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Internet of Things: workshop on RFID and other kind of spimes
July 7-9, 2010 at KITCHEN BUDAPEST (Hungary)

RFID is part of the ecology of IPV6, barcodes and all kinds of wireless which make up the linking up of people, things and the environment.

If we look at it from our analogue point of view and in our current economic and democratic systems of fear, crisis and control it does not show great promise for more balance, more joy or more happiness. However, if we are able to look beyond ourselves, the real profit may lie in getting to know ourselves and our friends and enemies better and being able to live up fully to our potential if everything becomes a bit more transparent.

Rob van Kranenburg and Pawel Pokutycki, the head chefs of the workshop at KITCHEN BUDAPEST (in collaboration with MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) will cook a delicious radioactive soup tastefully tagged with a flavour of sweet do-it-yourself electronics and spime* spices. Fresh food for thought, unforgettable recipes and the best ingredients served straight on the plates of hungry creatives.

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The AR Lab has been invited to hold a lecture at the Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht. Wim van Eck will present the lab's projects, and talk about commercial implementations of augmented reality.

The Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) invited the AR+RFID Lab to present during one of their Friday Night events. On Friday nights the Van Gogh Museum is open until 22.00 and there’s always something special going on. For this project a team of students (Marieke Bijster, Joris van Dam, Martin Hoorweg, Hannah Mjolses, Matthijs Munnik, Alrik Stelling, Susanne Vruwink and Arjen Zuidgeest) joined the Lab, under supervision of Wim van Eck.

The current exhibition, ‘Paul Gauguin - The breakthrough into modernity’, will be the inspiration for our project. Updates on the project will follow soon!

Date: 28th of May, from 18:30 till 22:00

In totaal dienden 52 hogescholen een projectvoorstel in via de Raak-Pro regeling, waarvan er nu 12 zijn gehonoreerd. Het gehonoreerde voorstel van de Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag betreft onderzoek naar AR (augmented reality) waar de Academie sinds 2006 mee bezig is in het AR+RFID-Lab.

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Out of 52 project proposals 12 proposals were selected and some will follow.

The new research program AR-VIP of the AR-Lab will concern itself with research in the field of Augmented Reality, Visualization, Interaction and Perception in the interest of art, design and science. The research will be within the Raak-Pro programme.
This will build upon two earlier projects concerning Augmented Reality and RFID in Raak-MKB and Raak-Publiek.

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Yolande Kolstee is asked about different types of Augmented Reality in Added Extras, an article on AR in print in the British Journal of Photography.

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The Masters of New Media blog of the University of Amsterdam praises the innovative interface for Augmented Reality that was realised for the Kröller – Müller project.

"A good example of the ways in which art can benefit from augmented reality, and becomes totally different by the use of augmented reality techniques, was the installation in the Kröller – Müller Museum by the AR+RFID Lab from the Hague. This lab has as main objective to create and support art, which is based on augmented reality techniques. The installation at the Kröller – Müller Museum in July 2009 was a great example of this, as we can see in the documentation. The system was based on data shown on screens, which where mounted on walkers and thus moved by the spectators."

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In the January issue of Intern Magazine Bram Vromans, Daan Mulder and Frank te Grotenhuis, students of the KABK who collaborated with the AR+RFID Lab, are interviewed to discuss Augmented Reality and Interior Design.

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The AR+RFID Lab has been invited to hold a christmas lecture at the Glasgow branch of the British Computer Society. Yolande Kolstee will present the lab's projects, and will bring a few of our Augmented Reality Books for a live demo.

Yolande Kolstee, projectleader of the AR+RFID Lab, will talk at the MT Design Day 'Disruptive by Design' at the Rotterdam School of Management.

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Opening of our exhibition 'State of the AR'
November 16, 2009

The opening of our exhibition 'State of the AR' on Monday the 16th was a great success! Many people from the Dutch world of Augmented Reality came to see the works that were exhibited in the gallery of the KABK. Professor Pieter Jonker, AR+RFID Lab's Yolande Kolstee, Sabine Wildevuur, Joost Rekveld and Dorota Walentynowicz gave talks on the subjects of science, art, technology and vision. The exhibition has been curated by Joachim Rotteveel.

State of the AR is still open every day until November the 28th. Operation of the AR equipment every workday from 16:00 until 18:00 and on Saturday from 11 until 14:00.

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Exhibition 'State of the AR' at the KABK
Research in Art and Design with Augmented Reality at the AR+RFID Lab

With the 'State of the AR' exhibition, the AR+RFID Lab of the Royal Academy of Arts The Hague (KABK) and the Bio-Robotics Lab of TU-Delft show the art projects and designs that have been developed over the past three years. This exceptional exhibition can be experienced from 16 November until 28 November in the Gallery of the KABK, the Academy in which the AR+RFID Lab is situated!

State of the AR + ArtScience Colloquium 16 November 16.00h

16.00h – Introduction by Yolande Kolstee (Head of AR+RFID Lab)
16.05h – The Augmented Reality Technology of the AR+RFID Lab –
Prof. Pieter Jonker (Bio-Robotics Lab, TU-Delft)
16.20h – Invisible Vision: Could Science learn from the Arts? –
Sabine Wildevuur (Head of Programme Healthcare, Waag Society)
16.35h – Drinks & Official opening of State of the AR by Yolande Kolstee

Exhibition open until 19.00

17.15h – Machine Mediated Vision – Joost Rekveld (Artist, Head of ArtScience Interfaculty)
17.45h – Plato Machine – Dorota Walentynowicz (Artist)
18.15h – Final Words by Joost Rekveld

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On December 4 V2_ will hold an event on the topic of Augmented Reality. The AR+RFID Lab will be present.

