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  • Mechanical Shit

    Wim Delvoye's Cloaca

    Massive structures made out of steel glass and rubber mechanically digesting cafeteria leftovers acting as automated guts.
  • Biology
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  • The Urine Brick

    Building the future

    What is the link between pissing and building? The connection expands past port-a-loos. It's bricks. The answer is bricks.

  • Short supply

    Sustainable water systems

    When resources are scarce, improvisations are needed. A research team from TU Delft is currently researching the possibilities for sustainable water system for developing countries. Such a system...

  • Urine implants?

    Caution: after reading this article you will rush, headlong, to brush your teeth.

    Pis’ blog’s returning readers must be hard to surprise: they are already well-aware of urine-powered mobile phones, pee tea, pee fonts, furniture made out of pee and other fruits of humans’ insanity.

  • When Nature Calls. Answer.

    The Health Risks of Holding in Your Pee

    Every one has been in that frustrating situation - a traffic jam, no toilet, public toilets (if you are a lady maybe an FUD could help you out in these tricky situations), crowded events etc. - where...

  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1992

    AI !(2)

    Back to Networks

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...

  • The Chair That Bleeds

    The Red Series 001 Breath Chair by Hyun-Gi Kim

    We consider chairs to be one of those everyday inanimate furnitures that fills the room. And like many inanimate objects, they’re often taken for granted because chairs are always being made. But...

  • The metamorphic fluids of Jan Fabre

    The body as a treasure trove in Fabre's theatre

    Urine, blood, semen, tears, sweat and the naked body: this is the magic laboratory theatre director and artist Jan Fabre explores, uses and confronts his public with.

  • Modern Day Vampires

    Consumption of blood whether it is human blood or animal blood in our modern culture has been associated to vampirism. In the past decade, our pop culture was fascinated by the fantastical stories of...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1 Remko Scha 1 Jan 1992

    Virtual Voices (2)

    Mimesis

    Soft Machines

  • Rhythm of Life

    From the water of life

    Through the combined narratives of traditional Chinese medicine and modern technology, Thought Collider's Aqua Vita-project visualises personal metabolic development and health with the help of their...

  • Urine-tricity

    Your pee can power a lightbulb!

    A team of English researchers has created an energy-generating urinal that could prove to provide illumination in disaster zones and refugee camps.

  • Urine: Arousal Stimulating Chemical?

    Pheromones: selective chemical messengers that reveal if human's are sexually attracted to one another. Relative to smell, these pheromones can be secreted through the skin, sweat glands, saliva, and...

  • Prope(e)r

    Portable urinals for women.

    Shout out to all the ladies out there! Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you've really had "to go" and there as not been a convenient bathroom within reach? Maybe you were on a road...

  • Hyde Park joins Pis'Project

    Kamiel Rongen Utilizes Urine and Urinals in New Piece

    Audio-visual artist, Kamiel Rongen, is back and busy working on his newest creation, right here at Mediamatic Biotoop. Followers of the BioTalk series may recognize the artist, whom goes by the...

  • Love spell, magic bottle and ballistic firepower

    Surprising uses of urine in medieval age

    Without a flushing tank at their service, medieval people had to interact with their urine much more often than we do. Immediate proximity to the material inspired in our ancestors some mind blowing...

  • On soil fertility and the decline of society

    The last words of Justus Von Liebig, the father of organic Chemistry

    What does soil fertility loss mean? The Earth’s soils can tell many stories to those able to read them.

  • Public Intimacy

    Pissing in the City

    The design of public toilets can tell us a lot more about society than you expect...
  • Book: Stan Franklin 1 Jan 1995

    Artificial Minds

    An encyclopedic but nonetheless compellingly readable overview of the history of Artificial Intelligence.

  • Save Your Pearly White Teeth

    Human Ivory by Lucie Majerus

    Ivory as a material from animal tusks might still be a luxury material. But it’s controversial aspect makes it distasteful and old fashion. Instead of valorising ivory tusks as a prized possession

  • How can our Experience of Intimacy be changed by…

    Throughout the Covid19 lockdown, there has been a 47% increase in the use of the internet as the world has turned to technology to connect with loved ones. This has made the research of Lancel/Maat...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998

    Ford, Glymore, Hayes

    Android Epistemology

    Forty-six years ago, Alain Turing opened his article Computing machinery and intelligence by contemplating whether or not machines can think. At that time, this consideration must have seemed radical...

  • Urine and philosopher's stone

    How the search for gold led alchemists to discover something else

    For centuries alchemists and magicians were racking their brains over the riddle of philosopher’s stone - a mysterious substance that is able to turn basic metals into gold. One of the legends ran...

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