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  • Image: Fedora Boonaert

    Graduation Picture, "A Herbal Re-Renaissance:…

    by Fedora Boonaert

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  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Plant Properties

    Starting from Dijkspark, we are mapping plants in the city

    A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Hortus Dijkspark at any moment. Come to learn more about the different...

  • History

    1983 - now

    In 1983 our focus was on media technology: video art, installations and performance were the early core of our presentations, productions and   magazine . In the 1990s it was interactive media. We...

  • Common lady's mantle

    Alchemilla vulgaris

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia . 

  • Scotch Broom

    Cytisus scoparius

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    Thuisopdracht #3.2: Rare dingen koken (en opeten)

    Mediamatic mist alle enthousiaste, nieuwsgierige en leergierige bezoekers ontzettend! Ook kunnen we ons goed voorstellen dat het thuis doorleren en samenwerken best uitdagend kan zijn... De...

  • Evening primrose

    Oenothera biennis

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Hermit Hut II: Ruin

    Jan '22

    ruin - n-   late Old English, "act of giving way and falling down", from Latin  ruina  "a collapse, a rushing down, a tumbling down.” - Online dictionary of etymology 

  • Narrow-leaved ragwort

    Senecio inaequidens

    This plant, also known as South African ragwort, is native of South Africa and widely naturalised in Europe. Senecio species have been used as food and in folk medicine in the Mediterranean area in...

  • Yarrow

    Achillea millefolium

    In the Middle ages Yarrow was thought to have subtle powers for wounds and help with mitigating fevers.   Yarrow tea is a good remedy for severe colds, being most useful in the commencement of fevers.

  • Purple loosestrife

    Lythrum salicaria

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Geschiedenis

    Aroma Lab

    In 2017 is het Aroma Lab opgezet voor ontwerpers die willen experimenteren met geur. Klara Ravat was de eerste gebruiker van het lab. Zij was in 2017 de artist-in-residence.

  • Marjoram

    Origanum majorana

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia . 

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    Thuisopdracht #4.1: Schilderen met mos

    Mediamatic mist alle enthousiaste, nieuwsgierige en leergierige bezoekers ontzettend! Ook kunnen we ons goed voorstellen dat het thuis doorleren en samenwerken best uitdagend kan zijn... De...

  • Asian Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Double the dough to hold the door to travel from India to Trinidad and Tobago. I can take a trip anytime because home is wherever Curry Channa and Tamarind Sauce coat my fingers. I know I have...

  • History

    The reason for creating the Clean Lab at our Dijksgracht location was primarily to create a lab space large enough and suitable for the growing tide of artists wanting to expand their work into...

  • Greater burdock

    Arctium lappa

    Find this plant on Wikipedia .
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Romantic Ruin

    Dec '21

    Winter is knocking on our door and the Tumulus vegetation is preparing to hibernate.  This patch of nature is still holding its green for the most part but some plants have decayed to fall colours...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Wormwood

    Artemisia absinthium

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .

  • Japanese Knotweed

    Fallopia japonica

    Japanese knotweed is a plant that was labeled as one of the most invasive species in the world. They cause a lot of trouble in our gardens, and they are very resilient and hard to exterminate, but a...

  • The real story behind natural perfumery

    Natural vs synthetic. Is it really eco?

    "Natural is always better" a sentence we often hear, but is it really? Well, in perfumery, it is not as simple, and there is a twist to what is commonly known and followed. Chemistry came to add...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Essential Eau de Cologne

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jessica Cohen

    Back to Nature

    behind the artistic practice of Ruchama Noorda

    Whilst European societies charged towards modernity at the turn of the 20th century, a new social reform movement went back to nature. How does the work of Ruchama Noorda relate to this movement?
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft

    7 kilos of Happiness

    The ins and outs of weighing our fish

    Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
  • Kunstformen der Natur

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created Laura Rosal modified Laura Rosal

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