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    Plastic Whale

    Plastic Whale strijdt voor plasticvrije wateren. Zij stellen zich ten doel om bij te dragen aan oplossingen voor de plastic soep door maatschappelijk bewustzijn te creëren voor het probleem. Ze...

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  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2025

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2021

  • History

    1983 - now

    In 1983 our focus was on media technology: video art, installations and performance were the early core of our presentations, productions and   magazine . In the 1990s it was interactive media. We...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2024

  • The green gold

    Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday

    After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...

  • Planting the Seed

    The history of greenhouses at Mediamatic

    Now that the Serres Séparées have gone viral, the small houses and the food that we serve there gets attention from all over the world. But did you know that the greenhouses already played a role at...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2020

  • Growing Chewellery

    Wearable objects.

    The following objects were created by destroying another experiment. A delicate woven tissue was made with care and needed to fill it with some soil and flower seeds. The whole thing just fell apart...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Mily Bogaarts 3 Mar 2021

    From Packaging to Beaver Skin

    How to build a mycelium pigeon tower roof #1

    The pigeon and the mycelium are in joint agreement. Pigeons don’t nest on soggy surfaces and mycelium prefers high humidity, but don’t like the wet. It is critical: The tower needs a roof. But what...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2023

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Complete program overview 2018

  • Nature Morte

    Death, Design and Sustainability

    We explore new approaches and designs for our own inevitable death with progressive funeral director Susanne Duijvestein. Lectures and workshops about architecture, rituals, life stories and the...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2022

  • Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Fredrik Link

    Becoming magnesium

    Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?

    Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...

  • The Duality of the Phallic Object

    A conversation with Rixta van der Molen

    When is something phallic? Are we constantly being penetrated? Rixta van der Molen is a young artist who is working with wax and sculpture making to question how our society thinks about “phallic...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Complete program overview 2019

  • Tissue made by mouth & hands

    Searching for undesired beauty.

    For a long time, I've been annoyed by the ridiculous amount of gum sticks to the pavement. I hate it, even more, when people spit out their gum in a public space without any shame. It currently seems...

  • Proposal by: Irina Birger

    Sex Positivity with Dr. Birger

    Project proposal: Ongoing performative series

    Lately, there was a lot of discussions on gray sexuality, supersexuality, and sex-positivity in general .  The topic of Sex Positivity is of particular interest to Dr.Birger as a pro-sex feminist.

  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

    The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.

  • Mediamatic 2018

    Scroll down for a quick overview of our highlights,  go here to see  the full overview of our 2018 program  or   click here to view who we worked with this year.

  • Nature needs Heroes

    Workshops, talks and art

  • Proposal by: Natascha Nanji

    Welcome to Studio Swan

    Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition

    Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...

  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie, Arne Hendriks

    Babel

    June '20 – Pigeon Tower 01

    The first tower of mycelial waste. Living material. We mainly wanted to start. With a lot of enthusiasm but little precision or consultation. The uneven blocks were stacked intuitively. We filled the...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jessica Cohen

    An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark

    What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...

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