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  • Proposal by: Emily Bates

    Human Hair Tapestry

    Project Proposal: A collective document, and trauma portrait

    Hair has played a complex and diverse role within humankind’s cultural history, both symbolically and materially, being utilised within rituals and as memorial or portrait across many communities...

  • Culture
  • Sustainability
  • Body
  • Self
  • Beauty
  • Shrinking Sustainability

    Experimenting with making bioplastic

    Designer of the Herbal Thai Sauna, Waew, is currently in the process of experimenting, she was able to make numerous different kinds of bioplastic, in an attempt to see if they would be able to...

  • The Links between Tattoo Culture and Autism

    Beautiful stimming; the experience of getting a tattoo and giving a tattoo as an autistic person

    Our latest interest within the A/artist Project is researching the link between the tattoo culture and autism. The idea came up when I mentioned in my interview at Mediamatic that I am enthusiastic...

  • Wrijven helpt niet!

    Verslag van de 59ste Biennale van Venetie

    Midden april 2022. We zijn op de preopening van 59 ste Biënnale Venetië. Eigenlijk stond deze biënnale gepland in 2021, maar corona stak daar een stokje voor. In Italië was de...

  • Tofu, Bean curd or Ricepaper?

    Thai Sauna Experiments

    By now, we have already been able to get a taste of the experiments that Waew is currently involved in, to create a Thai Sauna dinner experience. Starting with the willow brand chicken coops, to the...

  • Runaway van Kanye West

    Vanessa Beecroft als het geheim wapen van een nieuwe regisseur

    Eigenlijk is Kanye Wests videoclip "Runaway" vooral sterk in alles wat er niet te zien is. Kanye is de regisseur, tegelijk de hoofdrolspeler en zo meer, maar let op, bij de aftiteling staat Vanessa...

  • Steaming Wellness

    Thai Herbal Sauna vs Dutch Sauna

    The Thai Herbal Sauna experience is very unique and contrasting to the Dutch experience. The Thai is focused more on personal relaxation and rejuvenation of the body, rather than the Dutch one, which...

  • Chicken Coop Sauna

    Structure Experiments

    After Waew made her first prototype of a Sauna Cabin in Thailand, she used plastic and blue metal tubes. In December 2020, she came to the Netherlands to further continue her experiments. Although in...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Food Wellness

    Following the process of Waew's efforts to create a Thai Sauna experience

    Take a deep breath in and hold it for a moment. Breath out. Feel the steam on your skin.  Imagine being able to relax and take a moment for yourself, knowing that you will enjoy a delicious meal...

  • Who presented at the Beauty Parlours?

    17 January Beauty Parlour # 1 : Kick Off - George Beentjes - Interesting applications of injectables , www.mandragora.nl - Katja Novitskova - Introduction on self representation , del.icio.us...

  • Proposal by: Sujata Majumdar, Roland van Dierendonck, Irene Nooren

    Nanoplay

    Project Proposal: The Society Within Us

    'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think' - Gregory Bateson Our current way of thinking does not enable us to deal with...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Beauty Dinner: the Recipes

    How to continue treating your skin at home

    Thank you to everyone who participated in The Beauty Dinner, created by artists Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika and chef Alice Héron. As we mentioned, we want you to be able to relive the dinner...

  • Fashion Your Sweat

    Alice Potts is a biomaterial designer fascinated by sweat. By f ashioning this vital bodily fluid into crystals for garments, shoes and sportswear, Potts asks us to reconsider the potential of our...

  • Willem Velthoven 7 Oct 2006

    Je herkent de Battle Royale personages makkelijk…

    Cosplay in Nederland

    Kattenoren zijn een beetje kinderachtig. Veel cosplayers kijken daar meewarig naar. Elfenoren ook trouwens. Te makkelijk, te simpel. Een echte cosplayer maakt zelf een compleet kostuum en fabriceert...

  • BRAVO!

    MENNO VROON

    Goed zijn is nooit genoeg en de volmaakte mens is nooit af.

  • Exhibition: Sugar Factory

    "Doppelgänger" expo & Über-Ich gig

    28
    Mar 2012
    - EXPO&GIG @ Sugar Factory

    COME TAKE YOUR FRIENDS and other people to Sugar Factory for the Closing Party of my first proper exhibition "Doppelgänger"! This special evening will be filled with one of Amsterdam's finest bands...

  • Happy beginning

    “I found the gastarbeider of my life! Thank you Mediamatic”

    Without drawing too much attention to it, Mediamatic started beta testing its on line dating service as a companion project to the Gastarbeider Dating series of social sculptures. In a few days

  • Aromathèque Calendar

    Here you can find an overview of our past and future editions!

  • Book: Avital Ronell 1 Jan 1991

    Crack Wars

    Literature, Addiction, Mania

  • Unfolding Universes Calendar

    Here you can find an overview of our past and future editions!

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1992

    Ronell

    Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania, University of Illinois Press 2004

    There is no theory of drugs concludes Ronell in her new book. Jumping on the bandwagon of the current war on drugs, she focuses attention on the 19th-century, the period when heavy use became...

  • 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...

  • Krystian Woznicki 1 Jan 2003

    Identity-Loop

    oder: Warum schwingst Du einen Hullahoop-Reifen um Deinen Hals?

created Camilla Calamai modified Camilla Calamai

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