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Mediamatic Fabriek
Troost: Lodewijk Petram & Ellen van Velzen
6Jan 2014In 2013 investeerde het Nederlands Letterenfonds in acht talentvolle schrijvers die onlangs hebben gedebuteerd. Met ondersteuning van een beurs kunnen zij aan een tweede literair boek werken.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Hut Warming New Year's Reception
8Jan 2014We built our own office from agricultural waste and mud. It turned out beautiful. And also very warm, thanks to the three hot aquaponics installations that support the tent-roof. If you want to stay...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Fabriek
Printing Living Furniture and Wearing Dead Micro
8Jan 2014Two designers about their bio-material research and a mushroom dinner Interior architect Simone Vermaning makes really strong textiles from mycelium, that are also good for your skin. She aims to...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Processing Workshop
10Jan 2014Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Troost: Shira Keller & Patrick Bassant
13Jan 2014In 2013 investeerde het Nederlands Letterenfonds in acht talentvolle schrijvers die onlangs hebben gedebuteerd. Met ondersteuning van een beurs kunnen zij aan een tweede literair boek werken. Shira...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Troost: Kaweh Modiri & Kira Wuck
20Jan 2014De in Iran geboren filmmaker Kaweh Modiri (1982) neemt in zijn romandebuut Meneer Sadek en de anderen afstand van zijn eigen verleden. Kira Wuck debuteerde met de dichtbundel Finse meisjes, die haar...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Faceless Opening
25Jan 2014Dancehall punk pioneer F€RAL i$ KINK¥ performed, Dennis Vanderbroeck made himself disappear in his inflatable rucksack, and Carmen Schabracq's Poesie Bar served White Russians. DJ Spacemaker played...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Troost: Rosan Hollak & Annemarie de Gee
27Jan 2014In 2013 investeerde het Nederlands Letterenfonds in acht talentvolle schrijvers die onlangs hebben gedebuteerd. Met ondersteuning van een beurs kunnen zij aan een tweede literair boek werken. In...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Grow your own Oyster Mushrooms
28Jan 2014Maurizio Montalti will show how you can grow mushrooms using nothing but kitchen appliances. Everyone will prep and infect his or her own mushroom substrate bag to take home. You'll leave with enough...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Ignite Amsterdam 34
29Jan 2014Inspired by Faceless , our new exhibition, January's speakers will be talking about the AIVD-NSA trial, surveillance camera footage and dicks with a product. But also about superheroes and deformed...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Echokamer #14: Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken…
30Jan 2014Polack and Wilken present their new album Fathomless. Geographically-themed, the album combines field recordings and electronics to create what they call sonic fiction. An abstract audio-novel of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Arduino Basics Workshop
7Feb 2014Arduino boards are small physical computing platforms, consisting of a simple I/O board and an integrated development environment. They can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects and can...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Tuberculosis and cow stomachs
12Feb 2014In her latest project, The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis , bio-artist Anna Dumitriu collaborated with the UK Clinical Research Consortium and worked with strains of TB...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Oyster Mushroom Workshop
25Feb 2014Fungi will play a key role in the future. We're hosting workshops to get to know this promising organic substance. In our inflatable cleanroom you'll muck around with mushroom spores, learn about...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Fishing for ink, The Dwarf Empire
26Feb 2014Twelve speakers of February's Ignite talk 5 minutes each about new materials and new ways of art making and thinking. Come early for a free tour of the Faceless exhibition. Food and tour start 19:00
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Echokamer #15: Tapes
27Feb 2014With cans, cigar boxes, broken radios, toy instruments and modified tape recorders Wouter van Veldhoven ‘builds’ organically mesmerizing and tranquil compositions. Mark IJzerman, Myrthe van de...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Printed superfood and our (in)visible membrane
12Mar 2014Sonja Bäumel approaches the bacteria on her body and her environment as a second skin. She scientifically documents them and then visualises it into design. By doing that she makes this invisible...
