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  • The Dark Side of Medicine

    Dutch Cocaine and Opium Trade

    A revised narrative in Dutch history?
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  • Sticky Business

    Gum: maybe money does grow on trees after all

    A lot of people chew every day, and even if you’re not a daily chewer, you have almost definitely tried it once. Gum can be found in pretty much every store that sells essential daily goods, but what...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1992

    Ronell

    Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania, University of Illinois Press 2004

    There is no theory of drugs concludes Ronell in her new book. Jumping on the bandwagon of the current war on drugs, she focuses attention on the 19th-century, the period when heavy use became...

  • Up Scope, Grand Products, 1986

    Shooting torpedoes

    Similar to the Jet Rocket from 1970, this arcade game immediately stands out. No big screen or joystick but a small window and two handles mounted on a periscope. The mission can't be more simple:...

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  • NBA Jam, Midway games, 1993

    NBA Jam changed the face of basketbal forever.

    Until NBA Jam was released, basketball games were really only for the true enthusiast. After all, everything you could do on screen, you could do in real life as well. However, after 1993 basketball...
  • 1 Jan 1992

    Mortal Kombat, Midway, 1992

    So real it hurts!

    The flyer for Mortal Kombat sported the daunting but promising text “So real it hurts!” The digital graphics combined with the rampant, bloody scenes turned Mortal Kombat into one of the most popular...
  • Book: Avital Ronell 1 Jan 1991

    Crack Wars

    Literature, Addiction, Mania

  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Kai-Ting Lin, XAN

    Taipei Pavilion

    Beauties behind the glass box, selling Bīnláng 檳榔 (Betel nuts)

    Together with four other cities, Taipei opened its pavilion on Saturday 14 November 2009 with the presentation of a Taiwanese tradition: the betel nut beauties. Until 3 January 2010 in the Amsterdam...

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...

  • Centipede, Atari, 1980

    This game was developed in collaboration with Dona Bailey, at the time one of the few women in the gaming industry.

    In this shooting game you control a laser pistol with a trackball. You have to try to kill a centipede, which gets faster and faster by eating its way through a mushroom field. If you shoot it right...

  • Lil B en het nieuwe tijdperk.

    Over #swag, rebellie en sociale netwerken.

    Niemand zou je kunnen vertellen wat opkomend Hip-Hop artiest 'Lil B' precies aan het doen is. Hij maakt de scheidingslijn tussen geniale artiest, cult icoon en 'domme rapper die wel eens homosexueel...

  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), 1991

    Game: Super Mario World

    The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) is a 16-bit video game console. It was first released in 1990, and was Nintendo's second home console, following the NES. The SNES controller featured...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Marina Abramovic

    artist

    The work of Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic (Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1946) explores themes of the mind, body, and spirit.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 6#2/3 Paul Perry 1 Jan 1991

    New Collector

    It was August and a terrible month. Would new pleasure keep growing and burst red? The salmon ascended rivers, jumping stones. Leap frogging the tall trees, fallen long ago. Leaves gone, trunk...

  • Kritiek van de visuele sensatie

    (eerste deel en de conclusie van de lezing die zij gaf tijdens het symposium Visual Sensations op zaterdag 12 februari 2005)

    De organisatie van Visual Sensations wil met dit symposium en met de eerste wedstrijd onder VJ’s in Nederland en Vlaanderen, serieuze aandacht voor het werk van VJ’s bereiken. De organisatoren...

  • Smoke Pong, 2009

    Game: smokers only!

    After a year of being bullied by the EU smoking ban, Lieven van Velthoven wanted to boost the smoking crowd's moral, and help smokers feel a little bit better about themselves. He developed a version...
  • 1 Jan 2002

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    director, writer, actor (1946-1982)

    Fassbinder is renowned for politically controversial plays and motion pictures that often criticize social institutions.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Michael Heim 1 Jan 1996

    Alternate World Disorder

    In Michael Heim's view both cyberspace and VR extend and enhance our powers of evolution. He even compares them to the invention of fire. But immersion in the virtual world has also its dark side. It...

  • PICNIC '06 Welcome Reception

    As part of the welcome reception, the European Archive will celebrate its official launch.

  • Playstation 3 (3D), 2006

    Game: Motorstorm Drift 3D

    The PlayStation 3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. Thanks to a nice firmware...

  • Shoppen met Mirjam

    Online verkiezing van de mooiste nieuwe aanwinst

    Winnaar pitch tijdens KJO1 - Web 2.0 Het Tropenmuseum wil zijn bezoekers mee laten beslissen over welke nieuwe aankoop de collectie gaat verrijken. Via een internetverkiezing, gekoppeld aan een...

  • Worskhops: grow your own psychedelic and culinary…

    Friday 24 and Wednesday 29 January

    In these two workshops you can learn how to grow you own magic or oyster mushrooms. On the 24th of January, we will discover how to cultivate the psycedelic psilocybe cubensis mushroom. On the 29th
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 11#2 Paul Groot 1 Jan 2004

    I am Mai

    Selfportrait of an artist as a young woman

    Mai Ueda kept a diary, updated daily, for Mediamatic Outside Projections from 10 to 23 November 2003. A series of fourteen meetings over two weeks. A new instalment every day, within ever-changing...
  • Book: Terence McKenna 1 Jan 1992

    Food of the Gods

    The search for the original tree of knowledge

    For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. This book tells you about the history of drugs in the East and West; from the...

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