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  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Space for a final goodbye

    (un)conventional rite

    All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...

  • Sustainability
  • Death
  • Community
  • Communication
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Venue Overview

    Mediamatic Biotoop offers various inspiring spaces to rent, each with their own characteristics and capacities. Our location is  directly on the waterfront and offers a great panoramic city view. We...

  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design your own Shroud

    30
    May 2021
    - with Susanne Duijvestein

    Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? This autumn, we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition with a series of workshops. You will be guided in the process...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Mediamatic in twenty-six words

    21
    Mar 2019

    Information Mediamatic in keywords Open 24/7 Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijkspark 6, Amsterdam The mural is located on the windows of the Sluisdeurenloods, right next to the bridge connecting to the...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Giulia Soldati, Tommaso Buresti, Willem Velthoven

    Dinner concept testing Serres Séparées

    Second test of our new dinner concept

    We are almost there! What is better than to play dress-up again! Better days are insight, we are preparing ourselves to serve again. We will open our restaurant after two months of renovation to you...

  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design your own Shroud

    14
    Nov 2021
    - with Susanne Duijvestein

    Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? This autumn, we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition with a series of workshops. You will be guided in the process...

  • 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...

  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design your own Shroud

    19
    Sep 2021
    - with Susanne Duijvestein

    Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? This autumn, we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition with a series of workshops. You will be guided in the process...

  • Growing In & Out with Artist Minji Choi

    Plant, Something that (Doesn’t) Love a Wall

    Born in Seoul, South Korea and based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Minji Choi has a transboundary persona. As an artist, she devotes herself to reexamining ‘belonging’ and ‘nativeness'. In her body of...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Cancellation Terms & Conditions

    You have bought a ticket to one of our events, dinners or workshops. It is unlikely, but possible, that sometimes things don't go as planned. What do we do in these cases?

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Magdalena Thur

    The resomation of fungal tissue

    Could mushrooms provide the future fabric for death shrouds?

    Mediamatic's search for a vegan cloth which can be used in Resomation – an environmentally friendly alternative burial method – lead to testing fungal material.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Resomating a Musk Rat

    What happens to our bodies after death? When choosing Resomation as a burial method, the answer is just as fascinating as it might give you the shivers. With resomation, the human body is dissolved...

  • Death of the Author, Survival of the Avatar

    Can the dead still be involved in social networking?

    There are a lot of websites that revolve around remembering the dead. For instance, Tributes is a site where you can search obituaries and make a tribute to your lost loved one; they say '60-seconds...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten

    A place for happiness

    Getting married in your own way

    Weddings are times of joy and happiness. There is no better way to start a life together than at Mediamatic, where creativity and uniqueness are put on a pedestal. Our venue offers a beautiful...

  • How to Deal with Death Online

    Death on the internet

    Although most social network sites and online games today enforce extensive regulations on their members, one issue is continuously overlooked or ignored: what happens to a profile or an avatar when...

  • Book: Chuck Palahniuk

    Survivor

    by Chuck Palahniuk

    Survivor is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, first published in February 1999.

  • Funeral Rites in Chinatown

    "The clear, melodic notes of a brass band marching along Chinatown's Stockton Avenue catch the attention of an Asian woman picking over produce at a sidewalk vegetable stand. As the band turns the...

  • ...and beyond workshop

    The workshop of fashion designers ...and beyond is aimed at working together on a shroud for the deceased. On this shroud drawings will be applied with stitches, as a final farewell and in memory of...

  • Hearing (our) History - Writing the Future

    Sound Art installation inviting listeners/audience to reflect on how we turn our lived and heard experience into documentation: writing, sharing, translating into language.

    Set-Up: A quadraphonic sound installation system will be set up in Mediamatic and will play the sound piece Phonemic Resistance as well as excerpts from interviews made at the Dutch Support for...

  • 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...

  • A Biennale Interview

    The idea of interaction

    Conversation with the curators of the Leeds pavilion

    Jon Wakeman, Karen Watson and Megan Smith explain what they are presenting in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009. The Leeds pavilion “I Am Leeds” opened Saturday 12 December together with Nicosia, Tehran

  • A Collective Meal

    Bring and share...

    A large eat&drink event where all people of Amsterdam will be invited to bring food&drinks and share them with all others...

  • Open-CI: opening up social networks

    Use a single account in a network of websites

    Good news for those who cope with social network fatigue! No need to register again and again, pick a username, password, write a new profile, and reconnect to your friends for the 2nd, 3rd or 4th...

  • Triggered by RFID DisCourse

    Program and Speakers

    Day 1 | July 13th 2006 Topics: RFID and society, technical possibilities of the technology, formulate project proposals. 10.00 - 10.15 Welcome and introduction by Klaas Kuitenbrouwer 10.

created Margot Holtman modified Julia van der Veen

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