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Platform4.0.Future Meeting Hub #1 is a gathering where participants from several countries will congregate to discuss, talk, make, build, hack and tinker for four straight days in a meet-up that is part conference, part maker lab, part think tank and part anarchic craze. You can also join the fun!
The time has come for Platform4 to organize it's first conference, Platform4.0.Future Meeting Hub #1. We've invited some of the most inspiring and interesting people from around the world to join us in an intense, voluminous and informal weekend to delve into three main themes within Platform4's art and technology framework.
THEMES:
The meetup will focus on three main themes. Every part of the program is rooted in one or more of these areas:
'The Open'
Open culture, open data, open licensing, open everything…
'Maker culture'
DIY-ideology, tinkering, hacking, building, learning…
'It's Visual'
Visual digital expressions, video, graphics, animation, data visualization...
PROGRAM:
The weekend will consist of, on one hand, the big CONFERENCE PROGRAM with lots and lots of talks, presentations and workshops - and on the other, a big MEGA-MAKER-LAB, where 7 hackspaces and creative groups will build fun, inspiring and probably pretty amazing projects throughout the weekend in Platform4's big hall (Hal 1). We'll also have a few special events and areas as well as social sessions at night with great dj's in our café. Everything is open to the public and free of charge.
We are working hard behind the scenes right now to finish the program and schedule, which should all be ready in a few days. Until then, please peruse the list of confirmed participants below.
PARTICIPANTS:
The list is still expanding, so we'll be adding more names in the next days, but so far the following speakers and hackspaces/groups are confirmed participants:
Groups/hackspaces:
FAT Labs (Berlin, Germany)
The Free Art and Technology Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media. The entire FAT network of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, musicians and Bornas are committed to supporting open values and the public domain through the use of emerging open licenses, support for open entrepreneurship and the admonishment of secrecy, copyright monopolies and patents.
During Platform4.0.Future Meeting Hub, Geraldine Juarez of FAT Labs will present a new commissioned work for the festival titled Splinternets: 'The Tweet Crier”, a remix of the traditional Town Criers from England that aim to amplify information streams on the streets and question the increasing trend of censorship and fragmentation of the internet.
The more the internet is spreading, the more it became divided. Splinternets it's a new series of works
about making the internet, its protocols and its subtle inequalities perceptible and visible.
You can catch The Tweet Crier on the streets of the festival, and also, Juarez will held two workshops where
you can have some fun with arduino, Twitter, soft-circuits and help hacking a megaphone, as well to
discuss and brainstorm new ways to make the internet's infrastructure more noticeable.
Read more on fffff.at
Labitat (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Labitat is a hackerspace and FabLab in Copenhagen, a physical space for tech-related creativity with complete economic independence. We are the first hackerspace in Denmark and have been going for more than 2 years now, with a little under 100 paying members. The space offers facilities and tools for all sorts of tinkering not least in electronics, 3D modeling and DIY Biology.
At Platform4.0.Future Meeting Hub Labitat will working on building a home made full size, self balancing vehicle like the Segway.
Read more on labitat.dk
Hal9k (Aalborg, Denmark)
HAL9K is a relatively young hackerspace in Aalborg, established in 2011 with currently a little over 50 members. Their projects are often characterized as weird afternoon physics experiments such as water rockets made from plastic bottles and remote controlled submarine vehicles. HAL9K resides in FormuLab in one of the abandoned industrial sites in Aalborg, Denmark.
At Platform4.0.Future Meeting Hub HAL9K will play with QR-barcodes (2D) and experiment with the opportunities they present.
Read more on hal9k.dk
Illutron (Copenhagen, Denmark)
illutron is a collaborative interactive art studio and a haven for innovative thinking between art and technology. The physical location is a rusty barge in Copenhagen Harbour. Here submarines and space rockets are built. Scrapped industrial robots are brought back to life. Here singing plants grow and classical music plays together with electronic music.
illutron is a space for adventures and experiments. Artistic and technological frontiers are challenged. Experiments can be based on intuition instead of reason. Here people are creators, not consumers. Here the audience are participants, not passive observers. Here anything can happen.
Creative thinking emerges from below, as long as a fertile creative environment is fostered, where small seeds can find nourishment and grow roots and flower. Technological progress happens in dialog with the surrounding society and refers to both the past and the future. Our art is a joint creative process in a group, a dialog between the group members and with cultural undercurrents in society. Art involves the audience, they become actors in dialog with the work of art, with its story.
Illutron offers collective illusions, fascinating illustrations and blinding illuminations, embracing new inspirational stories in and about the world.
Read more on illutron.dk
GeekPhysical (Copenhagen, Denmark)
GeekPhysical, a clever combination of an inventor and interaction designer, bring an interactive element into the social domain, and promote play, discussion, and exploration by creating experiences for people. GeekPhysical is made up of Dzl, inventor and engineer, (Danish) and Vanessa Carpenter, Master of Interaction Design (Canadian).
