Category Archive Culture

Connecting the CPH & Hamburg regions: Fehmarnbelt workshop for cultural exchange

. . Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to participate alongside 35 talented artists, cultural entrepreneurs and civil servants in a workshop to discuss the cultural development of the Fehmarnbelt region (which covers the land area around the water between Germany and Denmark - including Copenhagen and Hamburg).  It was 48 hours of co-creations, […] Read More…

8bit-klubben reboot for 2015: Epic chiptune bash last weekend

    This past weekend we (Science Friction and a bunch of collaborators including folks from Chassis Arcade, KILE, Ruben & Bobby) re-booted the Copenhagen community for 8-bit culture, 8-bit klubben, with the first event in a planned series in 2015 - by inviting one of the world's most popular chiptune artists right now, Meneo, to fly up from […] Read More…

Releasing global Creative Commons mixtape this week

. . As part of the global community of Creative Commons Affiliates (the custodians of the CC license tools) I am proud to contribute to a new tradition that has been published for the first time this week: The annual release of a mixtape of great music from artists around the world using CC licenses. Out this week! […] Read More…

Uhrlaut performance at this week’s Science & Cocktails

. . This week's Science & Cocktails event on May 20 2014 in Byens Lys in Christiania in Copenhagen is featuring a performance by Uhrlaut's own MOTORSAW and Kiloton right after the lecture. The event has even been highlighted in the national paper Politiken's cultural highlights of the week. Come join us for a dose […] Read More…

Video installation and workshops at Click Festival

. . This coming weekend the great 3-day new media event Click Festival takes place in the city of Helsinore, north of Copenhagen. The festival explores the intersection between technology, science, art and music and alongside a very interesting electronic music program (featuring among other Detroit electro duo Dopplereffekt, which I can hardly wait to […] Read More…

Organizing film screening: “Exposing the Invisible” pt. 1-3 in collab with Tactical Tech Berlin

. . As Science Friction, Open Knowledge Foundation Denmark and Creative Commons Denmark we are proud to present a free screening of the "Exposing the Invisible" documentary trilogy from the Tactical Tech crew in Berlin, who has kindly authorized us to screen their film. The documentary series showcases investigative citizen reporting around the world using new technologies […] Read More…

Blogging about the digitization and opening of our cultural heritage

. . Last week there was an interesting article in Danish national newspaper Information, which explained how Norway are planning to digitize and release all of their written cultural heritage - all of it: books, magazines, articles, etc. - and to make it freely available to all Norwegian citizens. This prompted me to comment on […] Read More…

Interview in Radio 24-7 on releasing Periskop’s “40”

This morning I had the pleasure of getting up extremely early to visit Radio 24-7's morning show with Danny Kreutzfeldt (aka. Periskop), whose album we'll be releasing on our Uhrlaut label on Friday. The album consists of no less than 40 full length albums packaged as 1 vinyl LP and 39 digital releases on a […] 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…

Nominated for ArtBeat Award today w/ Platform4 – alongside Spotify and TV2-News (with cultural minister Marianne Jelved)

. 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 […] Read More…