Karmaklubb* is an autonomous nomadic queer platform, a space for critical reflection, and celebration. An ever-morphing space for queer visibility and joy. Besides club evenings and nights, the programme consists of open conversations, curatorial work, screenings, artist talks, film production, panels, concerts, performance art, Drag, wine tastings, ale, and sometimes food. Things that are nice for the whole being. Since 2018 Karmaklubb* has realised more than 350 projects, among them hosted events of various sorts in addition to launching an extensive number of other projects on- and offline. Karmaklubb* is also a publishing and research platform, the IGWTLI publishing (established in 2018), that exists as essays, letters and gifts, transcripts, experimental written encounters, in addition to listening sets, podcasts, and an archive of ‘thought & pleasure’ — and new forms constantly to be explored. Critical reflections as well as pure joi (sic), anchored in the Karmaklubb* ever morphing and transcending practice with people being part of the travel. Partners and collaborators include museums, artist driven initiatives, print houses, publishers, a wide range of organisations and individuals working within the fields of arts and culture, rights and freedom of speech, as well as gastronomy and nightlife — in Norway and internationally.

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Recently (January 2025), Karmaklubb* was brought to TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture to collaborate with Kilobase Bucharest, Romania, funded by EEA Grants 2014–2021 and RO-CULTURE Programme , with partner Coast Contemporary. Karmaklubb* is primarily funded by Karmaklubb*. The programme for 2024 was partly funded by The Fritt Ord Foundation / Stiftelsen Fritt Ord (the discoursive content) in addition to collaborative partners and venues, in particular Kunstnernes Hus, and through programming with OSLOOVE and Oslo 2024, Oslo Badstuforening, Jaeger, SKIN Orange Wine Fest, and Det Gode Selskab (NOR). Funding and larger project the last years (a very small selection, no order of appearance): Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA); The Royal Norwegian Consulate General, New York, NY, USA / The Ministry of Foreign Affairs; BIT Teatergarasjen for METEOR International Theatre Festival; Arts and Culture Norway (Kulturdirektoratet); Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Spain; Preus Museum, national museum for photography; MUNCH (Munchmuseet); Nasjonalmuseet / National Museum; KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen; Oslo Pride; Agency for Cultural Affairs, City of Oslo (Kulturetaten, Oslo kommune).

Karmaklubb* is run by Tine Semb, Norway.

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Disfruto aprender, compartir conocimiento y ayudar a que los equipos crezcan juntos. Para mí, el buen diseño no se trata solo de estética, sino de facilitarle la vida a quien usa la tecnología.

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Vedran dolazi iz Sv. Ivana Zeline, gdje ponajviše čita, a nešto manje piše i crta.
Čime se bavi kad ne šeće svojih osam i pol mačaka, saznajte na:
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Zusammen mit dem Landschaftsarchitekten und Künstler Ben Heinrich entwickelt sie das „Garten-Modell-Denken“ als Mindset und Methode.

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Designer interested in humanitarian aid, strategy, and change management, my journey is made of working experiences in Lesvos island (Greece), Central Mediterranean, Tunisia, and now Belgium. In 2021, I founded the NGO Humanitarian Designers to build bridges between aid and design. This grassroots organisation is now welcoming a thousand members coming from +90 countries in our online community.

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Since moving to Ireland in 2022, Juliane Gorman has been deeply inspired by the landscape and by the abundance of sheep that dot the Irish countryside. She was surprised to discover that their wool is no longer widely valued and is often treated as waste. This tension between a rich natural resource and its present underuse has become central to her creative practice.

In 2025, she began working more intentionally with Irish wool, exploring its textures and potential while reconnecting with a material that is both local and forgotten.

Drawn always to colour and to the shoreline, she began combining cyanotype printing with felting. Using seaweed foraged above the tideline, she creates sun-printed images on silk, which are then integrated into wool.

Through this process, Juliane transforms two undervalued natural materials, wool and seaweed, into works that celebrate the beauty of Ireland’s coast and countryside.

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My approach is grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and a constant drive to innovate - be it for profit or purpose.

I’m an alumna of the School of Planning and Architecture, a closeted artist and an open water swimmer.

*Hopefully by the time we may need to publish this, I would be able to additionally claim the title of a channel swimmer :)

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At Aviatrix, he has shipped a public MCP server for network operations and maintains open-source Obot blueprints for agentic AI workloads. The attack scenario in this talk came directly from that work: securing AI agent deployments in production cloud environments, then discovering that Kubernetes NetworkPolicy cannot see what MCP tools are doing.

Georgian-born, Edinburgh-based. First KCD talk.

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