Tag Archives: RFID

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

Maarten Jansen | 31 October 2011, 11:59 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,


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 about the way stories are written, what is important for telling a scary story or a love story. They discover…

App review: Appie, groceries 2.0

Bree Tahapary | 16 October 2011, 12:01 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

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 intended), a digital grocery shopping assistent right in the palm of your hand. The application is developed by IceMobile. Let’s…

Relationships matter! Even for our royal!

Layla Van Daalen | 27 September 2010, 8:53 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

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 reminds me too of her criticism of social media. Our Queen have said in her christmas speach: Social media makes us less social in our offline world, also called urban open spaces.

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

Layla Van Daalen | 21 September 2010, 12:09 am | tags: , , , ,

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

At this time, an information age where information is everywhere and increases daily,…

Pecking in the Picnic

Margarida Fonseca | 26 September 2009, 8:15 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

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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 involved in, people to meet and games to try out.

Mediamatic at PICNIC 08

Cornelia Scripca | 29 September 2008, 12:46 am | 6 comments | tags: , ,

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 installations, wearables and spaces for the visitors of PICNIC to play with.

I went to PICNIC a few days…

PICNIC 08 – Let All Things Be Connected

Maggie Badermadjian | 25 September 2008, 2:38 pm | 3 comments | tags: , ,

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 everything.
But what seems to be different with Violet is that it doesn’t only emphasise on the network…

Recalling RFID: Full Report

Erik Borra | 25 October 2007, 5:24 pm | 33 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Recalling RFID logo by Leon&LoesRecalling 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. Recalling the current state of affairs and looking to the future, it turned out to be a very interesting, high quality…

Reporting from Recalling RFID

Twan Eikelenboom | 24 October 2007, 11:46 am | tags: , , , , ,

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 recall Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID). And through heated debate, recalling seemed to be two-fold: regain awareness of the topic to…

Nietzsche and privacy

Laura van der Vlies | 09 October 2007, 10:52 am | tags: , ,

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 tendency towards less privacy fits one of Friedrich Nietzsches quotes.

‘No price is too high to pay for the privilege…