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    Average Print Run per book in Europe

    approaching zero at the and of the 2oth century

    Printing was faster than writing but still an incredibly tedious process in the early days. Later developments like the rotary press, but also mass litaracy, drowe up these numbers considerably.
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  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 2#2 Jans Possel, Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1987

    Editorial

    If there's one trend to be observed at the video festivals of the last few months (The Hague, Ljubljana, Linz) then it's independent video's ever-growing TV ambitions. And the festivals' as well.

  • Mediamatic Magazine 9#4 & 10#1

    fall 1999

    The Printed Issue This Book will disappear. Since the appearance of issue zero in 1985, Mediamatic has stubbornly resisted the disappearance of the book. We have made ever more beautiful, thick and...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Hugo Herrera Tobón, Natalia Domínguez Rangel

    Bogotá Pavilion

    The Bogota pavilion by curators Hugo Herrera Tobon and Natalia Domínguez Rangel opens 5 December 2009 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic and on view until January 3, 2010. With artists...

  • Fitna the Movie

    We’re tired of waiting. So, let’s do it ourselves! Sorry!

    There is this not-so-intelligent Dutch politician that attracts attention by doing populist provocations. His name is Wilders. Geert Wilders. He is scared of aliens and especially of muslim aliens.
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 3#3 Preikschat, Wolfgang 1 Jan 1989

    Everything that moves...

    3 New York Museums

    The media are about to disappear, or that’s what ADILKNO argued so convincingly in our last issue. Film is on its last legs and with one foot in the museum. Television and video still seem alive and...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Alfred Birnbaum 1 Jan 1989

    Reng Ga Ga

    Footnote to a Cadavre

    The cadavre exquis finds an interesting parallel in the ancient Japanese poetical genre of renga or ‘linked verse’. An exactingly disciplined aesthetic exercise that was the height of aristocratic...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#3 Auguste de Villiers de L'isle Adam 1 Jan 1990

    l'Affichage Céleste

    Eritis sicut dii

    Strange as it may seem, and tend as it may to make financiers smile, my story concerns: Heaven!
  • Mediamatic Magazine 3#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1989

    In Memoriam Videokunst

    An Instructive Exhibition

    Video Art has passed on. It will be laid to rest in the next few months by the Cardinal of the West German faithful, DR. WULF HERZOGENRATH, assisted by that relative novice DR. EDITH DECKER. The...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1992

    van Blokland, van Rossum

    Erik van Bokland, Just van Rossum, BittPull Postscript bit-font system, Den Haag 1992

    Mediamatic is usually typeset in Albertan, a typeface designed by Jim Rimmer for his own company (Giampa Textware) in Vancouver. But for this number we had a testversion of Bitpull at our disposal.
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 4#3 Errki Huhtamo 1 Jan 1990

    Gulliver in Figurine Land (en)

    In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first few decades of this century, a radical change in the anthropomorphic, human-sized based world of perception of Western man took place: the...
  • Mediamatic Magzine vol 5#1+2 Peter Zegveld 1 Jan 1990

    Venus née/ Praecox

    The Artists

    The Premature Annunciation

  • Visual Identity

    Georgia

    Here you'll find the Mediamatic Huisstijlhandboek (styleguide) with some good examples, and insightful remarks. Based the works of Abel van Gijlswijk, Mediamatic's star designer. Few key points to...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Wim Nijenhuis 1 Jan 1991

    L'Inertie Polaire - Paul Virilio

    Christian Bourgeois (pub) Paris 1990 ISBN 2-267-00887-4, French text, pp. 167, F 80

    The final development stage of mankind will turn the resident into a sitter and the final vehicle of transport technology will be his seat.

  • 666: welcome recognition

    Dutch arts council (Raad voor Cultuur) recommends substantial raise in Mediamatics public funding for 2009—2012

    We were very happy and proud to read the advice about our plans for the coming 4 years. The Arts council of the Netherlands praises our current practice and recommends that the ministry of culture...

  • Mediamatic Magazine 7#3/4

    winter 1994

    End of Advertising Issue This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1992

    Famous Artists School, Famous Writer Tool

    or: the hankering after a configurated system for the Apple and other rhetorical reflections

    In Mediamatic 6#1, Paul Groot reported on his first experiences with a word processor and his struggle with the McHugh. As a sequel to these first impressions, he will review here MicroSoft's Word5...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1994

    Editorial

    The Eighth Art

    This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1995

    DoorMat FAT

    The DoorMat family

    For Mediamatic’s Home Issue, Dutch type designers Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland designed a special typeface. The DoorMat family
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 4#3 Jorinde Seijdel 1 Jan 1990

    Face to Face with Fame

    Is it memorex, or is it live?

    from The Making of a Wax Statue: Phase 5: Implanting the hair. After the glass eyes are placed in the hollow wax head, real hair is implanted piece by piece. After this it is cut and styled.

  • Gonzo (circus) community empowering

    A proposal for the creation of a community enhanced events finder

    Creating the first platform where professionals and enthousiast can find information about everything that's going on in new music and culture using web2.0 concepts.

  • How to... make a nice profile

    Recommendations for new Mediamatic colleagues

    Dear colleagues, We all have profiles on the mediamatic.net website. your professional contacts look at that page first when they are working with you. Therefore it is essential that your profile...
  • Press release

    Hema threatens with legal action

    because of the El Hema exhibition

    EXTRA: Mediamatic will meet with the Hema B.V.'s Director of Marketing on Friday the 27th of July. In a letter postdated the 23rd of July 2007, the Hema has changed their tone of voice ('The Hema...

  • Noord is exceptionally normal

    Introduction to Noord

    This is the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands. It is about Amsterdam-Noord. We made this guide during the summer of 2010 with a group of editors and a team of 22 artists from Egypt, the...
  • 1 Jan 2003

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