The Unsworn Blog

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Grand Opening of Falsterbo Strandbad

2016-02-01

Falsterbo Strandbad opens its doors to the public Saturday 6 February.

Award winning Monsters?

2013-12-02

We are IxDA awards finalists for our work with Storsjöodjurscenter.

Tallinn Telecom Talk

2013-11-06

Unsworn talked to the Tallinn art crowd about sound in public spaces.

Prototyping Vladivostok

2013-10-23

Slow-walking in Far East Russia.

Megaphonebooth in Malmö Freakshow

2012-12-21

The Megaphonebooth was selected as one of the public artworks for the ambitious Freakshow exhibition to take place in Malmö during the summer of 2013.

Swedish Chronophone Launch Today

2012-03-23

”Record your message after the beep. You have one minute. In exactly one year we will call you back and replay your message.”

Innovation Day Skåne

2012-03-20

Hands-on facilitating the regional innovation strategi

Sonic Toddlers

2011-09-27

The right to voice, through music and music-making

Chronophone Stories

2011-06-01

How do you want to Chronophone today?

Reviving Thunderstruck Telemegaphone

2011-06-01

Telemegaphone Dale had a rough 2010. The windmill was hit by evil lightning and the pole was pushed by heavy snow. Erik and Magnus went back to Dale to oversee the installation of a new power system.

Rosengårdsstråket – Interaction Designed

2011-05-14

Connecting different parts of Malmö

IKON Bohus – Prototyping the Past

2011-04-16

During 2011 we will develop and try out new – pragmatic and extravagant – ways of visualising the history of the 700-year-old Bohus fortress.

Prototyping Cities for Children

2011-03-26

Panorama-workshopping proposals for child-friendly urban environments

Call Yourself – in the Future

2011-03-12

Chronophone is a new telephone service that allows people to call themselves – one year from now.

Unsworn Industries sent a massive delegation to Alnarp the other day. We lectured, workshopped and exhibited at the annual Movium conference, this year themed Life in the City". Some 200 people who work with "everything between the buildings", from landscape architects to cemetary caretakers, attended.

X-Ray Parascope Shows Hidden Energy Ecology

2010-12-20

Arlene Birt creates a behind-the-scenes panorama of the sustainable infrastructures of Västra hamnen

Online SMS-Embroideries

2010-11-04

Unsworn Web designed and produced www.mobilsyjunta.se – a crafty website for a series of ambulating SMS-embroidery sewing circles.

Big Screen Birdwatching

2010-09-05

Fowl-curious people gathered at the popular Unsworn Visuals-designed Social Birding tent at Falsterbo Bird Show this weekend.

Parascoping in Shanghai

2010-08-05

Parascoping at the Shanghai World Expo

Press Release: World’s First Megaphonebooth in Helsinki

2010-06-10

Megaphonebooth Kiasma-nurmi, a coin-operated megaphone station, is available for public use in the Kiasma lawn in central Helsinki. For one euro per minute anyone can speak into the handset and have their voice instantly amplified and projected into the local environment.

Sketching the City

2010-05-17

We're on our way back from Gothenburg, after four days of public city-prototyping workshops and urban planning conversations with the Ingrepp research group.

Megaphonebooth Helsinki Kiasma Exhibit

2010-04-07

A megaphonebooth is a public, coin-operated megaphone. Insert one euro, speak into the attached handset. Your voice is instantly amplified and projected into the local environment. Megaphonebooth Kiasma-nurmi will be available for public use from May 2010.

Helsinki Hot Lights

2010-03-27

Unsworn Research hotwires Helsinki's street lights to visualise the city's energy consumption.

Up, up, and away...

2010-03-25

One lucky Parascope is heading east for the World Expo in Shanghai.

Megaphonebooth Uudenmaankatu Sound Test

2010-03-23

Hello hello Uudenmaankatu. I am a Swedish scientist and I'm testing this new Megaphonebooth...

Megaphonebooth at the Ready

2010-03-04

Unsworn Telecom headed east to pick up the mighty Megaphonebooth at the metal workshop.

