Tag Archives: EMF

Responses to ‘Immaterials’

By Timo | 26 October 2009

In the two weeks since we launched our film Immaterials we’ve seen it spread across the internet, going much further than we anticipated for such an esoteric exploration! So far it’s been covered by Infosthetics, Slashdot, PSFK, Fast Company, Popular Science, io9, Wired, Gizmodo (FR, JP), Microsiervos, Make Magazine, Gizmologia, Influxinsights, WonderHowTo, Amal Graafstra, [...]

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Immaterials: the ghost in the field

By Timo | 12 October 2009

This video is about exploring the spatial qualities of RFID, visualised through an RFID probe, long exposure photography and animation. It features Timo Arnall of the Touch project and Jack Schulze of BERG.
The problem and opportunity of invisibility
RFID is still badly understood as an interactive technology. Many aspects of RFID interaction are fundamentally invisible; as [...]

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Making radio tangible

By Timo | 10 October 2009

Next week we’re launching some new work that explores the spatial aspects of RFID. So before we publish that, here is a quick summary of existing work on radio, sensors and space that I’ve been compiling for a while.
The ‘Radiogenic’
Dunne & Raby introduce the idea of ‘Hertzian space’ in Design Noir and Hertzian Tales where [...]

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Wireless in the world

By Timo | 16 March 2009

An ongoing Touch theme is about making invisible wireless technologies visible, in order to better understand and communicate with and about them (see a Graphic Language for RFID, Dashed lines and Fictional radio spaces).
Right now I am sitting near fourteen objects sending and receiving radio signals, from Oyster cards to mobile phones and wireless [...]

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Contact-less

By Timo | 28 August 2008

From the Picnic conference last year, Mediamatic’s ‘RFID safe’ which protects your wireless RFID cards from being read or ‘skimmed’. With Mifare security problems a reality, and the ability to skim cards such as the Oyster fairly easily, I wonder how common these things will become?

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Magnetic Movie

By Timo | 8 May 2008

In the same vein as the Bubbles of Radio work from last year, Magnetic Movie is a film that explores visible and audible manifestations of radio fields. The film is by Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor and commissioned by Animate Projects that remains on the forefront of “exploring the relationship between art and [...]

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Fictional radio-spaces

By Timo | 5 December 2007

In spring 2007 interaction design students at AHO participated in a research-driven course called Tangible interactions that investigated themes around RFID, NFC and the Touch project. This is one of the projects that emerged from the course.

In this project called “the bubbles of radio” Ingeborg Marie Dehs Thomas used critical, visual design as a way [...]

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Phantom geometry and tissue-simulant liquids

By Timo | 30 August 2006

I’m investigating the visualisation of electromagnetic fields, part of our exploratory process to look at the materiality of RFID. What are we talking about when we say ‘touch-based interaction’ or ‘near field’ for instance? This investigation threw up an interesting company: Indexsar specialises in:

“Turnkey test systems for the measurement of SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) and [...]

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