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Mediamatic Salons

present yourself

Every month, artists, designers and other makers present and discuss work in progress.

Artists, theorists and designers give 20 minute lectures and performances.

Show me yours and I'll show you mine...

Makers can meet other makers and discuss works in progress, and sometimes we also offer a dinner program or concert.
The salon programme is presented by Jans Possel

  • Lecture: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Say Yes / No to the Internet

    Do it Yourself and the Internet

    13 June 08 20:30

    Presentations by Brian McKenna, Roald de Boer and Harm van den Dorpel. Hosted by Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielczynska.

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    2

    Say Yes to No

    Think Negative / Start Tomorrow

    28 May 08 20:00

    A series of evenings on The Power of Negative Thinking. Theme of this first evening will be the Development of the Self in the 21th ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Finding the Perfect Chicken

    Beauty Parlour #04: on perfect self representation

    7 Feb 08 18:00

    Koen Vanmechelen is trying to find the best chicken clone, UNIVERSAL COSMOPOLITAN CHICKEN. He breeds chicken from national races to get ...

  • public meeting: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Mirror, Scenario & Mask - views of he - you - me

    Beauty Parlour #02: About Self Representation - he you me

    24 Jan 08 18:0024 Jan 08 20:30

    Beauty Parlour is a the second public meeting in preparation of a Me! Me! Me! (Ik! Ik! Ik!). Me! Me! Me! is an exhibition about ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Self Representation Kick Off

    Beauty Parlour 01

    17 Jan 08 18:00

    Beauty Parlour is a public meeting in preparation of a Me! Me! Me! (Ik! Ik! Ik!). Me! Me! Me! is an exhibition about self-representation ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    El HEMA New Year's Salon

    Final El HEMA koopavond

    6 Jan 08 16:00

    We celebrate the final day of the El HEMA with presentations by Sietske Tjallingii's Burka Big Band, Partizan Publik, the poet Baban and ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    1

    The Humus Files

    Learn how to say it, make it, and eat it! El Hema koopavond 13

    17 Oct 07 19:00

    From the back alleys of Cairo to Manhattan delis, humus is perhaps the most celebrated dip from the Middle East and Arab world. Both ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Streets of Memory – Roads to Connectivity

    EL HEMA Koopavond 12: the Baghdad edition

    4 Oct 07 20:30

    A poetic title for evening about that which our TV screens fail to show us: the streets of Baghdad where apart from carnage and ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Identity, Aesthetics, Collateral Knowledge

    EL HEMA Koopavond 11

    13 Sept 07 20:30

    An evening choc-a-bloc with video art, images, audio and performance, strung together by 3 distinguished guests: Mounira Al Solh, ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Last, but only the beginning

    El Hema Koopavond 9 - The last El Hema meeting brought finalizations as well as new collaborations.

    16 Aug 07 18:00

    JoAnn DeLuna –

    Amsterdam – August 16, 2007: A rouse of applause filled Mediamatic’s exhibition hall as El Hema graphic designers presented the ...

  • Presentation, Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    First Arabic chocolate letter

    El Hema Koopavond 7 - The 7th El Hema Thursday meeting revealed many new developments, including the first Arabic chocolate letter.

    2 Aug 07 18:00

    JoAnn DeLuna –

    Amsterdam – August 2, 2007: Mediamatic unveiled the first Arabic chocolate letter—possibly ever made—at the 7th weekly meeting ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    El Hema koopavond 5

    19 July 07 18:0019 July 07 21:00

  • Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    El Hema Koopavond 3

    El Hema? Wat is dat?

    5 July 07

    De derde brainstormavond over hoe een denkbeeldige arabische hema eruit zou kunnen zien.

  • Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    El Hema Koopavond 1

    Mediamatic bedenkt een Arabische Hema

    21 June 07

    Mediamatic organiseert 10 koop avonden met presentaties en ideeën van ontwerpers, kunstenaars en andere specialisten over de ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Hybrid World Romance

    Beautiful projects in which the digital kisses the physical.

    7 May 07

    Timo Arnall (N) , Nicolas Nova (CH) , Giles Lane (UK) , and Sascha Pohflepp (D) presented their projects and inquiries into the ...

  • Lecture: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Second Life - The Invasion of the Bacteria

    A lecture by Matt Biddulph

    22 Feb 07 19:00

    Matt Biddulph was recently contracted by the renown scientific journal Nature.com to build gigantic bacteria in Second Life.

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Dinner Party Salon

    yoga, origami, semi-raw food and e.e. cummings

    15 Dec 06 19:00

    An early salon dinner party. Performances based on E.E. Cummings by Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis, the CI project presented by ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Wearables Fashion Show

    buzzing clicking blinking dress

    12 Nov 06 16:3006

    The participants of the Arduino Wearables workshop will present their final results for the general public. Interactive clothing ...