Lisa Wallin was Here

2010-02-11

For the past three months we've had the pleasure of having Lisa Wallin as our intern here at Unsworn HQ.

New Parascopes in Malmö during COP15

2009-12-15

Megaphonebooth Lisboa Workshop

2009-11-18

As part of the UM Festival, Unsworn Telecom hosted a workshop where we scouted and tested locations for a future Megaphonebooth Lisboa.

Desktop Olympics Maribor 2009

2009-10-15

On 21 May 2009, the world's first Desktop Olympic Games took place in Maribor, Slovenia. This premiere - carried out with due pomp and fanfare - was fuelled by the sweat from a 7-day, intensive, unsworn-academic interaction design workshop.

Pronto! Ophones in Basel

2009-10-10

In Basel, Unsworn Sound are poster-boys for the Pronto! On Telephony exhibition at friendly plug.in gallery.

Chris Noessel "Make it So - Learning from Scifi Interfaces" at Unsworn Academy

2009-09-07

What can we learn from science fictional interfaces?

Megaphonebooth Helsinki: Initial Scouting and Shouting

2009-09-03

Unsworn Telecom went to Helsinki to scout and test locations for a new, loud initiative: Megaphonebooth Helsinki.

Unbelivia Wins Ophoniste Grand Prix 2009

2009-08-22

Unbelivia wins glittery Ophoniste Grand Prix 2009.

Return of the Parascopes

2009-08-20

Three Parascopes are back in the streets of Malmö for the Malmö Festival and beyond.

Ophonestation Malmö

2009-08-16

Four Ophones are at your sonic service for a week at Spångatan in central Malmö.

Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers

2009-07-14

Bora Yoon in 2007 Pophorn action.

Jinetes de la Imagen 2007

2009-06-19

Remembering Colombian endeavours.

Behold THUTO!

2009-06-03

We just finished playing with mighty THUTO in Copenhagen.

Robocop in the Greens

2009-05-30

Why can't your average forest-walk be as exciting as the latest David Attenborough flick? Last week Unsworn Industries brought fuel to Region Skåne's workshop to fire up new ideas on technology-augmented nature experiences.

Telemegaphone Dale 4-Ever!

2009-05-09

Telemegaphone Dale will reopen August 3 as a permanent landmark and grandiose communications channel of Fjaler in western Norway.

How to Drive in Istanbul?

2009-05-07

In a two-day workshop at the PixelIST festival in Istanbul Erik (Unsworn) and Åsa (å+k and Malmö University) asked the participants: How to communicate, share, and distribute local knowledge in a digital and networked world?

55 Weeks of Gräng

2009-04-26

Unsworn Industries celebrated 55 weeks at their Norra Grängesbergsgatan HQ with pomp and pastries.

Imagine Potential Futures with Malmö’s New Parascopes

2009-04-12

What would daily life be like in a future Malmö with less cars? In an attempt to engage its citizens in a discussion on how to redesign the city to favour other means of transport, the City of Malmö collaborated with Unsworn Industries. They created three Parascopes – public viewers that show future panoramas based on citizen proposals.

Parascopes in Position

2009-01-14

Hot chocolate and possible futures at the Parascope premiere in Malmö tomorrow.

Percussive Pyrotechnics Party

2009-01-01

Unsworn Visuals provided a sparkling fireworks-drumkit for the New Year's party at Norra Grängesbergsgatan.

Daily Life with Telemegaphone Dale

2008-10-17

We went back to Dale to meet with the local villagers and authorities to learn what life with Telemegaphone Dale has been like.

Telemegaphone Hike

2008-10-17

Unsworn Telecom organised a public hike up to mount Bergskletten to discuss telemegaphonic issues and to officially close down Telemegaphone Dale for the winter.

Telemegaphone Birmingham?

2008-09-25

Telemegaphone Dale is no longer available. The test-run is over and the annual Dale deer hunt has begun. We're hopeful that we can turn the installation back on soon. In the meantime we have begun scouting for other nice locations for future telemegaphones.

The World Talks about Telemegaphone Dale

2008-09-24

The interest in Telemegaphone Dale has been simply overwhelming.

