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  • Alberto Marchioretto

    Spending my days watching teletubbies, being terrified of the voters of Berlusconi and performing a fashionable nihilism.
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  • NDSM, or the resurrection of the shipbuilding…

    The Noord participants explore Amsterdam Noord

    Our guests discussed Amsterdam's cultural life with Eva De Klerk. They talked about gentrification and the future of Amsterdam Noord.

  • The Idea Becomes the Machine that Makes the Book

    A/artist roundtable with Annelies Wina Doom

    During our latest A/Artist discussion round, artist Annelies Wina Doom took us on a journey through her art work "Please do not touch, even clean hands can cause damage", from its conception to its...

  • Het Middel

    Een aan het genre ontstegen ideeënroman

    Dirk van Weelden, Het Middel Pagina's: 256 ISBN: 9789045701271 Prijs: € 18.90 Uitgeverij Augustus 2007
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bahia Shehab

    Al-Rihla (The Journey)

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    Dec 2016
    31
    Dec 2025
    - Mural by Bahia Shehab

    Mediamatic and Framer Framed invited Lebanese-Egyptian street-artist Bahia Shehab to create a brand new graffiti wall at Mediamatic Biotoop right next to our terrace. In order to celebrate her...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1996

    vol. 8#4 The Religion Issue

    Editorial: Are People the Gods of the Algorithms?

    The word avatar does not occur in this issue of Mediamatic.

  • Always Do Your Best

    Bert Mulder is dead. We miss him

    Bert was a brilliant friend and a board member of Mediamatic for nearly 30 years. The words "Always do your best" sum up the fourth of "The Four Agreements", a shamanistic spiritual handbook by Don...

  • Hyper Sports, Konami, 1984

    Olympic athlete of stature

    Pushing buttons or rolling the trackball as quick as possible, in Hyper Sports (the follow-up of the slightly more popular Track & Field) the player slips into a high class olympic athlete. On this...

  • Philips Videopac G7000, 1978

    Game: Flipper

    The Videopac G7000 was one of Atari 2600's biggest rivals. It was the only video game console to have a built-in keyboard. Its successor, the G7200, would feature a built-in black and white screen.

  • Unexpected Cairo

    Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art So, one thing you can't miss is The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, a platform for creative inquiry that supports artistic work through exhibitions
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1992

    Famous Artists School, Famous Writer Tool

    or: the hankering after a configurated system for the Apple and other rhetorical reflections

    In Mediamatic 6#1, Paul Groot reported on his first experiences with a word processor and his struggle with the McHugh. As a sequel to these first impressions, he will review here MicroSoft's Word5...

  • Arabic pickup lines t-shirts

    T-shirts designed using the arabic typefaces. Still in the process of experimenting with the type and the positioning as well as producing prototypes.

  • Playstation 3 (3D), 2006

    Game: Motorstorm Drift 3D

    The PlayStation 3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. Thanks to a nice firmware...

  • He who says Zero he who says One

    Learning-plays by Brecht performed by humans and machine

    My current research at Goldsmiths MA Critical Theory and Practice concerns FLOSS+Art and the epic theatre of Bertolt Brecht that seeks to interrogate political action in a control society.

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...

  • Biking and the Kindness of Strangers

    I am not a habitual bike rider, but as I said before, Amsterdam is the city of bikes, and we were all provided with one by Mediamatic. In addition to my daily walks, I decided to give bike riding a...

  • NBA Jam, Midway games, 1993

    NBA Jam changed the face of basketbal forever.

    Until NBA Jam was released, basketball games were really only for the true enthusiast. After all, everything you could do on screen, you could do in real life as well. However, after 1993 basketball...

  • Atari Jaguar, 1993

    Game: DOOM

    The Jaguar is a 64-bit video game console, released in 1993 by Atari. Although it wasn't a big success (only 80 games were released for this little machine), it's important in that it was Atari's...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1994

    Editorial

    The Eighth Art

    This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.

  • Foundland

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Foundland find themselves inspired by the many fairytale aspects of Noord. Wandering around, they were surprised by the number of garden gnomes, fake frogs, and Indiana Jones style twists and turns...

  • QR Code in Ministeck

    Handcrafted QR codes

    Mixing the old with the new, mixing business with pleasure. Making QR Codes in Ministeck is only the first attempt to make these pesky codes physically more attractive.
  • Perfume Niklaus Mettler 20 Aug 2018

    Filtered Beans

    The Scent of Fancy Condos

    The qualities of cafés can tell us about the make-up of a community, a neighborhood’s ethnic composition and about the urban development of a city. Niklaus Mettler extracted the flavors of three...
  • Persbericht Bas van den Broeke

    Geschiedenis van games tentoongesteld

    Arcade tentoonstelling wordt uitgebreid met consoles

    19 januari 2011, Amsterdam - Op zaterdag 22 januari opent bij Mediamatic het derde level van de game tentoonstelling Arcade. Level 3 belicht de geschiedenis van de console spelcomputers (1975 - 2011).
  • 1 Jan 1992

    Mortal Kombat, Midway, 1992

    So real it hurts!

    The flyer for Mortal Kombat sported the daunting but promising text “So real it hurts!” The digital graphics combined with the rampant, bloody scenes turned Mortal Kombat into one of the most popular...

  • Philips CD-i, 1991

    Game: Escape from CyberCity

    The Philips Cd-i is an interactive multimedia CD player. Apart from games you could play audio CD's, picture CD's and, in combination with a video cartridge, video CD's (VCD). The CD-i featuring in...

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