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  • Afbeelding: Alexander Semenov

    A Jellyfish by Alexander Semenov

    One of Semenov's striking photos, the subject of which bares an undeniable resemblance to Haeckel's Desmonema Annasethe. For more beautiful photos to artist's website
  • Fotografie
  • haeckel
  • zoology
  • sea life
  • jellyfish
  • Biologie

  • Picturing nature with a 100-year gap

    Desmonema Annasethe discovered by Ernst Haeckel and the likes of it in modern maritime photography

  • Proteus

    Documentary film by David LeBrun

    This animated documentary charts the life of painter and biologist Ernst Haeckel, who, in the 19th century, makes a number of fascinating discoveries about what lurks below the sea. Haeckel uncovers...

  • Haeckel’s Alalus: on the decolonization of the…

    Haeckel’s imagined Pithecanthropus Alalus is a conception of an “ape-man without speech”. In other words, Haeckel’s Alalus is a conception of a proto-human or a being-not-yet-men, and its lack of...

  • Haeckel-Dossier #2: Haeckel de fraudeur

    Haeckel werd ervan beschuldigd fraude te hebben gepleegd om zijn theorieën geloofwaardig te doen lijken. Is er iets waar van deze beschuldiging?

  • Haeckel-Dossier #3: Haeckel de Nazi

    Haeckel is niet alleen zwartgemaakt voor dingen die hij daadwerkelijk deed of geloofde terwijl hij in leven was (zie de vorige twee Haeckel-Dossiers over racisme en fraude), hij werd ook gedeeltelijk...

  • Haeckel in glass

    Mediamatic is not the only one paying homage to Ernst Haeckel's Kunsformen der Natur - The Dutch National Glass Museum have turned his work into "A Sea of Glass"

  • Haeckel-Dossiers

    Betoverd door de kunst van Haeckel? Zo betoverd dat je meer wilt weten over deze intrigerende 19e eeuwse Duitse wetenschapper?

  • Haeckel-Dossier #1: Haeckel de racist

    Wellicht heb je recent de Amsterdamse bibliotheek bezocht en hun tentoonstelling over slavernij gezien. Dan ben je waarschijnlijk deze tekening van Haeckel tegengekomen. In onze 21e eeuwse ogen is...

  • Interview Kael T Block

    On XX Boys and more

    Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! presents Kael T Block's project XX Boys, a collection of photographs of transboys. Rooted in his own experience as a transboy or 'FtM' (Female to Male), the...

  • Oo, Oo That Smell

    What is that distinct smell after enjoying a plate of this green veggie?

    Asparagus. A lean, green vegetable with a dramatic list of healthy benefits. Many people are aware that asparagus is heart healthy, high in antioxidants, contains characteristics to heighten your...

  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 1#4 Pablo Collette 1 apr 1987

    Are you being served?

    Een gat in de markt van videokunst

    Op de eerste pagina van het vorige nummer van MEDIAMATIC serveerde de redactie de lezer het smakelijk ogende ontbijtje (1613) van FLORIS VAN DIJCK. Ikzelf zou de uitgestalde waren, zoals kazen

  • Enhanced Benches

    Furniture made active with biochemistry

    Mateusz Herczka proposes a new line of furniture for the homes, outdoors, public spaces and institutions.

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...

  • Rupert Sheldrake

    And the morphic fields

    After obtaining his PhD, Sheldrake became a fellow of Clare College, working in biochemistry and cell biology with funding from the Royal Society Rosenheim Research Fellowship. He investigated auxin

  • Everything 2.0

    Bob Stumpel's Web 2.0 Treasury

    "This is a stupid simple link bank, referring to everything that just might be a symptom of Web 2.0. I'm not dogmatic. Any sign of: collective intelligence / wisdom of crowds, collaboration / sharing
  • book: Donna Haraway 12 dec 1990

    Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

    The Reinvention of Nature

    Een verzameling van tien essays geschreven tussen 1978 en 1989. Hoewel op het eerste gezicht, apen, cyborgs en vrouwen weinig met elkaar te maken lijken te hebben, beschrijft Haraway hun band als...

  • Save Your Pearly White Teeth

    Human Ivory by Lucie Majerus

    Ivory as a material from animal tusks might still be a luxury material. But it’s controversial aspect makes it distasteful and old fashion. Instead of valorising ivory tusks as a prized possession

  • webtraffic controlled plant growth

    7 plants representing 7 continents - an 'auto-interactive' installation

    A improvisational greenhouse in Kolderveen hosted 7 plants representing the 7 world continents during november and december 2008. Light and water for each plant were directly dependent on web-traffic...

  • Graduation Bouquet

    annex Publicity Plant

    On July 1st 2009 Sander Veenhof (1973) is graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam. To color up that occasion and to attract attention to himself in an overly busy contemporary...

  • Lab-specific Recipes

    How to feed and treat your micro organisms

    Working on a lab is a lot like cooking. You can prepare the food for your little pets, the micro organisms. There are a couple of rules involved; like extreme cleanliness. But if you practice a bit
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Arjen Mulder 1 jan 1993

    Wereldnamen

    Kort item op het nieuws: in Bosnië-Herzegovina zijn de eerste kinderen geboren die verwekt zijn tijdens verkrachtingen van Bosnische vrouwen door Servische soldaten. De vrouwen weigeren hun baby's te...

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...

  • DNA Portraits

    DNA by Marc Quinn

    When the National Portrait Gallery commissioned British contemporary artist Marc Quinn to create a portrait of Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Laureate for sequencing the human genome, Quinn gave them a...

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