The awesome season of 2011 is now over. But the wheels and tubes of the old warehouse are are still grinding as we have already started prepping for season 2012. Wanna join the planning? Get in touch on info@platform4.dk
The Platform4 community is working hard behind the scenes to prepare the 2012 season. Wanna be a part of that? Send an email to info@platform4.dk and let us know.
With Platform4 in winter hibernation, the administration staff and the community is working tirelessly - not only to prepare the coming season, but also on condensing and visualizing the ideological bedrock that the Platform4 project is based on. Ironically, this has never been done before, because we've been to busy inviting people inside, creating projects and building robots!
During the first weeks of January, we've been working on a vision statement. Come peak inside the churning machine to get a glimpse of this process.
With more than 30 submitted projects, about 200 people visiting the exhibition in two days, more than 400 attending the Award Show and coverage in local television, radio and newspapers the Platform4 Awards showed it's relevance, opened Platform4 and the creative environment surrounding it to a lot people and created a fundament for network and inspiration.
At the grand Platform4 Awards show the prizes and honor went to two magnificent projects; the People's Choice-award, selected via SMS-vote among the audience, went to the TS Collective for the 'Wolfram'-installation - and the Platform4 Award of 10,000 Danish Kroner, as chosen by the official award jury, to Edit Vizer's 'InsideOut Vol. II'. Big congrats to the talents creators! And a big thanks to all the participating projects.
FAT Labs activist Jerry Juarez came back to Platform4 to host the soft-circuit workshop 'FAT CRIER', where participants learned how to have open hard- and software interact with audio units through the use of conductive thread.
PLATFORM4-IN-A-BOX was Platform4's first fully self-curated exhibition featuring 7 art/tech installations made by local talents, who worked over the course of the last year to build an art piece to be exhibited at the official showcase in August 2011. See/read documentation and afterthought here.
Platform4 and a handful of graffiti painters did a fun experiment painting an old 1994 Ford Escort on October 8, 2011. It was a live performance art piece in conjunction with the P4 Cafe. Beers, music, friends and art made for a super hyggelig night. Check out the results in the short video here.
Right outside the building is the beautiful Platform4 street art gallery, curated entirely and autonomously by the various street communities. Alrune Rødder has done an awesome little video featuring artist themselves (Smelt Mig & Hands Off) & Lars Pank.
This last weekend FormuLab was full of talented aspiring computer game creators during the Indie9000 Game Jam 2011 session that was held by the Indie9000 crew in collaboration with Shareplay and DreamGames. Lots of great gaming ideas took shape and friendships were made. Check out the video summary and photo galleries here.
