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Project: Annelies Wina Doom 16 Oct 2021
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Annelies Wina Doom scrolls the internet
For the Inhuman Carnaval Costume Lab, Mediamatic asked Doom to help our participants gain some inspiration. She made a series of recorded explorations of the visual beauty of nature by smartly...
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Can an Artwork be Autistic?
Using keywords to identify autistic characteristics in artworks
Repetition, extreme consistency, radical truth, cataloging, systematising, questioning, over- and understimulation. All of these words are part of a list the A/Artist team brainstormed last year...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Costume Lab
W e are hosting an Open Costume Lab where we invite fashion designers, artists and complete beginners, to make costumes of amazing species from our ecosystem. There is room for experimentation and...
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We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…
Project Nursery
There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended. Penny for your Thoughts is our project nursery
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Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link
Becoming magnesium
Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?
Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor3Jul 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor5Jun 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Processing Stimuli through Drawings
A/artist discussion about art, self-perception and inclusion
Visual artist Ida (name changed for privacy) did a presentation about her work and her artistic process. Ida's work consists of drawings of impressions from her daily runs, which she constructs using...
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Chiesetta della Misericordia Willem Velthoven
When the body says Yes
23Apr 2022- Dutch contribution to the Venice Biennale 202227Nov 2022Melanie Bonajo: "It is essentially a cuddle space which centralizes the clitoris as the epicentre of social design and a place for worship"
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building with Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks and Aya Kone26Aug 2022Pigeons are seriously underappreciated. That's a mistake. Not only are they incredible navigators, fantastic cleaners-up of street left-overs, powerful cultural metaphors of hope and peace, and a...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building with Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks and Aya Kone29Jul 2022Pigeons are seriously underappreciated. That's a mistake. Not only are they incredible navigators, fantastic cleaners-up of street left-overs, powerful cultural metaphors of hope and peace, and a...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building with Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks and Aya Kone24Jun 2022Pigeons are seriously underappreciated. That's a mistake. Not only are they incredible navigators, fantastic cleaners-up of street left-overs, powerful cultural metaphors of hope and peace, and a...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building With Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks27May 2022We're building towers for feral pigeons with waste mycelium from an oyster mushroom farmer. Building with living stuff is challenging but fun and a great reminder that it is not all about control or...
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Project proposal: Alena Grahn
Erotic Ecology & Our Human Bodies
This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...
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Project proposal: Si Knight
Multisensory Listening Rituals for Reducing Stress
As you may well have experienced, life today can be very stressful. As a result of this, many people are currently in desperate need of finding ways to reduce their stress levels. Yet contemporary...
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Project proposal: Pauline Rip
Cooking Ghosts
How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? "Cooking Ghosts" is a project based on research done by...
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Project proposal: René Nissen, Avery Franken
Disrupting Citizenship – Arrhythmia as the Urban…
The world around us may make us feel like we are required to be our most “productive” selves, and like “unproductive” behaviour is penalised. These rules can be written – a contract, for example, may...
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Project Proposal: Lena Trost
(Digital) Glass Tasting
My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...
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Project proposal: Jennifer Kumer
When My Time Comes: an End-of-Life Conversation…
How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...
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Project proposal: Margherita Falqui
Liquid Maquis
Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it.
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Project proposal: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo
Chili Pepper Pleasure
Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...
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Project proposal: Nina Anin
Wind Airwave transmission
WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...
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Project proposal: Mario Mimoso
Floating Havens
Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
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Project proposal: Azucena Sánchez
Oak Tales: Genomic Soundscapes
Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...