Workshop

Mediamatic Social RFID Hackers Camp @ Picnic 08

19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 September 2008

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In the days immediately preceding this years' PICNIC, Mediamatic is setting up another heavy duty Hackers Camp. If you didn't know yet, PICNIC is an outstanding high-profile conference at the intersection of media, technology, the arts and entertainment, and Mediamatic is a project partner of PICNIC, just like last year. Find out what we did last year.

The iTea made during the Hackers Camp in 2007. Picture by Anne Helmond, taken from Flickr.

What?

The Hackers Camp will explore various recent technologies, interaction design and social processes, and aims to realise a bunch of engaging interactive installations, wearables and spaces, for the visitors of PICNIC to play with. The projects to be realised in this Camp will be (and/or) amazing, subversive, beautiful and unheard of.

Who?

We are collecting a group of excellent coders, designers and physical computeers that know how to enjoy a creative and technical challenge. They will be the participants to the Hackers Camp at PICNIC.

When?

The Hackers Camp will be a feverish five days from 19 till 23 of september. 5 days long, 24 hrs a day. So whatever the hackers' most creative and productive hours of the day are, they can use them. PICNIC takes place this year from 24 till to 26 september.

Where?

We will have the perfect Oostelijke Metershuis all for ourselves. This is on the terrain of the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, where PICNIC also takes place.

Why?

The main thing is this special pleasure to work together with really good and creative people on beautiful and innovative projects.
Also Mediamatic takes a DIY attitude to our technological environment. We think it important to understand the technologies that surround us also practically, and to explore and develop their cultural and social potential.

How?

Technical starting points are the possibilities of AnyMeta, the semantic CMS in which the online social network environment picnicnetwork and mediamatic.net are built.
We'll have a huge amount of RFID readers and chips. Guests to PICNIC will all have a RFID chip that directly connects to their profile page in the picnicnetwork. We'll have all kinds of Arduino boards, RFID tags / readers and a bunch of sensors, to play and experiment with.

Who?

If you think you've got what it takes please send us your profile and motivation to join the Camp.
If you fit the requirements we'll let you know a.s.a.p. if you can still join, there are only a few places left!
Please keep in mind that we do ask from you to be available during the whole period.
For more information contact Deborah Meibergen at

So...

What we'll provide is the right people, all the gear, food and drinks during the day, a very good place to work, the challenge and the excellent opportunity to present your projects.