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  • Infographics: Are the budget cuts necessary or…

    The Dutch budget for arts & culture institutions is relatively small. The above average cuts will produce below average results.

    In 2011 the budget is € 490 million to support the cultural infrastructure. That sounds like a lot, but it is only a third of what we spend on holidays. It's 1,5% of the annual costs of the State...

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  • Dutch Design Awards

    Infographics campaign against the culture cuts nominated

    Our 2011 campaign against the culture cuts has made it to the Dutch Design Awards finals. Other nominees are amongst others Lernert & Sander and Metahaven. The winners will be announced on October...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Print ze zelf: Infographic PDFs

    En Mediamatic zei: geef hun geen vis, geef hun een visnet.

    De vraag naar de infographic posters (gemaakt naar aanleiding van de aangekondigde bezuinigingen op kunst en cultuur) is hoog en wij zijn door onze voorraad heen. Daarom willen wij iedereen er aan...

  • Reclames, hartstikke overbodig

    Reclames waar zijn ze eigenlijk goed voor? Ze laten je weten wat er waar in de aanbieding is, maar wel met het doel dat je nog wat extra’s koopt in deze winkel. Dit gebeurt vaak doordat je met een...

  • Media make normal people like me ANGRY

    Actually, de Volkskrant had an exellent "comic war" analysis by green left MP Naima Azough. The image was put right above it. In all it's daemonising glory. A shouting islamic man in black religious...

  • Facebook excommunicates WORM because of the Web 2.

    Press release WORM

    It is with great sorrow that we announce that Facebook Inc. has decided that WORM, the producer of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, will be excommunicated from Facebook. The initiative to build the Web 2.

  • SAVE THE WORLD

    Door TINKEBELL. i.s.m. Mediamatic

    TINKEBELL. geeft met twaalf wereldverspreide interventies inzicht in situaties die kunnen ontstaan wanneer ons wereldbeeld in andere culturen wordt geplaatst. Hiermee stelt zij onze (hulp)norm ter...

  • June 27th, 1pm: demonstration in The Hague

    Against the arts and culture budget cuts

    Profits from the cuts will be very limited, the damages will be tremendous. June 27th the House of Representatives decided on the pending cuts for arts and culture. The Malieveld (near The Hague...

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Arjen Mulder, Kristi van Riet 1 Jan 1994

    Uneconomic Art

    The exhibition Business Art in the Groninger Museum gave rise to the following reflections. A number of businesses were presented as works of art presenting themselves as businesses. The quality of...

  • New Order Catalog

    The New Order catalog was included in Volume Magazine 32:2 (2012). It features information on the artworks, an interview with Femke Herregraven and Chris Lee, an introduction by curators Katja...

  • Fitna

    How to make a Sorry movie.

    1. Get your camera, use your webcam, take you mobile and say: 'I am sorry'. 2. Publish the film on Youtube , and/or on Vimeo , Myspace or any place 3. Call your film Fitna Sorry Geert Wilders 4. Add...

  • Happy beginning

    “I found the gastarbeider of my life! Thank you Mediamatic”

    Without drawing too much attention to it, Mediamatic started beta testing its on line dating service as a companion project to the Gastarbeider Dating series of social sculptures. In a few days

  • First names Map Fest confirmed

    Joining us on July 6 are Annelys de Vet, Malkit Shoshan and Wietske Maas.

  • Swap Up Shop

    A platform to exchange objects and question the notion of value in relation to design

    The Swap-Up shop started sometime ago as a collective of Kali Nikitas, Florian Pfeffer and Rick Vermeulen

  • Spinoza ontmoet Ronald McDonald

    Vrijheid van Meningsuiting versus Merkenrecht in de Publieke Ruimte

    Quirijn Meijnen, advocaat gespecialiseerd in merkenrecht, schreef over onze Spinoza posteractie op zijn blog: ‘Spinoza en de grenzen aan de bescherming van een bekend merk’ . Hij gaat hier onder...

  • Non - Recommended Blog: Neandernews

    Credit where credit's due. Even when it's a right wing blogger.

    Danish imams lobbyed with spiritual leaders in arabic countries to protest against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten publishing cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. They used more than the...

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...

  • Katja Novitskova 17 Oct 2011

    New Order: a list of Usefull and Useless…

    Links, images, videos and other materials enough to immerse any outsider into energy-based realities of our existence and potential collapse

    This info-matter stream is a collection of things we keep finding online in relation to the main themes of New Order project. Mostly they are about energy, ecology and 'green' economy. Some of it is...

  • 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 Off-Line Vol. 10#3 Mathilde ter Heijne 1 Jan 2001

    A collective Psychosis?

    Interview

    Mathilde ter Heijne interviews German psychoanalyst Gertrud Hardtmann, October 13, 2001

  • Yay! El HEMA nominated for Dutch Design Prizes!

    Vote for us if you like El HEMA

    We're very proud that we have been nominated for the Dutch Design Prizes. We're also on the shortlist for the Audi(ence) prize. And that's where you, dear reader, come in... You can vote for El HEMA...

  • 2 april 2008

    El HEMA on the Road

    Kosmopolis adopteert El HEMA

    De tentoonstelling en winkel El HEMA reist in 2008 met Kosmopolis door Nederland. Het multimediale platform Kosmopolis maakte vandaag bekend dat zij de El HEMA adopteert. De El HEMA is in mei te zien...

  • Living Roof project

    If you can’t beat them, join them.

    Living Roof geeft een sterke verbetering van de leefkwaliteit van golfplaten hutten in Zuid-Afrikaanse townships. We presenteren in 2014 in Kaapstad (world design capital) een eerste ontwerp waarbij...

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