Jonnet M

PICNIC comes to town

Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 3

Out of the early morning haze, a convoy of articulated lorries pulls into the Gashouder square. The PICNIC transformation has begun.

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Lighting rig rolling into PICNIC - At Hacker Camp '09 Jonnet M

Case after case of lighting rig rolls out of the trucks and across the Gashouder threshold. The hackers, the pioneer settlers of the festival, suddenly seem to be a small piece in an ever expanding jigsaw. How big an impact can they have on this mammoth new media showdown with a few tiny RFID chips, readers, frisbees and phone booths?