## What is Camp About? ![[Pasted image 20260411143542.png]] Hypnodrome started in 2015 when 4 friends, Adam (Hot Damn), Marten (Domegod), Rosie (Bicep) and Max felt inspired to build a dome to use as a medium for sharing their art. In the years since, it’s also been important to us to cultivate a fun, chill, safe space to hangout and host events at regional burning man events and other local art festivals. ![[Pasted image 20260411142754.png]] ![[Pasted image 20260411143349.png]] ![[Pasted image 20260411143020.png]] We make big LED art and host awesome events! We’re officially registered as a “sound camp” which lets us host DJs and play music late into the night. We’re a selective, tight-knit, hard working group of (primarily) Seattle-based queers, weirdos, and poly folx. We typically camp in a group of 10-20 people. We aim to cultivate an environment and group dynamics that foster creativity, self-exploration, self-expression, authenticity, practicing consent and leadership, open honest respectful communication, and mutual encouragement and support for one another. We value emotional intelligence and groundedness, flexibility, and following through on commitments. ![[Pasted image 20260411143303.png]] We tend to operate as a do-ocracy (organizational structure in which individuals choose roles and tasks for themselves and execute them). For important decisions, we do our best to get consensus across all camp members, or at least a critical mass. Currently we're doing a lot of asynchronous coordinating through Discord and spreadsheets. --- ## What We're Up To In 2026 Domegod here. Speaking for myself, but also speaking for the camp. As a camp, we've been focused on a couple goals set in 2025: **Growing the camp**: historically we've been a tight circle of close friends; however we want to create something where we can be more welcoming of new folks, new energy, etc., and we need to make some space for folks to take breaks from camp commitments when we need to (i.e. address burnout). **Building community**: did you know that you can build community just by bringing people together? At events? It's true! **Projects in progress and in the works** - Making upgrades to Bermuda, the triangle panel installation built on the dome - Starting to make plans about building a bigger, stronger dome, with hammocks - Building the new Picodome project, a smaller cuddle cave style dome - Building a new DJ booth --- ## Domegod's Artistic Vision We've been bringing people together with lighs synchronized to music for a decade. But, we're also part of a longer tradition of this type of art, going back to liquid light shows at Greatful Dead concerts, and even further back to fire pits and drum circles. Personally, I have spent a lot of time wrestling with my relationship with technology. I've always spent a lot of time in front of screens. I have some really positive memories of my teen years, where I'd have MTV on a second-screen beside my computer, when I discovered mp3 downloads and the Shoutweb music forums and the Milkdrop music visualizer built into Winamp. I also have some strongly negative feelings associated with infinite-scrolling content mills, corporate dominance of open technologies, and the colonization of our attention. With my art projects I'm often exploring the joy of technology and the way we can reclaim technology to work for us. I'd rather stare at visuals I've generated on the screen, than let some algorithm curate media for me.