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a/Artist event Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Artist makes the Idea that makes the Book
- How stubbornly strict rules by artists and designers generate beautiful books13May 2024Join us for an evening about conceptual book development with artists Robin Waart, A.W. Doom and Willem Velthoven. 3 very different makers whose projects have 1 thing in common: They find very strict...
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Placing the Feeling in the Middle
a/Artist meeting with Genevieve Murphy and Ignacy Radtke
On the 18th of September, the A/artist team organised the successful public meeting ' Playing with (Dis)comfort ', with speakers Genevieve Murphy and Ignacy Radtke. Read on to find out how the...
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Hortus Project
Knowledge about the Hortus Project Signs
The Hortus Project was implemented some time ago to teach people about the different properties of our city's flora. You can find little oval signs in the grow beds of Mediamatic, but also spread...
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Recto and Verso on a Single Page*
How to save, time, work and trouble when making 2-sided flyers
Printing A5 flyers in house? This is a trick to save time and avoid paper jam, typos and other trouble. On an A4 printer, DO NOT two fronts on page 1 and two backs on page 2 of an A4 doc. In stead
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Robin Waart is an artist who makes books who…
A/artist roundtable with Robin Waart
Robin Waart is an Amsterdam–based artist. During our discussion round he let us browse through six of his printed projects. They are collections of movie stills and book pages that deal with themes...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Workshop: Mud Dye
- A traditional Japanese art of dyeing textiles with mud5Sep 2022This workshop is valid in combination with MONO JAPAN 2022. Join traditional Japanese craftsman Yukihito Kanai in his teaching of a natural mud dyeing technique passed down from Amami Oshima as one
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Which paper works & doesn't work for the printer
Needs to be edited everytime you know more about one paper specifically :)
In the graphic room, we have different type of paper. Some of them are quite old and some other more new and useful. Here is a little list of which >> paper works on the big printer: 180 gram coated...
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Plate 10 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Ophiothrix Ophiodea. / Schlangensterne.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 10 from Kunstformen der Natur. Ophiodea: Brittle stars, closely related to starfish. Characterised by a small round like body and five long, thin arms.
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Plate 9 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Maeandrina. / Hexacoralla. Sechsstrahlige…
Litho van Ernst Haeckel en Adolf Giltsch
Plate 9 from Kunstformen der Natur. Hexacoralla: Subclass of corals, which include sea anemones, stony corals and soft corals.
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Plate 8 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Desmonema. / Discomedusae. Scheibenquallen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 8 from Kunstformen der Natur. Discomedusae: Subclass of Scyphozoa (jellyfish)
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Plate 7 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Epibulia. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 7 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
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Plate 6 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Tubuletta. / Tubulariae. Röhrenpolypen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 6 from Kunstformen der Natur. Tubulariae: Genus of Hydroids, animals related to jellyfish and have strong visual similarities to them such as a compact, mostly round body with long strings...
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Plate 5 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Ascandra. / Calcispongiae. Kalkschwämme.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 5 from Kunstformen der Natur. Calcispongiae: Marine sponges with c alcareous skeletons
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Plate 4 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Triceratium. / Diatomea. Schachtellinge.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 4 from Kunstformen der Natur. Diatomea: Single-celled organisms also know als algae
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Plate 3 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Stentor. / Ciliata. Wimperlinge.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 3 from Kunstformen der Natur. Ciliata: Complex single-celled organisms with a short hairlike surface. Hence the name that comes from the Latin word Cilia which means eyelash.
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Plate 2 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Globigerina. / Thalamophora. Kammerlinge. (test)
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 2 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
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Porpema. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen. (test)
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 17 from Kunstformen der Natur. Siphonophorae: Subclass of Hydrozoa, sea animal related to jellyfish and corals.
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Plate 1 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Circogonia. / Phaeodaria. Rohrstrahlinge. (test)
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 1 from Kunstformen der Natur. Phaeodaria; (Radiolaria) single-celled organisms also known as zooplankton.
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Organization:
Makers4all
Non-profit help organisation
This is a collective of 'makers'. These makers have 3D-printers with which they make help-items for contact workers ( like nurses, doctors,...) This production is for the betterment of society, free...
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Junko Yamamoto
De japanse Yamamoto (1972) is beeldend kunstenaar en onderzoekt door haar gevarieerde kunstpraktijk ruimte en herinneringen.
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What's On Folder Design
Where to find the files, how to use them
In the What's On folder we inform our visitors about what is currently happening at the Biotoop. We show them what is Mediamatic, what we are doing, and guide them through our art installations. The...
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Wilhelm Wagenschieber
Engraver for science illustrations
He was active in Berlin from 1862 to 1879. His last assignment was for Ernst Haeckel. He was engraving plates for "Die Kalkschwämme". Works for Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919): Radiolarien (1862...
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Eduard Giltsch I
Lithographer 1811 — 1884
Father of lithographer Adolf Giltsch . Former servant (Hausmann) at the Jena Botanical Gardens. Later, he founded the print shop in Jena: Giltsch Lithographische Anstalt Jena ("Lithographie
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