Tag Archives: photography

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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The RFID photo booth

By Timo | 19 August 2008

At last year’s Picnic conference we created a networked Photo Booth as part of the Mediamatic RFID hackers camp. Picnic is a conference with about two thousand attendees and multiple venues in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.
One of the aims of the Mediamatic workshop was to experiment with ubiquitous technology for social and playful purposes. [...]

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Photos and connections

By Timo | 26 September 2007

Our photo booth is now up and running in the Extraction Hall East at Picnic 07. It is a very conceptually simple ‘photo booth that knows your name’.

Physically it’s a large enclosure that takes pictures of participants, when they touch their RFID tags to a spot inside the booth. The photos get uploaded to [...]

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