Konst & Teknik

Blog: ℂ◉℗⒴ ℘ⓐṨͲℰ Ⓒℌ◭ℝ◬ℂ⒯℮ℛ

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:42:20 +0000

On a rainy October night, Konst & Teknik & (mainly) Martin finally added the last pieces of code and together hit the deploy-button (over iChat screen sharing) of the long awaited, too long taken, new version of CopyPasteCharacter.com — the one website for copying and pasting all those characters we never knew where to find in the computer.

Here is a rundown of all the new features:

Tons of new characters; from ~100 on the old version, to 3894 on the new one!
Because of ⇧, we have introduced a new feature: sets. In nine carefully sorted — and one messier — categories, the characters can easily be found and copied.
An option to sign up for an account, or use Facebook to sign in, to save and edit your own character sets, for easy access of the letters and symbols most often needed.
Easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere, using the new, shorter URL char.nu.
A handy resize bar in the bottom right corner of the site.

More new features and sets will be added over the coming months.

We will host a small release party and presentation in Stockholm at some point over the coming weeks; keep an eye on our Twitter feed and/or newsletter for further info.

❀ www.copypastecharacter.com ❃

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We truly hope and believe that this is the last update on this old website of ours… in fact, we won’t do another update here even if it takes us years finishing the new one. So see you on our new, shiny — and probably quite awesome — website over the coming months.

PℰƮ⊏☈ & ♏⏏✞ⓣ▒ª$

Blog: Summer 2011!

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:40:41 +0000

After a nice and interesting spring working on a few really nice projects, we are off on a summer break, enjoying the few weeks of sunshine we (hopefully) get here in the north. This fall it’s also five years since we started the studio (!), something that askes for a bit of contemplation over the summer. But before we go, we would like to share a few links, images and snippets of text:

Over the last couple of months we’ve had the privilege to work on a catalogue together with and for super cool artist Fia Backström and her participation in the Scandinavian pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Fias work is titled Borderless Bastards (multi-culti abc) and consists of ten sculptures spread out over the Giardini, an audio guide and the catalogue, all dealing with nationality and national representation. The catalogue naturally features the lion of Gripsholms slott on the cover (stuffed by a taxidermist who had never seen a lion in 1731) and is published by Moderna Museet and Sternberg Press. It can be ordered here, and a few spreads can be seen here. The exhibition shows all the way until November, so don’t miss out if in the area.

And, and, and, and, and, and & and:

We just got our hands on the first copies of R U International?, a report we designed for Riksutställningar, printed and published by Publit. We don’t know how or even if it’s possible to order the printed books, but there should be a digital version published on Issuu pretty soon...
The new, fifth, book in the Excerpt series, Konsten att handla – konsten att tänka: Hannah Arendt om det politiska edited by Ulrika Björk and Anders Burman, features the typeface Extencil by Göran Söderström for its cover typography and will be published by AXL Books later this summer.
A new book, still a bit secret, published on our Andperseand publisher is at the printers’ too! More about that in September.
Here is a little video we made when asked to make a 5 minute presentation of ourselves for AIGA Chicagos International Small Talk series a while back:
We collaborated with artist Tris Vonna-Michell on a stereogram print for the exhibition Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Taro, on show between 4 July to 27 August 2011 at Focal Point Gallery in South Essex, the UK.
Last but not least, we (well, actually Martin) are putting the last pieces of code into the new, updated version of our Copypastecharacter.com website, to be launched over the coming weeks. Keep an eye on it or its Twitter feed to find out the latest news on that.
Speaking of Martin, here’s a tote bag we designed for his WWDC visit a few weeks back, featuring 26 abbreviations of programming related... things... we have no idea what most of them mean, and the original WWW logotype turned upside down:

Have a great summer!
Peter & Mattias

Ps. We have an intern position open from September 1st and for 2–4 months; drop us an email with the subject ‘Praktikant september 2011’ if interested.

Blog: 4×8/2

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:34:39 +0000

It's been a very busy start of 2011 and we already have no less than 4 projects debuting today...!

We Have the Technology is a project initiated by our long term collaborator, the awesome New York based curator Laurel Ptak, and is a residency program and platform for communication, research, and knowledge production online. We have been involved in the project for almost a year, and finally some things start to take shape... a simple website is online but way more is to come — don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter and be notified when the complete site is launched:

www.wehavethetechnology.org

48 timmar (Konsten att hålla öppet), a 48 hour workshop starting today at the Museum of Architecture in Stockholm;

‘Fifty invited practitioners and critics in the fields of architecture, crafts and design, transform the museum into a 48-hour workshop and forum for investigations and discussions of the contemporary roles of professional practices and institutions. 48 Hours: A museum about a museum inside a museum.’

