2008-08-02 - 2008-09-06 The Telegmegaphone Dale is open for anyone to call, and have their voice projected across the mountains, fjords and the village of Dale in Norway. Bora Yoon performs at the opening ceremony at nkd.
2008-06-12 - 2008-06-13Four Ophones offers the attendees of the From Business To Buttons interaction design conference a loud, looping break from long lectures, salty seminars and winding workshops.
2008-06-10TV-OUT and Unsworn Industries bring live VJ-ing and loud Pophorning to the grand finale super-mingel of the Moving Images conference.
2008-05-30 - 2008-06-19 At Aluma in Malmö Erik exhibits 265 photos of Burmese tea captured this winter with a custom 1-Pixel Camera. Also check out the latest issue of the Aluma street paper for an article by Åsa Ståhl with art by Erik.
2008-06-06 Unsworn Academy takes a well-deserved summer break after a busy spring semester of workshopping, tutoring and reviewing at the Interaction Design, Communication Design and Fashion & Technology programs at K3, Malmö University.
2008-04-01 New fancy studio for Unsworn's grand industrial plans, new inspiring neighbours, new possibilities for loud interior desecrations. Welcome!
2008-03-07 Extreme Keyboarding and Icon Hockey at the first ever Desktop Olympics workshop for design students at Malmö University.
2008-02-07 UNSWORN Industries is invited to the pitching frenzy at SIME Innovation Day in Stockholm. Magnus will seek Pophorn partners and also further the UNSWORN Mobile Action collaboration with a major Swedish music act.
2008-02-06 - 2008-02-09 Magnus gets his hands dirty at the Rag-Tag workshop. He'll also present UNSWORN endeavours at a public seminar on February as part of the Node.Stockholm festival.
2008-01-27 Erik and Åsa end an amazing 10-week residency in Burma by co-organising a four hour event in a private space in north Yangon featuring interactive stamp art, sonic paper-people, proud poetry recitals, numerous 1-pixel photos and a fresh tape-salad performance.
2008-01-13 An amazingly dedicated clique of DJs and artists made it possible to overcome local challenges (no club culture, no reliable electricity, no readily available video prjectors) allowing Erik to host an introduction to VJing one early, electric morning in a private apartment in Yangon suburbia. (This is truly a land of Power Pilgrims!)
2007-12-15 With Åsa Ståhl Erik hosts semi-public salons called Unfinished Art: Sounds, Interactions, Surprises at the Youth Art Group space in Yangon and at Panthu Sanda Art Centre in Mandalay.
2007-09-08 Birthday-Erik and Kräftskive-Magnus hunting Pophorn Alpha-testers at the Full-Pull festival in Malmö.
2007-08-30 - 2007-09-29 The Four Ophones will rock the opening of Lobbyen 2.0 at PLEX Music Theatre in Copenhagen. Make party-loops at the opening the 30th or drop by later for a more private sonic session.
2007-07-26 UNSWORN provides Pophorn-powered phones for Bora Yoon's "multiphonic evening of sonic architecture" at Lincoln Center, New York City. Fully booked, but soon you'll be able to pop your own horn...
2007-06-15 UNSWORN Pophornists is awarded Bjarne Nyquists minnesfond at a sunny ceremony i Stockholm. Swedish soul hero Eric Gadd hands over the big diplomas.
2007-05-06 - 2007-07-29 Erik has been awarded a three month Artist-in-Residence grant at the Nordic Artists' Centre in Dale, Norway. Overlooking fancy fjords works hard with Pophorns, legal prosthetics and lo-fi socialities.
2007-04-11 Chief Pixelazoist Pata de Perro put together some clips with fresh Pophorn action from downtown Medellín.
2007-04-03 - 2007-04-05 Erik and Andreas, aka TV-OUT, will host a three-day VJ-workshop at the course in Stage Design at K3 in Malmö. TV-OUT ventures into academia...
2007-03-29 - 2007-04-01 TV-OUT will gig twice at the Pixelache festival in Helsinki: Thursday at a megalomanic VJ-jam in the Kiasma art museum and Sunday with sonic sensations VerhaverbekeWiderberg at the Koko Teatteri.