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KJO Training Mediamatic Foundation
Social Media Strategy
21Mar 2014De opkomst van sociale netwerken (Facebook, Twitter), self-publishing platformen (YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr) en andere 'web 2.0' technologieën (RSS, Wikipedia) hebben geleid tot een grotere interactie...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Ignite: YouTube girls, digital crime
26Mar 2014The 12 speakers of March’s Ignite will talk for 5 minutes each about the female body, fragrances, grilling and more. Come early for a free tour of the Faceless exhibition. Tour starts at 18:30, food...
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Mediamatic Foundation
The future of Creativity, Arts & Consciousness
27Mar 2014A collaboration between c3: Center for Conscious Creativity and Vortex Immersion Media in Los Angeles and the Club of Amsterdam.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Processing Workshop
28Mar 2014Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Workshop: Camera spoofing, Kinect hacking and more
2Apr 2014Engage in a game between your computer, your webcam and yourself. Be a boss and create your own tools to physically control your computer. Our favorite Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey will...
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Lecture: Mediamatic Fabriek
Stalkfest talks: Patents and Face Detection
2Apr 2014We welcome three interesting speakers on net-skepticism. Jeremy Bailey does performative research into the patents big companies like Apple and Google have on bodily gestures (swiping, looking up...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Foundation
Workshop: Computer Security
3Apr 2014The internet is broken. Who we call, where we are, what we send each other; all this information is logged and stored for large-scale data analysis. This workshop is about opting out of this social...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Workshop: Myco Design Introduction
9Apr 2014The Myco Design Lab started off with an extensive workshop providing the first instructions to the open call participants to start working with mycelium. The workshop took place in the Mediamatic...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Fabriek
Bulletproof Skin and growing Mycelium Lamps
9Apr 2014A spider silk thread is relatively much stronger than steel. Jalila Essaïdi explores this capability in relation to our sense of safety. What if human skin would be able to produce this thread, would...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Workshop
12Apr 2014Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. The best way to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space. The fish poo...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Faceless
26Jan 201413Apr 2014This exhibition shows the trend to hide, alter or mask the face. A trend visible in art, fashion and the media since the turn of the century. The works on show ranges from avant-garde masks to pieces...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Grow your own Oyster Mushrooms
17Apr 2014We all have to start to love, work and experiment with fungi. Fungi will play a key role in our upcoming bio-based society. In our inflatable cleanroom we will teach you the basic skills to get...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Lightness
28Apr 201431Aug 2014In an age where everyone is affected by the weight of society, the overbearing fears of the economy and the heavy hand of government, 'lightness' is the way forward. Let go of the material and...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Ignite: Lightness Opening
30Apr 2014Ignite 36 is a special preview of our next project Lightness. In a time of societal strain Mediamatic explores the light at the end of the tunnel. 11 weeks, 11 exhibitions. Tonight, the 11 curators...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Zigzag, spiral and 8
1May 2014Rhythmic gymnastic Idaline Kristalijn knows just how to create the most beautiful shapes with only a ribbon and a bar. Zigzag, spiral and 8 your way through space. During this class you will learn...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
A boat trip to heaven
5May 201411May 2014This project called Heaven is one of the activities in Rob Sweere's week of Lightness. A ferry-like boat on the water in front of Mediamatic. You are invited to lay on it and watch the heaven above...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Whiteness
7May 201411May 2014Rob Sweere's week of lightness incorporated different projects that made you float on water, air and even soundwaves. From Wednesday May 7 it was possible to visit his Silent City, made of different...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Echokamer 17: Drone 2.0 & Micro miking