The workshop takes place during the same week as the Stockholm Furniture Fair and is part of a seven week program titled Arkitekturmuseet Live. We have designed the website and identity for 48 timmar, based on a paper version of the commonly used ‘kioskflagga’ (kiosk flag). The kiosk flag is a sort of flag that more or less every small tobacco store uses to show that they are open (‘öppet’) for business — and a flag that actually looks more like an icon of a flag with its slanted top, rather than a ‘normal’ flag. Our flags — made out of paper but using the original plastic poles — are partially used as signage system for the workshop and partially as a way for the participants (both invited and the audience) to interact and inform on what is going on in the space. The plastic poles are mounted on a wood contruction designed by splendid furniture designer Fredrik Paulsen. All info can be found at www.arkitekturmuseetlive.se/48t and all the lectures and events have been added to www.showandtell.se. Don’t miss out if in Stockholm this week!

The very same Fredrik brings us to the next project; A folded down poster, showing many of his projects, designed for his booth (V01:19) at the Stockholm Furniture Fair that opens today! The poster also functions as a wallpaper for the booth and contains more or less no text at all (we know, we can’t believe it either) — and can be picked up for free at the fair.

And yet another project can be found at the fair; a catalogue for Småland based lighting manufacturer Örsjö Belysning, that we designed a few months back. As we don’t have any proper photos of it, we encourage everyone to check it out at the fair instead, as it looks quite stunning... Örsjö can be found at booth A07:21.

All these projects and everything else we’ve been busy with the last year will of course be shown and explained better on our new — soon to be launched — website, featuring so—much—new—stuff—! Sign up for our newsletter to find out when that happens.

Blog: FREE KEVIN

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:52:44 +0000

December 5th, 11:30–24:00
@ Rutger Fuchsgatan 9 in Stockholm

Welcome to the 12 hour film screening FREE KEVIN

Curated by Pirateturk, organized by Laurel Ptak and hosted by Konst & Teknik & Martin

FREE KEVIN is an ongoing and roving screening series from a collection of 15.4 GB of downloaded films and documentaries depicting hackers and related computer culture from the 1980s–2000s. A range of material including blockbuster films, educational television programming, and documentaries produced within the hacking community will be presented in various cities worldwide over the next year in order to stimulate dialogue around issues of intellectual property and open culture.

The title FREE KEVIN is an appropriated slogan that was originally used by the hacker community in the 1990s to protest the arrest of Kevin Mitnick, a legendary hacker who at the time was the most wanted computer criminal in United States history. Mitnick’s story is of interest (and depicted in several films in the screening series) for its fascinating particularities concerning hacker culture, intellectual property, and media representation historically, but at the same time it also functions as a contemporary symbol. If anything, the struggle over intellectual property has only intensified in the last decade and FREE KEVIN can be read as the embodiment of resistance in an ongoing struggle for rights and freedoms from corporate and state control in an information age and economy.

PROGRAM

11:30 — Doors open

12:00 — INTRODUCTION BY LAUREL PTAK (OVER SKYPE) (0:08)
WARRIORS OF THE NET, 1999 (0:12)

12:20 — PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY, 1999 (1:36)
A 1999 film based on the book ‘Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer’ by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. It [...] documents the rise of the home computer (personal computer) through the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft.

14:00 — THE HISTORY OF HACKING, 2006 (0:50)
A quality documentary about hacking from the 1960s to date. Takes a historical approach, looking at the role of the hacker during this time.

15:00 — ANTITRUST, 1:49 (2001)
Antitrust portrays young idealistic programmers and a large corporation (NURV) that offers significant money, a low-keyed working environment, and creative opportunities for those talented programmers willing to work for them. The charismatic CEO of NURV seems to be good natured, but recent employee and protagonist Milo Hoffman begins to unravel the terrible hidden truth of NURV’s operation.

16:55 — FREEDOM DOWNTIME (ABOUT KEVIN MITNICK) (2:01) 2001
Freedom Downtime is a 2001 documentary film sympathetic to the convicted computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, directed by Emmanuel Goldstein and produced by 2600 Films.

