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  • Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop

    Sculpting worlds from other perspectives

    13
    apr 2024
    - Klei en verf mee met Siobhán McGibbon's tentoonstelling!

    Op de stengel en bladeren van de Japanse duizendknoop leeft een vlo die de wereld niet ziet zoals wij, maar in sterke UV-kleuren. Hoe ziet de wereld eruit door de ogen van deze vlo? Samen met...
  • Multispecies
  • Japanese knotweed
  • Onderzoek
  • Plant
  • Biologie
  • Beeldende kunst

  • Xenophon: a Multi-species Romance Through Smell

    Research Residency Siobhán McGibbon

    During her time on residency at Mediamatic, McGibbon researched, experimented and developed new skills in storytelling and means of expression through scent. As a world-builder, the artist was...
  • 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.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jessica Cohen

    An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark

    What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...
  • Opening Night: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Hydrocommons

    20
    feb 2026
    - with Enora Cressan, Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Silke Riis

    Join us on Friday, February 20th, to mark a new chapter for Mediamatic! This evening, we explore the idea that we are not separate entities, but porous beings in the same water. When will we begin...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Branko Kleynen

    Not just a Weed

    Fermented Knotweed Pickles recipe

    On March 25, 2020, after a scavenger hunt for Japanese Knotweed, Branko, Elise and Tommaso joined forces to pickle some shoots.
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Distilling a Citrus Bouquet

    12
    apr 2026
    - Turning waste into beauty with Frank Bloem

    In this Aroma Lab workshop you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. We'll explore...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Maria Ilieva, Matilde Calamandrei, Laura Sanz Rosal

    Oosterdok Sensory Tower

    21
    mei 2025
    21
    mei 2026

    This exhibition invites you to journey through time, exploring the layered history of Mediamatic's waterfront location. Here, where the scent of the water blends with the lingering echoes of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    ijKruid

    Vanaf Dijkspark brengen we de planten in de stad in kaart

    Rondom onze Biotoop groeit een grote verscheidenheid aan planten, van genezend tot giftig, van donkergroen tot paars. Je kunt Hortus Dijkspark op elk moment bezoeken. Kom meer te weten over de...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Plant Eigenschappen

    Vanaf Dijkspark brengen we de planten in de stad in kaart

    Rondom onze Biotoop groeit een grote verscheidenheid aan planten, van genezend tot giftig, van donkergroen tot paars. Je kunt ijKruid / Hortus Dijkspark op elk moment bezoeken. Kom meer te weten over...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival

    Mensen

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Open Tour

    Every Friday at 4

    Come explore Mediamatic as part of our weekly Friday Tour at 16:00. Get a glimpse behind the scenes, learn more about the growing installations and peek inside our sensorial labs. 
  • Blog Leyang Fu

    (Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name

    To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Composing Fragrance

    12
    apr 2026
    - met Frank Bloem

    In deze workshop zal kunstenaar en parfumeur Frank Bloem een inleiding geven tot de wereld van parfumcreatie. Je leert de basisbeginselen van het componeren van een geur en na afloop zul je...

  • Newsletter 20/04

    What's going on?

    Here's the weekly staff newsletter so that you know what's going on this week, and to share important information and fun facts.

  • Newsletter 16/03

    What's going on?

    Here's the weekly staff newsletter so that you know what's going on this week, and to share important information and fun facts.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Volledige programmaoverzicht 2018

  • Newsletter 23/03

    What's going on?

    Here's the weekly staff newsletter so that you know what's going on this week, and to share important information and fun facts.
  • Proposal by: Leo Kay

    The Acid House Of Ideas

    Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.

    A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...

  • Playing Life -Biotalk

    Friday March 18. Workshops, Mini-Expo, Food and Talks

    On Friday March 18 , Transnatural and Mediamatic are teaming up for another edition of Playing Life - Biotalk, where emerging bio-artists and scientists are invited to showcase their work. Tonight we...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Oosterdok

    Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    This open call is closed

    Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    TACTimat

    17
    dec 2025
    15
    jan 2027
    - by Laura A Dima

    TACTimat is part art, part therapy tool for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), utilizing haptic stimuli to address the needs of hyper and hyposensitive children. TACTimat is a...
  • MU

    Body of Matter

    Let's visit the opening!

    Body of Matter presents the work of ten artists that advance our ideas about the body. They explore its materiality, stimulation, quantification using technology, integration with alien matter, and

  • 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...
  • Stichting Mediamatic Sissel Tolaas

    The Smell of FEAR

    Installatie

    Altijd al willen weten hoe doodsangst ruikt? En hoe je een vlaag paniek kunt herkennen? Professioneel provocateur Sissel Tolaas ving angst in een flesje. Scratch 'n sniff!

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