia Casabona23Feb 2023As our lives are eminently filled with times of grief, pain and loss, three artists suggest ways to navigate our pain. How do we heal after a loss? Can other people help? Is it fair to still have fun?
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Book Club: Visual Thinking
A/artist roundtable about Temple Grandin's newest book
Temple Grandin is a famous American academic, animal behaviourist, and autism spokesperson. Her new book, 'Visual Thinking', published in October 2022, is the latest in her series of books exploring...
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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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Proposal by: Lucia Babina
Nodes
Project Proposal: An international mutual aid hospitality network and practice for mid-career artists: menopausal women, queer and more-than-strange humans
The NODES PROJECT is an artistic output focused network of inhabited homes/live-work spaces providing hosting for artists who, due to the precarious conditions we experience in our careers, require...
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Proposal by: Natascha Nanji
Welcome to Studio Swan
Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition
Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...
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Proposal by: Leo Kay
The Acid House Of Ideas
Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.
A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...
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Proposal by: Sophia Schullan
Form Follows Fun
Project Proposal: Form Follows Fun – Finding Fun In Everyday Life
‘Form Follows Fun’ would be a talk hosted in the Mediamatic facilities. Its goal is not only to spread fun and entertainment but more importantly to give others the tools to create fun and...
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Proposal by: Debra Solomon
Repair Camp
Project Proposal: Material Ecofeminism Edition (ME2)
Part summer camp, re-education camp, and rehab, REPAIR CAMP - MATERIAL ECOFEMINIST EDITION is a 7-day live-in programme for ≤12 participants designed to repair and prepare lives and institutions...
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Robin Waart is an artist who makes books who…
A/artist roundtable with Robin Waart
Robin Waart is an Amsterdam–based artist. During our discussion round he let us browse through six of his printed projects. They are collections of movie stills and book pages that deal with themes...
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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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Kees Boele
De Fungi Trail is een programmasamenwerking tussen de Hortus, Mediamatic en Micropia. Van half september tot oktober worden er podcasts, rondleidingen, workshops, diners, kinderactiviteiten en...
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Pascal Leboucq
De Fungi Trail is een programmasamenwerking tussen de Hortus, Mediamatic en Micropia. Van half september tot oktober worden er podcasts, rondleidingen, workshops, diners, kinderactiviteiten en...
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Bob Hendrikx
Loop of Life
Foto van Loop of Life website: https://www.loop-of-life.com/