Category Archive Platform4

‘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…

Today we release au2pilot’s “Fatamorgana” LP on Uhrlaut Records

. After months of work we're very proud to release "Fatamorgana", the first LP of Danish electronic music producer au2pilot on Uhrlaut Records. Out today! The release has been marked by two release parties; one in Copenhagen this past Friday (in collab with the ROI crew) and one prior to that one in Aalborg, au2pilot's hometown (in […] Read More…

Launching Kickstarter to fund a book about Platform4

. BIG NEWS! We’re making a book about Platform 4 – a tale about all the years of art and technology, projects, events and ideas written by some of the international superstars that visited as well as local Platform 4 die-hards. But we need your help. To raise funds we’re launching a KICKSTARTER CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN […] 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…

Great success for PRINT YOUR LIFE; our 3D-printer festival in Platform4 // #3Dprinting

. . A couple of weeks back I co-organized the PRINT YOUR LIFE festival; a 3D-printing festival exploring the applications of this exciting new technology (and, in fact, the first 3D-printing festival ever in Scandinavia). For three consecutive weeks we had workskops, talks, debates and lots of designing and printing. Additionally, 8 people (myself included) […] 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…

Another city development interview – how I think creative hubs can be created // Dagbladet Holstebro

. . 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…

Moving to Copenhagen

. This is actually somewhat old news, as I made the public announcement two weeks ago, but I feel I should mention it here on my own web space too: I will be leaving Aalborg and Platform4 to move to Copenhagen in the beginning of 2013. Copy/pasting the announcement from the Platform4-website below: After five intense […] Read More…

Heading for New York + Burning Man Festival with #AAU and #Platform4

. After having spent the last days in Berlin to attend the Campus Party conference, it is now time to move on and jump on the plane towards New York. After a two day stop-over there I'll continue to Reno in Nevada to meet up with a 9-people group of people affiliated with Aalborg University […] Read More…