  • Lecture: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Blogjects Lecture

    by Julian Bleecker

    17 Nov 06 18:0017 Nov 06 21:00

    18:00 hours: The physical and the digital world are fusing, according to Julian Bleecker. An internet of things is evolving from ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Mona Lisa's Smile

    Mediamatic Salon

    18 Sept 06 20:30

    A salon with presentations of Nicu Sebe on emotion recognition, Stani Michiels on his nomadic internet cafe and Tjebbe van Tijen on his ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Tables and chairs

    Mediamatic Salon

    12 June 06 20:30

    A domestic salon about (il)legal chairs, animated tables, and Romanians you can't get out of the living room. On Otaku, Doringer vs ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Cultural Engineers

    Mediamatic Salon at 20:30

    8 May 06 00:00

    A salon with some new games, as thought up by graphic design students from the Rietveld Academy, a presentation by Régine Débatty of ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Emotion Salon

    DEVELOPING projects on EMOTIONS

    13 Mar 06 00:0013 Mar 06 00:59

    A salon with Mark Meadows, writer of Pause and Effect speaking on his latest project, including a videogame made in collaboration with ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Forgive me

    a film by Cyrus Frisch

    12 Dec 05 00:00

    A Mediamatic screening of the film by Cyrus Frisch, in which the method actors are heavyweight addicts and the story is an intentional ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Spatial Slide Salon

    Mediamatic October Salon on 11

    10 Oct 05 20:30

    A salon with 2 projects by FreshDeuce, Steven Jouwersma's strange collection of slides, a report on a journey by train from Moskou to ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Alter ego/ Self portrait Salon

    Mediamatic Salon on 11

    11 July 05 20:30

    An evening of film, fashion and lectures, with presentations by Twan Janssen, creator of the short Pilot 1.1 , Bastiaan Franken, ...

  • Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Mobtagging at 11

    9 May 05 20:30

    Mediamatic salon about tags and communities. Presentations on the FlickrAutoBrowser, the film Celebration , on the Future News ...

  • Screening: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Paradise Girls

    Mediamatic salon

    28 Feb 05 00:00

    Fow Pyng Hu introduceerde op 28 februari zijn film Paradise Girls (NL 2004, 97 min).

  • Nightcap for Globetrotters

    October Salon 2004

    Featuring the nightcaps of Eibert Draisma, Jorgos Loukakos' Scrambling and Martijn Tellinga with Sound Works.

  • Faery Lights

    July Salon 2004

    Interactieve DANCE-DRAMA, moving lights and Theatre FASHION by Aziz

  • Digital Mantras

    May Salon 2004

    Digital Mantras, Video Art in the Age of P2P Network, new N Collective CD and a Still Life Dinner.

  • Mediamatic Salon at the TPG-building

    on a Friday night for once

    Missed the Outdoor Projections? They were all shown Friday April 2 from 20.00 hours in Mediamatic's new space at the Oosterdokskade 5.

  • Don't count me out

    February Salon 2004

    Featuring: Rafael Rozendaal, Renzo Martens and Martin Butler.

  • The real thing

    November Salon 2003

    Maurer United Architects , Goodwill, Micha Klein and Street Couture.

  • Fresh from the trash

    September Salon 2003

    Met Matthijs de Bruijne, Tom van Gestel, Manel Esparbe, Catherine Henegan en Ritsaert ten Cate.

  • Identity-Loop

    Krystian Woznicki –

    oder: Warum schwingst Du einen Hullahoop-Reifen um Deinen Hals?

  • Suattime

    Fuer den Mauerfall im Kopf

    Suat Ozkan –

    Protokoll: Suat Oezkan, TV-Moderator

  • Endorfine ervaringen en gourmet cycling

    April Salon 2003

    Arie Altena, Todd Matsumoto, Jeanne van Heeswijk en Debra Solomon

  • Kinder Sapiens

    February Salon 2003

    Met Inge Willems, Jeroen Elfferich, Anna Abrahams en Jan Frederik Groot

  • Prikkels, Vingers en andere Snacks

    November Salon 2002

    Presentaties van Mediamatic nieuwe webleeromgeving, Cristina Garcia kinderboek en Nepco zelfgemaakt voedselketen

  • Saggio Preliminare

    September Salon 2002

    Met Two Things, de Italiaanse specialiteit Pastiera, een Russisch sprookje in een nieuw jasje en veejayen bij Skrjabin.

