Workshop:

Workshop RFID & the Internet of Things

5 speakers and much more

6 May 2006
7 May 2006

In this new RFID & the Internet of Things workshop by Mediamatic, 5 great speakers guided the participants of the workshop through the technical, social and cultural issues relating to RFID and the unique digital identification of objects. Assisted by the coaches, participants developped RFID related prototypes and user-scenarios.

With:
Régina Debatty, Matthew Karau, Heiko Hansen, Malcolm McCullough, Matthijs Vincent Kouw
  • Régine Debatty is the writer of the famous blog we-make-money-not-art.com and has a special interest in RFID. In her lecture she gave a broad overview of current artistic and cultural applications of RFID.
  • Matthew Karau (former researcher at MIT MediaLab) has been working on numerous RFID related projects. He gave technical introductions on what RFID is and what it is or is not capable of, and supported the participants in developing their projects.
  • Heiko Hansen is artist and one half of the duo HeHe, that makes beautiful projects in which the technological

systems that surround us are 'reverse engineered', and put to new critical usage and social functions. Using examples from HeHe's work, Heiko went into issues relating to ubiquitous computing and physical interfaces.

  • Malcom McCullough, is Associate Professor of Architecture and Design, University of Michigan, and author of Digital Ground. Malcolm talked about designing for human agency in a situation where (digital) interactivity has become ambient, and discussed his theory of 'place' for interaction design.
  • Matthijs Kouw studies Science Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam and presented his research into the issue of making sense of the enormous reservoirs of new kinds of data that are generated by the wide implementation of RFID.

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