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DWeb Camp 2023: Discovering Flows

Flows are everywhere, but most of us don’t perceive them. Discovering flow means tapping into the most powerful forces around us:

     Nature. Technology. Community. You.

These four flows are all connected, influencing each other. At DWeb Camp 2023, June 21-25, we invite you to join us in the California redwoods to tap into these hidden flows, to amplify our collective impact in the world.

DWeb Camp 2022 “Healing Waters”

Oceans and creeks, rivers and lakes, from the clouds in the sky to the pipes in our homes, water connects us all. This is the focus of Healing Waters at DWeb camp,an Indigenous-led, multi-modal celebration of this precious substance that supports all life on Earth. By the meeting place of the Navarro River and the Pacific Ocean, Healing Waters invited DWeb campers to explore their relationship to water and what it means to be fluid, literally and metaphorically — from Indigenous technologies and storytelling to hypermodern science and cartography, with ports of call in art, music, policy, poetry, history, and mythology.

ArtsEd4All stewarded the “BE WATER” Way Station (aka the Camp Navarro Art Barn), a welcoming place for learners of all ages to create, collaborate, and go with the flow.

Browse the Internet Archive’s DWeb Camp 2022 Collection of images & media.

DWeb Principles

The Internet Archive has been one of the lead organizers of DWeb events since 2014. As one of the world’s largest repositories of online knowledge and culture, the Internet Archive has a stake in ensuring that the Web remains free and open. It has brought together those who are transparent about their approaches and are interested in engaging across projects to learn and collaborate. 

PURPOSE AND ORIGIN

These principles define the values of a decentralized web based on enabling agency of all peoples. It is the basis for behavioral norms and mutual accountability.

These principles originate from members of the DWeb Community — those involved with and convened by the Internet Archive’s work on the decentralized web. These stand alongside other sets of principles that share or expand upon these values, in recognition that our efforts to build a more just and equitable world are interdependent.

The principles are ordered from specific to general, beginning with more explicit technical features of a DWeb:

DWeb Camp 2019 at The Mushroom Farm

DWeb Camp 2019 was set on The Mushroom Farm, nestled just above the Pacific Ocean, with 10,000 square feet of hackers space, a mesh network connecting us across the farm, creative projects for all, Wellness Workshops, time to explore beaches, forests & streams, camping in comfort with glamping tents and three farm-to-table meals provided each day. DWeb Camp was also a chance to make deep connections: to builders of Web 3.0, to global communities calling for better technologies, to the planet around you. DWeb Camp is a community-created event where we ask: what can you bring to share?

ArtsEd4All stewarded the “Wayback Wheel” and the Grow Room and hosted the Hamiltunes sing-a-long and the very first DWeb Camp Puppet Parade.

Browse the Internet Archive’s 2019 DWeb Camp Collection of images & media.

The Internet Archive & DJ Spooky’s Quantopia

QUANTOPIA premiered in January 2019 to a sold out house at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

A celebration of the history of the Internet, QUANTOPIA is a tribute to the depth and high stakes of free speech and creative expression involved in our daily use of media. Teaming up with Internet Archive and data artist Greg Niemeyer, mathematician Roger Antonsen and VR studio, MEDIUM Labs, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, composer/multimedia artist Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky has created a multimedia journey exploring the network evolution.

Commissioned by Internet Archive; a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Produced by Sozo Artists with additional support from Sozo Impact, Inc.

Browse the Internet Archive’s Quantopia – The Evolution of the Internet Collection of images & media.

DWeb Summit 2018 at the Mint

2016’s gathering was a call to the Dreamers to build a better Web. 2018’s Decentralized Web Summit – Global Visions / Working Code was a demonstration of how far we have come. With scores of prototypes and apps now built with decentralized protocols, it’s time to collaborate, communicate and engage the communities who need these tools the most.

Located in the Wayback Ballroom, “The Wayforward Machine” was a creative collaborative play space operated by members of the ArtsEd4All team, who independently ran seven different activity stations. Each art-making station presented information and artifacts of childhood preserved in the Rooftop ARTchives, established by ArtsEd4All in 2016 with the support of the Internet Archive.

“The Wayforward Machine” (2018) with ArtsEd4All: Andi Wong, Judy Toupin, Mary Ann Cruz, Antigone Trimis, Lisa Edsall-Giglio, Maggy Frias, Victor Yan and Patrick Wu.

Browse the Internet Archive’s 2018 Decentralized Summit Collection of images & media.

DWeb Summit 2016 at The Internet Archive

The Decentralized Web Summit took place at the Internet Archive from June 7th – June 9th, 2016. The Summit & meetup was a two-day event bringing together a diverse group of Web architects, activists, engineers, archivists, scholars, journalists, and other stakeholders to explore the technology required to build a Decentralized Web and its impact.

Call to action: The current Web is not private or censorship-free. It lacks a memory, a way to preserve our culture’s digital record through time. The Decentralized Web aims to make the Web open, secure and free of censorship by distributing data, processing, and hosting across millions of computers around the world, with no centralized control.

DWeb Summit participants contributed to “Decentralized Origami” at the 2016 Decentralized Web Summit.

You can read more about the event on the press page.

“We’re All in The Same Boat” Bread & Puppet’s 2015 West Coast Tour

For the first time in fourteen years, artist Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet Theater toured the West Coast with a series of performances, workshops, lectures, exhibits and parades – a real Feast of Bread and Puppet events in the Bay Area from October 7th – October 13th, 2015.