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  • Another Onion Fest in the making?

    The current Russian boycott brings back memories. Two years ago, The Netherlands was stuck with a big overload of onions. To prevent them from rotting or being trashed, Mediamatic rescued a quarter...
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  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Why an Over Datum Eetclub?

    Every Tuesday in the summer of 2011

    Freshness is all the rage these days and our blind trust in expiration dates is taking on religious forms. Bullshit! It’s time for some seriously fine, but expired food this summer at Mediamatic. On...
  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Infographics: Are the budget cuts necessary or…

    The Dutch budget for arts & culture institutions is relatively small. The above average cuts will produce below average results.

    In 2011 the budget is € 490 million to support the cultural infrastructure. That sounds like a lot, but it is only a third of what we spend on holidays. It's 1,5% of the annual costs of the State...

  • Over Datum Eetclub joins forces with Giro555

    Organize your own Over Datum Eetclub during the Week for the Horn

    Over Datum Eetclub's anti-food waste resistance will now dedicate itself to the situation in Africa. The Horn of Africa (Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia) is currently experiencing the worst drought in...

  • SAVE THE WORLD

    Door TINKEBELL. i.s.m. Mediamatic

    TINKEBELL. geeft met twaalf wereldverspreide interventies inzicht in situaties die kunnen ontstaan wanneer ons wereldbeeld in andere culturen wordt geplaatst. Hiermee stelt zij onze (hulp)norm ter...

  • Waste

    How much do we waste, and how much is that costing us?

    A third of all food produced annually is thrown away or lost. This amounts to around 1,3 billion ton each year. Annually the average Dutch citizen wastes 50 kilos of food. That's about 110 pounds.

  • Dutch Design Awards

    Infographics campaign against the culture cuts nominated

    Our 2011 campaign against the culture cuts has made it to the Dutch Design Awards finals. Other nominees are amongst others Lernert & Sander and Metahaven. The winners will be announced on October...

  • Open Field

    A cultural commons project in the spirit of gift economy

    Open Field is an open air summer gathering in the big green yard of the Walker Art Center

  • Pirate Cinema

    The true world currency now seems to be energy and not the Dollar, Pound or Euro

    Energy is based on actual assets whereas currencies appear to be have become virtual money and inspire little long term confidence. Let's swap our energy.

  • Meta-Monumental Garage Sale

    "Maybe the Garage Sale is a methaphor of the mind"

    The Meta-Monumental Garage Sale is a multimedia installation and performance by the critically acclaimed artist Martha Rosler

  • Fitna the Movie

    We’re tired of waiting. So, let’s do it ourselves! Sorry!

    There is this not-so-intelligent Dutch politician that attracts attention by doing populist provocations. His name is Wilders. Geert Wilders. He is scared of aliens and especially of muslim aliens.

  • 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.

  • Marijke and her Protest Poster

    What have people been bringing to our resistance archive?

    In this ongoing series, Objects and their People, we'll be writing about our favourite resistance objects, anecdotes and people. Keep up with what is happening in our Pièce de Résistance exhibition...

  • 666: welcome recognition

    Dutch arts council (Raad voor Cultuur) recommends substantial raise in Mediamatics public funding for 2009—2012

    We were very happy and proud to read the advice about our plans for the coming 4 years. The Arts council of the Netherlands praises our current practice and recommends that the ministry of culture...

  • First names Map Fest confirmed

    Joining us on July 6 are Annelys de Vet, Malkit Shoshan and Wietske Maas.

  • Reclames, hartstikke overbodig

    Reclames waar zijn ze eigenlijk goed voor? Ze laten je weten wat er waar in de aanbieding is, maar wel met het doel dat je nog wat extra’s koopt in deze winkel. Dit gebeurt vaak doordat je met een...
  • Katja Novitskova 17 Oct 2011

    New Order: a list of Usefull and Useless…

    Links, images, videos and other materials enough to immerse any outsider into energy-based realities of our existence and potential collapse

    This info-matter stream is a collection of things we keep finding online in relation to the main themes of New Order project. Mostly they are about energy, ecology and 'green' economy. Some of it is...

  • Swap Up Shop

    A platform to exchange objects and question the notion of value in relation to design

    The Swap-Up shop started sometime ago as a collective of Kali Nikitas, Florian Pfeffer and Rick Vermeulen

  • Alternative economic systems

    Artistic Practices, Ideas, Concepts

    Models for economic systems that provide an alternative to the dominant monetary economy

  • Een vingerafdruk stelen en namaken is een fluitje…

    Een verslag van een deelnemer aan de Fingerprint Forgery workshop

    Op 21 mei gaf de befaamde Computer Chaos Club (CCC) bij Mediamatic een workshop vingerafdruk maken. De CCC is een verzameling hackers en enthousiastelingen die zich sinds 1981 bezighouden met het...

  • Edible Resistance

    Over Datum Eetclub spurs resistance from the personal to the political

    As a part of the Piece de Resistance exhibition, the resistance inherent in eating food bordering on the line of the government sanctioned definition between ‘food’ and ‘waste’ is both personal and...

  • 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...

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