Read more on geekphysical.com
Platform4/TS Collective (Aalborg, Denmark)
Platform4 is a user-driven multi-purpose venue that explores and experiments with technology and art. It's volunteer users consisting of artists, students, entrepreneurs, talents and hobos experiment with new technological and digital elements in combination with artistic and creative genres ranging from music, theatre, contemporary art, design, architecture and much more. The venue hosts a co-working space, Rooftop, and several creative groups inkl. the TS Collective, a group of creatives dedicated to ao. digital visual experimentation.
Read more on platform4.dk and tossestreger.org
fabHouse (Næstved, Denmark)
The fabHouse project is about building a self-sufficient house (a Fab Lab) from the ground with digital fabrication tools (FabLab equipment) and local sustainable materials. The fabHouse is being build in Næstved, Denmark, and the future FabLab called FabLab Danmark will be up-and running when the house is errected may 2012.
At the meeting hub they'll be working on an interactive facade panel for our fabHouse. They expect to be programming and making a solar panel able to adjust to the suns movements and thereby always being in the most effective angle towards the sunlight. The hope is to interact with other great people interested in connecting the digital and physical world.
Read more on fabhouse.dk
SPEAKERS:
Tobias Leingruber – FAT Labs/Artzilla (Berlin, Germany)
Tobias Leingruber (@tbx) is an artist and free communication designer working in viral media, popular culture, amateur aesthetics and the future of web browsers.
As an advocate for openness and freedom online he has worked with many artists and organisations including the F.A.T. Lab, Artzilla.org and Mozilla. Best known for Pirates of the Amazon and China Channel he has exhibited work worldwide and has been featured by the NY Times, LA Times, Wired, Spiegel, 3sat (TV) or Liberation.fr. Follow him at http://twitter.com/tbx
Sune Petersen aka. MOTORSAW (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sune is an artist working in various fields surrounding digital video and performance.
He has worked at Experimentarium (Copenhagen), Ars Electronica Future Lab (Linz) and the University of Aalborg. Sune is collaborating with various companies and networks amon others: Electrotexture Lab (Aalborg), MAPT (Copenhagen), Lasse Vegas Kontoret (Aalborg). Some results of this has been NoRA Pavillion at La Biennale 2006 (Venice), Visual setup for the gala opening at the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival (Linz) and the Playful Bench 2011 (Copenhagen).
Sune has taught at workshops at Aalborg University (Aalborg), TU Braunschweig (Braunschweig), university of Ljubljana (Ljubljana) and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture (Copenhagen).
One of Sunes main interests is Live Visual performance. He has Performed Live visuals for many musical acts Funkstörung, Trentemøller, Groove Armada and Bjørn Svin a.o. Sune is on a constant quest to improve his own custom made live visual instrument that allows intuitive improvisation.
With this instrument Sune has performed live visuals at various venues and festivals among others Pixelache (Helsinki), Roskilde festival (Roskilde), The international Videofestival Bochum (Bochum) and Node10 Festival (Frankfurt a.M.). Sune also has created custom live visual instruments for Max Hattler (the Hattlerizer) and for System (the Systematizer).
Sune is a Creative Commons ambassador artist in Denmark.
Henrik Moltke – Hyper Audio (Berlin, Germany)
Moltke is a journalist, activist and net/bike/radio geek. He leads Drumbeat projects within arts, journalism and free culture and tell stories whenever it helps engage new people in nerd stuff such as the open web. He currently focus on Hyper Audio – a project that will make radio more like the web – hackable, participatory, yet immersive. Sometimes he gets to play with cameras and web video / documentary stuff. He writes and talk about the web and organize events.
While studying in Copenhagen (literature, rhetoric, journalism and cultural theory) he began working as a tech/culture journalist at Harddisken and moved on to produce documentaries, TV, radio and web at DR for almost 10 years. He briefly worked for the UN in Central Asia, worked 6 years for Creative Commons as a country lead and firestarter, co-directed the documentary Good Copy Bad Copy, collaborated with Superflex on FREE BEER and advised businesses at Socialsquare. He spends his free time discovering Berlin, on bicycles, gardening, reading, or in the ocean.
Michelle Thorne – Mozilla Drumbeat (Berlin, Germany)
Michelle Thorne is Mozilla’s global event strategist, aiming to grow communities around open web projects through live events. She
helps local organizers host anything from small meet-ups to larger design jams and hackathons, which bring together web makers of
various stripes to build, make, and learn from each other. She chaordinates Mozilla’s annual innovation festival, which this year
focuses on Media, Freedom and the Web, taking place in London, November 4 - 6. Previously, she worked as Creative Commons’
International Project Manager and is a trustee of the Awesome Foundation Berlin, a lightweight association to fund small projects.
Contact her at michelle at mozillafoundation dot org and as @thornet almost everywhere.
