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  • Mycelium Pigeon Towers
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  • Arne Hendriks
  • Myco-Assemblage

    buiding a mycelium pigeontower

    Is it a mushroom farm? Is it a tower? Is it fertile soil? Is it a corn field? Is it a pigeon tower? By Arne Hendriks The mycelium pigeon tower is a constant process of one state moving into the next.

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  • Commence operation back to basics/let's take a…

    How to build a Mycelium Pigeon Tower #2

    During the first building a mycelium pigeon tower workshop we had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Unfortunately there is nothing left to show for all the hard work except pictures and videos. Now it...

  • Stage

    Stage: Haeckel

    Ernst Haeckel is een inspiratiebron voor ons. In het verleden sprak Mediamatic al de bewondering uit met programma's rond Haeckel als zowel evolutiebioloog als begaafd tekenaar en schilder. De...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Gökçe Baykan

    Haeckel Hunt

    "Catch’em all around Oosterdok!" Remastered Blog

    "Institutions and enterprises have joined forces as Expeditie Oosterdok, to form an internatio­nal, innovative city quarter in which discovery plays a central role. The future of the city is being...

  • Fake-Eco Evaluation: Still Life at Mediamatic

    Is death truly sustainable?

    Death is one last action - a body left to account for. Some of us have already given it a thought, but how hard have we thought about our upcoming deaths, really? Mediamatic´s Still Life: death

  • 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...

  • Haeckel Diamonds

    Knowledge Page

    Plate 9 - 1 detail in game Plate  10 - 2 details in game Plate  11 - 3 details in game Plate  16 - 1  detail in game Plate  17 - 6 details in game Plate  21 - 2 details in game Plate  23 - 2 ...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Feeling pigeon today?

    Creating a Facefilter

    How does it feel to be a pigeon?  Of course, nobody can ever tell, and probably even each pigeon on its own feels different about it. But to support the feeling to be part of the pigeon community I...

  • Odorama

    Olfactory art, Research and Design

    Whether derived from nature or chemically constructed, odourant molecules have the ability to profoundly affect our behavior, emotions, and associations. At Odorama we will actively engage with our...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Ernst Haeckel

    Haeckel T-Shirts

    Brighten up your wardrobe with Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haeckel for only €27,00. Go to our shop and order your own here . We will notify you when your shirt is ready to pick up at Mediamatic...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Visitor Information

    You can visit Dijkspark and the Casting Doubts installation daily. The seedcard however are only for sale during opening hours of Mediamatic ETEN, which you can find here . The Casting Doubts...

  • Myco-Assemblage Mediamatic Biotoop

    Credits

    Thank you!

    We would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors, and participants.

  • 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...

  • Secretopia

    Secretions in Art, Design and Society

    Secretopia is an inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts of...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Mycelium Pigeon Towers

    by Arne Hendriks

    On the street side, every two to three weeks, we reveal another Assemblage. Through experimenting with different shapes, we see how the material responds.  Come and have a look at the arising towers...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Haeckel Hunt

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    Mar 2021
    - Augmented Reality Game

    Soon available in the App and Google Play store! This Augmented Reality app adds an extra dimension to the Haeckel scavenger hunt we have set out in the Oosterdok area. Search for the eye-catching...

  • The Taste of Elder

    Together with  Brouwerij Oedipus   and artist   Zeger Reyers , we follow the seasons with the elder tree. We brew four different seasonal beers with local ingredients from this everyday shrub in...

  • 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.

  • Secretopic Research: Chewing Gum

    A visual archive

    Chewing gum has something mysterious about it. Although we all know it, we can say very little about it. Why don't we question it more?  How did it begin? What are we chewing? Why do we chew it...

  • Symbolic Table: 100% interface-free media player

    Mediamatic Atelier RFID project. Not only for children and geriatrics.

    Symbolic Table is an interface-free media player. A cultural tool for those who want to work with media without any hassle. It is not an appliance, but a simple table. There are no buttons, no knobs.

  • To See at Mediamatic

    Art, workshops, food and more

    Mediamatic Biotoop is a breeding ground for art, design and life sciences. Here you will find many site-specific installations, a restaurant, waterside terrace, co-working spaces and labs. All...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    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 inside our various labs and sensorial exhibitions.

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