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  • Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Dusking

    16
    mei 2025
    - Marjolijn van Heemstra

    You don't have to wait for nightfall to experience the darkness. Just after sunset, the great transition begins: twilight. The golden hour turns into the blue hour, the light fades, and colours...

  • Multispecies
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  • participation
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  • Performance
  • Transformatie
  • Microbe
  • Plant
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

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    Volledige programmaoverzicht 2020

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    Volledige programmaoverzicht 2018

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2024

  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2023

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Volledige programmaoverzicht 2019

  • 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...

  • Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Fredrik Link

    Becoming magnesium

    Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?

    Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...

  • 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...

  • 2020 Mediamatic Biotoop

    Milk Kefir: Co-design with Microbes

    met Saskia Frederiks

    Yoghurt ken je, maar heb je ooit gehoord van melk kefir?  Het is een prikkelend drankje gemaakt met een zuivelcultuur van kefirkorrels. Tijdens deze workshop leer je alles over melkkefir; wat het is...

  • 2022 Mediamatic Biotoop Aya Koné

    Sculpting with Mycelium

    Making a Fertile Figure from Mycelium and Myco-Clay

    RECIPE Fresh mycelium base for foundational structure Rotten mycelium overlay to sculpt detail Gloves to protect from splinters Optional: Toothpicks to stab parts together that simply won’t stick

  • 2021 Mediamatic Biotoop

    Water Kefir: Co-design with Microbes

    met Saskia Frederiks

    Kom alles te weten over waterkefir; wat het is en hoe je het zelf kunt maken. We bespreken de beginselen van fermentatie en je krijgt de kans je eigen kefir te maken om mee naar huis te nemen.  Onder...

  • 2020 Mediamatic Biotoop

    Sauerkraut: Co-design with Microbes

    met Saskia Frederiks

    Sauerkraut (of zuurkool) is een van de oudste gefermenteerde voedingsmiddelen die er bestaat. Tegenwoordig wordt het grootste deel van sauerkraut gemaakt in één grote fabriek. Maar wist je dat het...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Mily Boogaarts 3 mrt 2021

    From Packaging to Beaver Skin

    How to build a mycelium pigeon tower roof #1

    The pigeon and the mycelium are in joint agreement. Pigeons don’t nest on soggy surfaces and mycelium prefers high humidity, but don’t like the wet. It is critical: The tower needs a roof. But what...

  • 2020 Mediamatic Biotoop

    Pickles: Co-design with Microbes

    met Saskia Frederiks

    Groenten inleggen is een van de oudste fermentatie praktijken die er zijn. Het is een rijke bron van antioxidanten en staat bekend om zijn zure en zoute smaak. Tijdens deze workshop leer je dezelfde...

  • Proposal by: Natascha Nanji

    Welcome to Studio Swan

    Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition

    Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...

  • Opening Night: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Lullaby for Floods

    5
    sep 2025

    The  Lullaby for Floods  installation will be the creation of a sonic environment and an in-between space connecting us to the Earthly turbulences in the new climate regime : it exchanges our inner...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Five kingdoms and Three terms

    The fungi, the mycelium and the mushroom

    First, let's tackle the fungi. Fungi are one of the species of the five kingdoms and it is the closest one to Animalia, ergo animals, including humans. Animals even evolved out of the fungi. That's...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Nature Network

    Mycorrhizal fungi and their function

    As I wrote, fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The third big group is mycorrhizal fungi. Which to me is the most inspiring group. It is the fungi that is connected to plants.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Guards and Guides

    Parasitic fungi and their function

    Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The second big group is parasitic fungi. Of course, there are parasitic species for every organism, but they are mainly related to insects.

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