The project will kick off with the sommercamp from the 10th to the 16th of August 2009 in the foyer and the studios at House of World Culture with a number of different open workshops. Workshops are an ideal form to sketch new approaches, to build interdisciplinary bridges and above all to soften the borders between artist, thinker and practitioner on the one side and a passive audience on the other side. Workshops are “detectors” to test new working and communication models, catalysts of ideas and indicators for their relevance and acceptance. The invited workshops/artists/thinkers are exemplary for very different approaches to art and technology, for individual working methods, communication models and organisation structures.

sommercamp is devided in 3 workshop clusters:

A] World as Representation: systems and simulation.
B] Re:Discovering Sound an Instrument-building Workshop
C] Ways of Doing. Approaches, Manuals, Tactics, Strategies and the Operational Art

The single workshops will be open for public (with registration - see workshop clusters). After the one-week-workshop phase a final presentations will take place on 15  August 2009 4PM at the House of World Culture. All workshop results will be shown until the 16 August. Please find a detailed schedule here >>>.

Already on August 9. the workshop leaders will introduce themself with a Performance-evening at ausland.

The following WIKI page gives more useful information about the workshop location, dates, hours etc and will be updated constantly: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/wiki/doku.php?id=start