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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 [...]
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 [...]

Upgrade! meets freeDimensional

By niels, March 6, 2009

On the afternoon of the second day of Winter Camp a fruitful encounter occurred between the networks Upgrade! and freeDimensional, a real network-to-network confrontation. But as I arrived early, and freeDimensional wasn’t yet present, I walked into a vibrant discussion between the Upgrade! members. Apparently in the morning they had split into groups, which resulted [...]

MyCreativity: Precarity and Collaboration

By niels, March 5, 2009

As a network that really isn’t a network yet, MyCreativity so far doesn’t work with an overarching structure. At present it consists of a group of individuals that all share some relation to the creative industries. But as participant Michael Lafond explained during the space-time interval before lunch – result of the huge lunch line [...]

Questions of Identity in Upgrade!

By niels, March 4, 2009

As written in the big Winter Camp book, ‘Upgrade! is an ever-growing network, upwards of 30 nodes at present time, started in 1999 in NYC’. All these nodes share a same interest, uniting art, technology and a shared commitment to the bridging of cultural divides, for which the regular organization of local events is one [...]