Tag Archives: art

‘Open Source City’, the book about Platform4 – out now

    Yesterday was a big life moment, as I was able to publish the first book with my name on the cover, 'Open Source City: Art & Technology Experiments in Platform4', which I've co-edited with Niels Peter Hvillum and co-written alongside a highly talented group of other contributors. The book focuses on the creative hub Platform4 in […] Read More…

Successful launch of the new PLADS project

. This past week, in collaboration with Rune Brink Hansen from Dark Matters and Majken Overgaard from Art & Innovation Hub, I launched a new project. It's called PLADS; a platform for open source art and technology installations in urban space. As part of the launch we had engaged with 8 Copenhagen-based artists, who all came […] Read More…

We won the Artbeat Award!

  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, […] Read More…

All 5 Burning Man tv-programs now online // #burningman

. . 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 […] Read More…

Thoughts from my first time at Burning Man // @burningman

. . 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 […] Read More…

Nice feedback from #CPeurope talk/panels in Berlin this week (links, video and photos)

. 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 […] Read More…

PlayForm art & technology mobile exhibition + Platform4 grand opening 2012 in new location // #platform4dk #aalborg

. 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). […] Read More…

Platform4 season 3 summarized in 6 minutes of video // #platform4dk #art #technology

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 […] 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…

APPARAT.Lab this weekend! #platform4dk #art #technology #aalborg

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…