19:00 — WAR GAMES, 1983 (1:48)
The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game. The simulation causes a national nuclear missile scare and nearly starts World War III.

21:00 — OUTLAWS & ANGELS, 2002 (0:49)
Documentary about the current issues surrounding Hackers/Crackers! What is Illegal should be called Crackers not Hackers!!

22:00 — HACKERS, 1995 (1:45)
Hackers is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Renoly Santiago and Matthew Lillard. The film follows the exploits of a group of gifted high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy.

All descriptions downloaded from Wikipedia and Google Video

Bring your own device and headphones (optional)!

All 29 films from the Pirateturk created torrent file — including the ones not beamed — will be streamed to Macs/iPads/iPods/iPhones over WiFi during the event. Bring your own device and headphones and hang out in a corner with your film of choice!
The complete list of films can be found at www.freekevin.info

Good to know

Drinks and (junk) food will be for sale (cash only)

Limited amount of seats (first come, first served)

You will have to take off your shoes because of sensitive carpets (!) — but indoor shoes can of course be brought

Feel free to come and go as you please

Extra thanks to Daniel Eskils

FREE KEVIN

When:
Sunday December 5th 2010, 11:30–24:00

Where:
Rutger Fuchsgatan 9, 11667 Stockholm, Sweden
(Subway: Skanstull)

Program:
Download as PDF

Cost:
For Free!

More info:
www.FREEKEVIN.info
www.konst-teknik.se/news/freekevin
Show & Tell
Facebook

Best wishes,
Pirateturk, Laurel Ptak, and Konst & Teknik & Martin

Blog: Show & Sell

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:07:43 +0000

Konst & Teknik has invited fellow Swedish designers and publishers to contribute ‘left over’ books and publications, to a one day temporary book store in Stockholm, titled Show & Sell.

Confirmed contributors:

Andperseand
Andreas & Fredrika
Aron Kullander-Östling
AXL Books
Bergen
Christopher West
Europa
Frida Jeppsson
Hanna Nilsson & Rasmus Svensson
Hjärta Smärta
Jenny Eneqvist
Johan Thermænius
Jonas Williamsson
Konst & Teknik
Libraryman
Labyrint Press
Matilda Plöjel
Museum Studio
Rikard Heberling
Stefania Malmsten
Studio S&M

(+ more TBA)

Please note: Cash only!

When: Saturday August 28, 2010, 12:00–20:00

Where: Rutger Fuchsgatan 9, 11667 Stockholm, Sweden

More info: www.konst-teknik.se/news/showandsell
Facebook: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149068378452196
Show & Tell event: showtell.se/sepI

Press contact:
Peter Ström
information (at) konst-teknik.se
+46706531175

Hope to see you there!
Konst & Teknik

Blog: Nevertheless, Faith is in the Air

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:22:40 +0000

Konst Andperseand Teknik

Newsletter No. 1 — June 2010

Tomorrow June 3 19:00–21:00 at Moderna Museet, Studion, in Stockholm:

Nevertheless, Faith is in the Air

“Nevertheless, Faith in the Air is a pamphlet, which assesses seven works of art from the last century from Moderna Museet’s collection in which the presence of a utopian impulse remains tangible. In investigating these seven artworks the authors of this pamphlet underscore that while art has never been and cannot be a substitute for proscriptive religion, it can be a fountain of meaning and a mode of communication capable of elevating us above the void of a faithless existence.”

The pamphlet is written by Diana Kaur and Padraic E Moore, designed by Konst & Teknik and will be distributed for free at the event.

More info:
Moderna Museet
Show & Tell
Facebook

We hope to see you there!

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Some other short notes:

This years’ version of Future Exhibitions, the publication we design anually for Riksutställningar has just been released, this year with the theme Spatial Encounters. More info can be found here or click here to order your own copy.

En annan stad is “a forum for discussion about urban forms for future green social societies, seeking to go beyond the dichotomies ‘dense grid city’ or ‘urban sprawl’” and has just been launched; designed by Konst & Teknik & Martin.

In Dependence. Crowds, Gestures, the monograph we designed for artist Anna Ådahl a few months back can now be ordered online here.

