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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense
- with Niklaus Mettler26Jun 2021Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. It is used as a time measurement, as an insect repellent or it serves as a portal to connect...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense
- with Niklaus Mettler5Jun 2021Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. It is used as a time measurement, as an insect repellent or it serves as a portal to connect...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense - Guest Series
- with Niklaus Mettler and guest Waèl el Allouche1Jan 4300Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. In this series we invite various guests to shine light on cultures of incense smoking as an...
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Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijkspark Lisa Witte
Doubts about Casting Doubt
To what extent can you restore a work before you affect its authenticity?
Casting Doubt is an art project created by Masha Ru and Jasmin Moeller. The open-air project consists of a series of flowerbeds, each with a self-reflective question on the side, formed by pins. By...
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Redolent of the Past
Smell, Memory and Affect
The viscerality and embodiedness of olfactory experience is unrivaled by other senses. We introduce to you the role of smell in the formation and recall of memories and its affective powers in our...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense - Guest Series
- with Niklaus Mettler and guest Mariko Hori1Jan 4300Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. In this series we invite various guests to shine light on cultures of incense smoking as an...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense - Guest Series
- with Niklaus Mettler and guest Digna Tjon A San1Jan 4300Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. In this series we invite various guests to shine light on cultures of incense smoking as an...
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The Code Noir: A brief, yet powerful history
Winston Churchill famously said that “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Our upcoming NeoFuturist Dinner touches on the importance of learning from our collective...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Nosetaglia
The Temporary Museum of Smelly Toys
Many of us grew up with smelly toys. Who doesn’t remember play-doh, inflatable pools, and the chipped paint on tiny wooden cars? And a whiff of plastic can take us back to our childhood. “The smell...
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Secretions of Disappearing Bodies
When we think about secretions, the first thing that comes to mind could be sweat or piss. “Secretion” sounds like something that is produced by a living body. But what happens when we think of this...
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Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball
Food is both fuel and identity
A blog for Code Noir
In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Odor Ludens
- Exploring the fragrance of toys. Odorama 40 with Frank Bloem, Alissa Rees, Caro Verbeek, Thijs de Zeeuw, and Jonathan Kok Wai Ho27Aug 2020In Odor Ludens we explore the fragrance of toys through the perspectives of various artists: Curator Frank Bloem , healthcare designer Alissa Rees , scent historian Caro Verbeek , landscape...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense
with Niklaus Mettler
Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. It is used as a time measurement, as an insect repellent or it serves as a portal to connect...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense
- with Niklaus Mettler12Dec 2020Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. It is used as a time measurement, as an insect repellent or it serves as a portal to connect...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense
- with Niklaus Mettler19Sep 2020Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. It is used as a time measurement, as an insect repellent or it serves as a portal to connect...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Designing Incense - Summer Edition
- with Niklaus Mettler8Aug 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. Incense is an ancient form...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
POSTPONED | Designing Incense
- with Niklaus Mettler28Mar 2020Read here about our recent measures regarding COVID-19 Incense can be used as an insect repellent, to mask a foul smell or as a way to connect with the divine. In fact, the word “incense” is...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem16Feb 2020In this workshop, artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop you will have...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem15Mar 2020In this workshop, artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop you will have...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem19Jan 2020In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
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Of mothballs and grandma
Camphor's history with the Dutch
Cinnamomum Camphora , the fragrant camphor tree. A possibly large evergreen tree, with pale bark and dots of white flowers which will eventually bloom into small purple berries. While sight of the...
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Aboard a passenger-liner-turned-hospital-ship
The Oranje
Smelly business did not remain in the pre-modern era. It is very much a modern phenomenon just as well. One point of interest for us scent-hunters is the MS Oranje. A 20,166-ton ship, in its hay-day...
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Mediamatic Biotoop, Oosterdok
Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok
This open call is closed
Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem8Dec 2019In this workshop, artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop you will have...