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Highlights from Trailerpark I/O, Copenhagen’s Tech, Music and Art Festival

Last Thursday marked the opening of the 10th annual Trailer Park Festival showcasing the the best of emerging music, art and technology against the backdrop of Copenhagen’s indoor skatepark. Last year, the Trailer Park team took the leap to reshape the festival’s program not only around the incredible music line-up and art installations but incorporating technology into the event by way of Trailer Park I/O. 

I/O flourished in its second year—drawing dozens of creative presenters to show their work over the course of the day. Head of Trailer Park I/O Kaave Pour opened the event discussing the 5 themes I/O would be tackling: The Spying Society, Virtual Worlds, Conversational Interfaces, Computational Creativity and Responsive Materials. 

Run by Peter Valkanoff included in 15Folds collection

The themes unfolded through talks, labs, installations and exhibitions with highlights including a presentation by founders of the animated gif art gallery 15Folds, Margot Bowman and Sean Frank Johnson. Bowman and Johnson detailed their path to creating and curating the online gallery and showed a selection of their favorite gifs that exemplified the art form. 

On the other end of the spectrum, Paris-based Studio Appropriate Audiences showcased their 3D printing Tattoo machine ‘Tatoué. The machine—consisting of a hacked makerbot has gone through several iterations since the beginning of the project in 2014. The machine, which sits squarely between ingenious and grimace-inducing has gained so much attention over the last months that the team has released a guide on how to hack any 3D printer to create your own tattoo machine. 

From the VICE-curated film selection on one stage to the morning interactive labs - Trailer Park I/O showcased a true excitement and sense of humor about the technologies of today - and tomorrow.

For more on Trailer Park and Trailer Park I/O visit their website. 

Trailer Park I/O

Now it it’s 10th and final year, Trailer Park takes over Copenhagen Indoor Skatepark

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Ascetic Aesthetic - Leila Byron, Charlie Gedeon, Nicolas Armand and Monika Seyfried of CIID

Ascetic Aesthetic explores not only how AI in the home will adapt to our lifestyles but how we will be forced to adapt to it. The team for CIID looks to spark discussion around the possible futures within AI with their suite of speculative objects.

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Circular Product Development Lab with KPH Projects, Creature and Incita

The Circular Product Development Lab challenged attendees to create new usable products from trash, leftover materials and junk. Participants showed off a number of new uses for old bicycle parts, scrap metal and more during their show-and-tell session.

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Circular Product Development Lab with KPH Projects, Creature and Incita

The Circular Product Development Lab challenged attendees to create new usable products from trash, leftover materials and junk. Participants showed off a number of new uses for old bicycle parts, scrap metal and more during their show-and-tell session.

Photo credit: Teshia Treuhaft

Circular Product Development Lab with KPH Projects, Creature and Incita

The Circular Product Development Lab challenged attendees to create new usable products from trash, leftover materials and junk. Participants showed off a number of new uses for old bicycle parts, scrap metal and more during their show-and-tell session.

Photo credit: Teshia Treuhaft

Trailer Park I/O

Attendees gathered for the first talks on the main stage nestled between two half-pipes in the center of Copenhagen’s indoor skate park.

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Developing Wearable LED’s Lab with FabLab RUC

FabLab RUC guides attendees through the core elements of developing wearable devices.

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Drone Graffiti by Jesper Vega

Drone Graffiti is not your typical drone used for war or delivering Amazon packages - it has been fitted with an open source solution to be used for graffiti as an extension of the artist.

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PyroGraph

PyroGraph by Bjørn Karmann, Lars Kaltenbach & Nicolas Armand of CIID is a large-scale plotter that uses a soldering iron to burn images pixel by pixel into paper. The machine was inspired by traditional thermal printers used for shop receipts.

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Image of the Future

Image of the Future allows two people to communicate through the creation of a single artwork. The machine releases droplets of paint onto soapy water to create a marbling technique which is then transferred to paper.

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