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  • Cultural Misunderstanding

    I don’t watch football, and this includes the World Cup. On the night of the finals, I heard a huge ruckus in front of the apartment—screaming, fireworks, cheers, music. Great, I thought, the...

  • Interpretation
  • Sport
  • folklore
  • Perception
  • Storytelling
  • Communication
  • Miscommunication

    After a few days in Amsterdam, I was on one of my daily walks when I came across my friend and colleague from Cairo, Osama, who was out on his bike taking pictures of the city. We decided to stop for...

  • The Bike Thief

    I was out at night, spray-painting my graffiti work in my neighborhood. It was about 3 am and I was dressed all in black so as not to draw attention to myself, when all of a sudden a huge man came...

  • Crossing the Water

    I flew into Amsterdam from Noord Copenhagen in the middle of the night on July 3rd. Someone from Mediamatic picked me up from the train station and took me to the flat where I'd be staying. Amsterdam...

  • Talking in Arabic

    I often meet people from “my part of the world” here in Amsterdam Noord. But we don’t always have a lot in common.

  • Little Dog, Big Bite

    I was walking, stoned, through my favorite park when a little Chihuahua dog started to chase me. It chased me, snarling and yapping, for a couple of blocks as I tried valiantly to resist the urge to...

  • 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...

  • Smells

    One of the artists here, Ahmed, is also from Egypt, and one day he invited me to walk with him to a nearby park. I love this park and come here often; it is huge, quiet, and I can collect plenty of...

  • Kindergarten

    There’s a garden underneath my apartment balcony where kids play all day long. Their shrieks, cries and laughter can be pleasant enough in small doses, but after a while it grates on the nerves.

  • It makes death look okay!

    3D at the Ik R.I.P. opening

    3D paid a visit to the Ik R.I.P. opening. See what he experienced. Review taken from the 3D List: Week # 21 Subscribe for this weekly email service at sos.kunst [at] gmail.com

  • Runaway van Kanye West

    Vanessa Beecroft als het geheim wapen van een nieuwe regisseur

    Eigenlijk is Kanye Wests videoclip "Runaway" vooral sterk in alles wat er niet te zien is. Kanye is de regisseur, tegelijk de hoofdrolspeler en zo meer, maar let op, bij de aftiteling staat Vanessa...

  • IF THEN IS NOW MIRROR

    NIEUWE PROMOTIETOOL VOOR TENTOONSTELLINGEN

    Na succesvolle pilot met Centraal Museum kunnen meer Nederlandse culturele en erfgoed instellingen gaan werken met de Mirror.

  • Dutch blog on art, communication and daily life

    weekly

    http://www.emilykocken.nl/blog/

  • The design work kicks off!

    June 2010. Mapping for Tourists design update 2

    Following an initial research and brainstorm session that attempted to answer the question: “what is a conventional travel guide and how is it formatted?” the design team gave a presentation on June...

  • Mediamatic Magazine 2#4 Philip Hayward 1 Jan 1988

    The Moonlighting Story

    How ABC capitalised on cultural logic

    By virtue of developing a series of bold formal precedents within mainstream television drama, the American romantic cop show Moonlighting has become one of the most significantly innovative examples...

  • Kom je ook?5 - Sterke Verhalen

    Storytelling in kunst, cultuur en erfgoed

    Verhalen zijn er om te entertainen, te ontroeren, te moraliseren en het publiek te betrekken. Kom je ook? duikt voor deze vijfde editie in de verborgen kracht van de gebroeders Grimm. Wat maakt een...

  • Instant Cinema

    een online community rond experimentele film

    Dit project heeft inmiddels subisidie gekregen van de Mondriaan Stichting In november 2008, tijdens de eerste editie van Kom Je Ook?, pitchten wij een idee voor een web 2.0-project. Als één van de...

  • Towards Noord!

    If you’re traveling to Noord from Schiphol Airport by public transfer, you will always have to travel to Amsterdam Central Station first. From there on, you take a ferry to Noord. It’s also possible...

  • Any Media Workshop @ IDFA 08

    21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 November 2008

    The first workshop day started off with a keynote-lecture by Cassian Harrison about his work with the BBC-series "Britain from Above". The 5-part TV-series uses GPS-data to visualize daily life in...

  • GM Collector

    Gespreksaantekeningen van een interview met Steven Kolsteren, hoofd educatie Groninger Museum.

    In December 2010 introduceerde het Groninger Museum zijn GM Collector, een sleutelhanger waarmee je tijdens je bezoek je persoonlijke verzameling kunt samenstellen, opslaan en ‘mee naar huis kunt...

  • Some thoughts from a non-coder

    Dev Camp Day 5

    Stringing code while eating boerenkool. You got to appreciate it.

  • Noord

    Exhibition and travel guide

    Together with 22 local and international artists, Mediamatic mapped Amsterdam-Noord. This resulted in an exhibition, and in the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • Stichting DOEN

    Wat doet de DOEN pitch op Kom je ook? en wat heb je er aan?

    Het kunst- en cultuurpubliek verandert. Het publiek voor de traditionele kunst vergrijst en een potentieel nieuw publiek voelt zich niet altijd aangetrokken tot de instellingen die kunst op...

  • WatSpinoza? op het Damrak

    Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?

    Op 7 mei 2009 werd de eerste WatSpinoza? vraag aan het Amsterdamse publiek gesteld. Aan het Damrak, vlak voor het Centraal Station, worden voorbijgangers gevraagd: 'Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf...

  • Public Art

    In 2001, Claes Oldenburg was inspired by the vast amount of giant plastic ice cream cones, used as advertising along Cologne's shopping streets. When he was commissioned by a shopping mall in Cologne...

created Caspar Menkman modified Anne Margriet van Dam

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