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Mas Jansma
My name is Mas. I've lived in the center of Amsterdam all of my life. I love to see the countless ways in which life finds its way in the city. Plants arrest my attention whenever they do something I...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
20mei 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
28mei 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
3mei 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...
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Norbert Peeters
Botanical philosopher
Norbert Peeters (37) is a botanical philosopher, writer, and PhD-student at Leiden University. His dissertation focuses on the philosophy of weeds, invasive exotics, and the historical roots of...
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373 words to insult a plant
In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad
Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...
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Understanding Japanese knotweed
In conversation with Virgile Durando
Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re
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Mediamatic Biotoop Nesie Wang, Anna Lina Litz
Neurodiversity in Art Education
27mrt 2023For this roundtable, we discussed how we can make art institutions more accessible to neurodivergent students. Musician, educator and autism advocate Gerard van Wolferen shared his experiences with...
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Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23
Exposities
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Japanse Duizendknoop Symposium -
14apr 202315apr 2023Een tweedaagse bijeenkomst met experts, ontwerpers en kunstenaars om vanuit verschillende disciplines de Japanse duizendknoop te onderzoeken. Tijdens het symposium is de plant, die toch hoofdzakelijk...
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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop
Onder de Toonbank Burek Shop
14apr 202315apr 2023Terwijl de overheid probeert de duizendknoop te bestrijden met allerlei uitroeiingsstrategieën, promoot de Under the Counter Burek Shop juist het culinaire gebruik van deze plant. Aangezien...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Vrijheidsmaaltijd
5mei 2023Kunstenaars Aslı Hatipoğlu (Thailand/Turkije) , Alaa Abu Asad (Palestina/Nederland) en Uno Fujisawa (Japan/Nederland) hebben een bijzonder Vrijheidsmaal samengesteld. Mediamatic nodigt je uit voor...
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2. Mediamatic Biotoop Alaa Abu Asad
The Dog Chased its Tail To Bite it Off
14apr 202313apr 2025Op onze aarde, waar 'inheems' een zeldzame status is, vraagt Palestijnse kunstenaar Alaa Abu Asad zich af welke botanische soorten kunnen worden erkend als rechtmatige inwoners van natiestaten.
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AI, autism and creativity - does it matter if…
30jan 2023A few months ago, A/artist colleague Lynn Clemens published a blogpost about her experimental diagnostic interview with the AI text generator ChatGPT. She concluded that despite the limitations that...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
29apr 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...
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Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23
Programma - lief je gast
Alle exposities , workshops en events die gedurende het festival plaatsvinden.
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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop
Japanese Knotweed Festival
Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Linking Tattooing with Autism
13feb 2023We've found a positive correlation between tattooing and autism and want to deepen our knowledge about it. I'll share my research on the experience of giving and getting a tattoo as an autistic...
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Matilda Mulder
Exhibition assistant (she/her)
Hey there, I’m Matilda! As an exhibition assistant I worked on the production of exhibitions and events between February 6 and August 18, 2023. What I tried to investigate during my time at...
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Words, randomness and rules
A/artist roundtable with Arjan van Amsterdam
Arjan van Amsterdam is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. During this round table discussion, he introduced us to his work, from his application to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy up...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Grieving, Healing, Laughing
23feb 2023Ons leven is bij uitstek gevuld met tijden van verdriet, pijn en verlies. De volgende drie kunstenaars stellen verschillende manieren voor om deze gevoelens te verwerken. Hoe genezen we na een...
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Book Club: Visual Thinking
A/artist roundtable about Temple Grandin's newest book
Temple Grandin is a famous American academic, animal behaviourist, and autism spokesperson. Her new book, 'Visual Thinking', published in October 2022, is the latest in her series of books exploring...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Anna Lina Litz
Neurodiversity support in art education
17okt 2022For this roundtable, we were joined by Claudia van den Hoeven, who shared her perspective on support for neurodiverse students in art education. Claudia works at the HKU University for the Arts in...
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Making 'Penny for your Thoughts' more accessible
A/artist roundtable about funding applications
During this roundtable, we talked about Mediamatic's open call for project proposals, 'Penny for your Thoughts' . What thoughts do the neurodiverse artists around the table have about the application...