10May 2014For Lightness, artist Rob Sweere built a new work called Drone 2.0. Made of wood and speakers, the sound that comes from it makes the Mediamatic Fabriek shake. Mars F. Wellink will use the Drone and...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Fabriek
Octopus Camouflage & Fungal Design
14May 2014Can fungi digest plastic? What can we learn from the octopus? Maurizio Montalti explores the potential of mycelium to develop new materials and Suzanne van Beest shows her fascination for...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Soap bubbles
14May 201418May 2014As a part of ‘lightness’, Nienke Sybrandy is going to blow soap bubbles all week long. Everyday this open soap bubble lab focusses on a different kind of soap bubbles. Make your own soap bubbles. Big
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Starvation Experiment
19May 201425May 2014People starve themselves for different reasons: political activism, religion, weight loss, eating disorders, long life, research or just curiosity. This week Arne Hendriks invites you to fast...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
The Feeling Internet
23May 2014"Computers are simply mirrors. There's nothing in them that we didn't put there. If computers are viewed as evil and dehumanizing, then we made them that way." - Mark Pesce Melanie Bonajo wonders:...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Workshop
24May 2014Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. The best way to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space. The fish poo...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Geert Wilders, arts benefit to society
28May 2014Twelve speakers of May's Ignite talk 5 minutes each about new materials and new ways of art making and thinking. Come early to see The Higher Office , Richtje Reinsma's week of Lightness. Food at...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Take a Stand
29May 2014With a standing class, a Lightness pamphlet and the app launch of Standing.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
The Paper Ensemble
31May 2014Is it possible to wrinkle, fold, furl and turn an 100 square meters sheet of paper into an imaginative and interesting musical instrument? Visit Performance #9 by The Paper Ensemble and you'll be...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
The Higher Office
26May 20141Jun 2014Ex-voto's come in all different shapes and forms. As small objects of devotion and good fortune you can use them to express your wishes and desires. For yourself, or somebody you care for. No matter...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Dance laboratory
3Jun 20146Jun 2014The Junior Company is a collective of young dance talents from the Dutch National Ballet. During 'Dance Laboratory' 4 different choreographers are invited to create one unique piece per day, inspired...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Echokamer 18: Sounds and Stripes
7Jun 2014A special edition of Echokamer with Aki Onda, the renowned Japanese tape musician, in cooperation with Dancer Kenzo Kusuda and artist Cocky Eek. Kusuda will explore the architecture of Cocky Eek's...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Algae Eating Robots, Food from Waste Water…
12Jun 2014This month's Biotalk is all about using water and its ecology as resource. Is wastewater a filthy business? Bernelle Verster shows the opposite and explains how wastewater turn into valuable (bio...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Fays, Fairies & other magical creatures
17Jun 201422Jun 2014With the famous ballet La Sylphide as an inspiration, Martin Butler creates a fairy-themed program for Lightness week 8. With brand new works by artist Gautier Pelegrin, Floris Didden, Daan Colijn
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Workshop: Golden Joinery
22Jun 2014Your favourite blouse with a tear of despair is no longer a loss. It can be part of the Golden Joinery Collection. Each garment of this collection has a unique, beautiful golden scar. During this...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Ignite: You Are Cordially Invited, 3D printing
25Jun 2014The 12 speakers of June's Ignite will talk for 5 minutes each about moths, important questions in life, and more. Come early to see The Poffice, Daniela Bershan's week of Lightness . Food at 19:30
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Grow your own Oyster Mushrooms
26Jun 2014We all have to start to love, work and experiment with fungi. Fungi will play a key role in our upcoming bio-based society. In our inflatable cleanroom we will teach you the basic skills to get...
