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 [...]

Meta-Group Dispatch #3

By sabine, March 6, 2009

Winter Camp 09 provides resources – space, food, a place to sleep, travel, lots of strangers to talk to and recruit into your network – to support encounters of and across networks. The organizers believe that this kind of interdisciplinary exchange is rare but worth the effort, for a number of reasons, even if cross-network [...]

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 [...]

Thursday’s Plenary at 17:00 at SK1

By sabine, March 5, 2009

CARTOGRAPHIES: NETWORKS IN PROGRESS Tonight! 17:00-18:30 hrs, Cinema What happens to a network when it grows, constitutes, transforms, and sediments? What are some successful projects that have scaled and managed to balance between structure and informality? What techniques, tactics, and procedures help networks stabilize and change? Why and under what conditions does it make sense [...]

New Artworks by Het Harde Potlood

By sabine, March 5, 2009

Meta-Group Dispatch #2

By anne, March 5, 2009

“If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution.” The Winter Camp mix – artists, activists, academics, programmers – has a certain history in local net cultural events (at least since the Next Five Minutes conference series). Activism without a sophisticated visual language does not appeal to many. In the same way, code without [...]

Winter Camp Illustrations Day One

By sabine, March 4, 2009

Illustrations by Het Harde Potlood / The Hard Pencil

Meta-Group Dispatch #1

By sabine, March 4, 2009

…a first round of reflections from the meta-group. The first Winter Camp plenary session took place on Tuesday evening. Everybody had a moment on stage, some already had an idea of how many networks were in the room, some were completely surprised by the size of this ‘network of networks’. About 180 people presenting themselves, [...]

Workshop Hacking the Cardboard on Thursday

By Minke Kampman, March 2, 2009

Get started Thursday with the world’s smallest 3D user generated offline community. Het Harde Potlood (The Hard Pencil) will give an old school cut ‘n paste workshop. We will be turning trash into space and avatars, conjuring up a network of ideal working environments. Materials: cardboard, plastic, bottle caps, rope, tape, etc. * Duration: 2 [...]