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  • Image: Govert de Jong

    5-11-2011 Bio-sample Wall - Nacht van de…

    Each museumnacht (2011) visitor had to place his or her finger in an RFID-tagged petri dish. They included information such as their name, and the location they visited before coming to Mediamatic.

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  • Project: Antal Ruhl

    Mold Fight

    A battle to the death of mold vs. mold

    Can you beat the slime mold?

  • Bodies of Change Installation Process

    Building the installation

    This is the first in a series of articles tracking the construction process and growth of the Bodies of Change installation.

  • Clean Room

    Laboratory Installation

    In this controlled sterile environment we inoculate substrate with mushroom spores and experiment with all things fungal.

  • The Mold Fight Begins!

    Our first mold battle

    Our newest installation at the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition is a tiny agar-filled stadium where we will host mold fights. The first fight will be between our visitor Marco's bacteria and the...

  • Mold That Eats Plastic

    This mushroom loves having plastic for dinner

    A little mushroom is making big headlines after it has been found to break down plastic faster and more effectively then its fungal and bacterial predecessors.

  • Maurizio Montalti 5 Dec 2011

    Bodies of Change

    Installation

    The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.

  • Mushroom Events

    Workshops, lectures, excursions

  • Lizan Freijsen 1 Oct 2011

    Fungi

    Photographic installation

    Fungus is spreading across our walls, magnified to a large scale and infiltrating our exhibition space.

  • Michel Blazy 1 Jan 2007

    Mur de Double Concentré de Tomate

    Installation

    Facilitating the observation of nature through the slow processes of decay and moulding, Michel Blazy's installation brings fungus to a whole new level.

  • Yann Seznec, Patrick Hickey 1 Jan 2010

    The Secret Sounds of Spores

    Installation

    Hidden under every mushroom, invisible to the naked eye, thousands of spores fall and are blown away by the tiniest current of wind. Shining a laser underneath a protected mushroom makes these spores...

  • Sclerotia tampanensis

    Philosopher's stones

    This very rare truffle is formed beneath the psilocybe tampanensis mushroom. These small lumps contain very high concentrations of psilocybin, a psychedelic with strong visual effects.

  • Project: 5 Dec 2011

    Mycological Material Research

    Artists and designers experiment and play with a new form of myco-material

    We were the first in the Netherlands to get our hands on this new batch of myco-material from Ecovative . Together with some local artists and designers we are conducting material research of our own.

  • Mycelium Theorists/Scientists

    Scientists, theorists and university work groups that are doing research into mushrooms and mycelium and anything related. No lonely links please - add a little blurb about the research when you add...

  • Care Calendar

    Taking care of the mushrooms

    Mediamatic's Urban Mushroom Farm houses six varieties of edible mushrooms, and they all need to be taken care of in their own special way. This is the calendar that we use inside the space to keep...

  • Pleurotus eryngii

    King oyster mushroom / Konings oesterzwam

    The king oyster mushroom is bigger and better tasting than most other oyster mushrooms - hence its royal title. The dwarfed caps sit like little crowns on top of the long, thick, fatty white stems.

  • Book: Terence McKenna 1 Jan 1992

    Food of the Gods

    The search for the original tree of knowledge

    For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. This book tells you about the history of drugs in the East and West; from the...

  • Agaricus blazei

    Almond mushroom / Amandelpaddestoel

    Originating from Brazil and Argentine, the almond mushroom enjoys high temperatures, keeping cool under a brown cap that's about as wide as it is high. (Great for stuffing!)

  • Book: Paul Stamets 1 Jan 2005

    Mycelium Running

    How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

    Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text...

  • Mycelium and Mushroom Manufacturers

    Information and websites about mushroom companies and growers that can supply us with products.

  • Artworks in the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition

    September 2011 - July 2012

  • Trametes versicolor

    Turkey tail / Elfenbankje

    Dry and leathery to the touch, the turkey tail is too tough to eat (although slugs and squirrels happily feast on the colorful mushroom). It enjoys the company of dead or dying trees, which it helps...

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...

  • Pholiatha nameko

    Nameko mushroom / Bundelzwam

    Nameko mushrooms never grow alone - hence their unofficial name: cluster mushroom.

  • Lentinus edodes

    Shiitake

    Traditionally belonging to the Japanese cuisine, the Shiitake, in all its musky roughness, has spread across the world, and is the second most cultivated mushroom out there.

created Govert de Jong modified Mara van der Blonk

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