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  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Grow your own Fungi

    1
    Oct 2016
    - Mushroom cultivation and Bio-Design workshop

    It is said that the mushroom, and especially Mycelium has the potential to replace all sorts of (harmful) materials like plastics and batteries. Here at Mediamatic we are interested in the cultural...

  • Urban Agriculture
  • Food
  • Design
  • New media
  • Hybrid
  • Workshop:

    Treasure Mapping Workshop

    The workshop is postponed to a date in 2010. Keep an eye on our website.

    Treasuremapper allows you to trigger mediafiles on a mobile phone depending on where that phone is in real space. It uses GPS to display location-specific images or play location-specific sounds. The...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    The Six-Winged Chicken and other mythical…

    1
    Sep 2020
    - by Anne Kamps

    Where does the meat we eat actually come from? On what scale is it produced? And, what is real news and what is fake news? A few years ago, the phenomenon of the six-winged chicken was written about...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Fermentation Rack

    23
    Apr 2020

    Each season different herbs, vegetables, and flowers will adorn this installation. From fermented garlic to Wax Begonia lemonade; come and have a sneak peek at what we serve in our restaurant.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 5 Aug 2021

    Is it an alien? Is it a sex toy? No, it's Sopropo!

    procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit

    You may have come across Sopropo on your travels, at a Surinamese/Asian restaurant or maybe even at home. Read on and learn about our journey procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Soňa Borodáčová

    Hacking Haeckel

    3
    Oct 2014
    - by Rudy Guedj, Martin Huger, Olya Troitskaya and Sophie Rogg

    Rudy Guedj, Martin Huger, Olya Troitskaya and Sophie Rogg met during their studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie where they collaborated on the visual identity for the school’s theory program in...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 22 Mar 2021

    We are Growing Edible Flowers

    15 meters from farm to plate

    Mediamatic ETEN and the Aquaponics Farm together are aiding the growth of a project that started "rooting" its way into Mediamatic's collection a couple of years ago; and now with the arrival of this...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Zeger Reyers

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Is it plates growing in between plants, or plants growing in between plates? Hard Water is an installation that consists of a thousand plates, soil and plants 'growing' on the exterior wall of...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Megan Bishop

    Wood-Fired Clay Oven

    6
    Aug 2015
    - Mediamatic Eten

    Hand-made over two days, using environmentally friendly methods and materials, the clay oven stands as a central feature of the Mediamatic ETEN restaurant.

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bernotat&Co

    Radiolaria

    1
    Oct 2014
    1
    Jul 2026
    - by Bernotat&Co Design Studio

    A series of eleven lamps made of 3D-knitted textile with glow-in-the-dark effect, inspired by microscopic organisms and the phenomenon of bioluminescence. When the light is switched off, the...

  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Aquatic Speculations

    26
    Jul 2025
    - with Silke Riis

    You are an archaeologist of the future, and on one of your excavations you stumble upon something odd hidden in the soil; During your sailing trip across what once used to be “The Netherlands”, you...

  • Talk Series Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Feeling with the Fishes

    10
    Jul 2025
    - Aromathèque #6

    Slippery and untouchable from another, submerged world. Fishes.  Although there are fishes that like to nibble on our skin to eat away our eczema, fishes are not for cuddling. Until recently it was...

  • El HEMA in Den Haag

    Nieuwe tijdelijke winkel in het centrum van de stad

    El HEMA, een concept ontwikkeld door Mediamatic Amsterdam in 2007, werd een instant-hit. De El HEMA werd daarna geadopteerd door Kosmopolis. Na Rotterdam bezocht te hebben, is de El HEMA nu te vinden...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

    Pigeon Cam

    On the 7th of June 2022, almost two years after we first started learning how to build pigeon towers with waste mycelium, we introduced the first four squab (young pigeons) into their new living...

  • Is it an urban mushroom farm? Is it a pigeon…

    What are those structures outside the barn at Mediamatic?

    Because these structures are made from living mycelium  WHAT you call it probably depends on WHEN  you encounter it. At first they are horizontal mushroom farms, and many of our neighbours have...

  • 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...

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Visitor Information

    You can visit Dijkspark and the Casting Doubts installation daily. The seedcard however are only for sale during opening hours of Mediamatic ETEN, which you can find here . The Casting Doubts...

  • E-culture Fair 2010

    De E-culture Fair is een spannende combinatie van een tentoonstelling, live presentaties, demo's, workshops en een open art lab op 23, 24 en 25 augustus in, op en naast de U-Turm in Dortmund. De 3e...

  • A web native with a sense for the audience

    Frankie Roberto opens ‘Kom je ook?’ 2

    We are proud to present our first keynote speaker at the second edition of Kom je ook? on the 8th of September 2009! Frankie Roberto will present his insights on how museums can interact with their...

  • Hackers Camp Day 8

    Today is the last day of Picnic. Willem Velthoven, director of Mediamatic Lab challenged Monique van Dusseldorp, one of the organizers of Picnic, for a run with the exciting ikRun installation .

  • Report: What's Up? #21

    8 oktober 2009

    Dichter des doods Starik: 'een mooie uitvaart is een schopje richting de hemelpoort.'

  • Cut Up Djellaba

    Customize the traditional djellaba into your fashionable tunique

    This item is a kit, where you get a white arabic djelaba and a pair of scissors. What do you need to do then? Just start cutting, and express your own style through that traditional clothing.

  • Electro Clothing Workshops

    In a series of workshops Mediamatic explored electro-clothing. Clothing that lights up in the dark, clothing that sings when it is touched and clothing that moves when it is cold. Participants...

created Megan Bishop modified Stine Troost

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