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

By Teshia Treuhaft - August 1, 2016

Trailer Park I/O Now it it's 10th and final year, Trailer Park takes over Copenhagen Indoor Skatepark Teshia Treuhaft 1 of 40

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. Teshia Treuhaft 2 of 40

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. Teshia Treuhaft 3 of 40

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. Teshia Treuhaft 6 of 40

Developing Wearable LED's Lab with FabLab RUC FabLab RUC guides attendees through the core elements of developing wearable devices. Teshia Treuhaft 7 of 40

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. Teshia Treuhaft 8 of 40

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. Teshia Treuhaft 9 of 40

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. Teshia Treuhaft 10 of 40

Save The Rose Save the Rose by Jonas Ø. Haugesen, Rune Viuff Petersen & Tobias Holm Jensen ofITUwas inspired by 'The Little Prince'. With the power of the crowd, the rose is cared for by tweeting in to water or expose to sunlight. Internet care-takers of the rose can watch its development on a live webcam. Teshia Treuhaft 11 of 40

Trailer Park I/O Trailer Park I/O housed a number of art installations built for exploring, hanging out or playing over the course of the event. Teshia Treuhaft 12 of 40

Trailer Park I/O Trailer Park I/O housed a number of art installations built for exploring, hanging out or playing over the course of the event. Teshia Treuhaft 13 of 40

Virus Vending Machine Attendees were invited to grab their very own computer virus from a vending machine with the use of their finger print. Teshia Treuhaft 14 of 40

Technology Will Save Us - Mover Kit London-based Technology Will Save Us took the stage to talk about making education fun for kids through their DIY technology kits. Teshia Treuhaft 15 of 40

Technology Will Save Us - Mover Kit London-based Technology Will Save Us demoed one of their newest education kits. The Mover Kit lets kids program their own fit-bit like wearable to track any sort of movement and create games, apps and more. Teshia Treuhaft 16 of 40

Enchanted Plants Enchanted Plants is by Nina Cecilie Højholdt, Thomas Sandahl Christensen & Victor Permild of Circuit Circus, in collaboration with composer Magnus Hansen & Kaja Skytte of Planteplaneter.dk. The installation is composed of few dozen plants each of which add certain musical elements to a composition when touched. Teshia Treuhaft 17 of 40

Trailer Park I/O Trailer Park I/O housed a number of art installations built for exploring, hanging out or playing over the course of the event. Teshia Treuhaft 18 of 40

Trailer Park I/O Trailer Park I/O housed a number of art installations built for exploring, hanging out or playing over the course of the event. Teshia Treuhaft 19 of 40

The App Lab b y NCKN The App Lab is a playground for interactive and intuitive digital instruments. Teshia Treuhaft 20 of 40

Trailer Park I/O Trailer Park I/O housed a number of art installations built for exploring, hanging out or playing over the course of the event. Teshia Treuhaft 21 of 40

Margot Bowman and Sean Frank Johnson of 15Folds Co-Founders of animated gif gallery 15Folds take the stage to showcase some of their favorite gifs. Teshia Treuhaft 22 of 40

I See U - Great Works CPH I See U democratizes surveillance with their DIY kit. The kit allows anyone to monitor their surroundings with their handy device to pick up conversations in the area and translate key phrases detected into animated gifs. Teshia Treuhaft 23 of 40

Resonate by De Naake Ontwerpers Resonate is a multi-sensory music installation including five suits outfitted with vibrating elements that create a tactile listening experience. Teshia Treuhaft 25 of 40

JayWalking: Turning Live Surveillance Feeds Into Unsettling Works of Art Jaywalking by Dries Depoorter gives the viewers the opportunity to watch over traffic webcams. As pedestrians commit the offense of jaywalking - a counter at the bottom of the screen records the typical fine for the location. Viewers are posed with a question - to report or not report? Teshia Treuhaft 26 of 40

Manoush Zomorodi Host and Managing Editor at Note to Self from WNYC studio discusses her show and how to 'embrace the ridiculousness' of modern life. Teshia Treuhaft 27 of 40

Tatoué - Hacked Tattoo Machine from Appropriate Audiences Associate Partner at Dare Disrupt, Rehnberg discusses her research approach to technology pulling from her background as a political economist. Teshia Treuhaft 28 of 40

Silk By Worms by Mediated MatterGroup - MIT Media Lab Silk by Worms showcased the ways in which technology and design can come together to make fantastic materials and structures. Teshia Treuhaft 29 of 40

Design for Open Making Lab with Opendesk Distributed manufacturing company Opendesk, hosted a lab to workshop methods of local manufacturing and show off their new materials. Teshia Treuhaft 30 of 40

Trailer Park I/O Trailer Park I/O housed a number of art installations built for exploring, hanging out or playing over the course of the event. Teshia Treuhaft 31 of 40

The Painter Project The Painter Project by Khora VR and Lynda Joy Gerry creates a virtual environment where you see the canvas of a painter alongside the view of your own hands. Users paint on their own physical canvas through the eyes of the painter - layering their physical reality with a virtual one. Teshia Treuhaft 32 of 40

The Future of Virtual Reality Lab with Khora VR Khora VR Lab invites attendees to explore the many possibilities for Virtual Reality across marketing, art, gaming and more. Teshia Treuhaft 34 of 40

The Future of Virtual Reality Lab with Khora VR Khora VR Lab invites attendees to explore the many possibilities for Virtual Reality across marketing, art, gaming and more. Teshia Treuhaft 35 of 40

Wear What You Think by Neurocouture Neurocouture combines the projection mapping, EEG devices and the endless number of animated gifs on the internet to allow the wearer to literally transform their wearable by way of their brainwave patterns. Teshia Treuhaft 36 of 40

Trailer Park I/O Trailer Park I/O brings a mixture of people for their talks, labs, installations. Teshia Treuhaft 37 of 40

Tatoué - Hacked Tattoo Machine from Appropriate Audiences Tatoué is a hacked 3D printer that can tattoo with extreme accuracy. Teshia Treuhaft 38 of 40

Wobble-Up by Sam Linders Wobble-Up is both carpet and chair easily transforming from two to three dimensions to create a form for lounging. Teshia Treuhaft 39 of 40

Trailer Park I/O Now it it's 10th and final year, Trailer Park takes over Copenhagen Indoor Skatepark Teshia Treuhaft 40 of 40

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.

tatoué. 3D PRINTER X TATTOO MACHINE / EP 14 from appropriate audiences.

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.

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Teshia Treuhaft

Teshia Treuhaft is a Michigan-born designer. Upon graduating from back-to-back degrees, a BFA from the University of Michigan and MFA of Furniture Design from RISD, she moved to Berlin to pursue a research project considering shifting paradigms in design education. Teshia currently works at the tangible UX startup Senic.