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  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Slime Mould: Hands-On Bio-Design

    26
    Sep 2026
    - with Ringailė Demšytė

    How can non-human organisms become part of the creative process? This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the world of Physarum polycephalum also known as slime mould and its use within...
  • Experimental
  • Movement
  • Shapeshifting
  • nature
  • visual
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    26
    Sep 2026
    - with Ringailė Demšytė

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Ringailė Demšytė  is open to creative consultation and...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for…

    3
    Sep 2026
    - with Raquel Ledo Doval, Denisa Půbalová, Pablo Torres Gómez & Nina Blume

    The workshop invites participants to attune to the thresholds between what is audible and what remains structurally silenced within our oceans. Where research notes become scripts, guided listening...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Casting the Canal

    19
    Sep 2026
    - Underwater Dining: Building the Surface

    What happens to a material after it is cast? What continues to live, grow, or decompose inside it? Building on the material experiments from Sampling the Canal , this workshop moves from small-scale...
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    20
    Aug 2026
    - with Sikau/Pubalova

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with our artists-in-residence! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artists who inspired you. Sikau/Pubalova   are open to creative...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Multispecies Basket

    1
    Aug 2026
    1
    Aug 2027
    - Anđela Zora Brnas

    This willow dome functions as a humble, living experiment - a shared space to observe and navigate the relationships between local species, habitats, human presence, and traditional craft
  • Installation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Simple Adult Forms

    20
    Feb 2026
    31
    Dec 2026
    - by Silke Riis

    Simple Adult Forms  challenges the modern obsession with exponential growth. In a culture that views starting over as a failure, Riis looks to biology in order to find an alternative narrative. By...
  • Mediamatic, De Ceuvel and the Ukrainian Institute in The Netherlands

    OPEN CALL: Zoöpolis

    Zoöp Connections – Networks for the Living

    Mediamatic, De Ceuvel and the Ukrainian Institute are now accepting applications for the period between September 24th - October 23rd, 2026. Residency for makers transitioning beyond the human
  • 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.
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    11
    Sep 2026
    - with Sikau/Pubalova

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with our artists-in-residence! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artists who inspired you. Sikau/Pubalova   are open to creative...
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    18
    Sep 2026
    - with Anđela Zora Brnas

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with our artists-in-residence! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artists who inspired you. Anđela Zora Brna is open to creative...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Anna Lina Litz, Nesie Wang 11 Jul 2023

    Looking via the Brain not the Eye

    17
    Apr 2023
    - A/artist Roundtable with Nesie Wang

    During the roundtable on Monday 17 April, Nesie Wang talked about how autism shapes her thoughts and expressions in her photography practice. Nesie joined Mediamatic for an internship as A/artist...
  • Guidelines Application Call 2026:

    CLOSED: Open Call: Haptic Lab

    Collective Art in Public Spaces

    Mediamatic is now accepting applications for the upcoming year, starting July 1st - September 30th, 2026. We invite you to be part of our Living Labs Residencies for 2026! Work in the Haptic Lab and...
  • Mediamatic, Livia Rita & Avantgardeners Open Call 2026:

    OPEN CALL: Dystopia Wetlands CLOSED

    Mediamatic, Livia Rita and Avantgardeners Collective are now accepting applications for performers to take part in an upcoming exhibition, opening on 1 May 2026.  We invite you to be part of this...
  • Artistic Research Presentation Series

    Unfolding Universes

    Performance Game

    Throughout 2026, visual artist and performance maker Rosa Vrij invites you into her artistic process through six presentations at Mediamatic. Every two months, she opens a window into her current...
  • Proposal by: Takako Hamano, Uno Fujisawa

    EatArt Experience in Experiments

    Project Proposal: Stimulating five senses

      During the COVID pandemic, people were confronted with the essence of (their) being, either consciously or unconsciously. We had to find new ways to feel at ease with(in) ourselves and in our...

  • Which paper works & doesn't work for the printer

    Needs to be edited everytime you know more about one paper specifically :)

    In the graphic room, we have different type of paper. Some of them are quite old and some other more new and useful. Here is a little list of which >> paper works on the big printer: 180 gram coated...

  • Aromathèque

    Sensory art, Research and Design

    Aromathèque  is here to tickle your senses, flip your nose upside down, and make you rethink everything you smell, taste, touch, and inhale. From mayonnaise madness to alluring pheromones, every...

  • Robin Waart is an artist who makes books who…

    A/artist roundtable with Robin Waart

    Robin Waart is an Amsterdam–based artist. During our discussion round he let us browse through six of his printed projects. They are collections of movie stills and book pages that deal with themes...
  • Mediamatic Camilla Calamai

    Becoming a Pigeon

    What I learned from Donna Haraway’s book “Staying with the Trouble, Making Kin in the Chthulucene” and String Figure Theory

    The Inhuman Carnival train us to see the world from a non-human perspective, specifically from the one of a pigeon. How do we change the gossip surrounding pigeons, and empathise with them so that we...
  • Proposal by: Naomi Jansen

    Karkínos

    Project Proposal: Visual Artistic Research on Cancer

    Karkínos is a visual artistic research in which cancer encounters different facets of the earth. In Karkínos, cancer is interconnected with, for example, the astrological world, the animal kingdom...

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