Willem Velthoven

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Willem Velthoven with a bunch of dry Japanese knotweed - Willem chose the Japanese knotweed.  Sandra Ruiz Castroviejo

With: Willem Velthoven

I'm an award winning designer, learner and cultural enterpreneur. I co-founded Mediamatic in 1983. I worked as director of mediamatic till summer 2024 together with my co-founder Jans Possel. I am autistic and identify as male. Reach me at willem@velthoven.nl or +31-68115  0608.

At Mediamatic foundation, a art centre in Amsterdam, I'm co-responsible for general management, curatorial strategy and art direction.

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Willem Velthoven Portret 2018 -

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Willem Avatar 2008 - Nog niet jarig! Willem Velthoven

With: Willem Velthoven
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AnyMeta: anything is a thing! - Conceptual diagram of our semantic-web community management system. very 2.0 Willem Velthoven

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Willem at_the_Gastarbeiterdating -

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Willem at the Gastarbeider Dating -

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Willem at Ikikik - This photo was made with the ikCam during ikikik! (mememe!) at Mediamatic. Ikikik! was a user generated dress up party and exhibition about online identity and DIY fashion (2008).

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Willem at Ik R.I.P. - This photo was taken with the ikCam during Ik R.I.P. at Mediamatic. Ik R.I.P. was an exhibition about online presence after death (2009).

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Willem at WatSpinoza? - This photo was taken with the ikCam during WatSpinoza? at Mediamatic. WatSpinoza? is an interactive exhibition that provokes public discussion by confronting the people of Amsterdam with difficult questions. These questions are based on the body of thought of Spinoza (2009).

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Willem at Social RFID Hacker Camp ’09 -

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Valentijn en Erik checken de ikCam - De directie van het Nationaal Historisch Museum is welwillend geïnteresseerd in social media. Wat moeten we met dit soort installaties? Hmmmm...

With: Valentijn Byvanck, Erik Schilp
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RFIDprivacy Not - In the course of our RFID hacking workshop we are discovering that is easier to detect you tan we thought.

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Willem Velthoven with embroidered 404 - For Picnic Network 2006, I've made an embroidered 404. I hope you won't see it in function. But since we had to design and build the whole system at very short notice, it may happen sometimes:-) Marco Wessel

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Old media fun - We have some mirror door shelves at home. Kids love seeing themselves multiplied in them.

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www.picnicnetwork.org/id/5a41a8a8-92f2-1029-901b-0014385010dc at the Mediamatic ikCam -

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Willem Velthoven at Social RFID Hacker Camp ’09 -

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WillemSP2cam - Willem Velthoven

Attended:
Kom je ook? 1, Kom je ook? 2, Mediamatic HQ at Duintjer CS, Kom je ook? 4 – Apples and Pears, AR Dev Camp, Kom je ook? 6 - Oops, Kom je ook? - Buiten spelen met mobiele media, Sur Place, The Final Race, Dev Camp ’10 — IkSentric, Noord, Arcade SUPER
Looks after:
Dadaistische Typografie, Multimedia Graphics, De geschiedenis van de komma, Formwandlungen der Et-Zeichen, The Museum Galaxy, Wild Ideas, Hybrid Cultures, Berend Strik, Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Russian Self-Portraits, Mijn natuurkundeboek, Sabotage Handboek
Works for:
Mediamatic Foundation, Mediamatic Lab, Mediamatic Post CS
Fan of:
Opening Rembrandt Screen, Night Garden and Micro-Green Restaurant, Ikebana Competition, The Girlfriend Experience, Make your own sock puppet, Second Life - The Invasion of the Bacteria, Blogjects Lecture, Mediamatic Salon, Vergessene Fahnen (Forgotten Flags), It's Happening Now!, Reboot 9.0, Arduino & BlueTooth Workshop
Fans:
System Administrator, Ricard Gras, ReindeR Rustema, Corien Rodenburg, Paul Voogt, Kim Phu, Elena Perez, RAPHAEl CHIKUKWA, Robert Kluijver, Abir Boukhari, ma yan, Martijn van de Reep
Participant:
It's Happening Now!, Khatt, kufi & kaffiya, Processing with Casey Reas, El HEMA Koopavond 13, Game of War, What makes good toys?, Pelmeni (Russian Ravioli) workshop, BarCamp Amsterdam III, Avatars & Identity Crossing, Cultuur 3.0, Superimposing the Virtual, Andrea Crews opening performance
Access:
Kom je ook? 4 – Apples and Pears, Kom je ook? 6 - Oops, Kom Je Ook leren feesten?, Ignite Amsterdam 22, Waar komt mijn eten vandaan?, Gamification avond, Dinner at 19:00, Ignite Amsterdam 22, Kom je ook? 6 - Oops
Residences:
Groningen, Amsterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands, Geleen, Heerlen
Member:
El HEMA forum, forum ICT Delta 2009, Hacker Camp Forum ’09, Joseph M.W. Turner
Visitor:
Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS, Mediamatic HQ at Duintjer CS, Mediamatic HQ, KPN Mobile, Damascus, Syria, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Lima, Peru
Admission:
Ignite Amsterdam 22, Ignite Amsterdam 26, Opening of the Freezing Favela restaurant, Echokamer #3: Zeno van den Broek, Favelous presents: Naughty Cuisine, Shaping Micro-Organisms

Contact information

  • Willem Velthoven
  • Postbus 17490
  • 1001JL
  • Amsterdam
  • NL

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