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The Finger Rub Rug
When enclosed in a room with a rug made of silicone fingers, it is difficult to remain neutral. Whether it be humour or disgust, Dima's installation invites the audience to act on their response as...
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Raw Materials
All the Materials used during a workshop
The material collection is the core of the Aroma Lab and covers with more than 300 raw materials the basic range of synthetic- and natural's used in perfumery. The materials we use for the Open Aroma...
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Fashion Your Sweat
Alice Potts is a biomaterial designer fascinated by sweat. By f ashioning this vital bodily fluid into crystals for garments, shoes and sportswear, Potts asks us to reconsider the potential of our...
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Lisa Witte
Exhibition Assistant
Restorator, (online) curator and copywriter for Mediamatic, with an interest for publicparticipation and multisensory applications.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Nature Network
Mycorrhizal fungi and their function
As I wrote, fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The third big group is mycorrhizal fungi. Which to me is the most inspiring group. It is the fungi that is connected to plants.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Guards and Guides
Parasitic fungi and their function
Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The second big group is parasitic fungi. Of course, there are parasitic species for every organism, but they are mainly related to insects.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Nature's janitors and Remediation
Saprophytic fungi and their function
Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. There are also some in-between types of fungi, but let's, for now, talk about these three. The first group is saprophytic fungi. They are...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Five kingdoms and Three terms
The fungi, the mycelium and the mushroom
First, let's tackle the fungi. Fungi are one of the species of the five kingdoms and it is the closest one to Animalia, ergo animals, including humans. Animals even evolved out of the fungi. That's...
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Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks
Yellow
Feb '21 – Pigeon Tower 06
The construction of this tower is mainly focused on speed and efficiency. It is a simple square design so we did not have to trim the blocks. To press them we organized a ‘Gentle Disco’. We gently...
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Casting Doubt plants
64 plants to learn what kind of Artist you would have been
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Illiana Somoroff
Neo Futurist Dinner Intern
My name is Illiana Somoroff and I am currently in my last bachelor year at Amsterdam University College, studying culture and anthropology. I was born and raised in New York City but my Dutch...
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Projecten
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Clean Lab
Credits
Thank you!
We would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors, and participants.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Geschiedenis
Aroma Lab
In 2017 is het Aroma Lab opgezet voor ontwerpers die willen experimenteren met geur. Klara Ravat was de eerste gebruiker van het lab. Zij was in 2017 de artist-in-residence.
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Pigeon Towers across the world
A visual collection
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Haeckel Hunt
1Mar 20213Mar 2022Available in the App Store and Google Play store ! This Augmented Reality app adds an extra dimension to the Haeckel scavenger hunt we have set out in the Oosterdok area. Search for the eye-catching...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
T - Designing Incense - Guest Series
1Jan 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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Presentation:
Oedipus Friendshop
26Nov 202031Dec 2020Oedipus turned their location on Javaplein into a market filled with their friends from across their galaxy. In addition to fine (and live) brews, you’ll find art, music, food, and all your heart...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Mycelium Pigeon Towers
13Nov 2020After we picked up the Mycelium Blocks and pressed them - we are ready to build another tower. This time we decided to try a different shape because (...)
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12. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks
Mycelium Pigeon Towers
1Oct 20211Oct 2031New pigeon towers emerge as old ones slowly collapse into fertile soil at the Biotoop. These structures are an ongoing experiment to build with living mycelium waste from oyster mushroom farms.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Messages from the Myco-Assemblage
11Dec 2020Friday afternoon, Arne and Dominik will discuss their attempt to build structures with living mycelium waste. What have they learned? What are the challenges? And what stories have emerged so far?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark 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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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots
2Dec 2020It's obvious that we should re-think our destructive consumption behaviours, and mycelium could be the answer. The living organism can be shaped into various shapes to create products that are 100%...
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Feeling pigeon today?
Creating a Facefilter
How does it feel to be a pigeon? Of course, nobody can ever tell, and probably even each pigeon on its own feels different about it. But to support the feeling to be part of the pigeon community I...