  • Liquid en heavy

    June Salon 2002

    De een kiest voor het stromen van de digitale cijfertjes, de ander zweert bij de echte, basale uitingen. In onze tijd kan het een niet ...

  • Gevoelige Apparaten

    April Salon 2002

    Presentaties van Submarine, Terry Dunne, Bas Ben Zineb en Luc Houtkamp. Locatie: sociëteit BABY, Keizersgracht 676, Amsterdam.

  • MediamaticSuperSalon

  • [English text below]

    We heffen onze bibliotheek op...

    Zaterdag 28 juni, 16.00 tot 21.00 uur Zondag 29 juni, 12.00 tot 17.00 uur

  • Party: Amsterdam, DNK-Amsterdam

    3

    Parking Lot Party

    We love STEIM 2

    6 June 08 21:00

    Music marathon with performances by Byungjun Kwon, Nanko, JS Lach, Keir Neuringer / Rafal Mazur, the band Sightings ("Guitar, bass ...

  • Party: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    We love STEIM

    No fun without them

    30 May 08 21:00

    STEIM is in danger. We think the disappearance of STEIM would be a disaster. In support of STEIM, Mediamatic and DNK-Amsterdam will ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Classical Self Representation

    Beauty Parlour #05

    14 Feb 08 18:00

    MyGrave: Christopher West and Aline Weyel of the Rietveld Art Academy will be presenting their project about what happens when you die.. ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Self Representation is a two way system

    Beauty Parlour #03: About Self Representation

    31 Jan 08 18:00

    The third public meeting in preparation of an exhibition about self-representation on the net, starting April 2008. Niels van Doorn, ...

  • Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Psycho-Geography

    The Pocketguide

    19 Jan 08 18:00

    Launch of the Pocketguide to Psychogeography by Voin de Voin With Surprise Music Acts

  • Salon, Concert: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Arabic music salon

    Sunday afternoon concert in El Hema. El Hema Koopavond 15

    2 Dec 07 15:302 Dec 07 16:30

    Musicians from the Middle-East will perform in the El HEMA. By playing their traditional instruments they will give an introduction to ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Resistance[s]

    El HEMA Koopavond 10

    6 Sept 07 20:306 Sept 07 23:00

    New experimental films from the Middle East and North Africa: In collaboration with the independent DVD label Lowave ( www.lowave.com ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Forbidden topics, moves and grooves

    El Hema koopavond 8 - The 8th El Hema weekly meeting proved to be a melodious blend of music, dance and literature.

    9 Aug 07 18:00

    JoAnn DeLuna –

    Amsterdam – August 9, 2007: As the white entrance hall to the Mediamatic exhibition room gradually became a vivacious red, inside ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    1

    The weekly cultural exchange

    El Hema koopavond 6 - Thursday brainstorming sessions for El Hema exhibition double as a community cultural forum, bringing together individuals from all realms of art.

    26 July 07 18:00

    JoAnn DeLuna –

    Amsterdam - July 26, 2007: Good Arabs, “Bad Arabs,” nostalgic Arabs, distinguished Arabs, non-Arabs and everything in between. ...

  • Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    El Hema Koopavond 4

    dit keer met libanees eten

    12 July 07

    Kom langs en breng nieuwe ideeen in voor een een project over een denkbeeldige arabische hema. Aanvang 18.00 uur

  • Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    El Hema Koopavond 2

    Loop binnen en doe/denk mee ...

    28 June 07

    Opdracht: Hoe zou een een project over een denkbeeldige arabische hema eruit zien? Elke donderdagavond brainstormavond vanaf 19.00 ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Salon Vert

    Mediamatic Salon

    31 May 07 20:30

    Fresh Rietveld-student interaction design, honest clothing by Annouk Post, Edo Paulus' second life and a performance by The Philosopher ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Salon Couscous & Cola & McDeutsch

    Mediamatic Salon

    27 Apr 07 20:30

    Salon on cultural identity. With the presentation of McDeutsch, a book on the role of German language on the national identity, and the ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Radio Salon

    An evening on radio and internet

    15 Feb 07 20:3015 Feb 07 23:00

    Explaining Wifio, bSites and the Girlfriend Experience, the presentation of the Radio-to-Go workshop results and a live avatar/callers ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Mediamatic Salon

    November 13, 2006

    13 Nov 06 20:30

    Presentations by Nir Nadler and Chris O'Shea, and the results of the Machinima Contest 2006.

  • Workshop: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Make your own Wearable Workshop

    smart clothing for smart users

    10 Nov 06 10:0012 Nov 06 18:00

    Tiny chips, cheap sensors and the possibilities of emerging smart fabrics, conductive yarns and cheap wireless communication (bluetooth ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Crossmedia for Children!