County Administrative Noise Buttons

2008-09-22

Unsworn Sound brought the noise to a new exhibition on urban and regional dilemmas.

Fruitful Flasheries

2008-09-19

Unsworn Academy is commended for an inspiring-yet-practical course on Interactive Flasheries.

Slapstick Premiere

2008-09-05

Unsworn Web redesigned slapsticky strip-site.

Telemegaphone Concerto

2008-09-04

Listen to Bora Yoon’s performance, live from Brooklyn via telephone at the Telemegaphone Dale opening ceremony.

Visualising a Malmö with Less Cars

2008-09-03

Last week the Unsworn Research studio was bustling with activity, as we workshopped with the City of Malmö on how to envision less car-oriented futures.

Pophorn Grand Prix 2008

2008-08-16

Battle for the Pophorn Grand Prix 2008 trophy at the Malmö Festival.

“Remote from what?” Telemegaphone Dale Opening Speech

2008-08-11

In her opening speech nkd-director Elísabet Gunnarsdottír celebrated the controversial aspects of Telemegaphone Dale and questioned preconceptions of periphery and creativity.

Telemegaphone Dale Opening Ceremony

2008-08-02

Telemegaphone Dale was inaugurated by the serene sounds of Bora Yoon.

Telemegaphonic Spree

2008-07-26

A short version of The Making of Telemegaphone Dale.

Til topps! Telemegaphone Dale Mounting Expedition

2008-06-30

Telemegaphone Dale is now in place on top of Bergskletten mountain. It was a tremendous collective carrying effort.

Herrgården Beatboxing

2008-06-19

Unsworn Industries joins Malmö New Media Living Lab and goes beatboxing with Pophorns in Rosengård.

From Business to Buttons and Ophones

2008-06-12

Moving Images with Unsworn Sound and TV-OUT visuals

2008-06-10

TV-OUT and Unsworn Industries bring live VJ-ing and loud Pophorning to the grand finale super-mingel of the Moving Images conference.

Academic Summer Holiday

2008-06-06

Unsworn Academy looks back at a busy spring of tutoring and workshopping at Malmö University.

Burmese Pixels at Aluma

2008-05-30

At Aluma in Malmö Erik exhibits 265 photos of Burmese tea captured this winter with a custom 1-Pixel Camera.

Energetic Roboticisms

2008-05-16

Unsworn Research develops ideas for energy aware, metallic creatures and meets an old friend at the Wanås opening.

Telemegaphone Awarded - Announcing Unsworn Telecom!

2008-05-03

Unsworn Industries is awarded funds for new Telecom division.

Instant Boomshakularic Gaffer Upholstery

2008-04-13

Our old chair has been up-cycled by means of black gaffer tape.

Intrepid Industrialisms

2008-04-01

Unsworn becomes Unsworn Industries and moves to a new studio.

Rent-a-Tourist in the Press

2008-03-16

Erik’s days as a tourist-for-rent in Rome and in rural Estonia are featured in El Periódico de Catalunya.

Pophorns and Burmese Reflections at Pixelache

2008-03-15

Erik flies to Pixelache in Helsinki to present Pophorns at Saturday’s Open Forum and to talk about Burma at Sunday’s Signals from the South seminar.

Desktop Olympics at K3

2008-03-07

Extreme Keyboarding and Icon Hockey at the first ever Desktop Olympics workshop for design students at Malmö University.

Pitching Pophorns at SIME Innovation Day

2008-02-07

Unsworn Industries is invited to the pitching frenzy at SIME Innovation Day.

Rag-Tagging in Stockholm

2008-02-06

Magnus gets his hands dirty at the Rag-Tag workshop. He’ll also present UNSWORN endeavours at a public seminar in February as part of the Node.Stockholm festival.

Pophorning in Burma

2008-02-04

Corduroid goes east.

Time is in the Air

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.

VJ-Workshopping in Yangon

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 projectors) allowing Erik to host an introduction to VJing one early, electric morning in a private apartment in Yangon suburbia.

Presenting the Unfinished in Burma

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.

Televised Ophonism

2007-12-02

At home with Unsworn; domestic Ophone fiddling on Swedish Television.

