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Interview with Annelie Grob: New Media at the Children’s Book Museum

In The Hague there is the Dutch Children’s Books Museum (Kinderboekenmuseum). On the 8th of December 2010 was the opening of the new exhibition called Papiria. Within the new exhibition children with the age of three trough thirteen, learn...

By Maarten Jansen on 10/31/11 Comments Off

App review: Appie, groceries 2.0

Some do it on a daily basis, some do it on a weekly basis: grocery shopping. The best known and one of the oldest supermarkets in the Netherlands is Albert Heijn. In november 2009 the company introduced Appie (pun...

By Bree Tahapary on 10/16/11 1

Relationships matter! Even for our royal!

Since last Saturday our Royal is on twitter as well! And today on the news there was a new article about it. U can read the full article here. Although i am not very interested in our Royal, it...

By Layla Van Daalen on 09/27/10 1

Book-review- Open 19: Beyond Privacy. New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domain

Book-review- Open 19: Beyond Privacy. New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domain Jorinde Seijdel (Editor), Liesbeth Melis (Editor) ISBN: 978-90-5662-736-,144 pages, This book is an edition of Open, published by SKOR a foundation of art and public...

By Layla Van Daalen on 09/21/10 Comments Off

Pecking in the Picnic

Yesterday was the last day of the PICNIC event, and even though the "main course" was only acessible to conference ticket owners, there were still plenty of activities to be...

By Margarida Fonseca on 09/26/09 2

Mediamatic at PICNIC 08

Mediamatic is a project partner of PICNIC. Excellent coders, designers and physical computers participate in this heavy duty camp to explore recent technologies, RFID, interaction design and social processes. The goal of the Camp is to realize multiple interactive...

By Cornelia Scripca on 09/29/08 6

PICNIC 08 – Let All Things Be Connected

PICNIC-08 Let all things be connected Lecturer: Rafi Haladjian Raffi is one of the co-founders of Violet, which was founded in 2003, its main aim was and still is connecting things to the Internet and by things I mean...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 09/25/08 3

Recalling RFID: Full Report

Recalling RFID was held on Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th of October at de Balie. This unique event included presentations on RFID, debates and digital connectivity scenarios by industry representatives, academics, artists, privacy advocates, programmers and consultants....

By Erik Borra on 10/25/07 124

Reporting from Recalling RFID

On the morning of the Recalling RFID public program at Amsterdam’s De Balie, I passed one of the newly installed OV chipcard terminals at the metro station. It proved to be the beginning of a day that aimed to...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/24/07 Comments Off

Nietzsche and privacy

The Internet has brought up a lot of privacy issues over the years. For example personal information that leaks or identities that get stolen. But users can also change their own identity and pretent to be someone else. This...

By Laura van der Vlies on 10/09/07 Comments Off

Recalling RFID

two-day public program on RFID and things to come. 19 & 20 OCTOBER 2007 DE BALIE AMSTERDAM http://www.debalie.nl/recallingrfid It’s in travel documents, building passes, pet animals, clothing stores, libraries, public pools, theme parks and prisons… and yet only a...

By Erik Borra on 09/28/07 1

Construction time! Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

Projects are ready to be prototyped and build. This monday all participants are working individually or with a small number of people on parts of the projects. You might think a “hackers camp” only includes hardware and software hacking...

By Esther Weltevrede on 09/26/07 Comments Off

Social experiences with RFID: Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

This workshop is technical. It should include RFID. However, the aim of the projects is to make something for people. After some great technical and sometimes geeky first ideas for the projects, in the morning session we looked at...

By Esther Weltevrede on 09/26/07 Comments Off

Kick off! Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

RFID Hackers Camp kicks off at Westergasfabriek, the PICNIC 07 location. With a group of great hackers, designers and engineers the camp aims to bring together creativity, knowledge, and skills from various fields and disciplines to realize innovative and...

By Esther Weltevrede on 09/24/07 2