. . I have two public speaking gigs lined up for this upcoming weekend. On Saturday on the Open Source Days conference in Copenhagen, where I also spoke last year. This year I'll give a talk titled 'Open Government Data: What, why, how?' (16.30 on the Ernst & Young stage) as well as meetup up [...]
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Yesterday in a ceremony at Teater Grob in Copenhagen, we (Platform4) won the newly established Artbeat Award! The award, which officially celebrates the best within Danish cultural dissemination and will be given to a project or a person within the cultural environment that has managed to combine something artistically new with forward looking communication, [...]
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By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Copenhagen, Culture, Interviews, Platform4
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Tagged #platform4dk, art, Christian Villum, Copenhagen, creativity, innovation, kreativitet, Lina Bergstrøm, Marianne Jelved, Platform4, Teater Grob, Thomas N. Petersen
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. Artbeat Prisen 2013: De nominerede from HAVE Backstage on Vimeo. . Even though I've officially left Platform4 on December 31, 2012, there are still a few related things to attend to. One of them is quite special, since Platform4 late last year were announced as one of 4 nominees for the new ArtBeat Award [...]
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By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aalborg, Art, Copenhagen, Culture, Platform4
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Tagged Ananassen, ArtBeat Award, Artbeatprisen, cultural minister, Have Kommunikation, kultur, kunst, Marianne Jelved, Spotify, TV2 News
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. . As described previously here on the blog, I had the fortunate opportunity to go to the magnificent Burning Man Festival this past summer (of which I have these thoughts). A tv-crew followed us and have now edited the footage into a series of programs that have aired through November 2012 - see them [...]
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By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aalborg, Aalborg University, Art, Culture, Platform4
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Tagged Aalborg University, art, Burning Man, Platform4, tv, TV2, TV2-Nord
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. This weekend I spent in the good company of old friends, with whom I travelled to Prague for a long weekend of relaxation and to attend the Coldplay concert there. Good times and what a show. We're talking U2 stage production scale here - and in Chris Martin, the lead singer, an iconic performer. [...]
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By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Creative Commons, Helsinki, Music, Open culture, Presentations, Talks
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Tagged Coldplay, Helsinki, OK Festival, OKFN, Open Knowledge Foundation, Prag
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. . I hardly know where to begin when prompted to explain what the journey to the Burning Man festival has given me in terms of new thoughts, new perspectives and new energies. Still, I would like to try to capture my thoughts at this point right after the experience - for future reference and [...]
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By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Art, Creativity, Open culture, Sharing
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Tagged #bm12, art, Black Rock City, Black Rock Desert, Burning Man, collectiveness, Nevada, radical self-expression, radical self-reliance, Reno, technology, USA
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. After having spent the last days in Berlin to attend the Campus Party conference, it is now time to move on and jump on the plane towards New York. After a two day stop-over there I'll continue to Reno in Nevada to meet up with a 9-people group of people affiliated with Aalborg University [...]
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Next week I'll be heading to Berlin for a few days to attend the enormous Campus Party Europe Conference, the world's largest technology fest with over 600 speakers - that takes place in the former city airport Tempelhof. I'll be giving a talk about my record label Uhrlaut as well as participating in two discussions [...]
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By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aalborg University, Berlin, Copyright, Networking, Open culture, Presentations, Talks, Uhrlaut
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Tagged Berlin, Campus Party Europe, conference, CPeurope, digital art, Germany, intellectual property, Tempelhof
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Earlier today I arrived in Stockholm (my first time here) to participate in a Creative Commons session tomorrow about the GLAM-sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). A session organized by our colleagues and friends in CC-Sweden. Tonight I also had the pleasure of visiting the Sparvnästet hackerspace through kind guidance by @jchillerup. Really friendly bunch of [...]
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