Erik Resides in Myanmar

2007-11-15

Kindly invited by NICA, Erik and Åsa stay a few months in Myanmar as Artists in Residence.

Pophorns - Now with Faces!

2007-11-14

Know your Pophorns.

Ink and Air

2007-09-25

Media pays attention to the Pophorns.

Pophorn Goes Full-Pull

2007-09-08

Birthday-Erik and Kräftskive-Magnus hunting Pophorn Alpha-testers at the Full-Pull festival in Malmö.

Four Ophones at PLEX in Copenhagen

2007-08-30

The Four Ophones will rock the opening of Lobbyen 2.0 at PLEX Music Theatre in Copenhagen.

Poppet VJ

2007-08-15

Sludge-miming Pophorn prototypes.

Bora Yoon Straps Ophonines at NYC Concert

2007-08-02

Ophonine hit the big stages in the hands of our favourite New York multi-instrumentalist.

Pophorns Awarded in Stockholm

2007-06-18

Two proud UNSWORN Pophornists were awarded the Bjarne Nyquists Minnesfond scholarship at a sunny ceremony in Stockholm this weekend. Swedish soul hero Eric Gadd handed over the big diplomas after a brief Ophonine freestyle session.

Erik Does Dale Residency

2007-05-06

Erik has been awarded a three month Artist-in-Residence grant at the Nordic Artists’ Centre in Dale, Norway. Overlooking fancy fjords he is hard at work with Pophorns, legal prosthetics and lo-fi socialities.

TV-OUT vs Tallponies at Debaser

2007-05-04

Erik’s VJ-battles Magnus’ Tallponies at the premiere of the new Swim Fast Club at the inauguration of Debaser Malmö.

Ophonine Pophorn Colombian Tour

2007-04-10

Ophonine Pophorn premieres in Medellín and Bogotá.

Colombian Party Laboratories

2007-03-20

In early 2007 Unsworn representative Erik Sandelin packed his Beginners’ Spanish Dictionary and went to Bogotá and Medellín to participate in two “urban laboratories”. Dancing lab-rats and lots of queso.

Sounds, Camera, Interaction!

2007-02-27

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.

Would You Like to Participate?

2007-02-03

Bleak participatory doodle featured by Turtle in Germany.

Ophonine Pophorn Demo

2007-01-30

The first Ophonine Pophorn prototype is ready for Colombian action!

Legal Prosthetics Workshop

2007-01-25

Could you live on a parking lot if you were a car?

Erik Interviewed by Malmö University

2007-01-09

A short interview (in Swedish) with Erik is now available.

Personal Technologies Exhibition at K3

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!

Fashion+Technology Workshopping in Malmö

2006-12-04

Unsworn lectured on post-optimal attire and instigated story-catalyst workshopping at the new Fashion+Technology course at K3, Malmö University.

Grand Ophonic New York Tour

2006-11-18

After two years of conquering world metropolises such as Tokyo, Paris and Brösarp the Four Ophones finally got their North American Breakthrough!

In the City, the Ballets

2006-09-14

Unsworn Mass Choreographers hosted a workshop at K3 in Malmö for 140 students.

Ophoniste Grand Prix 2006

2006-09-05

Pontus Stalin won the Ophoniste Grand Prix 2006, hosted by Unsworn at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Congrats!

Orgsmobile in Paris

2006-04-23

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.

Quatre Ophones en Paris

2006-04-23

Paris fell in love with the Four Ophones at the Mal au Pixel festival

Open Source Hardware Seminar in Helsinki

2006-03-31

Sweet seminar on Open Source Hardware and Products at Kiasma in Helsinki.

Rumble VJ-ing

2006-03-04

Unsworn-Sandelin and Laika-Kurtsson VJ:ed at The Rumble in Malmö to the happy stomping of Rex the Dog and miscellaneous hiphop-derived sounds.

Action Space Boxing

2006-02-06

Unsworn Inspirators/Perspirators instigated action space-workshopping at the IT-University in Gothenburg.

Okinawa vs Øresund

2005-11-12

Erik and Åsa Ståhl (with Wanakio and Full Pull 05) arranged the first Okinawa vs öresund Plockepinn/Mikado match.

