CONTENT
About RFID
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is the barcode of the future. With RFID objects or persons can be equipped with a chip (an RFID tag), readable with an RFID reader from a range of up to several meters. A lot of desired (or undesired) data can be attached to these tags for a variable period of time.
Workshop Content
The RFID workshop will explore social implications and artistic possibilities of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. After a theoretical introduction and hands-on experimentation, participants will have the possibility to test ideas by building RFID prototypes.
The workshop will be introduced by Régine Debatty who will place RFID in the technological context of the overall Ubicomp/Internet of Things world. She will discuss societal effects and issues of RFID, and present examples of art projects using this technology or questionning its use.
The next days of the workshop lead by Daniel van Gils, will focus on a technical introduction to RFID and experimentation of prototypes build with Arduino board and RFID readers and tags (Parallax RFID kits). Daniel will also present different software interfaces to RFID such as Flash, Max-Msp, Pure Data (Pd), and his own realtime 3d environment NuPlay,…
Participants will be able to develop projects with their favorite creative tools (Flash, Max-Msp, Pd, Processing or NuPlay) and to present them during the public presentation at the end of the workshop.
Hardware and Software environment
The workshop will use Arduino as hardware plaftform enriched with RFID readers and a large set of tags (Parallax RFID kit). Participants will use their usual software environment such as Max-Msp, Pd, Processing, Flash or NuPlay, the realtime 3d tool developed by Daniel.
