Posts By: Chris Castiglione

Blender: Is Too Much Self-Reflection and Network Theory Bad For The Network?

By Chris Castiglione, March 7, 2009

Blender is the leading open-source 3D graphics application that can be used for free, and by anyone  to create “Hollywood-style” art and video animations. While there are over 50,000 people participating in the online community, the “active” development team is composed of about 50-60 people.  At Winter Camp nine of the member came together to [...]
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freeDimensional, Day 3, and open-space

By Chris Castiglione, March 7, 2009

freeDimensional had the chairs arranged in a circle and were already engaged in a passionate debate when I entered the room. The discussion was about the presentation they would give on Day 4 – the question: what is the best way to represent the group’s identity in twenty-minutes? At first FD began by posting orange [...]

MyCreativity: Open-Source Urbanism

By Chris Castiglione, March 5, 2009

MyCreativity met on Day 1 of Winter Camp to discuss issues concerning open-source urbanism. Today the group was composed of fourteen artists and activists that (as a group) were all meeting together for the first time. The afternoon session included three presentations full of examples, a history and criticism of open-source architecture. Anthony Iles on [...]

Winter Camp 09 Opening Ceremony

By Chris Castiglione, March 4, 2009

The opening ceremony of Winter Camp 09 began last night at Studio K in Amsterdam. The 12 groups that had been invited to participate came from many countries from around the world and filled the small stadium-seating theatre (typically used for screening movies) to its maximum capacity. Interestingly, not everyone within each of the groups [...]