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  • Image: Arthur Guilleminot

    Piss Soap at Empathic Boot Camp to Disgust

    Arthur Guilleminot presenting his Piss Soap at the Utopia Opening.

    Piss soap   is made entirely out of human activity waste materials, including urine. All the raw materials needed to make piss soap can be collected on a local scale of a city and then redistributed...

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  • Vegan
  • Body
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  • Criticism
  • Self
  • Theory
  • The Dirt We Carry

    Self Portrait by Amanda Cotton

    For three months, Amanda Cotton documented her life using her face wipes for her ‘Self Portrait’ . These face wipes not only show the removed makeup, but also the dirt and oil that is inevitably...

  • The Self and Solo Sex

    Celebrating International Masturbation Month

    Sexual discovery and self-pleasure, that’s what May is about. This month we honour solo sex and break the stigma surrounding human sexuality, masturbation and self-love.

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  • Artist Residencies 2024

    Artists, designers and research

    A selection of artists and designer that have done a residency at Mediamatic. You'll also find the artists who coordinate our Labs here. Also, check out our Meet a Maker page to see when you can talk...

  • The Finger Rub Rug

    When enclosed in a room with a rug made of silicone fingers, it is difficult to remain neutral. Whether it be humour or disgust, Dima's installation invites the audience to act on their response as...

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #4 Denken, voelen en doen in de Garden-Based Approach

    In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...

  • Determining the optimal nitrogen level for the…

    Nitrogen is a key component in chlorophyll, so it plays a crucial role inside the plant: but what happens when it's too much?

    Various researches have shown the correlation between pests infestation and nitrogen leaf content - which depends on the amount of fertilizer you add. What is, then, the fertilizer amount we can...

  • Artist Residencies 2025

    Artists, designers and research

    Here you can find a selection of artists and designers who have done or are currently doing a residency at Mediamatic in 2025. You'll also find the artists who lead our Labs here. 

  • 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...

  • When can we start to objectify our hair?

    Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

    Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...

  • Eating the Future

    Exploring food beyond the plate

    Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future?   In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...

  • 1 Jan 1958

    The Fly (1958)

    Directed by Kurt Neumann, The Fly is a 1958 Science-Fiction-Horror movie about a botched attempt to teleport a successful scientist When his DNA is accidentally spliced with that of a housefly

  • Project: Anna Pedersen

    GoGirl

    Don't take life sitting down

    Life's greatest adventure shouldn't be finding a bathroom. GoGirl is the feminine urination device that lets you go anywhere. Simply put, a GoGirl is a way to stand up to crowded, disgusting, distant...

  • TravelJohn

    The civilized solution. Anytime! Anywhere!

    The essential disposable urinal kit you won’t want to travel without. Frustration mounts while you’re on the road, alone or with your family, and "nature’s call" turns to "nature’s scream". There’s...

  • WoPeeH

    For women who stand up!

    WoPeeH pocket is the newest reusable urinating device for practical modern woman! WoPeeH pocket is specifically designed to easily take with you and lockable. Made of sturdy plastic it is reliable to...

  • Book: Slavoj Žižek 1 Jan 1991

    Liebe dein Symptom wie Dich selbst!

    Jacques Lacans Psychoanalyse und die Medien

  • 'This mug is made from recycled materials'

    The Set Of Matter Varies and This is not a "VÄRDERA" by Krisztina Czika

    Krisztina Czika is a Hungarian designer who has been exploring the capabilities of human hair. Currently, she’s exploring the recycling of cosmetic wax and hair through her installation ‘ The Set of...

  • Visiting Hours

    Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday between 14.00 and 16.00, you are very welcome to step by our Open Aroma Lab. Smell our selection of aroma-molecules, learn about working with scent as a...

  • Interview Kael T Block

    On XX Boys and more

    Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! presents Kael T Block's project XX Boys, a collection of photographs of transboys. Rooted in his own experience as a transboy or 'FtM' (Female to Male), the...

  • Book: Howard Rheingold 1 Jan 2000

    The Virtual Community

    Homesteading on the Electric Frontier

    Cyberculture authority Howard Rheingold was the first to write about online communities in this style that is part-travelogue and part-anthropological guide. This groundbreaking classic explores the...

  • Wearable Fluids: Turning the Body Inside Out

    Body Fluids by Zane Cerpina

    What if you were able to wear some of your most intimate bodily fluids, such as menstrual blood, breast milk or semen, as jewellery? Visual artist Zane Cerpina created a collection of jewellery made...

  • Mercedez Bunz 1 Jan 2001

    Extensions, Boundaries & Double Crossings

    Or: We Don't Trust Anybody. Shadowing Theory and Technology Constructing Subjects

    Bunz's text will focus on the different ways in which the word 'and' formats the relation between reality - which means us, the humans - and the computer. Her ambition is to demonstrate that the 'and'...

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