RFID and the Internet of Things

14 | 15 | 16 November @ Mediamatic

RFID & The Internet of Things is a workshop for a maximum of 16 designers and artists who want to learn more about RFID and its possible effects and uses.

A group of great international speakers guide the participants through technical, social, cultural and political RFID issues. Participants make their own prototype of an RFID application or scenario, in which the virtual and the physical world are joined.

RFID plays a pivotal role in joining the physical world with the digital. An object tagged with an RFID chip has a unique digital identity. Any kind of online data can be linked to these unique ID's. Here is where the real world and the internet become two faces of the same reality. Things go online, in other words, an internet of things evolves.

During the workshop participants can mould their ideas into working prototypes, allowing them to partake in the whole process; from 'idea' to (potential) 'product'. Workshop projects may range from new ways to personalise objects, to funny locative applications or world-wide sustainability scenario's.
Mediamatics' RFID powered Symbolic Table as well as the Nokia 3220 RFID phone will be amongst the available tools for participants to use, test and play their ideas on.

tagged portrait picture with RFID

Trajectory

The morning sessions are dedicated to lectures on current technology, theory and implementations of RFID and Internet-of-Things concepts. In the afternoons participants will develop their own projects. Experienced staff will be present for technical and conceptual assistance. The workshop ends with an informal presentation.

Confirmed lecturers and trainers:

Melanie Rieback (US, NL)

Melanie Rieback wrote the worlds' first RFID virus and is mainly involved in the RFID Guardian Project, a collaborative project focused upon providing security and privacy in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems. The RFID Guardian is a mobile battery-powered device that offers personal RFID security and privacy management. Rieback is last year PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Julian Bleecker (US)

Julian Bleecker is a Research Fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication and an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Media Division, part of the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. His work focuses on emerging technology design, research and development, implementation, concept innovation, particularly in the areas of pervasive media, mobile media, social networks and entertainment, and he is one of the main theoreticists on The Internet of Things.
In his lecture he'll speak about the currently existing elements from which an internet of things seems to be evolving, and what it could mean to live surrounded by an internet of things.

Arie Altena (NL)

Arie Altena writes about art and new media for various magazines; lectures at art academies; studied Literary Theory; worked at Mediamatic; was editor of Mediamatic Magazine and Metropolis M; co-organized the festivals Sonic Acts X and XI;
In 2006 he is a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His blog-research, entitled In the Loop, is part of the Ubiscribe-project.
In his talk he will into the life of data-clouds, in the context of the convergence of Web2.0 and networked RFID systems.

Rob van Kranenburg (NL)

Rob van Kranenburg is senior lecturer Ambient Experience Design (HKU, KMT) and program manager at the Virtueel Platform. He is a longtime critical follower of the developments around ubiqitous computing and RFID. In the workshop he'll go the current state of affairs around RFID implementations. He will discuss the ways in which old and new stakeholders deal with the most important issues, and deduct a prediction about 'where it's going'.

Chris O'Shea (UK)

Collaborative project at AllofUs
Chris O'Shea is an interactive media artist and independent researcher. He constructs models of interaction that borrow from toy design and video games, to create play situations within virtual environments and in tangible devices.
His presentation will be on creating interaction outside the keyboard and mouse, into physical spaces and tangible objects, and discuss possibly ways in which RFID can be used to facilitate these ideas. You'll find a website on Chris' own works here. And his blog where he discusses other people's works is here.

How Much?

Reduction of € 50!
The participation fee is now reduced to €300 per person, excluding VAT !! (€357 incl.VAT). Lunches, technical equipment and assistence are included.

If you want to participate in this workshop, please register here

You may cancel your registration until 10 days before the beginning of the workshop. In that case we will charge you € 45,= to compensate for administration costs.

For more information about our RFID and the Internet of Things workshop, mail to workshops@mediamatic.nl or call Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901.

More information about our previous rfid workshops you can find in the workshop reports or on our rfid page.

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