2007-02-27 - 2007-03-01 Unsworn-Erik and Åsa Ståhl host a three day, quick and dirty, audiovisual interactive installation workshop in the outskirts of Medellín, ending in a big street party on March 2. After this, Medellín will be properly warmed-up the Pixelazo festival that happens in June.
2007-02-17 - 2007-02-22 World exclusive public sneak-peak premiers in Bogotá for the Unsworn Ophonine Pophorn - a musical sensation for your mobile phone! The action is in Parque de los Periodistas and in Museo de Artes at the Universidad National. Check the Bogotrax program for address info.
2007-02-15 - 2007-02-24 At least 50% of TV-OUT will show his VJ skills at the Bogotrax festival in Bogotá, Colombia. "Laboratorio Urbano" says the poster meaning 10 nights with at least one party each - and TV-OUT will VJ at three of them. 1, 2, 3, techno!
2007-02-03 - 2007-02-25 Sometimes Erik is fed up with the abundance of "participatory" projects popping up everywhere without accepting any real responsibility of their invitations. Feels like this. Now featured at Turtle in Düsseldorf.
2007-02-05 - 2007-02-12 Half of Unsworn returns to K3 to host one week of fine electronic fasion education. Video scenarios and Legal Prosthetics are on the schecule.
2007-01-25 Erik is invited by the fabulous Björn W to orate on Action Spaces and instigate Legal Prosthetics workshopping at K3, Malmö University.
2007-01-17 Our favourite VJs TV-OUT have been invited by Swedish Radio to celebrate Art's 1000042nd Birthday Party at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The event will be broadcasted live throughout most of Europe.
2007-01-09 A short interview (in Swedish) with Erik (featuring a fabulous photo of the protagonist in the Kingdom of Org) is now available.
2006-12-22 Since October Erik has been lecturing and tutoring the second year Interaction Design students in Physical Computing. This is their grande finale. Welcome!
2006-12-04 Unsworn lectured on post-optimal attire and instigate story-catalyst workshopping at the new Fashion+Technology course at K3, Malmö University. Thanks to fashion renegade Otto von Busch for the invitation. At the final Kafferep we also had a surprise celebrity visit from Ryan and Francesca of CuteCircuit fame. Bene bene!
2006-11-18 - 2006-11-22 After two years of conquering world metropolises such as Tokyo, Paris and Brösarp the Four Ophones finally got their North American Breakthrough! Unsworn and curator Elna Svenle organised The Four Ophones New York Tour 2006 - a series of loopaholic events ranging from squirrel scaring in Central Park to the crowning of this year's American Ophoniste Idol. (We agree with Monkey Town-Montgomery: "It was a beautiful, beautiful night.")
2006-11-23TV-OUT equals the VJ-adventures of Unsworn-Erik and Andreas Kurtsson aka All Spec Kit. Unfortunately, Black Dice cancelled their Pink Flag gig and Inkonst ran out of alcohol. Stay tuned for hi-profile, lo-res visuals from Sorgenfri's finest clip-crafters...
2006-09-14 - 2006-09-15 Unsworn Mass Choreographers hosted a workshop at K3 in Malmö for 140 students: In the City, the Ballets. The new buzzword is Crowd-Centered Design.
2006-09-05: Pontus Stalin won the Ophoniste Grand Prix 2006, hosted by Unsworn at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Congrats!
2006-06-05: Unsworn was invited by Sony Ericsson to participate in a workshop for generating new mobile sound concepts.
2006-05-09: Two Unswornalists orated on Identity and Personal Expression at K3 in Malmö.
2006-04-15 - 2004-04-23: The Orgsmobile Paris crew, with mechanics from Unsworn, New Beginings and Hidden, conducted automotive experiments and showcased some initial efforts of the Orgsmobile collaboration at Mains d'Oeuvres. No pixels were hurt in the making.
2006-03-31: Sweet seminar on Open Source Hardware and Products at Kiasma in Helsinki; Orgsmobile was there, talking to TileToy and Thinglink. Organised by the amazing PikseliÄHKY crew.
