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  • Follow your beak

    Natural nasal navigation in nautical natives

    Imagine being a gull in your natural habitat: hovering over a great sea. Waves that constantly change shape, no points of recognition whatsoever, just a blue world above as well as below. How would...

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  • Nature
  • Evoltution
  • Biology
  • Communication
  • Smell Dating

    Sniff out your true partner

    Love is a reaction, and smells are really just floating chemicals. Knowing this, it makes sense to build a dating agency around the idea that scent is a larger factor in attraction than physicality.

  • The Breedrs

    Breedrs is an interactive installation running a social game created for a conference environment. It consists of an artificial life environment, a digital ecosystem, in which creatures survive in...

  • Porpema. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen. (test)

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 17 from Kunstformen der Natur. Siphonophorae: Subclass of Hydrozoa, sea animal related to jellyfish and corals.

  • Haeckel in glass

    Mediamatic is not the only one paying homage to Ernst Haeckel's Kunsformen der Natur - The Dutch National Glass Museum have turned his work into "A Sea of Glass"

  • Mediamatic Magazine 9#1

    spring 1998

    The Secret Agent Issue When a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, it calls on the secret agent.

  • Plate 1 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Circogonia. / Phaeodaria. Rohrstrahlinge. (test)

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 1 from Kunstformen der Natur. Phaeodaria; (Radiolaria) single-celled organisms also known as zooplankton.

  • What is Bio-Design?

    For those new to the subject who would like a little clarity on what this field encompasses and what role Mediamatic takes in relation to this.

  • You like this! & verantwoordelijkheid.

    Uitting doormiddel van externe middelen & de vervagende grens tussen digitaal en analoog.

    Je moet jezelf onderscheiden van de rest. Op de een of andere manier moet dat. Als westers mens wil je nu eenmaal aan de rest laten zien wat ze aan je hebben. Dat is niet nieuw, dat was altijd al zo.

  • De Tostifabriek ligt even stil

    Kunstproject op Oostenburg Amsterdam

    19 April 2013: De Tostifabriek is een levende kunstinstallatie en is onderdeel van de tentoonstelling Freezing Favela. De Fabriek, die geen echte fabriek is maar waar wel dingen gemaakt worden

  • Secretopia

    Secretions in Art, Design and Society

    Secretopia is an inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts of...

  • Report: Bio Art Labs conspiracy

    A round table during Bio-me festival

    Together with Waag Society we've invited our colleague Bio Art Labs for a round table held on 18 September. It was set up as an open discussion and exchange of thoughts concerning the future and...

  • Book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900

    Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 9

    Issue 9 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...

  • Leren van andermans fouten

    Verslag van Kom je ook? 6 - Oops

    De zesde editie van het symposium Kom je ook? had het thema ‘Oops’. Sprekers gaven eerlijke en scherpe analyses van door hen gemaakte fouten. Een tweet van Zonja op de back channel vat het samen:...

  • Oo, Oo That Smell

    What is that distinct smell after enjoying a plate of this green veggie?

    Asparagus. A lean, green vegetable with a dramatic list of healthy benefits. Many people are aware that asparagus is heart healthy, high in antioxidants, contains characteristics to heighten your...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Visitor Information

    You can visit Dijkspark and the Casting Doubts installation daily. The seedcard however are only for sale during opening hours of Mediamatic ETEN, which you can find here . The Casting Doubts...

  • About Kom je ook?

    Symposium, trainings, community

    Read more about our vision, our approach and our partners. Or visit the Kom je ook? website.

  • Any Media Workshop @ IDFA 08

    21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 November 2008

    The first workshop day started off with a keynote-lecture by Cassian Harrison about his work with the BBC-series "Britain from Above". The 5-part TV-series uses GPS-data to visualize daily life in...

  • Graduation Bouquet

    annex Publicity Plant

    On July 1st 2009 Sander Veenhof (1973) is graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam. To color up that occasion and to attract attention to himself in an overly busy contemporary...

  • Mediamatic has moved to DijksPark in 2014!

    to Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam

    As of December 1st, Mediamatic moved to their new location on Dijksgracht 6. On this beautiful spot near the waterside (within walking distance from Central Station!) we will continue and intensify...

  • Whiz Freedom

    For When Nature Calls

    The world's first anti-bacterial and hydrophobic urine director. The Freedom is a soft and gentle, ingenious device and it allows women of all ages to wee in a standing up, sitting down or lying...

  • Celebrating Spit

    dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...

    A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing. 

  • Dutch Design Week shirts

    changing fabrics with micro organisms

    In collaboration with Alejandro Tauber (vice) we did some experiments with the goal of coloring/changing fabrics with bacteria or fungi.

  • Proposal Mycotecture and Edible Architecture

    Myceleum facilitates Edible Architecture

    Mycotecture: Solid Buildings that are part of the Natural Food Chain

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