    Mediamatic Salon

    23 Oct 06 20:30

    Three new & beautiful online crossmedia projects for children were presented at this salon. This was also the Kick-Off of the ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    I am my Character

    Cosplay and Thinglink Salon

    10 July 06 20:30

    Een salon over cosplayers, dollfies en over tot leven gewekte karakters. En over Thinglinks: doe-het-zelf productcodes voor ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum CS

    n8salon

    Next level /art, games and reality

    2 June 06 19:00

    A rampant night salon in Stedelijk Museum, with games, music and installations, and with Mediamatic contributing The Bob Block Machinima ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    War Salon

    April 5, 8.30 pm Wednesday, bloody Wednesday

    5 Apr 06 20:30

    The presentations during this salon, war oriented due to the latest exhibition Le Mépris, (or Contempt) named after the film by ...

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Energetica Salon

    Zondagmiddag 19 februari, 16.00 uur

    19 Feb 06 16:0019 Feb 06 18:00

    Rondleiding door het EnergeticA Museum aan de hand van speciale gasten die uitleg gaven over hun FAVORIETE object

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    A Salon on Nature and Incapablity

    Monday, November 14th

    14 Nov 05 20:30

    With presentations by Theo Jansen, creator of Strandbeesten , and by Zeljko Blace, a short film by Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters and a ...

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Digital/ embroidery Salon

    12th of September at 8.30 pm

    12 Sept 05 20:30

    Featuring Kisky Netmedia, fashion designer Dan Gonen, this year's Ars Electronica prize winner Mateusz Herczka and Tilda Swinton at the ...

  • Presentation, Performance, Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Suicide op 11

    Mediamatic Salon

    6 June 05 20:30

    And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort, 1794

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

    Videoletters

    Mediamatic Salon on Monday the 11th of April at 8 pm

    05

    A heartbreaking salon on the rebuilding of the broken relationships in former Yugoslavia.

  • Mediamatic Pretaporter

    November Salon 2004

    van 7 tot 9 uur met warm eten. Wild Boar dresses, Machine therapy, MILKproject, Ubicomp en Culiblog

  • salon

    On top of the Roof

    September Salon 2004

    Animated Miracles, Small Town Fashion, Nepco goes United Nations and Oorbeek's electro acoustical impro.

  • The World Starts With Me

    June Salon 2004

    Sophie Morner, Karen Heuter, Butterfly Works and Tinkebell.

  • De Morgen

    Paul Groot –

    Lars Eijssen's De Morgen (the Morning) as a variation of Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue's music video.

  • Re-experience your memories

    March Salon 2004

    Braintec, Simon Yuill and Louise Berg. Location: Mediamatic Supermarkt, Nieuwe Foeliestraat/ Rapenburg corner, Amsterdam

  • All Wrongs Reversed

    December Salon 2003

    jodi, Kristina Andersen, een demonstratie van de game REZ en mode van GLOED.

  • Crime does pay

    October Salon 2003

    Interactieve hangplekken, een artistieke hacker, de cross media jukebox en Vice City, de laatste en meest a-morele incarnatie van het ...

  • German-Turkish Culture from Berlin

    July Salon 2003

    Berliner Gazette, Florian Kosak, Suat Özkan, Nezaket Ekici, Paola en Meshmet

  • Unlabeled

    June Salon 2003

    Kabouters, nonlabels, kijkradio en sixties muziek.

  • Steden verhalen

    May Salon 2003

    Met Maurice Nio, Bregtje van der Haak, Silke Wawro, Het Geheugen van Oost en een performance van Lars Eijssen.

  • En men keek naar boven en zag bloemen uit de hemel neerdalen

    March Salon 2003

    Presentaties van Anneke Saveur, Ton Venhoeven, Jannah Loontjens en Blossum.

  • Tickle me

    December Salon 2002

    Erwin Driessens en Maria Verstappen's Tickle Salon, de resultaten van de Mediamatic/IDFA workshop Non-lineair Vertellen en Sushi voor ...

  • Serge's Birthday Party

    October Salon 2002

    Wat komt er kijken bij een leuk verjaardagsfeestje?

  • Tô na rua

    June Salon 2002

    Heftige mode, circus, film en wetenschap.

  • We were chosen by...

    May Salon 2002

    Salon met uitverkorenen van ...

  • Live Salon op Radio 100

    March Salon 2002

    Neem uw Transistor mee! En stem af op FM 99.3

  • Thee en Tijdschriften

    Februari Salon 2002

    Jesper Juul (Game Studies), Winnie Terra (Catalogue), duo Arpeggio, Paul Perry (alamut.com) en Gabriele (tearoom Greenwoods)