The Rest is Silence, the artist book by Emanuel Almborg, published by Andperseand (publisher set up by us, Emanuel and theorist Jeff Kinkle) late last year, is now un/fortunatley sold out. You can still find copies of it at some book stores — a list can be found here. If you can’t get hold of a copy: the project (but not the book itself) is exhibited at different places right now: In Geneva as a part of the photography biennale 50JPG during June and July and at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm as a part of the exhibition Runaway Train, which shows until June 20, 2010. The book, as well as Trace a Face, is participating at the Kaugummi and Friends exhibition in Rennes, France this summer.

Have a great summer!

Peter & Mattias
Konst & Teknik

Blog: Spring 2010

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:58:13 +0000

It would be easy to say that we’ve been too busy to update this space, but that is not really the truth. Busy, always, but the fact is that we prefer the 140 character limitation of our Twitter stream than the endless possibilities of this one. Needless to say, we are way more about reducing the amount of options in our everyday life than adding more, so Twitter just works perfectly for us. But we still love to have the option of using this space when needed, since it gives us the opportunity to sum things up. So here we go — 2010 so far:

— We started off the year with a needed update of our portfolio, adding six new projects. All can be found here underneath, so we won’t say much more about them right now.

— We finally found a new studio space! After almost a year of looking, a failed deal and temporary studios in Brooklyn and ℅ Uglycute, we now have our own space on Södermalm in Stockholm together with Martin, Ruben and Hanne. The last couple of weeks we have been busy renovating, building walls and furniture, in an (extended) workshop with Uglycute; a follow up to last years’ website workshop. Words can’t describe how amazing it looks and feels, but this might give you a hint:

We will start organizing events and lectures in the space later this year, so keep an eye on our Twitter feed for details on when things happen.

— We launched a new website called Show & Tell, in collaboration with Martin Ström. Show & Tell is basically a shared online Google calendar, between us and a bunch of friends within the Stockholm cultural world, featuring events of our interest that contain some sort of showing and telling (lectures, book releases etc). There just wasn’t anything like that around, so we figured we had to do it ourselves. Since the launch, interest from other cities have popped up and there are already a Show & Tells in Brussels — hosted by the awesome guys at PLMD — and one in Olso coming over the next weeks, by the just as awesome Your Friends.

— We designed a new double issue of SITE (29–30), about Georges Didi-Hübermann, that we celebrated with a release party at Riche a while ago back.

— We worked intensly on ‘In Depencence. Crowds, Gestures’, the artist book/monograph/crowds book we designed for artist Anna Ådahl. It looks great and we will launch it at Index on Wednesday March 24 — come around if in town.

— On March 3rd, we celebrated the 5 year anniversary of the letter W as the 29th member of the Swedish alphabet with a small website: www.se">wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwWwwwwww.se

— Martin made an amazing iPhone app (our first!) of our collaborative copypastecharacter.com project, which — basically — rules. Get it over here!

That's it for now!

P&M K&T

NO. 35 - Linkli.st, Website, 2009

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:38:00 +0000

Linkli.st is a website for sharing lists with links. An ongoing collaboration with Martin Ström.

linkli.st

NO. 34 - BAC, Identity, 2009

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:28:00 +0000

BAC is the abbreviation of Baltic Art Center, a Swedish art institution based on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. During the last years the organization has undergone a transformation from a traditional exhibition space to a flexible and dynamic production office and work place for artists and curators. To visualize this change a redesign was commissioned.

Based on BAC’s former typographical framework — a typeface inspired by an old sign on the facade of the previous exhibition space — we extended the identity with three new weights and a treatment playing with the idea of a dynamic institution in constant change.

Thanks to Aron Kullander for type design assistance.

www.balticartcenter.com

NO. 36 - Sol&Luna, Book, 2009

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:41:00 +0000

A book for our friends at Libraryman and Our Legacy with Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen.

NO. 33 - Know How, Identity, 2009

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:45:00 +0000

The Fifth Tallinn Applied Art Triennial was aiming to challenge participants to cast aside artist-, designer- and producer-centred approaches by offering exhibition visitors an opportunity to (re-) create the exhibited work themselves. The artists were requested to submit a (sample) work as well as instructions on how to make it, both were then put on display in the exhibition.

Together with Risto Kalmre we designed the visual identity for the triennial. The exhibition runs until February 21st, 2010. More info: www.trtr.ee

NO. 37 - The Rest is Silence, book, 2009

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:31:00 +0000

In the late 1970s a group of people living in the borough of Hackney in East London began building a structure on a derelict lot in their neighborhood. They continued building until last January. The story of the project’s origins are a mystery. All that is known is that because the residents couldn’t decide on what they wanted to build, they made three rules. One: they would build without discussion, plan or blueprint. Two, when they were on the building site, no one was allowed to speak. And three, the building would never be completed, in that anyone at any point could decide to take it in a new direction. So the structure was built for thirty years, until last year when the council sold the land to a developer who tore it down in January.

