BIO
Magnus is a Phd candidate in sociology of law at Lund University and University of Macerata writing on the relation between digital and urban space. He also holds a position as design researcher at the Interactive Institute. Outside of research he is active in the hackerspace movement and the art collective Fatlab as well as having been a co-founder of Piratbyrån (2003-2009) and The Julia Group (2009-). Currently he resides in Gothenburg, Sweden.
THESIS
Magnus thesis is on the role of software in the regulation of urban space. It is an attempt to think digital technologies as material and spatial phenomena in order to better grasp the agency and normativity of emerging technologies that mediate between code and urban environments.
DEGREES
Lund University — Master of Social Science. Major: Sociology, 2011
- Thesis: Labbet utan egenskaper (The lab Without Qualities)
- On the ”Hackerspaces” movement, including empirical analysis and theory about norms and technology
Malmö University — Bachelor of Arts. Major: Culture Studies, 2007
- Thesis: The Noise of War in the Sound of Music
- On how military technology is adapted for creativity within the history of electronic music.
RESEARCH
Publications
- Eriksson, M. 2010, Using Social Science in Design, in P Daras, et.al (eds), User Centric Media, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 361-5.
- On how user-centered design can make use of social science concepts to inform its practice
- Eriksson, M, Political Participation Among Youth in the Edgeryders Project (2012)
- Report on Edgeryders: An internet-based project from the Council of Europe about European youth and their strategies for making a living and participate in civil society.
Research projects
- Experimedia (2012 - )
- FP7 project exploring new forms of social interactions and experiences at live events made possible by future internet technologies.
- TA2 (2009-2012)
- Integrated project within FP7 exploring internet-based technologies for supporting social relations through video-based group-to-group communication.
- Edgeryders (2012)
- Reseach report for Council of Europe founded Edgeryders project about the modes of political participation of European youth.
- Ad-Hoc (2011)
- Exploring design and use cases for an internet-based communication system completely self-sustaining in terms of networking and energy supply.
Phd. courses
- Materialiteter, tingteorier och materiella kulturer: Perspektiv på den materiella vändningen (Autumn 2012)
- Design and The Social (2011)
- At the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - The School of Design (3 ETCS)
OTHER
Selected teaching, presentations and lectures
- Prototyping in Interaction Design (MA course), IT-University of Gothenburg (2012)
- Normative Anatomy of Society, Lund University (2012)
- Nordic Work Environment Meeting, Lund University (2011)
- Consuming The Illegal: Situating Digital Piracy In Everyday Experience, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2011)
- Future Internet Assembly, Ghent (2010)
- 11th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Gothenburg (2010)
- 1st International ICST Conference on User Centric Media, Venice (2009)
- Postópolis, Mexico City (2010)
- Peer to Peer Economies conference, Milan University (2009)
- Festival Transitio_MX, Mexico City (2009)
- Moscow Book Fest, Moscow (2009)
- Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm (2008)
- To tell the Truth (MA course), Konstfack University College of Art, Stockholm (2007)
Art exhibitions, festivals and awards
Piratbyrån
(co-founder and co-discontinuator)
- Lecture Performance
- Fotodokumenti 02, Belgrade 2010
- Embassy of Piracy
- Venice Biennial, Venice 2009
- Award of Distinction
- Ars Electronica, Linz 2009
- Shuffle == Terror
- Transmediale, Berlin 2009
- S23M
- Manifesta 7, Bolzano 2008
- S23X
- HAIP 08, Ljubljana 2008
- Oktobarski Salon, Belgrade 2008
- Ownage
- Who Makes and Owns Your Work, Stockholm 2007
FATLAB
(Fellow of FATLAB since 2011)
- FAT GOLD
- Fuck Google
- Transmediale, Berlin 2011
Other
- Object-oriented Therapy Center (with Geraldine Juarez)
- Interactivos ’10, Belo Horizonte 2010
- Internet is chaos, well so is capital
- Teorias Del Caos, Mexico City 2009