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  • Dirk Vis

    Dirk Vis is a writer, visual artist, editor of literary magazine De Gids and lecturer of Interactive Media at the Royal Academy of Art
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  • Mapping for Tourists

    MFT resulted in Noord, an exhibition and travel guide

    Noord is the result of a project initiated by Nat Muller and Mediamatic: Mapping for Tourists. 22 artists were invited to map Amsterdam-Noord, pars pro toto for The Netherlands. The artists lived and...

  • Project proposals

    Participating artists and the design team

    Mapping for Tourists resulted in Noord. These pages are snapshots of the artists' progress, as documented in July of 2010. Visit the Noord web space for the final results.

  • Second Plenary Meeting

    July 27, Noord hq.

    Egyptian artists, Lebanese designers, and local experts and editors talk about their work. The perfect way to stay updated on the making of the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • Mediamatic Fabriek

    Our location from 2011 till 2014

    Mediamatic has moved on average every 3 years. Mediamatic is a gallery, project space, aquaponics farm and cafeteria. In December 2011 we moved part of our activities to the Van Gendthallen on...
  • 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...

  • Plotting Time

    Research on timelines for digital stories

    Mediamatic, Lava and our clients RVU and NHM are working to enhance digital storytelling through time-based visualizations. How can we better see and understand our history? How can we add our own...

  • El HEMA in Den Haag

    Nieuwe tijdelijke winkel in het centrum van de stad

    El HEMA, een concept ontwikkeld door Mediamatic Amsterdam in 2007, werd een instant-hit. De El HEMA werd daarna geadopteerd door Kosmopolis. Na Rotterdam bezocht te hebben, is de El HEMA nu te vinden...

  • TODAYSART 2011

    Festival beyond art

    TODAYSART is a festival in The Hague organized by The Generator, which profiles itself in Art, Music and Technology.

  • El HEMA

    2007 - 2008

    Imagine an Arabic Hema store. From the 25th of August 2007 to 6 January 2008 Mediamatic presented a design contest, an exhibition, workshops and shop night salons about El HEMA. In oktober 2008 and...

  • Sur Place

    Exhibition on Urban Bike Culture

    Bring your bike for a ride through Mediamatic Bank and discover the rich culture that grew around a simple vehicle: the fixed gear bike. Sportsmen, riders, messengers, collectors, artists and other...
  • Project: Marieke de Lange,

    Think Tanks Connected *

    Idee ontwikkeling bij kinderen

    Ubuntu Theatre Organisation wil graag de katalysator en kweekvijver zijn van een nieuwe generatie idealisten die hun talent, creativiteit en denkkracht in willen zetten voor een mooiere wereld.

  • New Cultural networks

    publication Stifo @Sandberg Masterclass

    INTRODUCTION STIFO@SANDBERG BOOK By Mieke Gerritzen and Ingrid van Tol The Stifo@Sandberg master class is an annually recurring workshop that tracks, fosters and deploys digital developments in the...

  • Travel Guides

    Noord design update 1: preparations.

    Travel guides according to Wikipedia, and our first impressions of existing travel guides. An ongoing research.
  • Press release June 19th, 2008

    We are liquidating our library

    in protest of the cultural funding stalemate

    Mediamatic will give away all its books. Our library will cease to exist in protest of the impasse between the Raad van Cultuur and Minister Plasterk on cultural subsidies. We call on the public to...
  • Daniel Bouw 20 Jan 2010

    Appels en peren

    uiteindelijk past alles bij elkaar, als het maar inspirerend is

    Een programma samenstellen voor Kom je ook? is een zoektocht in verschillende netwerken en langs vele wegen. De mogelijkheden blijken eindeloos, maar een focus op innovatieve en participatieve...
  • Project: Nienke Rooijakkers, Sergio Gridelli

    Vergeten veldjes

    over braakliggend bouwterrein en hoe stadsbewoners dat eigenzinnig naar hun hand zetten

    Dit project is in april 2010 gestart met subsidie van Stichting DOEN Fotograaf Sergio Gridelli en regisseur Nienke Rooijakkers volgen een jaar lang vijf braakliggende veldjes in de stad Amsterdam...
  • Pitch voorstel voor Komjeook? 2

    Cool Numismatic Objects

    Of hoe kan het Geldmuseum een breed publiek interesseren voor en betrekken bij (een tentoonstelling/museum met) numismatische objecten.

    Deze winter wordt in het interactieve en multimediale Geldmuseum in Utrecht een collectietentoonstelling geopend met de honderd meest bijzondere numismatische objecten uit de collectie van het...

  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Exhibition space 2008 - 2011

    Mediamatic is an Art Centre based in Amsterdam. From July 2008 till 2011 our exhibition space, Mediamatic Bank, has been situated at Vijzelstraat 68 in Amsterdam. Here we put on events, exhibitions
  • Project geselecteerd om te pitchen tijdens Kom je Ook Ida van der Lee

    Allerzielen Alom

    de doden niet verzwijgen maar vieren om wie ze waren en wat ze te vertellen hebben

    De dood is in onze samenleving verweesd geraakt. De verhalen en herinneringenvan de doden gaan verloren omdat in onze cultuur eigentijdse rituelen ontbreken. Met Allerzielen Alom herneemt kunstenaar...
  • Performance:

    The Watchers

    A project by Martin Butler

    Six plays in six different languages, simultaneously played out in the windows and rooms of a building at night
  • 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.

  • The design work kicks off!

    June 2010. Mapping for Tourists design update 2

    Following an initial research and brainstorm session that attempted to answer the question: “what is a conventional travel guide and how is it formatted?” the design team gave a presentation on June...

  • Mediamatic Travel

    Networked travel agency

    What better way to discover a city than through its contemporary art treasures? Mediamatic Travel is a network of locals waiting to show you around the backside of their cities. From contemporary...

  • An interview with Foundland

    "In Noord it's still possible to find weirdness and irregularities."

    Ghalia Elsrakbi, Lauren Alexander and Dirk Vis explain how they deal with populisme and the fairy tale creatures they come across in Noord.

created Dirk Vis modified Dirk Vis

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