Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
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… Read more Hacking the cardboard workshop by Hard Pencil
Illustrations by Het Harde Potlood / The Hard Pencil The Hard Pencil are drawing illustrations at Winter Camp and this one refers to the plenary session from Wednesday night. Someone from the audience said that when we talk about networks and communities we need to keep in mind that our online friends are not our… Read more Facebook friends are not friends, not real friends
Yesterday the meta-group discussed the topics of the plenary sessions at Winter Camp. I then visualized these into mindmaps/tagclouds. The meta-group produced three theme clouds, derived from the texts that the networks wrote for the program booklet. These clouds were presented by Soenke Zehle on the opening night, and will function as a framework for… Read more Winter Camp: Plenary Themes Visualized
No, I’m not skiing but I’m at the Wintercamp event in Amsterdam. Winter Camp is an event, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and will take place 3-7 March ‘09 in Amsterdam. Network Cultures Winter Camp will be a mix of presentations and work spaces with an emphasis on getting things done. It will… Read more I’m at Wintercamp
Tea and Twitter Yesterday, @puur from Puur* Amsterdam organized the second edition of Twitter Tea Amsterdam. We had a lovely high tea at the Bakkerswinkel Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam with 30 female tweeps. @10inc and @silvertje Twitter ladies Pie and scones @marlooz @SanneW More photos on Flickr in my Twitter Tea (Set)
Last night I was introduced to the phenomenon of nerdcore. Yes, I’ve been often labeled a nerd and me and my friends often spend evenings just geeking out so this sounded like the perfect evening. Glitched, the Dutch nerdcore event program started of with the premiere of the Nerdcore for Life documentary followed by several… Read more Photos and video from Glitched, the first Nerdcore event in Amsterdam.