FreeDimensional went activist in their presentation form at this final day of Winter Camp. They resisted the standardized presentation format from speaker to public, and decentralized. While a looping slidehow presentation (shown below) was shown on screen, several FreeDimensional partakers, with no mic in hand, scattered amongst the public to answer their questions, and listen to their suggestions, on a more initimate level. Also urging the public to reflect on FreeDimensional amongst themselves. This of course didn’t only resist the standard presentation form, but also the documentation of the things said, as no more than a collective buzzing of inaudible voices filled the cinema.

Photography: Anne Helmond

After getting up real early I set out from Leiden and started my trip to the Studio K building in Amsterdam. I tried to fit in the best I could but didn’t know anyone, had no clue where to go and was really confused about what to do. Everyone seemed really at ease while I felt more like a lost soul. Being at Winter Camp for only one day thus meant I required a mission. I needed a reason to be there, to find my way in this big pool full of ideas and people. Everything I knew until then is that it was an event about networks coming together, about organizing a network and about sharing knowledge. These might be nice expressions but it didn’t mean anything to me. What does it mean to be a network why are people in a network? Those were things I wanted to know.  Read the rest of this entry »