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Mediamatic.net
New Media, Art, Culture, Theory
Extra: we have 4 job positions for makers of: exhibitions, applications, communications, websites.
Mediamatic is a cultural institution in Amsterdam. We do exhibitions, presentations, workshops and other activities in Amsterdam and internationally. This site gives you an overview combined with news and theory. The site is edited automatically with anyMeta. It matches the topical with heritage in a sometimes fuzzy, but always surprising way. Just to get you started, there's a list of recent contributions below.
Recent contributions:
Mateusz Herczka
Enhanced Benches
Furniture made active with biochemistry
A new project by Mateusz Herczka proposes a new line of furniture for the homes, outdoors, public spaces and institutions
Christopher Helt
AUX RAUS
Hardcore will never die.
Review-
Het 'Rock'n'Rave' gabber-chaosduo Aux Raus gaf recentelijk een optreden tijdens de Audio Drive van Sasker Scheerder op de parkeerplaats van het Post CS gebouw, georganiseerd door Mediamatic. "Iedereen zal feesten."
De hoax van het nieuwe gabbergevoel.
Paul Groot
Béjart of Beethoven
of hoe gevouwen lichamen de zware schuld van de Val van de Mens moeten dragen
Over Hell, een dansvoorstelling van Emio Greco | PC
Willem Velthoven
It is too much. Stop killing and destroying Lebanon for "security"
Israel should stop NOW. The international community should stop Israel NOW.
August 1, 2006. It's three weeks now that the state of Israel is involved in this "war". The Israeli government says they are forced to do this. It is necessary to achieve "security" for their country. Every child can spot the error. They make everyone in the neighbourhood hate their guts (even more). That is fundamentally bad for security. How stupid can a nation be?
Volker Grassmuck
Otaku
Japanese Kids colonize the Realm of Information and Media
The rise of the Otaku generation is one of the most striking phenomena of contemporary Japan. In Mediamatic Volume 5, issue 3, Gabin Itoh, editor of the Japanese magazine Log In already mentioned the game Otaku, children lost to everyday life by their fanatical enthusiasm for all manner of different computer games in which they immerse themselves totally.
Paul Groot
Blackwater Fever
The Agony and the Mysticism of a Metrosexual Astray
Cyrus Frisch and Roeland Fernhout in a dazzling embrace.
Willem Velthoven
Symbolic Table: 100% interface-free media player
Mediamatic Atelier RFID project. Not only for children and geriatrics.
Symbolic Table is an interface-free media player. A cultural tool for those who want to work with media without any hassle. It is not an appliance, but a simple table. There are no buttons, no knobs. If you put something on the table, then the table will play the video (or the sound) that goes with that object. The object is a symbol for sound or image. If you take the object off, the...
Sasker Scheerder
de Booglamp
voor hofdames en andere doeleinden
De booglamp is de oudste electrische lichtbron en was in gebruik als verlichting voor openbare ruimtes en grote gebouwen vanaf het eerste kwartaal van de 19de eeuw tot ongeveer het begin van de 20ste. Rond die tijd raakte hij in onbruik door de opkomst van het gaslicht en de gloeilamp.
Eric Wie
Stofzuiger en tennissport
wat is relatie tussen beide?
Eric Wie ziet een relatie tussen de uitvinding van de stofzuiger en de opkomst van de tennnissport
Paul Groot
Untitled
Mieke Gerritzen
Review-
Our public spaces are subordinate to an increasingly unequivocal picture. The torrents of present-day traffic – those of speedy car drivers to those of hurried air passengers - particularly require rapid, transparent information enabling efficient reaction.
Esma Moukhtar
Another Claudie Day
Claudie de Cleen
Review-
Could the girls get up first and put on their coats? As soon as the headmaster utters the word I feel a tingle in my stomach. 'The girls', that sounds delightful. I think he is in love with the girls, the whole lot, and I'm part of the group.
Inge Willems
Adynda or size does matter
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
Review-
A short road movie through Amsterdam in rhythmic blocks of text. Three protagonists: a nameless Asian man behind the wheel, a female concubine called Adynda and the illicit city of Amsterdam with its many canals, streets and houses without curtains.
Arie Altena
Morse
jodi
Review-
In 1999 Morse was abolished as an official communication language. The last message that the French marine sent was: Calling all. This is our last call before eternal silence. And since then, Morse is a dead language, or at least, officially a dead language.
Willem Velthoven
Media make normal people like me ANGRY
Actually, de Volkskrant had an exellent "comic war" analysis by green left MP Naima Azough. The image was put right above it. In all it's daemonising glory. A shouting islamic man in black religious dress directing his invisible followers towards the already burning building.
Unless you had read the caption of the same image in NRC the monday before...
Willem Velthoven
Non - Recommended Blog: Neandernews
Credit where credit's due. Even when it's a right wing blogger.
Danish imams lobbyed with spiritual leaders in arabic countries to protest against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten publishing cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. They used more than the published cartoons only.
Willem Velthoven
How to make drawings with the Prophet Muhammad
Stay-out-of-trouble tips for the ignorant Cartoonist
It's not so difficult to avoid making images of Muhammad and still have clear and effective visual communication.
Reader for Machinima Workshop
Theoretical readings
3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima (2004)
By Paul Marino
The industry bible for emerging Machinima filmmakers. It covers the latest technology in filmmaking, from the history of Machinima, who the major players are, and where the Machinima movement is going. By providing numerous hands-on projects, including topics on developing actors, preparing...
Lonneke Theelen, lennart sakowsky, thomas pletzinger, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer
After the Impakt Festival @ Utrecht
During the Utrecht Impakt-Festival 2005 a beautiful but deserted 13-story office building on Oudenoord was the inspiring site of one of Mediamatic’s workshops on database narratives. On the fourth floor Mediamatic set up its mobile workshop stuff.
Antje Leonty
club transmediale
February 3 -11, 2006
Review-
CTM (club|transmediale), the Berlin festival for adventurous music and related visual arts reanimates and re-incarnates the quickset clichés of ‘electronic’ and ‘digital’ in art, music and club culture from the 3rd to the 11th of February.
Tom McCarthy
City of Cards
We had decided that I should arrive by sea. Amsterdam has always been a port, so entering it this way had a certain logic, given my brief. It was anything but practical, though: from Turin I had to fly to Hamburg, then to take a train to Bremen, where I boarded a boat that bobbed along the coast, cut down through Rotterdam, then chugged and rattled on to A20. Nor did this method of approach...