Vargön Symphophony

2005-10-31

If you tuned into Swedish Television’s Kunskapskanalen at 1930 hours you got some Symphophony action.

Prix Europa Shortlist

2005-09-01

Unsworn Flash Fiddlers’ Ophonist Orchestra is nominated for Prix Europa.

Play it Again, Again

2005-05-20

The kids wept when we disassembled the Ophones at Play it Again, the sequel, in Helsingborg.

Ophoniste Grand Prix 2005

2005-05-13

The world’s first Ophoniste Grand Prix took place at Rooseum in Malmö.

Under the Banner of Design

2005-04-27

In the new issue of Venue Magazine, Unsworn Letterists writes wisely (in Swedish) on the ups and downs of struggling Under the Banner of Design.

Pixelache Presence

2005-04-14

Unsworn appeared at the Pixelache 2005 festival in Helsinki with oh-oh-ophones, super-seminars and precious publications.

Nokia Insight Talk

2005-04-13

Unsworn Orators talked to, and power-pointed at, Nokia Insight & Foresight at Kiasma in Helsinki.

Interactivity Is the New Pink

2005-04-10

We wrote something about the disappearance of the word interactive.

Paper Mill Pep Talk

2005-04-06

Unsworn Entertainers spoke at the Braviken paper mill. Engineers only.

Doors in Delhi

2005-03-21

An Unsworn representative was hit by a holy cow when attending a VJ workshop at the Doors of Perception conference in New Delhi.

Art’s Birthday Ophones

2005-01-16

Unsworn brought the Ophones to Stockholm to celebrate Art’s 1 000 042nd Birthday Party at Konstfack in Stockholm.

Well, Well, Well

2005-01-11

Unsworn executed two rapid workshops at Art & Communication, Malmö University. Corrugated cardboard engineering and elevator pitching was on the menu.

Homely Sound Installations

2004-11-25

Habitant was three nights of sound installations in private apartments in Malmö. Erik contributed with sounds, curating and cable-crafting.

Daikanyama Ophones

2004-10-12

The next stop on the Four Ophones Tokyo tour is a six day exhibition at Q Flagship Store in Daikanyama. Don’t miss out on the in the evening of October 13!

Four Ophones in Tokyo

2004-10-10

The Four Ophones rocked the Swedish Style Sunday Night party at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo.

Local Teachings

2004-09-21

Unsworn spoke at the i&d interaction design seminar in Malmö, and lectured and workshopped with the HCI Design master students at Lund University.

Digital Tattoos at ISEA

2004-08-16

In collaboration with Swedish national radio Unsworn set up an ambulating digital tattoo service on the ISEA2004 ferry between Stockholm and Tallinn.

Postsovkhoz Interventions

2004-08-15

During his stay in Mooste, Estonia, Erik offered services to the locals, fiddled with people's things, and initiated a human snowball.

Featured on Flipper

2004-08-14

Unsworn appeared at Swedish Radio's culture show Flipper, talking eloquently about power-monks and post-optimal stuff.

Science Friction in Boston

2004-08-03

Unsworn went to Boston to man the panel Science Friction on fashion and technology at DIS2004.

Four Ophones Premiere

2004-07-01

Unsworn Mechanics presented Four Ophones – an interactive sound installation for the Play it Again exhibition at NEON Gallery in Brösarp.

Heavy Data

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.

Miscalculator Exhibit

2004-05-18

The Miscalculator is featured in the java-museum exhibition of netart from Northern Europe.

Horologist Desires

2004-04-26

Unsworn-Magnus and Desearch & Revelopment-Livia hosted the Horologist Desires workshop on interactivity, desire and time at K3, Malmö University.

Tape Salads

2004-04-14

Unsworn found-sound connoisseurs teamed up with Åsa Ståhl to create interactive tape salads for Swedish national radio.

Hello Hawthorne

2004-03-09

Unsworn visited IBM Research in Hawthorne, NY for an informal knowledge exchange session with their Social Computing Lab.

ITP Talk and Workshop

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.

Gothenburg Tea Party

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.