The Rest is Silence is an artist book by Emanuel Almborg, designed by Konst & Teknik and published by our recently set up publisher Andperseand. Get your own copy at www.andperseand.se.

Blog: The Rest is Silence — book release and presentation in Stockholm

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:25:06 +0000

We are organizing a book release and presentation of the project ‘The Rest is Silence’ by artist Emanuel Almborg this coming Thursday, December 3. The book is designed by Konst & Teknik and published by Andperseand, a publisher we’ve set up together with Emanuel and theorist Jeff Kinkle.

When: Dec 3, 19:00–22:00
Where: Kvarngatan 14, Stockholm
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204276351712

More on the project: http://www.andperseand.se/02
More on Andperseand: http://www.andperseand.se

Hope to see you there!

Blog: Konst & Teknik in New York

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:28:53 +0000

Fall 2009

We have currently relocated to Brooklyn/NY for the fall. You’ll find us at Point B in Williamsburg, just 6 hours behind our standard schedule, from September 15 to October 23. All contact info can as usual be found under about.

We are also very proud to announce the release of the first book published by our newly set up publisher Andperseand:
‘The Rest is Silence’ is a book made together with artist Emanuel Almborg, that deals with the history and legends around an experimental building project in Hackney/London. A book presentation is taking place at FormContent in London on September 26 (which we unfortunatley won’t be able to attend) — don’t miss out if in the area.

More info can be found at www.formcontent.org and www.andperseand.se.

PS: We are of course very greatful for any NY related tip, by e-mail or by adding links to our linklist. Thanks.

Blog: Summer update

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:32:29 +0000

We finally got around to upload a bunch of projects we’ve been busy with this year: copypastecharacter.com, pluxemburg.com, the In Real Life exhibition identity, the Uglycute website and the Future Exhibitions publication.
We are also working (in collaboration with Martin Ström of course) on a new web application called linkli.st, which is a super simple site for collecting, collaborating and sharing lists with links: http://linkli.st.

NO. 32 - Future Exhibitions, Publication, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Future Exhibitions is the first in a series of bilingual, yearly publications published by Riksutställningar (Swedish Travelling Exhibitions), highlighting new tendencies and trends within the exhibition world. The publication is designed as a hybrid of book, magazine and report with all headline typefaces taken from the online collaborative font creation tool and community FontStruct—a response to recurring discussions in the publication about amateurism, participation and open source in the context of the museum.

NO. 31 - Uglycute, website, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:59:00 +0000

When asked to design and produce the website for Swedish design and architecture office Uglycute, we proposed to ignore the traditional relationship between commissioner and designer, and turn the entire process into one collaborative workshop. During two days in April, we worked together with Uglycute themselves, Martin Ström (programming) and Ola Bergengren (photography) on the new Uglycute homepage in their studio. We will later reverse this workshop, building interior to our new studio during two days in the summer.

www.uglycute.com

NO. 30 - In Real Life, Identity, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:48:00 +0000

In Real Life was an exhibition curated by Laurel Ptak at Capricious Space in Brooklyn, that invited innovative online art initiatives to each come and do a 4-hour residency inside the space of the gallery. The event attempted to explore how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture rapidly are evolving in an online context.
Inspired by the ambiguous nature of the exhibition, and its aim to explore the blurred border between the physical and the digital world, we designed the webpage and the catalogue as one and the same thing, using CSS technology only. The website was designed to fit the format of the newsprint catalogue and the catalogue was simply created by generating a printer file straight from the web browser.

www.letsmeetinreallife.com

NO. 29 - Pluxemburg, Website, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:47:00 +0000

For the independent Swedish record label Pluxemburg we designed a website that works as an aggregator, automatically gathering all its content from different social networks where the label is present, thus giving the label time to participate in communities rather than making sure the official webpage is up to date. In collaboration with Martin Ström.

www.pluxemburg.com

NO. 28 - Copypastecharacter, Website, 2008

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Copypastecharacter.com is an online tool that gives people easy access to a selection of useful (and useless) typographic characters. In collaboration with Martin Ström.