Platforms blog

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.

…check out her website and podcast at http://susiebright.com, we’re in podcast episode 269.

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. [...]

Unravel 2006
Check out our SIGGRAPH video, shot by Wei Chen Chao: http://theaphroditeproject.tv/video/siggraph_fs_06.mov and new photos on our flickr site.

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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 [...]

photo by Melissa Gira from Desiree Alliance conference blog
The Desiree Alliance conference “Re-visioning Prostitution Policy: Creating Space for Sex Worker Rights and Challenging Criminalization,” was everything I hoped it would be. Organized by sex workers, it brought together workers, activists and academics to discuss sex work of all kinds in a safe, protected environment (the [...]