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  • Japanese Knotweed Season Workshop 2024: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Knotweed Tempura & Stir-fry

    31
    May 2024
    - with Hiroki Yasuda

    Join us for an exclusive culinary workshop with renowned Japanese chef Hiroki Yasuda, where you'll master the art of transforming the Japanese Knotweed into a delicious treat of crispy and flavorful...
  • Japanese knotweed
  • visual
  • colours
  • Transformation
  • Nature
  • Gastronomy
  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop 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.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    L'Absinthe de la Rue de Dindon VIII – Mediamatic…

    by Dirk Vis and Edgar Walthert

    Ingredients: spirits, anise, fennel, liquorice, nettle, lemon, sage*, hyssop, melissa, coriander, lavender*, mint*, tree wormwood*, mugworth* and wormwood *harvested from Tumulus
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Onderwaterwerk

    7
    May 2021
    - Marjolijn Boterenbrood

    Wat leeft er in het Oosterdok? Hoe nemen organismen een materiaal over? Een set van aluminium plaatjes hangt aan onze Serres Séparées langs de kade in afwachting van begroeiing. Met zeebioloog Marnix...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, 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...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Healing Property

    Mar - Aug '20

    In late July and early August 2020, an ornamental hermitage was constructed at the centre of the Tumulus, slightly sunk into the earth. It is built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop 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...
  • 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 
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Dormant Lot

    Nov '19 - Mar '20

  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop 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...
  • 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 Vera Catalano, Doudouce Knol

    What does a day in the Aquaponics greenhouse look…

    Morning The first thing we do in the morning is to check the pH in the subtank. The pH, a measure of how acidic the water is, determines the health of the fish, the creation of bacteria in the system
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop

    Firing

    June '21

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design Solutions

    For implementing greenhouse dining in the restaurant

    For the use of the Serres in the restaurant we are constantly making adjustments. Not only to the greenhouses themselves, but also to the way we carry out our service. What problems do we encounter?
  • Interview Leyang Fu

    Human as Food, in a Material World

    An interview with Noa Jansma

    Noa Jansma is a Dutch multimedia designer. She completed her training at the Design Academy Eindhoven and has exhibited her work at renowned locations such as C/O Berlin, Les Rencontres de la...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Six-Winged Chicken and other mythical…

    1
    Sep 2020
    - by Anne Kamps

    Where does the meat we eat actually come from? On what scale is it produced? And, what is real news and what is fake news? A few years ago, the phenomenon of the six-winged chicken was written about...
  • 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 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...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Spring

    Mar - June '21

    This spring the woad (Isatis Tinctoria) growing on the Tumulus flowers bright radiant yellow.The Hermitess pandemic shelter is freshly painted with wood tar that was obtained from trees through...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Autumn

    Sept '21 – Dec '21

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Vegetative State

    June - July '19

    The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted.

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Hibernating Winter Garden

    Dec '20 - Mar '21

  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

    Gentle

    Oct '20 – Pigeon Tower 04

    The blocks of mycelium from mushroom grower John Verbruggen that we used to build are wide and heavy, and so they give us more security when stacking than in previous towers. Because we wanted to...
  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Kintsugi

    with Mariko Hori

    Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...

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