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  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Space, Spirit, Souvenirs

    18
    Aug 2022
    - Penny for your Thoughts Project Presentations with Mandy den Elzen, Lucie Majerus and Margherita Falqui

    How can we capture the essence of a place? Three artists reflect on how we can use our senses to understand, connect with– and even archive places. Tickets / Facebook

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  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Teun Vonk

    Meditation Circus

    11
    May 2025
    11
    Jun 2025
    - Teun Vonk / Tony Spark

    Teun Vonk creates art installations that focus on individual physical experiences, as a reminder to the participant of what the body is and what it is capable of. The Meditation Circus...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Renske Tiemersma

    Ruimte voor Kijken

    28
    Apr 2025
    28
    Jun 2025
    - Renske Tiemersma

    Every day, we either observe others or are observed by them. Unwritten rules, shaped by societal norms and personal boundaries, determine when and for how long we engage in the act of looking.
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sophie Conroy

    Where we Sleep

    16
    May 2025
    16
    Aug 2025
    - Sophie Conroy

    Where We Sleep is an exhibition transforming Mediamatic’s greenhouses into intimate, temporary sleeping spaces, inspired by the places where Sophie Conroy slept while she lived without a...
  • 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 Dijkspark, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

    Pigeon Cam

    On the 7th of June 2022, almost two years after we first started learning how to build pigeon towers with waste mycelium, we introduced the first four squab (young pigeons) into their new living...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Distilling a Citrus Bouquet

    18
    May 2025
    - Turning waste into beauty with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. We'll explore the...
  • Tasting Stand: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Fermentation Bar

    16
    May 2025
    - TestTafel

    TestTafel is Mediamatic's new pop up restaurant partner! Eager to collaborate with us in the future, they'll be participating in our opening evening. 
  • A performative book presentation about giving and taking space: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    house

    16
    May 2025
    - Rosa Vrij

    house , a publication, represents the culmination of Rosa Vrij's artistic and personal research over many years, focusing on the themes of giving and taking space , bundled in a publication . The...

  • 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: 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?
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks, Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

    Jute

    June '20 – Pigeon Tower 02

    We put the remains of the collapsed tower from the first experiment in a long burlap tube. Burlap is a biodegradable textile, and provides structure and nourishment for the mycelium. We rolled up the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link

    How is smell used as a disguise in beings?

    Exploring smell as a disguise. And how your nose is one of your most powerful faculties.

    This article explores how your nose is one of your most powerful senses and how in our new workshop "Smelling like a species" you can investigate smell in other beings and compose your own disguise...
  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Pickles: Co-design with Microbes

    with Saskia Frederiks

    Pickling vegetables is one of the oldest fermentation practices around. It is a rich source of antioxidants and is known for its sour and salty taste. During this workshop, you will learn to apply...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Discovering Otoliths

    with Mandy den Elzen

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen

    An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark

    What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol. 8#2/3 Errki Huhtamo 1 Jan 1995

    Armchair Traveller on the Ford of Jordan

    The Home, the Stereoscope and the Virtual Voyager

    The general panorama of the world. It introduces to us scenes known only from the imperfect relations of travellers. By our fireside we have the advantage of examining them, without being exposed to...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

    The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.

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  • 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...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Zeger Reyers

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Is it plates growing in between plants, or plants growing in between plates? Hard Water is an installation that consists of a thousand plates, soil and plants 'growing' on the exterior wall of...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Building Aquaponic Systems

    with Saro van Cleynenbreugel

    Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alessandra Baldissarelli Bremm, Mandy den Elzen

    The hidden wonders of Mandy den Elzen

    Mandy den Elzen is a Dutch artist fascinated by the process of making visible the wonders of nature and its encounter with art. In our routines is easy to forget to pay attention to the minutiae that...

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