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Waèl el Allouche
Artist and Designer Wael el Allouche (TN/NL) graduated from the design department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He is interested in the way abstractions, such as Data and Algorithms, shape reality...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Mily Bogaarts 3 Mar 2021
From Packaging to Beaver Skin
How to build a mycelium pigeon tower roof #1
The pigeon and the mycelium are in joint agreement. Pigeons don’t nest on soggy surfaces and mycelium prefers high humidity, but don’t like the wet. It is critical: The tower needs a roof. But what...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori3Jul 2021Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Reward of Patience
Myco-beauty
An important element with the Mycelium Pigeon Towers is patience. We waited about two weeks before we took off the tarp and we could see steam coming off. There was this white tower in front of us.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Defining the Shape
Square and Round
Building living architecture pairs with failure and errors, but we get more experienced with each tower. Over time we learned to better understand how the mycelium behaves and how to respond to that.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
The Power of Eight
From Octaves to Da Vinci
After the square and round tower try-out, we tried to build in an Octagonal shape. Finally we had succes! Apart from it being the right shape to keep the bricks together, the number 8 also became an...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Building-Blocks
Different ways to build an octagon
What is the most efficient way to come close to a circle, but still not use too many mycelium blocks? After some testing we found out an octagonal shape for the tower would fit our purpose best.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Observational Plant Drawing
with Annemarie Verschoor
A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions of plants and their anatomy, and you will...
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Nadine Schütz
Exhibition and Communications Intern
My name is Nadine and I recently graduated from the University of Art and Design in Linz (Austria) where I did a bachelor’s course in graphic design and photography. As an exhibition intern at...
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Structure
How to build a Mycelium Pigeon Tower #4
Does form follow function or should the function follow the form? Does any of this even matter and should we just think if it works it works?
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori19Sep 2020Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Growing lamps
And then there was... mycelium
In this post I will share how I made my first products from mycelium in the Mediamatic Clean Lab.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Freestyle Kintsugi – Summer Edition
- with Mariko Hori22Aug 2020Boring summer? Not at all. We take the holidays to make up for all the events that were cancelled due to Covid-19. August is summer workshop month at Mediamatic. Humans are not able to control...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Mending with Kintsugi
with Mariko Hori
How can you mend something broken into something even more beautiful? Kintsugi is a centuries old craftsmen's reparation technique where the cracks of a broken ceramic vessel are filled with Urushi
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Organization:
Makers4all
Non-profit help organisation
This is a collective of 'makers'. These makers have 3D-printers with which they make help-items for contact workers ( like nurses, doctors,...) This production is for the betterment of society, free...
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Marlon Mullen
De amerikaanse Marlon Mullen (1963) maakt schilderijen die hij baseert op het grafische ontwerp van kunsttijdschriften, waaronder het welbekende Artforum.
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Despitable Art
More artists. More chewing gum.
What would you do if a gigantic bubble gum, sticking between 2 buildings, obstructs the passage? Simone Decker , a Frankfurt-based artist, has made this dream or nightmare come true. She created this...
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Salivary Sample
Created spit by spit.
When I began my research. I dove in the deep and bought a lot of different gums. This was to compare the different brands and types of gum. Looking further than just the colorful packages, I tried...
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Tissue made by mouth & hands
Searching for undesired beauty.
For a long time, I've been annoyed by the ridiculous amount of gum sticks to the pavement. I hate it, even more, when people spit out their gum in a public space without any shame. It currently seems...
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Gumfusion
Material ex-spearmints.
Met uitzondering van bubbelgums hebben de meeste kauwgoms een harde kern of gombasis (sommigen hebben binnenin nog een vloeibare smaakstof) en zijn omhult door een glanzend suikerlaagje. De gum...
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Secretopic Research: Chewing Gum
A visual archive
Chewing gum has something mysterious about it. Although we all know it, we can say very little about it. Why don't we question it more? How did it begin? What are we chewing? Why do we chew it...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Sculpting Textiles
- with Margherita Soldati23Nov 2019How can one use unconventional materials and techniques to manipulate textile in a 3D shape, to create textures and patterns? During the workshop, artist Margherita Soldati will introduce you to...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Morphology of Fish: Amsterdam collection
2Nov 2019- by Mandy den Elzen26Oct 2020In her new installation, Mandy den Elzen shows a collection of fish gills, displayed in our Aquaponics greenhouse. Her work unveils the aesthetic side to an organ, that is normally only seen for its...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Floorplan Collection