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Salivary Sample
Created spit by spit.
When I began my research. I dove in the deep and bought a lot of different gums. This was to compare the different brands and types of gum. Looking further than just the colorful packages, I tried...
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Let's Gum Together
Gumdrop: the act against gum waste.
Gumdrop Ltd. is a London-based company and is the leader of its self-developed niche. They specialize in recycling and processing chewing gum into new compounds or products and used in the rubber and...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Laura Triana
The cultural influence of Tobacco
This is a part our Olfactory History of Oosterdok
Discover the transition of Tobacco from a cultural/historical perspective.
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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
- Biotalk with Eric Geboers, Caroline Slomp and Aad Kruiswijk17mrt 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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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Food Futurism
- Odorama 12 - with Marije Vogelzang, Garmt Dijksterhuis, Dr. Sanne Boesveldt, Karin Post, Caro Verbeek8dec 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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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
The body odour edition
- Odorama 11 - with Lauryn Mannigel, Jasper de Groot, Marit Mihklepp, Caro Verbeek3nov 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
- Exploring the artistic and creative value of synthetic biology27okt 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
The Anthropology Edition
- Odorama 10 - with Job Koelewijn, Daan Kamps and Dr. Yolande van Ede6okt 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
- Can machines relate to animals?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
- Design the future 'you' with Agi Haines2apr 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
- Design the future 'you' with Agi Haines7mei 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
- Design the future 'you' with Agi Haines6feb 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
- symposium2nov 2015Explore emerging hybrid ecologies where nature, technology and art intertwine.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Grow Your Own Materials
- Learn to grow oyster mushrooms21okt 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