Evan Roth – FAT Labs (Paris, France)
Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris who explores the intersection of free culture and popular culture, making work simultaneously for the contemporary art world and the "bored at work" network. His notable pieces include L.A.S.E.R. Tag and LED Throwies (Graffiti Research Lab), White Glove Tracking, EyeWriter, Graffiti Analysis and a collaboration with Jay-Z on the first open source rap video. Roth's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art NYC and has been exhibited widely in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including the Centre Pompidou, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Tate, the Fondation Cartier and the front page of Youtube. Roth has received numerous awards for his work, including the Golden Nica from Prix Ars Electronica, Rhizome/The New Museum commissions, the Future Everything Award, the inaugural Transmediale Open Web Award and the Design Museum London's Designs of the Year.
Roth is co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab and the Free Art & Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab), a web based, open source research and development lab. Roth and his work have been featured in multiple outlets, including NPR, the New York Times, Liberation, Time magazine, CNN, the Guardian, ABC News, Esquire and Juxtapoz.
To find Roth's work online, just google "bad ass mother fucker".
Martin von Haller – Danish Open Source Business Association/Creative Commons (Copenhagen, Denmark)
The Danish IT weekly Computerworld (www.computerworld.dk) has for several years in a row selected von Haller as one of the top10 of influential people within the Danish IT industry. He is senior partner in law firm Bender von Haller Dragsted, where he assists clients in matters dealing with IT- and web contracts, Internet law, corporate law, open source, Internet security, Wi-Fi. Additionally, Martin is public lead for Creative Commons Denmark and chairman of the Danish Open Source Business Association and specializes in the field of open licensing.
He is furthermore mentioned in the Legal500 guide as a "highly recommended" lawyer in Denmark within IT and eCommerce.
Henrik Chulu – Indepentent/Creative Commons (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Henrik Chulu is a professional musician with a masters degree in philosophy and geography.
He works freelance as a writer, researcher and consultant and is active coordinating knowledge sharing events for ao. Creative Commons Denmark.
Christian Villum – Platform4/Creative Commons/Shareplay (Aalborg, Denmark)
Christian Villum is an independent and self-employed bootstrapper within media, arts, web, open culture and technology, and spends his time developing a myriad of different projects.
He is the co-founder and co-executive director of Platform4, an art- and technology venue/co-working space in Aalborg, Denmark. He also works as an agent for the Shareplay crossmedia project and runs his own maverick electronic music and video recording label Urlyd/Uhrlaut. Additionally, he holds the position as Public Project Lead for Creative Commons Denmark. and is the founder of FormuLab as well as an active member of the Hal9k-hackerspace.
He holds a master degree in Culture, Communication & Globalization from Aalborg University and have previously lived, worked and studied in Berlin, New York and Chicago.
Geraldine Juarez – FAT Labs/Telecomix (Mexico City, Mexico)
Juarez is a pupil of the internet, her friends and Eyebeam, where she was Senior Fellow at the Production Lab (2003, 2006–2008). She works in the internet and the street through a wide range of media and outputs to understand spaces that emerge when information, property and power collide, with a special interest on low, open and pirate technologies.
She is a fellow of FAT Lab and also a collaborator in decentralized hacking groups focused on the creation of free infrastructure like Telecomix, and Forays. She also likes to research the tension between intellectual property law and the culture of copy, and their societal effects on governance and democracy in Mexico and beyond, and she blogs about in Alt1040 and Global Voices.
Juarez has been resident artist at inCUBATE in Chicago, Timelab in Belgium and JA.Ca in Brazil. Her work has been shown internationally at collective exhibitions such as Interference, Feedback and Other Options in Eyebeam (NYC), Creative Times's Democracy in America(NYC), Secret Project Robot (NYC), State of the Art: New York at URBIS Manchester (UK), Actions: What you can do with the city at Centre for Canadian Architecture (CA), G.R.L.| F.A.T. World Summit at CREAM (Japan) Los Impolíticos at Pan Pallazo delle Arti in Napoli (Italy), DEEP NORTH at Transmediale (Berlin) and festivals such Piksel, Futuresonic, Pixelache, Conflux and Transitio.
Dzl – GeekPhysical (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Dzl has worked on a huge number of exciting projects including radio and electronics exploration and development, reverse engineering of a 1 ton ABB robot, navigation and control systems for a submarine, guidance system and pressure sensor for a rocket, working with high voltage projects, special effects and extensively with sound and electronic music, among much more.
Vanessa Carpenter – GeekPhysical, Illutron (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Vanessa is an Interaction Designer with a Master’s degree from Malmö University in Sweden, and has completed creating the ideal circumstances for learning, interacting, and understanding one another while working with TAT, The Astonishing Tribe and HCIED2008 and HCIED2009. She has worked with a diverse range of companies and organizations, finding, analyzing and solving problems or creating experiences for them.
Johan B. Lindegaard – Illutron (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Creative geek, designer, web hacker… student at the Danish School of Design, cofounder of Hackerspace Labitat, freelance web developer. Doing stuff with technology, art, design and culture.
Christian Liljedahl – Illutron (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Is an artist creating installations and doing performance art. His passion is in exploring possibilities on and within the water. He is the expert seaman of the illutron barge, knowledgeable in her history, and is a skilled craftsman and mechanic.