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Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
The Moth Project
26Jun 2014Our primary pollinator the honeybee is in rapid decline and we do not know exactly why. Horticultural installation artists Jeff Schmuki & Wendy DesChene draw attention to importance of pollinator...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Arduino Basics Workshop
27Jun 2014Arduino boards are small physical computing platforms, consisting of a simple I/O board and an integrated development environment. They can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects and can...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
The POFFICE
24Jun 201428Jun 2014THE POFFICE with Stephanie Barbier, Daniela Bershan, Valentina Desideri, Kroot Juurak, Berno Odo Polzer, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Annick Kleizen, Jan Ritsema, Robertas Narkus and many extras, experts...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
CandyLab
1Jul 20146Jul 2014Happy Sweet People! The Lightness Candylab will investigate the blissful effects of sugar through a live production of a sugary landscape built by the Australian Pip&Pop. Come visit throughout the...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Sugar Finissage
6Jul 2014A blissful week has come to an end. On Sunday July 6th the sugarlandscape by Pip&Pop will reach is final stage. To celebrate this moment, we invite you to the festive opening and finnisage. In which...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Pret Park
7Jul 201413Jul 2014Welcome to PRET PARK! From July 8 – 13 Pret Park (amusement park) collectively investigates the possibilities and impossibilities of the artistic spectacle. Pret Park directly addresses a cultural...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
The Aftermath Dislocation Principle Part 7-8
11Jul 201431Aug 2014Enter the bizarre, twisted world of musician, record producer, artist and cultural provocateur, Jimmy Cauty. The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is a vast 1:87 scale model landscape, which is...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Drone Camping
19Jul 201431Aug 2014The Whiteness 2 exhibition will be a drone test field and playground every weekend of summer 2014. Come and fly, build fix and learn about multicopter drones in our 1000sqm exhibition space. Bring...
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Party: Mediamatic Fabriek
Drinks at Mediamatic
22Aug 2014We, at Mediamatic, love to get together with our members. With a big community of like-minded creatives we want to connect and get social. With our weekly drinks on friday afternoon we hope to meet...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Drinks at Mediamatic
29Aug 2014You are warmly invited for another Friday drinks round at Mediamatic Bar. Because this week will be your last chance to visit the drone camping, the exhibition will be open until 8pm. Food These...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Drone Camping
19Jul 201431Aug 2014One of the most beautiful weeks of the Lightness festival was Rob Sweere's Whiteness show. Larger than life inflatable sculptures and audio drone to meditate in. We're showing Rob's pieces again but...
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Exhibition Mediamatic Fabriek
Myco Design Lab Exhibition
18Sep 201415Nov 2014In 2012 Mediamatic initiated the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition and started exploring the world of mushrooms, fungi and bacteria through art, design projects and lectures. Through an open call we...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Round the Table: Bio art labs conspiracy
18Sep 2014A new league of labs and organizations is emerging that support artists with their work in biology. We're inviting experts for a round the table meeting about the future and collaborations within the...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Fabriek
Fungal Design and Cheating Organisms
18Sep 2014How to use nature's own growing mechanisms in art, design and architecture? Keynote speakers Toby Kiers, Zeger Reyers and Phil Ross (US), will give an inspiring talks about the use of living...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Wild Yeast and other Taste Makers
19Sep 2014Curious about what's brewing in your beer? Come taste, listen, learn and look at extraordinary beer design at Bier Beraad! during Bio-me . This symposium on beer design goes further than pretty...
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Party: Mediamatic Fabriek
Fermentology!
20Sep 2014Cheese, kimchi, bread, beer, yoghurt, sausage, tempeh, trassi, sauerkraut... All these amazing products owe their unique taste to living and growing micro-organisms. Disgusting? We don't think so!
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Fermentology! Lunch
20Sep 2014During 'Eat at your own risk' you can join us for an exquisite lunch served to you by culinary artisan Chef Thor highlighting all that is fungal, bacterial and microscopic. Buy your ticket now, by...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek Antoni Gandia
Workshop: Magic Mushrooms
20Sep 2014Fungi will play a key role in the future. Get high on your own supply and learn all about these promising organisms. In our cleanroom you will learn the secrets of the mushroom cultivation, and...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Ignite: Soylent, Sexiness and Sea Cucumbers
24Sep 2014We spent the summer to find the freshest ideas. The 12 speakers of September's Ignite will talk for 5 minutes each about living organisms, a new kind of food, being sexy, hiphop and art and more.
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Workshop: Dortmunder U
Aquaponics at the Innovative Citizen
27Sep 20141Oct 2014Innovative Citizen is a festival about new urban skills with numerous workshops, performances, installations, lectures, parties and concerts. The Mediamatic aquaponics team is traveling to Dortmund...
