Hi my name is Ulrik Hogrebe. This blog contains my CV plus a couple of presentations of projects that I´ve worked on. Feel free to check them out and get in contact if you like what you see. Please distribute, copy, steal, reproduce or pass on anything on this site - just give credit where credit is due. C.V here and informal rants and raves blog here.

RHFID Speakers – “This is a Journey into Sound” from Ulrik Andersen Hogrebe on Vimeo.

Using a combination of RFID technology, Processing and Arduino, the RHIFID speakers work as location aware controllers, allowing the user to interact with music and the environment by moving the speakers around.

The RHIFID speakers were used for the project “This is a Journey into Sound” – an educational trip into the history of electronica, rock and hip hop from the past 50 years. A grid is mapped out using RFID tags (the red things on the floor), allowing each user of the two speakers to listen to a song individually, within a specific genre and decade by placing it on the RFID tag. Each RFID is mapped to a song iconic of that decade in the appropriate genre.
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I finally got around to translating the piece I did for Kforum on Heathrow´s Terminal 5 and British Airways’ innovative use of art and design to brand the space.

You can read it in its entire length and check lots and lots of design porn from the likes of Troika and Chris Pearson after the jump.

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GIJÓN MAGNÉTICA: stop motion from Laboral with Troika from Ulrik Andersen Hogrebe on Vimeo.

While working for Troika, I was lucky enough to go to Gijón in Spain to help setup Gijón Magnetica for the Nowhere/Now/Here, exhibition at Laboral. Sebastian, Conny and I made a short stop motion while messing around with random objects and the Electroprobes and what not. Soundtrack is sound captured from electrical objects EMF signatures – lights, refrigerators, mobile phones etc – revealing the secret language of the machines that surround us!

Read more on Troika, Gijón Magnetica and of course the ever-cool electroprobes here

I´ve recently started to blog for long-time friends ArtRebels – a creative collective spanning a creative agency, online shop, music festival, charity NGO and so much more. You can trawl through the details in their new paper up above – complete with quotes by yours truly.

In the mean time, you can check out some of my posts so far – one on punk flower artist Azuma Makoto, one on electro-psych-drone band Terrible Eagle, a review of Tristan Perich´s show at Mikrogalleriet and finally, coverage of cult doom-rockers Sunn O))) concert in Copenhagen. Keep tuning in at artrebels.com for more from me and the rest of the bloggers!

(NB. Since ArtRebels changed their blog, I’ll be reposting these over on my more informal blog: ulrikhogrebe.com/blog1)

“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life” – Gabriel García Márquez

Mnemo is a new software application that helps you remember, re-remember and curate those special moments in your life. Mnemo creates a personal and private space behind your desktop, that lets you organize and peruse your memories in an intuitive and beautiful way, imitating the experience of navigating an art gallery or museum.

Mnemo was created as a response to a world awash in information – in files, mp3s, pictures and video – every moment can be captured in space, every experience reproduced in video, every song heard over and over again. In a world filled with memories, how do we distinguish the important ones? The ones that really matter? The ones too important or too intimate for Facebook?

Using the metaphor of an art gallery or private collection, Mnemo prompts you to reflect over what is truly worth saving, allowing you to curate and view your memories in a way that is meaningful to you.

Mnemo – Curate Your Life from Ulrik Andersen Hogrebe on Vimeo.

Project made during GUI class in CIID by Jacek Barcikowski, Jennifer Kay and Ulrik Hogrebe.

NB. Wife for demonstration purposes only.