. . I had a great chat with pebble magazine about Fabcity and the potential for distributed manufacturing, data-driven cities and rethinking modern day supply chains and production models. 2017 will be an epic year for the the development of Fab Cities all across the world - stay tuned! Read the interview here: Fab City: The […] Read More…
During the recent Open Government Partnership Summit in London in late October, I was interviewed by a tv-news crew from The Guardian about the strengths of open governance. The short clip can be seen below. Caption: Christian Villum of the Open Knowledge Foundation says the Open Government Partnership Summit is a good way to […] Read More…
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…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Copenhagen, Copyright, Creative Commons, Culture, Media, Music, Press, Sharing, Uhrlaut
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Tagged electronic music, Periskop, Radio24syv
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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…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Copenhagen, Culture, Platform4, Travel
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Tagged #platform4dk, art, Christian Villum, Copenhagen, creativity, innovation, kreativitet, Lina Bergstrøm, Marianne Jelved, Platform4, Teater Grob, Thomas N. Petersen
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. . A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed again in connections with a city development theme, this time by Dagbladet Holstebro - a regional newspaper from the city of Holstebro, a provincial city a couple of hundred kilometers south of Aalborg. There they are dealing with an abandoned meat packing complex in the […] Read More…
It's busy times right now; we've moved Platform4 from the old venue to the new, launched the PlayForm Mobile Art & Technology Exhibition and released a new EP with Tone - while at the same time trying out a new rather rebellious sharing experiment in Aalborg, Aarhus and Copenhagen. To start from the end: The […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aalborg, Aarhus, Activism, Art, Copenhagen, Copyright, Media, Music, Open culture, Platform4, Press, Sharing, Technology, Uhrlaut
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Tagged #platform4dk, Aalborg, Black Duck EP, Denmark, Henrik Daldorph, IFPI, Illutron, Jyllandsposten, Labitat, Nordjyske, Platform4, PlayForm, technology, Tone, TV2Nord, Uhrlaut Records
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People attending some of my recent talks have been kind enough to feedback online with their impression of the sessions - which I really appreciate. After my talk at MultimediaDays at Aarhus Business Academy last week, Jeanne Bødker Nissen wrote this one on the Multimediedesigner blog: Spændende oplæg om Creative Commons (in Danish) Also Berit […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Creative Commons, Media, Music, Open culture, Platform4, Presentations, Press, Sharing, Uhrlaut
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Tagged Aarhus Business Academy, Danmarks Radio, DR, free music, KODA, LOC, MultiMediaDays, music business, Politiken, VIBE
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Last week we (Creative Commons Denmark) held two events in in Copenhagen and Aarhus in collaboration with the Danish collecting society, KODA, and a beautiful bunch of artists and labels (Per Vers, Tone, Dad Rocks, Town Portal, Red Tape Records, Father Figure Records and my own label Uhrlaut Records) to discuss new business models for […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Activism, Copenhagen, Copyright, Creative Commons, Internet, Music, Press, Uhrlaut
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Tagged Creative Commons, Dad Rocks!, music business, P6 Beat, Radio 24/7, Snævar Albertsson
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. Today marks the big Anti-ACTA day in Denmark and across the country in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg people are hitting the streets to show their opposition to the subjugating legislative initiative. I am part of the Danish movement against ACTA, and have helped setup the demonstration today and act as spokesperson. To our […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aalborg, Activism, Copyright, Internet, Media, Open culture, Open web, Press, Talks
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Tagged Aalborg, activism, Anti-ACTA, demonstration, freedom of speech, human rights, Internet, netneutrality, Stop ACTA
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For the second time last week I was asked to appear for a comment in Danish national radio DR P3's "Pressen" program (Friday Jan 20 2012). This time they were discussing FBI's forced close-down of online locker-service Megaupload. Naturally, I expressed the dire concern among proponents of the open web, that these kind of […] Read More…