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Workshop: Dortmunder U
Innovative Citizen: Aquaponics Workshop
27Sep 2014Innovative Citizen is a festival about new urban skills with numerous workshops, performances, installations, lectures, parties and concerts. The Mediamatic aquaponics team is traveling to Dortmund...
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Workshop: Dortmunder U
Innovative Citizen: Mushroom Workshop
27Sep 2014Innovative Citizen is a festival about new urban skills with numerous workshops, performances, installations, lectures, parties and concerts. The Mediamatic mushroom team is traveling to Dortmund to...
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Dortmunder U
Innovative Citizen: Keynote talk by Willem…
27Sep 2014Innovative Citizen is a festival about new urban skills with numerous workshops, performances, installations, lectures, parties and concerts. Willem Velthoven, founder of Mediamatic is traveling to...
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Dortmunder U
Innovative Citizen: Aquaponics Workshop
28Sep 2014Innovative Citizen is a festival about new urban skills with numerous workshops, performances, installations, lectures, parties and concerts. The Mediamatic aquaponics team is traveling to Dortmund...
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Dortmunder U
Innovative Citizen: Mushroom Workshop
29Sep 2014Innovative Citizen is a festival about new urban skills with numerous workshops, performances, installations, lectures, parties and concerts. The Mediamatic mushroom team is traveling to Dortmund to...
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Mediamatic Foundation
Echokamer: African blues and Wed Bidé
16Oct 2014ECHOKAMER invites musicians, composers and other sound makers to experiment with the effect of space on sound and on the experience of sound and music. For this edition of Echokamer, Sana Bob (singer...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Fabriek
Sexy plants & illuminating nano particles
17Oct 2014How to visualize what is not visible for the human eye? And how to design for the non-human? For the monthly Biotalks we invite Bio-Artists and Scientists to clarify their research and practice. This...
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Screening: Mediamatic Fabriek
Quantum transportation and vintage Fly
23Oct 2014If you could teleport today, where would you go? It might seem far fetched, but in this day and age teleportation is a serious topic of research instead of speculation. In fact, researchers at the...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Workshop: Aquaponics
25Oct 2014Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. The best way to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space. The fish poo...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Ignite: ugly houses, bees, sensational…
29Oct 2014Join us for twelve hearty ideas that will guaranteed stimulate your imagination. This month's Ignite Amsterdam features food porn, modern beekeeping and vegan make-up. Food at 19:00, the first...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Workshop: 3D printing with living organisms.
1Nov 2014Is it possible to 3D print with life? Together with designer Eric Klarenbeek we will explore the possibilities for printing with living materials, organic substrates and mycelium. Start your...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
The Bitter Truth
7Nov 2014"Drink wine after beer and you'll feel queer!" We all know this expression, but is it true? At Bierberaad we investigate where radical beer brewing and wine yeasting intersect. With scientist-gone
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Grow your own mushrooms!
15Nov 2014Besides the fact they are delicious and nutritious, there is much more to discover about mushrooms and fungi. Some people even claim that they will help humanity save the world! Here at Mediamatic we...
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Mediamatic Foundation
IGNITE: Printhesis, disgust, spirituality
21Nov 2014No Wednesday, but a Friday night this month. We will warm you up for the weekend with twelve inspiring ideas, projects or obsessions. From landscapes and 3D printed prosthesis to transcendental...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Kunstformen der Natur
6Sep 201423Nov 2014More than a century ago, biologist Ernst Haeckel scored a hit with his amazing illustrations of unseen organisms. We collected all 100 lithographs and blew them up to 5 times life size for our...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Kunstformen Finissage
23Nov 2014On Sunday November 23rd we opened up the Kunstformen Der Natur exhibition for one final day. Not only was this your last chance to visit the extraordinary exhibition but we also invited Constance...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Biotoop Viewing
19Dec 2014On Friday November 19 (3 - 5 p.m.), we open up the Biotoop for all Bio-Designers, Artists and Life-scientists who are interested in co-creating the new Biotoop Dijksgracht with us. Do you plan to...