Visitor Information

Tickets | Free Entrance Event - RSVP

Program Timeline:

18:30 - 19:00: Doors open 
19:00 - 20:00: Are you a feeder? - Thijs de Zeeuw, Jolanda Verspagen and The Gramounce (Talk)
20:00 - 21:30: Seaweed Becomings - Salicornia Studio with TestTafel (Tasting/Spatial Installation)

Ongoing:
20:00 - 21:30: Embodying the Willow Ecosystem - Andela Zora Brnas (Spatial Installation/ Performance)
20:00 - 21:30: vocal fold tension mismatch - sikau/pubalova (Exhibition)
20:00 - 21:30: A Slime Mold Workshop - Ringailė Demšytė (Workshop)
20:00 - 22:30: Multispecies Karaoke - Niek Hilkmann and Mathijs van Oosterhoudt (Interactive Installation)

Programme

Are you a feeder?

by Thijs de Zeeuw in collaboration with Jolanda Verspagen and The Gramounce

Taking place in the Barn, this talk brings together participants from The Gramounce’s Alt Food and Art Master for their first-year residency at Mediamatic. Organized by landscape architect Thijs de Zeeuw and joined by aquatic biologist Jolanda Verspagen, the event dives into how eating defines us as animals. We eat to survive, to transform, to meet, to share, and even to consume one another. Food often serves as a tool of control and affection in our relationships with other species; we feed ducks in parks, design feeders for garden birds, pamper our pets, and leave waste that helps rats thrive. Through feeding, we select who we care for and who we ignore, yet we almost never feed the fish. This afternoon, we gather to search for the love of fish and uncover the feeder within ourselves. Do you experience affection or discomfort when you feed another creature?

Guests are invited to bring something they would like to share with the fish as we explore these questions over talks and bites, joining together to make odd kin.

Enlarge

Seaweed Becomings

by Salicornia Studio in collaboration with TestTafel

Federico Rizzo came to Mediamatic to study the diet of the species living beneath the waterline in the Oosterdok area. The residency culminates in a special tasting centered around Seaweed Becomings, a sculptural installation and performative dining experience created in collaboration with TestTafel. At its center sits a hand-cast table and seating crafted from lime mortar, sand dredged from the adjacent canal, local algae, and urban sediment, bringing a material record of the Amsterdam waterways directly into the cultural space. 

This tasting experience is entirely vegan. A full collaborative dinner with TestTafel will also take place on the same day starting at 17:00 (more information coming soon).

Enlarge

Embodying the Willow Ecosystem

by Anđela Zora Brnas

Enlarge

A Slime Mold Workshop

by Ringailė Demšytė  

What happens when you let a living organism design type?
How can non-human organisms become part of the creative process? Join this hands-on workshop in our Border Lab as Ringailė introduces you to the world of Physarum polycephalum also known as slime mould and its use within experimental design, bioart, and visual research.

Enlarge

Multispecies Karaoke

by Niek Hilkmann and Mathijs van Oosterhoudt

Sing, howl, or quack along with the multispecies karaoke. The Multispecies Karaoke will make you feel like a different creature. The system uses images and sounds to help you imitate other animals, such as wolves, frogs, and starlings. How good are you at being non-human?

This karaoke is a piece of interactive software, which visualizes animal calls and songs as lyrics and spectograms, and tracks your imitation of them. Up to two users can sing in a microphone at the same time, and work together to get the best score. We've been adding features and new animals to the project for a little over a year now. The prototype of the work has been shown at places such as Creative Coding Utrecht, Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam and the Vroege Vogels Festival. 

Enlarge

noise to vibrato

by sikau/pubalova 

Following a month on view at Mediamatic, noise to vibrato by sikau/půbalová, Amos Peled, and Denis Połec closes with an interactive finissage. Visitors are invited into our Haptic Lab to directly engage with a living, soft-bodied installation that wrinklingly ages and sounds from within. You can kneel beside, sit with, or hold its tactile membranes, tending to the autonomous body while listening through touch. By resting bone-conducting speakers against your chin, internal peristaltic movements and metabolic sounds transmit directly as physical vibrations through the bones of your face. Experience an inversion of noise-canceling technology, where normally ignored bodily noises become a live, shared signal for one final day. 

Enlarge

Questions? Feel free to reach out to: program@mediamatic.nl

This event is made possible thanks to the support of: 

Enlarge