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Platform7

Dec 20, 2019
2 min

Clare Pattinson – Food Police

Clare Pattinson was featured on Britain’s Channel 4 television programme Sunday Brunch* discussing her latest automatons, and how it all started with the What is Food? exhibition at Moonbow Margate. Clare’s work will feature prominently in the upcoming AI Innovation Hub in Great Yarmouth, which opens in 2020, connecting the dots between algorithms, robots and the future. For more, visit www.haphazard.business Originally posted on former Wix blog 9th September 2011 Cliftonvil

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Turner Prize For Turner Contemporary: Revisiting The First Summer

Platform7

Dec 3, 2019
31 min

Turner Prize For Turner Contemporary: Revisiting The First Summer

With the Turner Prize in Margate about to be announced, this post republishes the 2013 paper on the Turner Contemporary’s first months, as observed from our Platform-7 art intervention, Moonbow Margate in Cliftonville during Summer 2011. Art-led regeneration in Margate: learning from Moonbow Jakes Café and Lido Nightclub intervention ABSTRACT This paper considers whether a new iconic landmark – the Turner Contemporary – is likely to be a successful vehicle for the regeneratio

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Platform7

Oct 2, 2019
1 min

AI HUB — Haphazard Business

With Ai embedded technologies pervading life in general, whether wanted or not, an objective of the Innovation Hub will be to raise awareness of what is already available and the opportunities these innovations offer to improve people’s lives (5min read). Read more on the Platform-7 Haphazard Business blog page AI HUB — Haphazard Business https://videopress.com/embed/XTWpPQtM?hd=0 #HaphazardBusiness #hub #Participation

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Platform7

Sep 23, 2019
2 min

AI Entrepreneurial Challenge

In a world that’s increasingly litigious over intellectual property (IP), the challenge for entrepreneurs in the Fourth Industrial Revolution may well be how to adapt hardware and software to local needs without being issued with a Cease and Desist notice from an overeager law firm. Originally published on the Platform-7’s, Haphazard Business blog 23 Sept 2019 Industrial Revolution Entrepreneurship From the Golden Age of British Farming (1850-1875) onwards, there were always

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Platform7

Sep 19, 2019
4 min

Introducing Moonbow Margate

The Moonbow Margate art intervention began quietly with a photography exhibition in a derelict cafe, behind dirty windows. Tensions were running high locally, with a large amount of vocal opposition towards the new Turner Contemporary art gallery. What follows was posted on the Platform-7 website before the project began in earnest, to set out the intention of the intervention. This blog post was originally posted on Jun 17, 2011 6:58 pm, view here Introduction The Golden

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Platform7

Sep 18, 2019
2 min

Moonbow Margate

Moonbow Margate** was an abstract art performance intervention in a derelict cafe in Cliftonville, investigating the impact of the new Turner Contemporary art gallery and the role art-led regeneration has on a local community. Background Moonbow Margate was 3-month temporary performance intervention in a derelict cafe situated on a long-time neglected and disused parade of shops in Cliftonville, Margate, on the East Kent coast, England. Less than 5 minutes walk away was the

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Platform7

Jan 6, 2015
2 min

WASTE.AGENCY: TIMELINE

Timeline of key points in the creation of Waste.Agency intervention in the City of London, estimated to last 3 years, keys to first location handed over 3rd October 2014, and introductory video. Filming and Editing: Andreas Lambis 23rd February 2015: Comments Book from Waste.Agency fully typed up [here]. 152 individual written remarks from 1,662 visitors. 10th February 2015: All Waste.Agency artworks and equipment now stored 6th February 2015: Keys returned to Waterstones.

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WASTE.AGENCY: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND FUNDING

Platform7

Nov 22, 2014
3 min

WASTE.AGENCY: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND FUNDING

Monday 17th November 2014 Arts Council England and SHM-Foundation have awarded funding towards maintaining the Waste.Agency intervention, which begun in a disused HMV record store in the heart of the City of London on 3rd October 2014. The Waste.Agency is applying 6-years of research gathered by Platform-7’s through a series of abstract art performance events exploring how people reach opinions on various issues that have broader social consequences. This is the first applic

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Platform7

Oct 16, 2014
2 min

WASTE.AGENCY: A SIMPLE OIL PORTRAIT

Walking through London’s Trafalgar Square this evening, I happened upon a small but vocal protest against Shell Oil funding the Rembrandt exhibition, which recently opened at the National Gallery. As I stop to observe, a casual conversation developed with one of the protesters. Although respectful to the principle, and sympathetic to the underlying point the protest was attempting to make, there was a certain amount of simplicity that I found uncomfortably, and I often find

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Platform7

Oct 3, 2014
3 min

WASTE.AGENCY INTRODUCTION

Nestled between London’s two latest skyscrapers, the Leadenhall Building aka `The Cheesegrater’, and 20 Fenchurch Street aka `The Walkie-Talkie’, Platform-7 has taken over a disused HMV* for 6 weeks as part of a new 3-year performance art intervention, the waste.agency [map]. In addition, London Cannon Street train station± will be exhibiting a range of artworks and photography, some concerning trackside scrap, curated by Platform-7 as part of this project. Discussing consu

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THE PROSUMER: EXPLOITATION OF HUB MEMBERS

Platform7

Jul 29, 2014
4 min

THE PROSUMER: EXPLOITATION OF HUB MEMBERS

Provocation Article 4: This is the fourth in a series of provocative articles taken from a paper by Platform-7's founder critiquing the fad for hubs and the idea (within the UK) of the creative economy. These article will appear over the summer of 2014 in advance of a major new Platform-7 intervention, Creative Publics, beginning Autumn 2014. Professor Andy Pratt states in his study, The Enigma that is Platform-7, that the company ‘offers in civil society realms, new modaliti

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ADVERTUCATION: AN EDUCATION BY ADVERTISING STAGNATION

Platform7

May 26, 2014
6 min

ADVERTUCATION: AN EDUCATION BY ADVERTISING STAGNATION

Provocation Article 3: This is the third in a series of provocative articles taken from a paper by Platform-7 founder critiquing the fad for hubs and the idea (within the UK) of the creative economy. These article will appear over the summer of 2014 in advance of a major new Platform-7 intervention, Creative Publics, beginning Autumn 2014. John Hegarty is regarded within the advertising industry as one of its creative stars. Founding from scratch the now global advertising g

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Platform7

May 13, 2014
4 min

HUBS: LITTLE MORE THAN A PLACE TO WORK

Provocation Article 2: This is the second in a series of provocative articles taken from a paper by Platform-7's founder critiquing the fad for hubs and the idea (within the UK) of the creative economy. These article will appear over the summer of 2014 in advance of a major new Platform-7 intervention, Creative Publics, beginning Autumn 2014. The present trend in London and other global cities (Pratt and others) are ‘hubs’. Generally geared towards the ‘entrepreneur’, a misun

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Platform7

Apr 28, 2014
2 min

TRIM TABS: HOW ART CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Provocation Article 1: This is the first in a series of provocative articles taken from a paper by Platform-7's founder critiquing the fad for hubs and the idea (within the UK) of the creative economy. These article will appear over the summer of 2014 in advance of a major new Platform-7 intervention, Creative Publics, beginning Autumn 2014. Great artists can often hone in on slight discrepancies that exist within our environment and highlight that divergence for others to se

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