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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. . 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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. . 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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. It's been a great few days in Berlin this week, where I've been attending the gigantic Campus Party conference in the former airport Tempelhof. The venue in itself was impressive - by far the biggest and most authentic set for a conference that I've ever attended - but also unconventional in the sense that [...]
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. This coming week is quite a milestone in my 2012 so far. Thursday we unveil the PlayForm art & technology mobile exhibition that features 7 interactive installation produced by the users in and around our Platform4 creative hub - with contributions from Aalborg, Aarhus and Copenhagen (last mentioned in collaboration with the Labitat hackerspace). [...]
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After the end of the 2011 season in Platform4, I've put together at little summarizing video to capture the essence of it all. Released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.5 Denmark license. Please remix and share with your friends. Read more about Platform4 here. After the end of the 2011 season in Platform4, I've put [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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In the yearly Prestize Magazine Awards, held by Aalborg-based lifestyle-magazine Prestize, Platform4 (the art- and technology + co-working venue that I co-manage) was nominated in the 'Årets Ildsjæl' category, which translates roughly into something like 'Most passionate or dedicated project/person of the year'. To our great surprise, when the winners were announced on December 30, [...]
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