Posts Categorized: network

Final Day Presentation – Bricolabs

By Annette Wolfsberger, March 9, 2009

Bricolabs describes itself on its website as a distributed network for global and local development of generic infrastructures incrementally developed by communities. A global platform to investigate the new loop of open content, software and hardware for community applications, bringing people together with new technologies and distributed connectivity, unlike the dominant focus of IT industry [...]

Final Day Presentation – Creative Labour

By Annette Wolfsberger, March 9, 2009

Creative Labour, an offshoot of the Euromayday network, concentrates on the crative sector. Its members are social activists who are committed and (sometimes too) passionate. It wants to offer an alternative to the labour movement where new issues, eg precearity, can be discussed. Creative Labour learned a lot during the Winter Camp and the event [...]

Final Day Presentation – GOTO10

By Annette Wolfsberger, March 9, 2009

GOTO10 is a collective of international artists and programmers, dedicated to Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and digital arts. GOTO10 aims to support and grow digital art projects and tools for artistic creation, located on the blurry line between software programming and art. All of GOTO10’s projects are based on 100% Free/Libre Open Source Software. GOTO10 [...]

Thank you Meta-Group

By Rosa Menkman, March 9, 2009

The blogger team would really like to thank everybody that worked to make Winter Camp happen, especially the INC team! We had a great time. Thank you very much!

Final day presentation: Microvolunteerism

By anne, March 9, 2009

The Microvolunteerism network began their presentation with the movie Poison Fire by Lars Johansson in order to provide a context for their work. The dramatic movie shows that oil has brought the Niger Delta Zone a curse, instead of wealth. [vimeo width=”500″ height=”350″]http://vimeo.com/2203805[/vimeo] What is the role of networks in this tangle of creeks and [...]
FreeDimensional went activist in their presentation form at this final...

Final day presentation: Freedimensional

By niels, March 9, 2009

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 [...]

FLOSS Manuals final session

By Rosa Menkman, March 8, 2009

Floss Diagram As I described in an earlier post, FLOSS Manuals focuses on the documentation of Free / Libre / Open Source Software. In the final plenary session, Adam gave us a short history of his collective and then went deeper into the outcomes of their week of labour, which they presented via a diagram. [...]

Performance by Issa Nyaphaga from Freedimensional

By anne, March 8, 2009

Photography: Anne Helmond [vimeo width=”500″ height=”375″]http://www.vimeo.com/3529272/[/vimeo]

Dyne.org: Opening Eyes and Earlids

By Rosa Menkman, March 8, 2009

// Idiocracy // Dyne.org // Freedom of Creation // Based on an interview with Denis Jaromil Rojo Dyne.org is a decentralized, open, nomadic and displaced network, that exists through and in cooperation with multiple networks. Dyne.org mainly operates like a fluid grassroot power, through institutions. This means that the network will and can never be [...]

Final day presentation: Edu-factory

By anne, March 8, 2009

Edu-factory describes itself as a theoretical political machine for the just-in-time interventions in situations of crises. While for some networks the different languages and network-specific jargon used at Winter Camp sometimes caused problems during the plenary sessions it also opened up new ways of thinking. Edu-factory was delighted to hear the jargon of open source, [...]