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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Anisa Xhomaqi, Pleun van Dijk

    Objects of desire

    Objects of Desire by Pleun van Dijk  is a series of selected images representing human genitals as well as sex toys that were translated into a dataset of a machine learning model and displayed at...

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  • Why Beftival?

    A Conversation with Ine Poppe and Olga Middendorp

    Beftival is coming, and, along with our growing anticipation, we also got curious to know more about the conceptual behind the scenes of it all. What pressing societal issues gave inspiration to this...

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • Beftival Program

    An overview of all exhibitions, performances, workshops and events that are part of Beftival.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Ine Poppe, Olga Middendorp

    Beftival

    Program overview

    A festival featuring over 30 artists and scientists. Come discuss, feel and celebrate fe-male sexuality, gender and preference. Beftival is part of Museumnacht 2021.

  • Proposal by: Jennifer Kumer

    When My Time Comes

    Project Proposal: an End-of-Life Conversation Game

    How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...

  • Proposal by: Pauline Rip

    Cooking Ghosts

    Researching elficology

    How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? Cooking Ghosts is a project based on research done by...

  • Proposal by: Alena Grahn

    Erotic Ecology

    Project proposal: Our Human Bodies

    This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...

  • Proposal by: Mariko Hori

    Archive something we don't know yet

    Project Proposal: Understanding water conditions through paper making

    This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.

  • Proposal by: Bas Huijbers

    Green Office

    Project proposal: Klimaatactie in het onderwijs

    Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office

  • Proposal by: Lucie Majerus

    Colour-Smells of Amsterdam

    Project proposal: Sustainable souvenirs

    As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?

  • Proposal by: Nina Anin

    Wind Airwave transmission

    Project Proposal: Sustainable radio show

    WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...

  • Proposal by: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

    Chili Pepper Pleasure

    Project proposal: A hedonistic experience

    Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...

  • Proposal by: Margherita Falqui

    Liquid Maquis

    Project proposal: Connecting with places through the senses

    Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it. I would like to explore and communicate the connection to territory by creating a liquid...

  • Proposal by: Lena Trost

    (Digital) Glass Tasting

    Project proposal: How glass becomes odour

    My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...

  • 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.

  • Piss off! What did you just say?

    When was the last time you swore? What did you say… shit? Piss? Cunt? There's a high chance it was a word relating to bodily fluids, and at Secretopia we have summarised the research that will...

  • Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

    Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention .  Nature's Toolbox  is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...

  • We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…

    Project Nursery

    There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended.  Penny for your Thoughts  is our project nursery

  • Proposal by: Sieta Maria van Horck

    Bodies of Land

    Project proposal: Rituals to connect with land

    Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...

  • Proposal by: Thom van Hoek

    Object Permanence

    Project proposal: Levend sculptuur

    Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...

  • Proposal by: Arthur Guilleminot

    Piss Soap

    Project proposal: Ecodeviant Research

    My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...

  • Proposal by: Maaike Anne Stevens

    Bipolaris

    Project proposal: Essay film

    Bipolaris is an essay film of about 30 minutes about the fundamental difference in the way our two brain hemispheres experience the world. By means of documentary shots, fictional scenes, interviews...

  • Proposal by: Mario Mimoso

    Floating Havens

    Project Proposal: Regenerating city life

    Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Future Affair

    17
    Dec 2025
    15
    Jan 2027
    - by Laura A Dima

    What forms can touch take when bodies are separated, and technology becomes the mediator? At our renovated Haptic Lab, we welcome artist Laura A Dima's Future Affair, an interactive installation...

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