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…
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…
Back in Denmark from Berlin and Transmediale11, I've now finished my blog-series from the conference for CrossMedia/PlayShare - with a closing entry that starts like this: BATTLES IN THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES FROM TRANSMEDIALE11 With Transmediale11 now over, some general perspectives of where the media landscape is moving have clearly manifested themselves. For one, […] Read More…
I've now arrived at the Transmediale conference in Berlin, one of the highlights of the year for me. For the next 4 days I'll be curiously learning, meeting people and networking - as well as spreading the gospel on the topically relevant things that I am involved in - CrossMedia, Creative Commons, Platform4, Urlyd Audiovisual […] Read More…
Heading for Berlin today (with bus now, not plane) to have a few meetings and (being the reason for the trip in the first place) attend the Study World conference to represent the Faculty of the Humanities of Aalborg University. Will be fun, I am really looking forward to going back after moving away from […] Read More…
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…
Tonight I have the pleasure of making a presentation of my little recording label, Urlyd, at a workshop at the SAE Institute here in Berlin. The workshop is held på Creative Commons Germany and focus on the flexibility offered to musicians and labels by the CC licensing suite, and Urlyd will act as an example […] Read More…
Just got a notice from Aalborg University that I again this year will be hired to represent the university at the annual Study World educational fair in Berlin in April - only this time on my own (last year we were four representatives, this year only one: Me). The purpose is to engage German students […] Read More…
Last night my girlfriend and I went to hear ex-punk rock band Blag Flag leadsinger Henry Rollins perform at Astra. Since phasing out his subsequent solo hard rock band, Rollins has been touring the world as a spoken word artist - although not in the traditional sense, but more of a political speech meets monologue […] Read More…
So, now we're well into 2010. What a blast of a transition I had here in Berlin. My girlfriend and I had 40 friends over for a new year party here in our apartment, and with attendance of people from Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States and even Brazil, it was quite an international […] Read More…
