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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Afscheid Rein Jansma

    24
    Apr 2023
    - Rein was een heel goede vriend van Mediamatic.

    Hij overleed op 17 april. Voordat Rein vandaag in besloten kring begraven zal worden op Zorgvlied, ontmoeten we elkaar van 1 tot 3 in de Sluisdeurenloods om afscheid van hem te nemen. De regie van...
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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Willem Velthoven

    Keep Out!

    march 2020 Corona Closure | Help to Flatten the Curve!

    We are ok but our exhibits and our bar/restaurant are closed until further notice. This started on Sunday march 16, 2020. We'll stay closed for public at least till April 6 whilst following the Dutch...

  • Noordjes kinderplaneet en Overal Vincent winnen…

    In een uitverkocht Transformatorhuis is Kom je ook?4 in volle gang. De eerste spreker, Matthias Rick van Raumlaborberlin, staat nu op het podium. Na hem nog hele serie sprekers die vertellen over de...

  • www.ikrip.nl

    What shall we do with your online profile when you die?

    Simultaneously with the opening of the Ik R.I.P. exhibition, Mediamatic Lab launched a new website: www.ikrip.nl. On this website you have the chance to decide how you want your profile to look after...
  • 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 Biotoop Dijkspark Mily Bogaarts 3 Mar 2021

    From Packaging to Beaver Skin

    How to build a mycelium pigeon tower roof #1

    The pigeon and the mycelium are in joint agreement. Pigeons don’t nest on soggy surfaces and mycelium prefers high humidity, but don’t like the wet. It is critical: The tower needs a roof. But what...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Willem Velthoven

    Testing Serres Séparées at Mediamatic Biotoop

    Safe and intimate dinner at the water side of Oosterdok in Amsterdam!

    At Mediamatic we're designing and testing new safe hospitality. Later this year we will serve our visitors amazing plant-based dinners in their own little greenhouse. We're hoping to open in June

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...

  • Mediamatic ontvangt opnieuw subsidie!

    Het Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur (SfA) presenteerde donderdag 10 mei 2012 de uitslag van de meerjarige subsidievoorzieningen, met goed nieuws voor Mediamatic. We kunnen hierdoor een belangrijk...

  • Mediamatic’s Ghanaian Teddy Bear coffin

    A documentation of our coffin order at eShopAfrica.com!

    For the Ik R.I.P. exhibition, Mediamatic decided to order a custom-crafted coffin in Ghana. Our graphic designer Anuschka Linse came up with a beautiful sketch of her ideal coffin, in the shape of a...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Casting Doubt

    15
    May 2015
    31
    Dec 2024
    - by Masha Ru en Jasmin Moeller

    Are you fundamentally lonely? Do you break taboos? Join us and start Casting Doubts (Twijfel Zaaien) in Amsterdam's newest hotspot: Dijkspark. Thirty questions about life and art lead you along the...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Frank Bloem, Caetano Mendes Dias, Rachel Barfield

    Aromas of Extermination

    14
    Apr 2023
    31
    Oct 2023
    - by Mediamatic Aromalab

    Discover the smells of different ways humans try to get rid of the plant, from uprooting the plant to electrocuting their stems and leaves.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    How to get to Mediamatic

    Dijksgracht 6, 1019 BS, Amsterdam

    Mediamatic Biotoop is located in Dijkspark at the head of the Dijksgracht, within walking distance of Amsterdam's Central Station. We are easy to reach by bike, public transport and car. Below you...
  • 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...
  • Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link

    Becoming magnesium

    Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?

    Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...

  • An interview with Engy Aly

    "There are much, much more Arabs and Muslims than I have ever seen in my life outside of an Arabic country."

    July 2010. Engy has been living and working in Amsterdam-Noord for a few weeks. She was kind enough to share her first impressions, and tell us a little bit about her background.

  • An interview with Kareem Lotfy

    Cairo, the tale of love and hate.

    Over a big plate of sushi, some green tea and lots of wasabi, we discussed Kareem's experience of Amsterdam, living in Cairo and feeling like a tourist.

  • Zedz workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Together with the relatives Zedz designs a coffin that expresses the individuality of the loved one.

  • Nan is Dood

    Nan Hoover is op 9 juni 2008 in Berlijn overleden. Ze was ziek. We zullen haar missen. Als kunstenaar. Als mentor. Als vriend.

  • Mediamatic has moved

    After a few lovely years in the Post CS building, Mediamatic is now located in Duintjer CS (the ABN AMRO bank building).

  • A community of the dead

    A conversation with Elizabeth Heyert

    Mary Caparitia Bush is ready to go to the party. She is wearing a stunning black sequin dress with a pattern of white leaves. Lace gloves and a pink hat with a flower complement the look. Mary’s hair...

  • Is it a man or a woman?

    Pedro Meyer’s fascination for nudes, hermaphrodites and transvestites

    Brazilian artist Pedro Meyer doesn't just paint nude women. With his painting-installation “Transvestite Bathroom” he plays with the notions of seduction and strangeness. The Rio de Janeiro pavilion...

  • Workshop Melanie Bonajo

    Coffin for your beloved

    For Melanie Bonajo designing the coffin is a communal process with much room for rituals and stories about the deceased.

  • The Future of Plastic

    An exhibition by Maurizio Montalti

    Maurizio Montalti, partner of our Myco Design Lab, just opened his solo exhibition called "The Future of Plastic" in Naples. The exhibition will present some of the latest research and grown products

created Willem Velthoven modified Marcel Sturing

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