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The MacBook Reading Club revisited with the Facebook Self-Portrait

When Esther Weltevrede gave a short lecture on our MacBook Reading Club at Mediamatic she placed the aesthetics of the Photobooth self-portrait within the larger history of self-portraits: Digital camera technology advanced ego-photography and ways for selfpresentation. Analogue photography mainly focused on the presentation of others. With exception of the time consuming and error prone… Read more The MacBook Reading Club revisited with the Facebook Self-Portrait

Posted on March 15, 2009May 20, 2009 by Anne

Performance by Issa Nyaphaga from Freedimensional

Photography: Anne Helmond Performance by Issa Nyaphaga from Freedimensional from silvertje on Vimeo.

Posted on March 8, 2009May 20, 2009 by Anne

Hacking the cardboard workshop by Hard Pencil

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

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Anne

Winter Camp: Plenary Themes Visualized

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

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Anne

I’m at Wintercamp

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 â€˜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

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Anne