Kumao’s performative technologies generate artistic spectacles in order to visualize the unseen: psychological states, emotions, compulsions, thinking patterns, and dreams
Category Archive: rfid
Wooden boxes that deliver Situation(ist) quotes, order you to bring them to their friends upstairs within 30 seconds, and treat you like delinquents or servants
I interviewed 5 artists (Paula Roush, Doria Fan, Joshua Klein, David Kousemaker and Meghan Trainor) as well as our favourite expert from Tokyo (Konomi Shin’ishi) about their experience with RFID technology
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4 curators introduce new emergent talent from Japan while juxtaposing their works alongside influential Japanese artists from the 1960s and 1970s
Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects, by Tom Igoe (whom i interviewed over a year […]
The Ludic Society‘s Tagged City Play for Real Players in Real Cities was recently presented at Social Hacking, […]
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Yuichiro Katsumoto from imgl/Keio Media Design in Japan has developed a fascinating “toy” which could turn potentially any […]
The 23rd Chaos Communication Congress has just kicked off this morning at the Berliner Congress Center in Berlin. […]
RealSnailMail is a project currently developed by boredomresearch. The system uses real snails with pet RFID chips glued […]
I came back from Ci’Num yesterday. The event, held in Margaux (very very small French town too far […]
S.U.I. stands for Smart Urban Intelligence and caricatures the growing tendency towards computer-controlled surveillance of public and private […]
Rf id mon amour 1.0 is a kit that allows designers, artists and architects to create interactive exhibitions […]
Graduation show of the IDII in Milan, project number 8. Ana Camila Amorim‘s uni.me project is a mobile […]
Drew Hemment created the Futuresonic International Festival in 1995. As AHRC Research Fellow at University of Salford, he […]
Fourth project from the IDII graduation show. Stint, by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, is a music sharing service that combines […]
CALL A BALL is a pretty neat and very simple concept developed by three young Dutch designers: Janis […]
A few days ago i was appalled to read that Scott Silverman, from VeriChip, had proposed implanting RFID […]
I’m always on the lookout for games using CCTV cameras (btw, if you’ve heard of any, please leave […]
Poisonous snakes are to be moved from the site of a new stretch of a Nortern UK motorway […]
Two months ago, Konomi wrote about this interesting Japanese project to RFID tags in cow’s stomach to predict […]
RFID Snakes and Ladders is a game currently played at the Media Centre, Huddersfield, until June 2nd. The […]
It’s always a blast to be at Mediamatic. I could only attend the first day of their RFID […]
Arphield Recordings documents impromptu arphid sound performances produced by people scanning their Oysters cards as they access London […]
Attention Please! is an experiment taking place at the Box, an exhibtion space in FACT, Liverpool, UK. Audience […]
Visitors to Alton Towers in England could soon be tagged and tracked by cameras in a new system […]
At the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea show during the Salone del Mobile, Vinay Venkatraman gave me some explanations […]
Nancy Nisbet, an artist who teaches visual art at the University of British Columbia, is about to embark […]
The Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is working on a system that allows for information gathering […]
Researchers at the Amsterdam’s Free University created an RFID chip infected with a virus to prove that RFID […]
Sherelog is a system that fetches data from Suica (an RFID train pass) and visualizes personal train-ride records […]
Super-tough RFID tags, created to help owners identify their livestock, have been attached to a collection of garments […]
Biologists and oceanographs are enlisting 23 species of apex predators to serve as ocean sensors, outfitting them with […]
NTT Communications and Tmsuk have begun testing the RFID-guided shopping assistant robots at a shoping mall in Fukuoka. […]
In Knifeandfork‘s immersive installation, 5 ’til 12, visitors are invited to watch four characters, on four monitors, as […]
Something to add to my list of “I want one of those.” VistaCrafts RFIQin, available in Japan, comes […]
The indispensable RFID in Japan informs that the Ubiquitous ID Center has presented some cool stuff at the […]
Researchers in the Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster University (UK), have developed a game which can be played […]
You’ve been sent to a 31st-century prison, where puzzles will help you crack the security system and escape. […]
There were some great talks at NEXT conference last Friday. Here’s my notes on Jason Tester‘s blurb about […]