Posts Categorized: reports

From Weak Ties to Organized Networks

By margreet riphagen, July 3, 2009

Proudly we present the Winter Camp report; From Weak Ties to Organized Networks – Ideas, reports and Critiques. about the publication: In March 2009 the Institute of Network Cultures brought 12 networks to Amsterdam for a week of getting things done. Aim of Winter Camp was to connect the virtual with the real in order [...]

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 [...]
This is an overview from all the reports from the...

Overview final presentations reports

By anne, March 9, 2009

This is an overview from all the reports from the final presentations on Saturday: UPGRADE! by Niels Kerssens GOTO10 by Annette Wolfsberger MYCREATIVITY by Niels Kerssens GENDERCHANGERS by Rosa Menkman MICROVOLUNTEERISM by Anne Helmond FLOSS MANUALS by Rosa Menkman FREEDIMENSIONAL NETWORK performance by Anne Helmond and presentation by Niels Kerssens EDUFACTORY by Anne Helmond DYNE.ORG [...]

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]

Hacking the cardboard workshop by Hard Pencil

By anne, March 8, 2009

On Thursday evening, the Hard Pencil collective gave a cardboard hacking workshop at Winter Camp. The workshop did not require any specific skills but everyone could hack at their own level. All the participants had to form duos and make an avatar. No, not your own well-known online representation but an avatar made out of [...]

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, [...]
Coordinator Bas van Heur presented the outcomes of the MyCreativity...

Final day presentation: MyCreativity

By niels, March 8, 2009

Coordinator Bas van Heur presented the outcomes of the MyCreativity network on this final day of Winter Camp. A network that, as Bas immediately indicated, isn’t particularly organized, or strong in its node-to-node connections. Rather, the network consists of a group of individuals with a shared interest in the particularities of the creative industries, brought [...]

Final day presentation: Upgrade!

By niels, March 8, 2009

On the final day of Winter Camp Upgrade! coordinator Kyd Campbell ‘released’ the outcome of three days of hard labor, during which I both heard and witnessed that some moments of crisis were overcome. Kyd clarified a point-to-point summary posted on the Upgrade! Wiki, which is showing some concrete progress made during the Winter Camp [...]