2006-03-04: Unsworn-Sandelin and Laika-Kurtsson VJ:ed at The Rumble in Malmö to the happy stomping of Rex the Dog + misc hiphop-derivated sounds.
2006-02-06: Unsworn Inspirators/Perspirators instigated action space-worksopping at the IT-University in Gothenburg.
2005-10-05: Unsworn Automotive Curators proudly announce the The Orgsmobile Showroom at Mal au Pixel 2006. Forget Paris-Dakar, in 2006 we're talking Paris-DotOrgCar!
2005-10-31: If you tuned into Swedish Television's Kunskapskanalen at 1930 hours you got some Symphophony action.
2005-01-16: Unsworn brought the Ophones to Stockholm to celebrate Art's 1 000 042NDBirthday Party at Konstfack in Stockholm.
2005-01-11 - 2005-01-13: Well, well, well. Unsworn executed two rapid workshops at Art & Communication, Malmö University. Corrugated cardboard engineering and elevator pitching was on the menu.
2004-11-25 - 2004-11-27:Habitant was three nights of sound installations in private apartments in Malmö. Erik contributed with sounds and cable-crafting.
2004-10-12 - 2004-10-18: The next stop on the Four Ophones Tokyo tour is a six day exhibition at Q Flagship in Daikanyama. Don't miss out on the opening party in the evening of October 13!
2004-10-10: The Four Ophones rocked the Swedish Style Sunday Night party at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo.
2004-09-21 - 2004-09-27: Unsworn spoke at the i&d interaction design seminar in Malmö, and lectured and workshopped with the HCI Design master students at Lund University.
2004-07-01 - 2004-08-30: Unsworn mechanics presented
Four
Ophones - an interactive sound installation for the Play it Again exhibition
at Neon
Gallery in Brösarp.
2004-08-16: In collaboration with Swedish national radio Unsworn set up an ambulating digital tattoo service on the ISEA2004 ferry between Stockholm and Talinn.
2004-08-06 - 2004-08-15: During his stay in Mooste,
Estonia, Erik offered his services
to the locals, fiddled
with people's things, and intitiated a human
snowball.
2004-08-14: Unsworn appeared at Swedish Radio's culture show Flipper, talking eloquently about power-monks and post-optimal stuff. Hey, they even played some of our music!
2004-05-18: The
Miscalculator featured in the java-museum exhibition of netart from
Northern Europe.
2004-04-27 - 2004-05-27: Erik spent May in Helsinki
as Hostel
Artist in Residence. He learnt how to knit, how to use a hammer drill, and
how to make Brick
Memories for his friends.
2004-03-15 - 2003-04-26: Unsworn-Magnus and Desearch
& Revelopment-Livia hosted the Horologist Desires workshop on interactivity,
desire and time at K3, Malmö University.
2004-01-27 - 2004-03-22:Digital
Peacock Tails exhibited at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde,
Denmark.
2004-03-09: Unsworn visited IBM Research in Hawthorne, NY for an informal knowledge exchange session with their Social Computing Lab.
2004-03-05: Unsworn went to New York City to
talk on Post-Optimal Attire at ITP, New York University. We also ran a workhop on personal technologies as story-catalysts, attended by students from ITP and Parsons School of Design.
2004-02-04: Unsworn ran a half-day workshop
on personal technologies, post-optimal attire and experience space design
at the Interaction
Design master program of Chalmers University of Technology/ Gothenburg
University.
2003-10-09: Unsworn manned a chair in the external
reference group for the HCI/Design final presentations. Lund University
2003-08-24: Unsworn ran a two week workshop
called Dressed for
Dependence at K3, Malmö University; as part of the Desearch & Revelopment
group
2003-09-17: Unsworn ran a two day course in
interventionist probotyping and post-optimal attire at the HCI/Design program,
Informatics, Lund University
2003-09-01 - 2003-09-14: Unsworn-Erik went to
the two week Convivio Interaction Design Summer School in Rome and all he
got was this lousy Tour-Shirt.
