Platforms blog

Tuesday May 1st – Sex Workers Visions II opening and launch of $pread’s Money Issue
Join us on May 1st for the opening night of $pread’s second annual show of art by/for/about sex workers, ‘Sex Worker Visions II.’ We will be doing a “try on the Platforms” performance — so come by and try on some [...]

We are super excited to be part of the Maker Faire May 19-20, teaching young and old how to make their own Platforms shoes with video screens and audible alarm systems. We’ll post a schedule for our workshops as soon as we have one, in the meantime, save the date! http://makezine.com

Ed adjusting sandals
Ed Bringas and Melissa Gira brought Platforms to Copenhagen as part of the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop, December 1-3, 2006. Stay tuned for video + more from Melissa and Ed, and press coverage.
Photos from the show are posted to http://www.flickr.com/photos/platforms.

Just got back from Interface + Society at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) in Oslo. This was a 2 day conference and exhibition produced by Atelier Nord, for more details on the conference: http://anart.no/projects/interface-and-society. Platforms was included in the exhibition (up Nov. 10-19), along with some other great pieces by Agnes Meyer-Brandis and AbA Logic and [...]

It’s a busy month for the Platforms team…
Platforms is featured in the Desire issue of Drain magazine, and the Platforms P.S.A. is part of “Sisyphean Desires, Systems and Devices” at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, GA, curated by Avantika Bawa (opening Nov. 4).
We’re also part of the Visualizing TRANS exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interface & [...]

image from Scanner
Our recent press from Wired’s NextFest…
Gizmodo
GearLog
CNet
Lingual Tremors
Cool Hunting
Scanner|Nerve
PC Magazine

We are really looking forward to this fall, we’ve got a lot lined up. If you’re in New York, Madison or Oslo, we’d love to see you.
WIRED magazine’s NextFest (exhibition)
Future of Design Pavilion, Javits Center
Curated by Victor Friedberg
New York, NY
Sept. 28-Oct. 1
http://www.nextfest.net
TRANS (exhibition)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, part of TRANS: A Visual Culture Conference
exhibition Oct. 19- Oct. [...]

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We had a fabulous time at “Unravel” the SIGGRAPH fashion show. Special thanks to curator Amanda Parkes, and our lovely model Jenna. The show came off flawlessly, with some of the most interesting projects at SIGGRAPH.
Be sure to visit our flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/platforms to see the latest photos — we’ll add more + video as [...]

Here’s our schedule for the next few months, if you are in Boston, San Jose, or San Francisco come on by and see us! It can be lonely out there on the road, and we’d love to see a friendly face.
We leave for Boston tomorrow for SIGGRAPH, where we’ll show the Platforms 001 sandal as [...]