Posts Tagged: Upgrade!

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! Decision Making in a Distributed Network

By Liliana Bounegru, March 6, 2009

In the previous two days, after having discussed their identity, mission, core values, and crises, the sixteen members of Upgrade! gathered this morning with several issues on their agenda, which have not yet been touched upon this week at Winter Camp: collaborative tools and managing collaborative tools, lists and managing lists, and the decision making [...]

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 [...]
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Screenings; Freedom!

By Maggie Chau, March 5, 2009

Whoops…. being too enthusiastic with blogging I was half an hour early and entered an empty theatre hall. The Screenings for tonight started at 8.30 pm with a Shrek/Ice Age-like movie titled Big Buck Bunny.  The movie is directed by Sacha Goedegebure and produced by Ton Roosendaal from Blender.org. Big Buck Bunny is the surprise act while I was expecting [...]

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 [...]