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    Pigeons are interested!

    Pigeons in Amsterdam searching a new space to live

    Because our mycelium tower slowly starts to get comfy for pigeons we also started to promote it.  As it turns out pigeons are interested in the offer and we expect quite a lot of phone calls the next...
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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Five kingdoms and Three terms

    The fungi, the mycelium and the mushroom

    First, let's tackle the fungi. Fungi are one of the species of the five kingdoms and it is the closest one to Animalia, ergo animals, including humans. Animals even evolved out of the fungi. That's...

  • Indigenous Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    My land welcomes you. The mountains told us you were coming. The trees whispered you were close. It was written in the smoke. We have been expecting you. There are no maps to lead you to what you...
  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Nature Network

    Mycorrhizal fungi and their function

    As I wrote, fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The third big group is mycorrhizal fungi. Which to me is the most inspiring group. It is the fungi that is connected to plants.
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    Open Tour

    Every Friday at 4

    Come explore Mediamatic as part of our weekly Friday Tour at 16:00. Get a glimpse behind the scenes, learn more about the growing installations and peek inside our sensorial labs. 

  • The culinary journey of Code Noir

    Told by Lelani Lewis

    “Code Noir”  is a project that guides its audience along the culinary journey of the cultivation of Caribbean cuisine. The namesake of the immersive dinner is the 17th century manuscript defining the...

  • Talking in Arabic

    I often meet people from “my part of the world” here in Amsterdam Noord. But we don’t always have a lot in common.

  • Dutch blog on art, communication and daily life

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    http://www.emilykocken.nl/blog/
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Building-Blocks

    Different ways to build an octagon

    What is the most efficient way to come close to a circle, but still not use too many mycelium blocks? After some testing we found out an octagonal shape for the tower would fit our purpose best.  
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Nature's janitors and Remediation

    Saprophytic fungi and their function

    Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. There are also some in-between types of fungi, but let's, for now, talk about these three. The first group is saprophytic fungi. They are...

  • Structure

    We are building a Pigeon Tower #4

    Does form follow function or should the function follow the form? Does any of this even matter and should we just think if it works it works? 

  • Asian Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Double the dough to hold the door to travel from India to Trinidad and Tobago. I can take a trip anytime because home is wherever Curry Channa and Tamarind Sauce coat my fingers. I know I have...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier

    Hybrid Material

    Mycelium Experiments

    Explore the potential of living material through a series of diverse experiments.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier

    Chimera Furniture

    Mycelium Experiments

    What if mycelium was combined to existing furniture to give them a new life? 

  • Aanjagen van verandering

    Aletta's Back-in-a-Bite

    Afgelopen vrijdag was het zover. Evelyn de Roos ging samen met haar collega's van het instituut voor vrouwengeschiedenis (Aletta) aan de slag tijdens hun DOEN Clinic, de prijs die ze won met haar...

  • Crossing the Water

    I flew into Amsterdam from Noord Copenhagen in the middle of the night on July 3rd. Someone from Mediamatic picked me up from the train station and took me to the flat where I'd be staying. Amsterdam...

  • Plotting Time

    Research on timelines for digital stories

    Mediamatic, Lava and our clients RVU and NHM are working to enhance digital storytelling through time-based visualizations. How can we better see and understand our history? How can we add our own...

  • Garri

    Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'

    “Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...
  • Book: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

    Saga

    Star Wars Meets Game of Thrones

    Brian K. Vaughan's first creator-owned work to be published through Image Comics.
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

    Gentle

    Oct '20 – Pigeon Tower 04

    The blocks of mycelium from mushroom grower John Verbruggen that we used to build are wide and heavy, and so they give us more security when stacking than in previous towers. Because we wanted to...
  • Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1999

    The Storyteller, his Village and his Irony

    Florian Thalhofer's cd-rom small world presents a portrait of Schwandorf, a village in the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz. Thalhofer knows quite a bit about this village; he was born and raised there.
  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Guards and Guides

    Parasitic fungi and their function

    Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The second big group is parasitic fungi. Of course, there are parasitic species for every organism, but they are mainly related to insects.
  • 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.

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