Category Archive Creativity

Inspirational talk for think tank – on virtuality and interaction

Earlier today I did a presentation for a large think tank established by the regional government to discuss the long term durability of the huge new university hospital to be build in Aalborg from 2013-2020, a 4 billion Danish kroner project. I chose to talk about virtuality and interaction, bits vs. atoms, open data/frameworks and […] Read More…

Finished the 7-minute quick-and-dirty video blog from Transmediale11 // #tm11 #berlin

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Transmediale11 conference in Berlin and during that I shot a lot of video of many of the things that went on. This has now been edited into a 7 minute quick-and-dirty video collage of select footage, interviews, workshop bits and other stuff from the nice week in […] Read More…

The Future of Art documentary released // #tm11 #futureofart

During the recent Transmediale11 conference in Berlin, a so-called autodocumentary (auto as in autodidactic + documentary) was made to explore the defining aesthetics of art in the networked era, and how mass collaboration is changing notions of ownership in art. On a fun note, I interviewed one of the creators, Gabriel Shalom, for my forthcoming […] Read More…

What I shipped in 2010 – inspired by #sethgodin

Inspired by Seth Godin's blog post from December 30, in which he points out that it's a good exercise to sit down and look back on each year that passes and visualize to yourself what you managed to "ship" - that is, in Godin's terminology, what you managed to put into the world - including […] Read More…

Platform4 gets 2-year funding from National Art Council #platform4dk #art #technology

So 2010 ends with great news; Platform4, the art and technology venue/co-working space that I am co-developing, has received a grant of 1.5 million Danish Kroners, equal to EUR 200,000 from Statens Kunstråd (National Art Council in Denmark). The money has been given to our new project titled PLATFORM4.0.FUTURE, that focuses on - during 2011-2012 […] Read More…

Participating in new international book writing project on open culture business models

One of the outputs from a the Creative Commons workshop I attended in Gothenburg back in early November was the clear and identified need for more information on business models within free culture. As written here in the blog before, the workshop was a collaboration between the CC communities in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. This […] Read More…

Giving presentation at A Scream In The Dark today #cph #creativecommons

A lot of travel between Copenhagen and Aalborg these days. Having just returned last night from Kreativt Forum, I will head back to Cph later today to give a presentation about sharing and Creative Commons at the A Scream In The Dark #2 festival which takes place at Ungdomshuset, organized by Red Tape Records. Join […] Read More…

Giving presentation in think tank Kreativt Forum today #cph #platform4dk

Later today I will be participating in a session with Kreativt Forum ("Creative Forum"), a think tank body under Copenhagen Municipality. The theme is organizing creativity, and I will be representing our art/technology venue and co-working space, Platform4. Read more about Kreativt Forum here.Later today I will be participating in a session with Kreativt Forum […] Read More…