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Stories of Coca
Controversies in Usage from South-America to Western Europe
It is one of the most consumed drugs worldwide. Yet, when considering that it is forbidden in the Netherlands, it is difficult to picture how "cocaine is the most seized drug" here ( Sawbridge 2019...
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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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A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine
A blog for Code Noir
Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, 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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MediaMasquerade
Dress-up workshops with Taka Taka and Niki Milioni
MediaMasquerade is a series of dress up and roleplaying workshops open to all genders, sexualities, and ages, made in collaboration with gender clown Taka Taka and designer Niki Milioni . In the...
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2020 Tobias Servaas, Queer Currents
Queer Currents
Mediamatic is the stage for three panel discussions and an exhibition of Queer Currents, a wave of queer expressions in preparation for the Gay Pride.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pride
18Jul 2020- MediaMasquerade & Queer Currents2Aug 2020There is no parade this year, but we still think it is important to celebrate identity in all its facets. That is why Mediamatic has a program during the pride week that gives an ode to the...
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Diversity mission
As a progressive public cultural institution, we find diversity, in all its facets, essential. We actively strive to raise awareness and implement a more transversal and integrated way of thinking...
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Pierre Valkering
Theologian, Author and Roman Catholic priest
Pierre Theodorus Valkering (1960) is a theologian, author and Roman Catholic priest. He studied in Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Rome. He graduated 1988. He became a pastoral worker for the R.C. Church...
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Simone Weil
De filosofische marsman
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was activist en een politiek filosoof die religie, haar lichaam en de maatschappij probeerde te doorgronden. Haar werk wordt door verschillende auteurs 'autistisch...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Uitnodiging: Lenteviering
21Mar 2020We nodigen je uit voor onze buurt lenteviering. Op 21 maart kun je bij ons genieten van een drankje en meer leren over de planten die beginnen te te groeien op Dijksgracht. We hebben plantenbordjes...
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Justine Magnat-Biermé
Graphic Design Intern
French graphic designer, originally from the suburbs of Paris, is currently finishing a master in the pretty town of Amiens, in the north of France .
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Dutch Pavilion Venice
Cinema Olanda at Venice Biennale
13May 2017- Nederlandse bijdrage onderzoekt postkoloniale geschiedenis van klein westers landje26Nov 2017Wendelien van Oldenborgh mocht dit jaar Nederland vertegenwoordigen in Venetië. Ze maakte een paar films over de nederlandese maatschappij aan het eind van de twintigste eeuw.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Warm up for the Global Warm up!
- Night Garden 10 - with Fabian Reichle, Juliette Lizotte, Avoidstreet and PUB Radio16Mar 2019The Global Warm Up committee and PUB radio invites you to join an evening of audio and garment explorations around Climate Change. Facebook / Free Entrance ( RSVP )
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Body in Revolt x ADE
- ICK & Amsterdam Dance Event at Mediamatic18Oct 2018“The body is a curious and revelatory body, and above all a social body that is sensitive to changes in society” (Greco & Scholten) Why do we dance? What do you dance for? What is your dance about?
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Open Sourcing Smell Culture
Open Sourcing Smell Culture is a year-long collaborative program between the Institute for Art and Olfaction and Mediamatic that explores alternative attribution and sharing strategies for the...
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Residency: Scent and Protest
During a residency with Art Olfaction Amsterdam at Mediamatic, Cohene will explore formulas for neutralizers for scent-based crowd control methods such as 'The Skunk’.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Kool Kabbage
16Dec 2017- Winter Programme1Mar 2018It turned out to be a good cabbage-year. In fact, this year’s cabbage harvest turned out so good, there is more cabbage than farmer Krispijn can process for a fair price. What to do with a food
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Kool Kabbage
- Cabbage Stacking Party16Dec 2017It turned out to be a good cabbage-year. In fact, this year’s cabbage harvest turned out so well, there is more cabbage than farmer Krispijn can process for a fair price. What to do with a food
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Femmes Fontaines Consultancy Firm
- Museum Night 20174Nov 2017Female ejaculation is still a thing. Is it normal? And what is it, really? For Secretopia, Mediamatic’s program series on bodily fluids, there’s no need to agree on its composition; it’s a product of...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Talkshow Between Bed and Sacred
4Nov 2017- Museum Night 20175Nov 2017Female ejaculation is still a thing. Is it normal? And what is it, really? For Secretopia, Mediamatic’s program series on bodily fluids, there’s no need to agree on its composition; it’s a product of...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Bed Girls
4Nov 2017- Museum Night 20175Nov 2017Female ejaculation is still a thing. Is it normal? And what is it, really? For Secretopia, Mediamatic’s program series on bodily fluids, there’s no need to agree on its composition; it’s a product of...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sacred Water
4Nov 2017- Museum Night 20175Nov 2017Female ejaculation is still a thing. Is it normal? And what is it, really? For Secretopia, Mediamatic’s program series on bodily fluids, there’s no need to agree on its composition; it’s a product of...
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Isabelle Griffioen
Isabelle Griffioen werkt als advertising creative. Voor Mediamatic leidt zij het Consultatiebureau Femmes Fontaines tijdens Museumnacht 2017.