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  • Image: Raphael Rehbach

    Duintjer CS, former home of Mediamatic

    Mediamatic worked here from june 2008 till june 2013. The offices were on the third floor (Suite 3.10), workshops on the 1st floor and the exhibition space "Mediamatic BANK" was in the...
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  • The Making(s) of Biryani

    by Masuma Halai Khwaja

    Masuma Khwaja is a brilliant artist from Karachi, Pakistan, whom we are excited to welcome as our first guest artist of 2020. During her one-week research stay with Mediamatic in mid-January

  • Jet Rocket, Sega, 1970

    Arcade flight simulator and the gem of our collection

    Jet Rocket, released by SEGA in 1970, is a flight simulator that makes use of visual techniques which were also used for military flight simulators. By playing with a real controller stick in a...

  • The Dark Side of Medicine

    Dutch Cocaine and Opium Trade

    A revised narrative in Dutch history?

  • Best of Mediamatic

    Here you can find an overview of our favorite projects of the past years. The overview also shows how we are regularly one step ahead of (technical) novelties; we are always too early! Click here for...

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • A Deterrence of Sight and Smell

    The gallows field of Amsterdam

    The small headland on the north side of the IJ, opposite the Oosterdok, used to be the location of the gallows field of Amsterdam. Criminals sentenced to death were executed on Dam Square, and as an...

  • Smell of the exotic

    Rare animals in Amsterdam

    The exotic animal trade: one might not think too much of its significance to our ecosystem. Yet, it is very much “alive and kicking” and becoming a real threat in the global world. Recently, the...

  • Balanophagy

    Clean Lab team lives the Balanoculture

    “Balanophagy” comes from ancient Greek and stands for the practice of eating acorns. The Clean Lab Team is working on bringing the forgotten practice back to the table.

  • A Blame, A Barrier

    Olfactory Discourse Regarding the Other

    R: Dutch children weren’t allowed to be held, [because] later they’d smell of [our] sweat. Holding them wasn’t allowed… [T]hey [The Dutch] were afraid [of their children] being soaked in sweat, sweat...

  • The Hard Surrender of The Navy Terrain

    As someone who is not born or raised in the Netherlands, I thought the Navy Terrain was just a public park and historic museum at first. Considering the eventful history of the Navy Terrain and what...

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly...

  • "Eau d'îles de l'Est"

    Smells of the water

    This is the first part of a three-part series written by Iris van den Linden and Amber Striekwold. In this series, Iris and Amber fashion a conceptual perfume of Oosterdok. Like every perfume, their...

  • Mediamatic 2016

    So far (summer 2016) we collaborated with 100 national and international artists, designers and scientist and 63 interns to organise 19 workshops, 30 presentations and 4 new exhibitions. Scroll down...
  • Project:

    Verrijkt wandelen

    NS Wandeltochten met mobiel en sociaal internet

    Van een dubbelzijdig A4-tje naar interactieve, mobiele toepassingen met tekst, beeld, geluid en spelelementen voor dan 600.000 gebruikers.

  • Supplying the Dutch Diet Pt. 2

    Bread

    Life near the Port of Amsterdam was not only scented by colonial activities. Afterall, a huge portion of businesses ran by the docks were also to sustain a whole city of people. Having said that, the...
  • Oosterdok Irene de Craen

    We Have Never Smelled Modern

    ‘Smell reveals the artificiality of modernity; it shows following Latour that we have never been really modern (1993). The modern project to create a pure, rational order of things is undermined by...

  • Bibliography

    Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    English bibliography Andrade , Tonio. The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History . Princeton University Press, 2016. Banham , Joanna, ed.  Encyclopedia...

  • "Beter geen museum, dan een slecht…

    Erik Schilp over NHM op Kom je ook? #FAIL

    “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Try better.” Met deze quote van Samuel Becket sluit Erik Schilp zijn verhaal af. Vanaf oktober 2008 vormde hij, samen met Valentijn Byvanck
  • Stage

    Stage: Web-Editor & Digitaal Erfgoed

    Ontdek, ontsluit en schrijf geschiedenis!

    Mediamatic is op zoek naar een gemotiveerde stagiaire die handig is met online media en een interesse heeft in kunst- en cultuurgeschiedenis. De stage bestaat uit het online ontsluiten van Mediamatic...

  • Badlands, Atari, 1989

    A post-apocalyptic racing game

    Badlands must be one of the most fun racing games out there. The two steering wheels offer such nice game play that it's hard for anyone not to get swept up in the race. Not only do you race each...

  • 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’. 

  • Sticky Business

    Gum: maybe money does grow on trees after all

    A lot of people chew every day, and even if you’re not a daily chewer, you have almost definitely tried it once. Gum can be found in pretty much every store that sells essential daily goods, but what...
  • Genomineerd voor de DOEN Pitch winand singh

    Indiaspora

    trace back the route of your roots

    De migratie van Indiase loonarbeiders (en hun nageslacht) multimediaal in kaart gebracht. Indiaspora zit op het snijpunt van genealogie, social media en het wiki-model

  • Gunpowder: Fireworks and Fatality

    The smell of fireworks, of the sulfur within the ignited gunpowder, permeates the streets of Amsterdam as the Central European Time Zone welcomes in the new year. Illegal for the public’s usage at...

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