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The AR+RFID Lab will speak at the I-Fabriek manifestation in Maastricht. This two day event is free. I-Fabriek will have lectures, workshops, performances, music and art.

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During the Kennisfestival 2009 in Leiden the AR+RFID Lab will show Augmented Reality books of its presentations at the Salone di Mobile in 2008 and at Kröller-Müller Museum this summer.

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AR+RFID Lab in magazine Chip
October 29, 2009

The lab has its own side feature in an article on Augmented Reality in the November issue of Dutch magazine Chip. The magazine interviewed Yolande Kolstee about the activities of the lab.

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The AR+RFID Lab held a lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design which was well received. The lecture is part of a series covering responsive environments. The pursuits thus far have included purely digital as well as mixed digital/physical projects and courses. The lecture series ties in with this interest and presents speakers that pursue a variety of related, yet diverse types of work. Material based approaches, engineering, artistic approaches, environmental approaches – the series will host a total of 6 speakers this academic year, and intentionally brings a spectrum of speakers to the school that are outside the traditional boundary of the design profession.

Scientific American writes about Jurjen's Phd thesis! The article is called "New Computer Graphics Systems Give Reality a Convincing Makeover".

Yet another article appeared a few days later on a French website L'Atelier (in French).

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De Pers wrote an article about Jurjen Caarls' Ph.D. thesis.

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From 25 September 2009 until 10 January 2010 a building designed by Tim Versteegh, a student from Artez, Arnhem Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, will be shown at the 4th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. The building has been animated and put in an Augmented Reality environment by the AR+RFID Lab. This AR production was made in co-operation with MINIbar.

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Idealize also wrote about Jurjen's Ph.D. defense at the TU Delft.

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This friday Jurjen Caarls will have his Ph.D. defense at the TU Delft on the subject of optical see-through Augmented Reality. The headset he developed is currently being used by the AR+RFID Lab. De Telegraaf wrote an article about it.

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On July 11 our Lab presented a large Augmented Reality installation at the Sweet Summer Night: Illusion in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum. The Lab collaborated in this project with students from different departments of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague.

See our work process: www.arlab.nl/research .

Besides creating a unique 3D content for this event we developed an innovative Augmented Reality equipment with rollators (the AR screen-based system is mounted on them) and a special, large screen rotating 360 degrees around the panorama of the sculpture garden.

The students involved in the project were Ferenc Molnar, Mit Koevoets, Jing Foon Yu, Marcel Kerkmans and Alrik Stelling. The AR+RFID Lab team: Yolande Kolstee, Wim van Eck, Melissa Coleman, Pawel Pokutycki, supported by Martin Sjardijn and Joachim Rotteveel.

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The KABK's AR+RFID Lab exhibited its Augmented Reality applications for cultural heritage at the Dutch conference for Human Computer Interaction and User Experience Design on the 11th of June in Leiden. The 3D-Popup Book and Reconstruction Lab were part of the exhibition Sgraffito in 3D at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen earlier this year for which the lab worked in collaboration with artist Joachim Rotteveel. A paper by Yolande Kolstee, manager of the AR+RFID Lab, written especially for this conference has been accepted for publication.

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Interview in Focus Haaglanden May 5, 2009 Short interview with Yolande Kolstee about creative industry in the region of Haaglanden. More (Dutch only, page 11) >>>

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On-line platform on creativity and innovation Idealize wrote an article about the projects of our Lab with the Augmented Reality technology.

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Dutch on-line magazine ScienceGuide published an article about the Sgraffito in 3D project.

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KABK Open Day January 31, 2009 On Saturday, January 31 during the Open Day of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague the AR+RFID Lab presented a new, entertaining augmented reality installation based on small, tangible markers and "interactive mirrors" - a set of screens displaying 3D models of hats.

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AR+RFID Lab in Hong Kong January 20, 2009 From 8th till 13th of December the AR+RFID Lab participated in the Business of Design Week '08 event in Hong Kong. Wim van Eck presented the Sgraffito in 3D project from the exhibition at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen .

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Innovatieproeftuin 2028 December 1, 2008 AR+RFID Lab has been invited to join the stand of SIA - Stichting Innovatie Alliantie at the conference Innovatieproeftuin 2028 in Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam on Wednesday, December 3. More >>>

Tag-Scan-Privacy-Match October 20, 2008 In collaboration with our partners from the DIFR - Dutch Interdisciplinary Forum on RFID the AR+RFID Lab is working on a new project called Tag-Scan-Privacy-Match. The goal of the project is to develop a demonstrator (a working application on a mobile phone, called Privacy Coach ), which can inform the consumers about the RFID tags surrounding them in their environment. More >>> Read also article: "Telephone turns into small wallet" by Christian van 't Hof

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May 28 2010, Van Gogh Museum

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The Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) invited the AR+RFID Lab to present during one of their Friday Night events. On Friday nights the Van Gogh Museum is open until 22.00 and there’s always something special going on.

June 14 2010, Pavia Italy

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The Arlab has been invited by professor Virginio Cantoni, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pavia, Italy on June 14 to lecture on developments in AR in the frame work of Art and Design.

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