February 27, 2010
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Alter Modern Times @ Share NYC

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21st of february I joined in the Share jam to try out some new visual material from my visual culture+lifestyle design/art-project which I named Alter Modern Times. The title is inspired by Nicolas Bourriauds´s book “Altermodern” (Tate Publishing, 2009) and by Charlie Chaplin´s film “Modern Times” (1937). It is a journal based art project (video /sound /graphics /photography), which sprung out of the idea of what energies displacement creates, thoughts on what´s next after postmodernism and a will to explore and invent alternatives to the 9-5-lifestyle.

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February 27, 2010
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Share NYC

If you find your self in New York City, I would like to recommend you to go to Share. Every sunday evening they throw an event labeled as “open stage multimedia jam”.

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February 15, 2010
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Datastorm and the 8-bit scene

Graphics by Otromatic

When Ilan Katin told me about the Datastorm party that was going on in Gothenburg parallel to Pixelvärk I got really excited. Datastorm is a party dedicated to the Commodore 64 and Amiga demo scenes. When we were done with the last Pixelvärk event and all the equipment was packed up, Ilan and I took a cab to an industrial area on Lindholmen in the outskirts of Gothenburg where the party was located.

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February 13, 2010
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A report from Pixelvärk 2010

Pixelvärk 2010

I’ve had a week to come down from all the stress of arranging a festival. I thought I’d break down the festival as brief as possible in this blog post. Ok, well you know me, it won’t be THAT brief…

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February 03, 2010
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Nils Berg Cinemascope

Nils Berg Cinemascope

I was going to see this spectacle live at the Gothenburg Film Festival but spaced out after having two beers(!) and missed it. The concept was so awesome that I went straight home to google it. Nils Berg Cinemascope is a band that plays along with their favorite Youtube clips of people playing instruments.

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