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  • Gilles Deleuze

    Philosopher and postmodernist (1925—1995)

    Deleuze is a key figure in postmodern French philosophy. Considering himself an empiricist and a vitalist, his body of work, which rests upon concepts such as multiplicity, constructivism, difference...

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  • Best of Mediamatic

    Here you can find an overview of our favorite projects made in 2020. Click here for a  summary of all our projects per year  or  our upcoming events . 

  • Heel erg veel en nog lang niet genoeg!

    Mediamatic Show

    Hier vind je een selectie van onze projecten van de afgelopen 4 jaar. En een kleine impressie van belangrijke en grote projecten van de afgelopen 40 jaar. Kijk hier voor alle jaaroverzichten. 

  • Frascati

    Crisis in Frascati

    Strategieen van de kunstenaar

    Frascati roept in maart de crisis uit. We breken de theatermuren open en slepen de wereld naar binnen. Wat brengt de dag vandaag? We zien valutaduikvluchten, macht & paniek. We horen een roep om...

  • The Sewage System as Political Infrastructure

    What can sewers tell us about the functioning of our modern democracy? About the role of technology and infrastructure in politics? The sewage system isn’t ‘just there’ as a neutral entity; instead

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine

    A blog for Code Noir

    Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Teun Castelein

    Rederij Lampedusa

    11
    Sep 2015
    - Refugee boat in recreational boating

    Amsterdam has a new shipping company; Rederij Lampedusa, located in the harbor of Mediamatic. The shipping company consists of a fleet of two North African boats, which were used by refugees to cross...

  • 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...

  • 2006 Tom McCarthy

    City of Cards

    We had decided that I should arrive by sea. Amsterdam has always been a port, so entering it this way had a certain logic, given my brief. It was anything but practical, though: from Turin I had to...

  • Book: Peter Sloterdijk 1 Jan 1993

    Medien - Zeit

  • The Red Dot

    During the opening of the Amsterdam art fair Mediamatic presented its first Red Dot to the Dutch artist Arthur Kleinjan for his short video work Skipping.

  • Proposal by: Sophia Schullan

    Form Follows Fun

    Project Proposal: Form Follows Fun – Finding Fun In Everyday Life

    ‘Form Follows Fun’ would be a talk hosted in the Mediamatic facilities. Its goal is not only to spread fun and entertainment but more importantly to give others the tools to create fun and...

  • The dilemma of the modern artist

    From Manet to Warhol

    In the essay Myth of Artisthood, that our project is based on, the famous Dutch art critic, Camiel van Winkel is dividing all the artists in three different types: Romantic, Modernistic and the Beaux

  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Carpenting

    with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #1 Leren luisteren naar niet-mensen is een politieke aangelegenheid

    In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...

  • IN YOUR FACE

    Waarom slaan beter werkt dan schoppen

    Aandacht is goed te vergaren door gebruik te maken van het wondermiddel formaat. Een helikopter vult nou eenmaal een groter gedeelte van je netvlies dan een olijf. Maar als alles wordt opgeschaald

  • Mediamatic Magazine 8#2/3 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1995

    Baudrillard

    Jean Baudrillard, L'illusion de la fin, Édition Galilée, Paris 1992

    Dietmar Kamper says in an interview with Rudolf Maresch: Jean Baudrillard is an extremely conservative thinker who certainly does not betray the ideals of the bourgeois revolution. He observes with...

  • 1 Jan 2004

    Camille Paglia

    Feminist Fatale

    Although a reincarnate maenad, Camille Paglia is a worshipper of definite Apollo as well as of disorganizing Dionysus. She celebrates great art, archetypes, porn, rock'n'roll, and Renaissance man. In...

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 6#2/3 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1991

    Fine Art Makes New Media Old

    The Art of the Livin' Dead

    The sex of Fine Art, the mother of that art, is the financial object, an attractive thing. The object carries the content-value. in the nineteenth century, through the notion of l'Art pour l'Art

  • Human Conditions

    Noorderlicht Internationale Fotomanifestatie 2009

    Strijd is wat het leven betekenis geeft, zo wordt gezegd. Het is wat de vooruitgang voedt en de basis legt voor zelfoverwinning. Tegelijk heeft strijd een spoor van destructie getrokken door de...

  • Magazine: Paul Foss 1 Jan 1981

    Art & Text

    One of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s.

  • Book: Jean Baudrillard 1 Jan 1994

    Die Illusion des Endes

  • Aliens in Leidsche Rijn

    a first hand experience in second hand art

    What are 5 ambitious young intellectuals from different parts of the world doing together in a new Vinex neighborhood in the Utrecht area of Holland? Answer: making an art show. After 8 months of...

  • WatSpinoza?

    Public discussion in Amsterdam, Kocaeli, online.

    WatSpinoza? ignites public discussion by asking questions based on Spinoza's writings. We formulated the questions together with writer/philosopher Dirk van Weelden, and post them in the public arena.

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