[Nettime-nl] Announcement workshop RFID & the Internet of Things

[Jago van den Akker|Mediamatic <jago@mediamatic.net>]

Dear sir/madam,

I would kindly ask you if you could place this announcement on your  
website / calendar / mailinglist. Mediamatic is a cultural  
institution in Amsterdam. We do exhibitions, presentations, workshops  
and other activities in Amsterdam and internationally. This  
announcement is for our upcoming RFID workshop in May.

Thanks in advance.

Jago van den Akker | Assistant Workshop Coordinator

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RFID & the Internet of Things

Workshop 9 | 10 | 11 May @ Mediamatic


RFID will play a pivotal role in fusing the physical world with the  
digital. RFID allows for the unique identification of objects, and  
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.

What are useful things to have online? How can the sharing of  
information between things yield us new meanings and experiences?  
What are important kinds of human agency that should be designed into  
an Internet of Things?

The participants of this workshop will develop critical, utopian or  
nightmarish scenarios for an Internet of things. Ideas can range from  
scripts for small new rituals to outlines of societal changes of epic  
scale.

The morning sessions are dedicated to lectures on current technology,  
theory and implementations of RFID. In the afternoons participants  
will develop their projects. Participants can use the workshop tool  
consisting of RFID tags, readers and an online database. Experienced  
staff will be present for technical assistance. The workshop ends  
with an informal presentation.

PRACTICAL

The workshop has room for 16 designers, artists, thinkers and makers  
who are interested in this technology and its possible effects.   
Participation fee is €350 per person, ex BTW. Lunches, technical  
equipment and assistance are included.
The workshop will take place in the seminar room of Mediamatic, at  
the 5th floor of the Post CS building, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:

http://www.mediamatic.net/article-9212-en.html

 If you want to participate in this workshop, please register at our  
online registration form:

http://www.mediamatic.net/article-9699-en.html

 The reader for this workshop can be found here:

http://www.mediamatic.net/article-11186-en.html

For questions or more information, surf to http://www.mediamatic.net/ 
artefact-11183-en.html, mail to workshops@mediamatic.nl, or call  
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901.


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