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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...
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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...

  • Mediamatic genomineerd voor Amsterdamprijs

    Uitreiking 26 augustus 2010

    Filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, kamerkoor Cappella Amsterdam, choreografe Krisztina de Châtel, reclamemaker/fotograaf Erik Kessels, schrijfster Yasmine Allas, grafisch ontwerper/illustrator Piet Parra...

  • 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 wins Dutch Design Prize 2007 for El…

    Category 'Visual Identity'

    This weekend El HEMA got awarded a Dutch Design Prize! Not the audience prize (we were second there) but the prize for "Visual Identity". Jans Possel and Willem Velthoven went on stage to receive...

  • 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.

  • Kunstformen For Sale!

    Haeckel posters and shirts available

    Brighten up your walls and wardrobe with Kunstformen Der Natur from German biologist Ernst Haeckel. From Radiolaria to jellyfish, in black and white or brightly colored. All 100 large scale posters...

  • WatSpinoza? op het Damrak

    Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?

    Op 7 mei 2009 werd de eerste WatSpinoza? vraag aan het Amsterdamse publiek gesteld. Aan het Damrak, vlak voor het Centraal Station, worden voorbijgangers gevraagd: 'Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf...

  • Uitreiking oeuvreprijs voor Willem Velthoven

    “De spiderman van de nieuwe media”

    Vrijdagavond 4 december reikte het Fonds BKVB de Oeuvreprijs Vormgeving uit aan ontwerper/initiator Willem Velthoven.

  • 2012

    Brave New World

  • The best idea, stupid

    Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 1

    9.30am and Hackerscamp 2009 gets underway as 20 or so hackercampers new and old congregate at the Mediamatic HQ. Some have cycled leisurely from home, others, like the three jetlagged MIT guys, are...

  • Willem Velthoven krijgt Oeuvreprijs Vormgeving

    Fonds BKVB maakt laureaten Oeuvreprijzen bekend

    Vandaag maakte het Fonds BKVB bekend dat Willem Velthoven van Mediamatic de Oeuvreprijs Vormgeving 2009 krijgt. Willem Velthoven (1958) begon als grafisch ontwerper en was halverwege de jaren ’80...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...

  • Kom Je Ook leren feesten?

    KJO Nacht met workshops van o.a. N8, 5DaysOff en de Nachtburgemeester

    Kom Je Ook Nacht op 6 juli gaat over functioneel feesten. Dit keer geen dagprogramma met lezingen, maar een avondje workshoppen met creatieve evenementorganisatoren uit het culturele veld. Keynote...

  • People in the StoryStore

    What did you get from the Pièce de Résistance StoryStore?

    In this ongoing series, we will look at what visitors to our exhibition got from the StoryStore when they exchanged their story and hidden object for the story and object a previous visitor left...

  • Jerry Springer: fascinerend of weerzinwekkend?

    Interview met SjocoSjon, bedenker en curator van 'The Great Jerry Springer Rodeo'

    SjocoSjon vertelt over zijn fascinatie voor de schaamteloosheid van Jerry Springer, films van Paul Verhoeven en MTV-clips.

  • Webby Official Honoree for Mediamatic.net

    15 April 2009 — Today Mediamatic has won a 'Webby Honoree' in the category Cultural Institutions. www.mediamatic.net is the website of the Mediamatic foundation, a social network and a dating site...

  • 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...

  • Innovation award for Mediamatic

    ikTag and Interactive Social RFID Games

    Tonight Mediamatic, together with a team of over 35 artists and designers won a silver SpinAward. With the ikTag & Interactive Social RFID Games ( www.mediamatic.nl/iktag ) Mediamatic won in the...

  • 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...

  • First names Map Fest confirmed

    Joining us on July 6 are Annelys de Vet, Malkit Shoshan and Wietske Maas.
  • Genomineerd voor de DOEN Pitch

    Cities create artists.

    Artists create cities.

    Our organization's idea is to encourage cities and citizens to sponsor artists. So the artists get funding and create art to tell stories of cities. Imagine Paris. Probably, you picture the art works

  • Media Playgrounds

    Artistic Investigations On the Future Of Mass-Media

    MEDIA PLAYGROUNDS presents artistic and creative ways of dealing with broadcast media, from community media practitioners, professional artists to young creatives. This event is part of ‘Broadcast...

  • An interview with Engy Aly

    "There are much, much more Arabs and Muslims than I have ever seen in my life outside of an Arabic country."

    July 2010. Engy has been living and working in Amsterdam-Noord for a few weeks. She was kind enough to share her first impressions, and tell us a little bit about her background.

  • The Future of Plastic

    An exhibition by Maurizio Montalti

    Maurizio Montalti, partner of our Myco Design Lab, just opened his solo exhibition called "The Future of Plastic" in Naples. The exhibition will present some of the latest research and grown products

created Jolien Ruiter modified Julia van der Veen

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