Today I've attended the GamesBusiness conference as Shareplay representative. The conference, that was partly put together by very successful local game studio Progressive Media, had a great lineup of speakers including Ian Livingstone, founder of ao. the Dungeon & Dragon fantasy universe, Games Workshop and Eidos Studios (as well as being responsible for bringing forth […] Read More…
Monday and Tuesday this week I'll be attending the Media On The Move conference in Aalborg as Shareplay representative. You can follow live tweets and live blogging on @ohthatsnew and the Oh, That's New blog respectively. You can also follow the entire If you're there, let's meet up! @villum UPDATE: Highlights summary live-blogs: Day 1, […] Read More…
This is a recording of the inspirational talk I did for the think tank of the New University Hospital Aalborg. Inspirations-talk af Christian Villum om 'Interaktion & Virtualitet' - for tænketanken for Det Ny Universitetshospital Aalborg from Christian Villum on Vimeo.This is a recording of the inspirational talk I did for the think tank of […] Read More…
This past week saw the publication of a new official city presentation booklet for Aalborg, titled 'Aalborg, The Global Business Centre' made by The Commercial Department @ Aalborg Municipality. The section on transmedia, art and technology features a few quotes from yours truly. That's a fun context to be in. See or download the publication […] Read More…
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…
By Christian Villum
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Posted in Aalborg, Creative Commons, Creativity, Culture, Labelkollektiv, Music, Platform4, Travel, Urlyd
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Also tagged Aalborg University, Atrap Festival, Berlin, Blip Festival, Copenhagen, Creative Commons, CrossMedia, DR P1, DR P4, FSCONS, Gothenburg, Kiloton, Kristian Ravn, Labelkollektiv Distribution, Platform4, Politiken, Rooftop co-working space, SAE Institute, Sail-In Cinema, SXSW, Tone, TV2-Nord, Ungdomshuset, Urlyd, Vækst
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So today was a day I had been looking forward to as well as dreading a bit: The day that I pass on Labelkollektiv Distribution to new owners. In all honesty, I have been looking forward to freeing up all the time that goes into running an indie distribution outfit for more than 80 underground […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Posted in Aalborg, Labelkollektiv, Music
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Also tagged Copenhagen, diy, Galimathies, It's A Trap, Jais Ikkala, Kulturformidleren, Labelkollektiv Distribution, Mathies Brinkmann Jespersen, Music, Supersound Records, underground
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If you're in or around Aalborg this weekend, don't miss out on attending APPARAT.Lab in Platform4; a special experimental lab over four days of the Contemporary Art Festival Port2010 that takes place in various venues all over the city. The art festival features four days of installations, live performances and workshops. Several artists and artist […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Posted in Aalborg, Art, Platform4, Technology
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Also tagged APPARAT.Lab, art, Christian Skjødt, Derek Holzer, Max Hattler, Mehmet Can Özer, Port2010, technology, Tim Hecker, Tossestreger
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After 6 months - that went by all too fast - I have now moved back to Denmark again, getting ready to hand in my master thesis on Friday (still a lot of work to before that). It was sad to leave Berlin and our nice apartment in Kreuzberg, but all things come to an […] Read More…
Okay, this is a bit weird. Some meetings are just so important that you need to attend them, even if it means going to another country. Tomorrow I have two of those, so I'll be back in Denmark from tonight and 36 hours onwards. It's a little strange to hit and run on your home […] Read More…