Here is the first draft of the program. It is not a detailed program, but it gives you an idea.

PROGRAM WINTER CAMP 09

Monday 2st of March
17.00 – 19.00    COORDINATORS MEETING / HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM, RAADZAAL

Tuesday 3rd of March
11.00 – 13.00    META GROUP MEETING / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
13.00 – 14.00    LUNCH / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
14.30 – 17.30    REGISTRATION, Q&A / STUDIO K INFORMATIONPOINT
14.30 – 17.30    PREPARATION WORKSHOP ROOM / WORKSHOP SPACE
18.30 – 20.00    DINNER / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
20.00 – 22.30    OFFICIAL OPENING BY GEERT LOVINK, INTRODUCTION ‘ORGANIZED NETWORKS’ NED ROSSITER, INTRODUCTION NETWORKS BY MODERATOR / STUDIO K / SK1

Wednesday 4th of March
08.30 – 09.30    REGISTRATION / STUDIO K INFORMATIONPOINT
08.30 – 09.30    COFFEE AND TEA / STAYOKAY
09.30 – 13.00    WORKSHOP, 1ST ROUND / WORKSHOP SPACE
13.00 – 14.00     LUNCH / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
14.00 – 17.00    WORKSHOP, 2ND ROUND / WORKSHOP SPACE
17.00 – 18.30    PLENARY SESSION / STUDIO K / SK1
18.30 – 20.30    DINNER / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
20.30 – 22.30    EVENING PROGRAM / CINEMA / STUDIO K / SK1

Thursday 5th of March
08.30 – 09.30    DOORS OPEN, COFFEE AND TEA / STAYOKAY
09.30 – 13.00    WORKSHOP, 3RD ROUND / WORKSHOP SPACE
13.00 – 14.00     LUNCH / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
14.00 – 17.00    WORKSHOP, 4TH ROUND / WORKSHOP SPACE
17.00 – 18.30    PLENARY SESSION / STUDIO K / SK1
18.30 – 20.30    DINNER / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
20.30 – 22.30    EVENING PROGRAM

Friday 6th of March
08.30 – 09.30    DOORS OPEN, COFFEE AND TEA / STAYOKAY
09.30 – 13.00    WORKSHOP, 5TH ROUND / WORKSHOP SPACE
13.00 – 14.00    LUNCH / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
14.00 – 17.00    WORKSHOP, 6TH ROUND / WORKSHOP SPACE
17.00 – 18.30    PLENARY SESSION / STUDIO K / SK1
18.30 – 20.30    DINNER / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
20.30 – 22.30    EVENING PROGRAM

Saturday 7th of March
12.00 – 13.00     LUNCH / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
13.00 – 13.20    UPGRADE! / STUDIO K / SK1
13.20 – 13.40    GOTO10 / STUDIO K / SK1
13.40 – 14.00    MYCREATIVITY / STUDIO K / SK1
14.00 – 14.20    GENDERCHANGERS / STUDIO K / SK1
14.20 – 14.40    MICROVOLUNTEERISM / STUDIO K / SK1
14.40 – 15.00    FLOSS MANUALS / STUDIO K / SK1
15.00 – 15.30     BREAK
15.30 – 15.50    FREEDIMENSIONAL NETWORK / STUDIO K / SK1
15.50 – 16.10    EDUFACTORY / STUDIO K / SK1
16.10 – 16.30    DYNE.ORG / STUDIO K / SK1
16.30 – 16.50    CREATIVE LABOUR / STUDIO K / SK1
16.50 – 17.10    BRICOLABS / STUDIO K / SK1
17.10 – 17.30    BLENDER / STUDIO K / SK1
17.30 – 18.00    PLENARY CLOSING DEBATE / STUDIO K / SK1
19.00 – 21.00    DINNER / RESTAURANT STAYOKAY
22.00 – 01.30    PARTY / STUDIO K BAR

You can download the pdf here.

Only the cinema program on wednesday will have a curator (Minke Kampman). All the other evenings are free for everyone to organize something or make suggestions (as many of you’ve already done). This will all be visible at Winter Camp by the use of a program board on the location.

We will also organize some guided tours through the lively Indonesian neighbourhood, with the Dappermarkt and the famous brewery ‘Brouwerij ‘t IJ‘.

Open 17, A Precarious Existence is a cahier with contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Merijn Oudenampsen, Paolo Virno (t.b.c.), Jan Verwoert, Ned Rossiter , Brett Neilson, Pascal Gielen, Brian Holmes, Matteo Pasquinelli and Santiago Ciruged. Most of them we know as participants in the Winter Camp event.

Editors: Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Design: Thomas Buxó and Klaartje van Eijk, Paperback, Illustrated (colour and b/w), 176 pages, 17 x 24 cm
English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-694-5, € 28.50
Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-693-8
In association with the Foundation Art and Public Space (SKOR).
Available from May 2009

About the cahier: the For some years now there has been an international discourse around the phenomenon of ‘precariousness’ and ‘precarity’, driven by European social movements as well as by philosophers such as Paolo Virno and Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri. This precariousness denotes the relationship between temporary and flexible working arrangements and a precarious existence – a day-to-day life lacking in predictability or certitude – which determines the living conditions of groups in society that are swelling in number: part-timers, flexiworkers, migrant workers, workers on temporary contracts, illegal workers, and so on.

Precariousness is evident across many layers of society, an upshot of the neoliberal, post-Fordian economy, which emphasizes the immaterial production of information and provision of services in conjunction with unremitting flexibility. Such persistent vulnerability is also evident in the creative industries: flexible production and the outsourcing of work that is typical of the service economy are also the order of the day in the arts, culture and communications sectors.

This edition of Open investigates precarity in a cultural and social context, taking a closer look at the artist as a precarious figure and investigating the conditions that pertain in the precarious city and public space.

More about Open.

Winter Camp 09 is getting closer by the day and we’ve finalized the list of participating networks:

Network – Coordinator
Blender – Ton Roosendaal
Bricolabs – Rob van Kranenburg
Creative Labour – Valery Alzaga
Dyne.org - Jaromil
Edufactory – Brett Neilson / Matteo Pasquinelli
Floss Manuals - Adam Hyde
freeDimensional Network – Todd Lester
Genderchangers – Donna Metzlar
GOTO10 – Aymeric Mansoux
Microvolunteerism – Melanie Rieback
MyCreativity – Bas van Heur
Upgrade! – Kyd Campbell

The Winter Camp Team is now concentrating on getting all participants from all over the world safely to Amsterdam and provide them with accommodation and entertainment. We’re very excited about organizing this and are anxious about the outcome of it all. The participating networks share this enthusiasm, if we look at the ways they’re already getting prepped and ready to go for a getting-things-done event like this. You can have a look at the points on the agenda per network at http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/wintercamp/participating-networks/ where you’ll find the agenda and participating members under ‘More Info’. Some of the networks are also already announcing it on their own blog, such as Blender, Edufactory and Upgrade! Or like Genderchangers, who’ve set up a project page for WC09.