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  • Haeckel-File #3: Haeckel the Nazi

    Would evolution theory inescapably have to lead to fascist eugenics?

    Haeckel has not only been badmouthed for things he actually did or believed during his life (see the two previous Haeckel-Files on racism and fraud), he has also been partially blamed for what...
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  • Haeckel-File #2: Haeckel the fraud

    Haeckel was accused of committing fraud in order to give credibility to his theories. Is there any truth to the allegation?

  • Haeckel-File #1: Haeckel the racist

    Maybe you have lately visited the Amsterdam library and its exhibition on slavery. If so, you probably came across this drawing from Haeckel. To our twenty-first century eyes, this is quite a...

  • Haeckel-Files

    Enchanted by Haeckel’s art? So enchanted that you want to know more about this intriguing nineteenth century German scientist?

  • Haeckel in glass

    Mediamatic is not the only one paying homage to Ernst Haeckel's Kunsformen der Natur - The Dutch National Glass Museum have turned his work into "A Sea of Glass"

  • Proteus

    Documentary film by David LeBrun

    This animated documentary charts the life of painter and biologist Ernst Haeckel, who, in the 19th century, makes a number of fascinating discoveries about what lurks below the sea. Haeckel uncovers...

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1998

    vol. 9#1 Secret Agent Issue

    editorial

    When a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, it calls on the secret agent.

  • Terrorism gives power

    to the Government...

    On Wednesday the 9th of February, a benefit was held for Steve Kurtz, the artist from the Critical Art Ensemble who was arrested under suspicion of bioterrorism. He had a lab in his house where he...

  • "Beter geen museum, dan een slecht museum"

    Erik Schilp over NHM op Kom je ook? #FAIL

    “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Try better.” Met deze quote van Samuel Becket sluit Erik Schilp zijn verhaal af. Vanaf oktober 2008 vormde hij, samen met Valentijn Byvanck

  • Let's all go Dutch

    Eat bacon pancakes with sugar syrup, talk politics at parties and always start your conversations with a question. What does it mean to be Dutch, exactly? Is it possible to become, or stop being...

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...
  • 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...

  • Facebook excommunicates WORM because of the Web 2.

    Press release WORM

    It is with great sorrow that we announce that Facebook Inc. has decided that WORM, the producer of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, will be excommunicated from Facebook. The initiative to build the Web 2.

  • Build Room for the Future of Art!

    Prof. Dr. Toby Kiers’ testimony to the Amsterdam City Council

    Amsterdam is discussing a reorganization of its Art Funding. The proposal is to divide the "important" infrastructural organizations from all the other ones by delegating the funding to the local...

  • Proposal Mycotecture and Edible Architecture

    Myceleum facilitates Edible Architecture

    Mycotecture: Solid Buildings that are part of the Natural Food Chain

  • Shoppen met Mirjam

    Online verkiezing van de mooiste nieuwe aanwinst

    Winnaar pitch tijdens KJO1 - Web 2.0 Het Tropenmuseum wil zijn bezoekers mee laten beslissen over welke nieuwe aankoop de collectie gaat verrijken. Via een internetverkiezing, gekoppeld aan een...

  • Growing a building out of living mushrooms

    Interesting info from the blog Stataspore

    In the Echo Park neighborhood of L.A. there's a unique non-profit community called Machine Project investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food. American...
  • Book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900

    Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 9

    Issue 9 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.

  • Mediamatic has moved to DijksPark in 2014!

    to Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam

    As of December 1st, Mediamatic moved to their new location on Dijksgracht 6. On this beautiful spot near the waterside (within walking distance from Central Station!) we will continue and intensify...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Short supply

    Sustainable water systems

    When resources are scarce, improvisations are needed. A research team from TU Delft is currently researching the possibilities for sustainable water system for developing countries. Such a system...
  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Over Datum Eetclub 1

    Shells and Crusts with Tinda van Smoorenburg

    The first in our series of weekly dinner parties kicked off on Tuesday July 19th to a hungry crowd filling Mediamatic bank. It resulted in the successful resistance against the demonization of...

  • The Breedrs

    Breedrs is an interactive installation running a social game created for a conference environment. It consists of an artificial life environment, a digital ecosystem, in which creatures survive in...

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