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Celebrating Spit
dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...
A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Regeneration
17mrt 2017Can we regenerate our man-damaged eco-systems and if so, how? For this Regeneration Biotalk we've invited artist Ivan Henriques, professor Biogeochemistry Caroline Slomp and engineer/architect...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Food Futurism
8dec 2016If it is true that people ‘think, dream and act according to what they eat and drink’, one should also say that this is true for what they smell. After all, it is our olfaction that guides most of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
The body odour edition
3nov 2016Without us even being aware our bodies silently communicate with each other. We can communicate through our body odours, pheromones and even with odorless molecules. We transmit information about...
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Exhibition: Stichting Mediamatic
Opening: The Art of Deception
27okt 2016Where is the line between ultimate deception and perfection? Join us on October 27th in Mediamatic's Sluisdeurenloods for the official opening of The Art Of Deception - a collaboration between...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Odorama: The Anthropology Edition
6okt 2016Our perception of scent is culturally determined. If you think how your childhood smelled it would probably be lily-of-the-valley whereas for South Americans it would be the smell of lemons. Sensory...
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Gert Neurink
Biologie student die een visie heeft om biologie en technologie elkaar te laten versterken in plaats van elkaar te belasten.
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Wibowo Djatmiko
An amateur naturalist, staying in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wie146
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Robotics and Interspecies Communication
17jun 2016A conversation with Ian Ingram and Clemens Driessen.
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Follow your beak
Natural nasal navigation in nautical natives
Imagine being a gull in your natural habitat: hovering over a great sea. Waves that constantly change shape, no points of recognition whatsoever, just a blue world above as well as below. How would...
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Tega Brain
an Australian born artist and environmental engineer whose eccentric engineering crosses art, ecology & engineering. Eccentric engineering reimagines technologies to address their scope and...
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Smell Dating
Sniff out your true partner
Love is a reaction, and smells are really just floating chemicals. Knowing this, it makes sense to build a dating agency around the idea that scent is a larger factor in attraction than physicality.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Masterclass: Prototyping Bodies
2apr 2016How will environmental pressures impact our malleable body? And what can we do to guide human evolution? Join in the masterclass with bio-artist Agi Haines (winner 2015 BAD award) and prototype the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Postponed! Masterclass: Prototyping Bodies
7mei 2016Please note that this workshop is postponed. Next date: 11 June. How will environmental pressures impact our malleable body? And what can we do to guide human evolution? Join in the masterclass with...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Masterclass: Prototyping Bodies
6feb 2016How will environmental pressures impact our malleable body? And what can we do to guide human evolution? Join in the masterclass with Bio-artist Agi Haines (winner 2015 BAD award) and prototype the...
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Adelaida Márquez De Prado
Student in 4th year for Journalism and Advertising and Public Relations. I am vividly interested in everything to do with art and design, innovation, social development and sustainability. I am keen...
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The sound of running water
And the urge to pee
When people hear the sound of running water, most of them respond in almost a Pavlovian manner: they need to pee. The question is: why does this happen?
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Machine Wilderness
2nov 2015Explore emerging hybrid ecologies where nature, technology and art intertwine.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Grow Your Own Materials
21okt 2015It 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...
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Garden of Machines
compos(t)ing kinship in contemporary next nature
Until now it were mostly humans that benefited from machines, which take over difficult tasks. But what if plants, animals and ecosystems could also take advantage of new technology? What would the...
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Ferinho
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms
24jun 2015It 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...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Printing Algae, Fungi and Contaminations
20mei 2015What happens if we use micro-organisms for printing? Currently new sustainable materials in fashion are being researched. But also the aesthetic and creative potential is being explored. Can you use...
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La Biennale di Venezia
Herman de Vries in Biennale di Venezia
9mei 201522nov 2015In 2015 vertegenwoordigt Herman de Vries Nederland in de Biënnale van Venetie. Hij vult het Rietveldpaviljoen met een installatie van hoofdzakelijk nieuw werk en bouwt installaties op de verlaten...