AR+RFID Lab
 


About us

AR+RFID Lab is a collaboration initiative of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and local companies in creative industry focusing on the development of innovative applications of emerging ubiquitous computing technologies in the field of art and design. Funded for the second time by the SIA/RAAK grant programme in 2008-2010, the AR+RFID Lab works on projects based on Augmented Reality (AR) and Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technologies.


 

People

 
Lab Staff

Yolande Kolstee
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
Y.Kolstee@kabk.nl

Yolande Kolstee is the projectleader of the AR+RFID Lab. She is an officer for Innovation and Quality Care of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) and is involved in the acceditation processes of both Bachelor as Master programmes. She maintains contacts outside the KABK in the field of innovation and creativity.


Pieter Jonker
Delft Univesity of Technology (TU Delft) / Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
P.P.Jonker@tudelft.nl / P.P.Jonker@tue.nl

Pieter Jonker is a Professor of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Faculty of Applied Sciences, Quantitative Imaging Group. His main interests and fields of research are: real-time embedded image processing, parallel image processing architectures, robot vision, robot learning and augmented reality.
Pieter Jonker is Professor of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Fauculty of Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics and Control Theory Group. His main interests and fields of research are: vision based motion control and robot soccer.

Wim van Eck
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
wimeck@hotmail.com

Wim van Eck graduated at Leiden University, doing the Master program Media Technology. At the AR+RFID Lab he works as a 3D animator and helps students to realize their projects.

Joost Rekveld
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
j.rekveld@kabk.nl

Joost Rekveld (1970) has been making abstract films and light installations since 1991, originally starting out from the idea of a visual music for the eye. He has been making most of his animated films with optical and mechanical setups, using the computer as a controller and composition machine in order to orchestrate the precise movements of optical components. His installation making grew out of the tools he developed to make his films, often inspired by the lesser frequented by-ways in the history of science and technology. His work so far has dealt with various forms of scanning, or with concepts related to the early history of optics and perspective. His interest in the spatial aspects of light triggered a shift away from the screen, towards more architectural and theatrical forms of work. At the moment he is becoming increasingly implicated in activities that resemble cybernetics, artificial life and robotic architecture. Since 2008 he is the head of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy in The Hague.

Edwin van der Heide
Leiden University
evdheide@liacs.nl

Assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), and board member of the Media Technology M.Sc. program. He lectures at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the HBKMD. As artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction, he extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions, going beyond the traditional concert presentation form. Specializations include sonification, models for perceptualization and the creation of extra sensory environments. He's winner of the 2009 Witteveen+Bos-prijs voor Kunst+Techniek.

Maarten Lamers
Leiden University
lamers@liacs.nl

Assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), and board member of the Media Technology M.Sc. program. Specializations include social robotics, scientific creativity, and models for perceptualization. Program chair of the 2010 International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships, and guest editor for an upcoming special issue of the International Journal of Social Robotics.

Jouke Verlinden
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
j.c.verlinden@tudelft.nl

Jouke Verlinden (1969) received his M.Sc in computer science (1993), and has a background in interactive computer graphics and virtual reality. He worked in industry as interaction designer and project manager for 7 years before returning to academia. Since 2000 he is assistant professor at the section of computer aided design engineering at TU Delft. He is currently working on the project entitled “Augmented Prototyping as a design means for industrial design engineering”, which encompasses both empirical research as well as system development. This project is supported by STW. The ambition is to develop new, accessible design media for industrial designers that respect current practice.

Jeroen van Erp
Fabrique
jeroen@fabrique.nl

Jeroen van Erp graduated at Delft University in 1988, at the department of Industrial Design Engineering. In 1992 he co-founded Fabrique, a multi-disciplinary design agency in which the design disciplines (graphic, industrial, spatial and new media) are closely interwoven. As a designer he recently was involved in a.o. folding chairs for the metro of Porto, an IPTV Modem for Royal Dutch Telecom and the website for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.


Students and Teachers
Melissa Coleman
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
m.coleman@kabk.nl

Melissa is software-engineer for the AR+RFID Lab and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK). She has studied computer science and mediatechnology in Leiden and was a guest at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Her interests are in the body as theater, body interfacing, sense augmentation, wearable computing and e-fashion.

Pawel Pokutycki
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
pawel@kabk.nl

Pawel is a designer and teacher working at the Interactive / Media / Design and Photography department of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK). He studied Interaction Design at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) doing the European Media Master of Arts (EMMA) graduation programme in Interactive Multimedia. Pawel initiated some early activities of the RFID Lab in 2005.

Mit Koevoets
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
mitkolja@gmail.com

Mit Koevoets is currently a student in his last year at Art-Science at the KABK. His main interests are the translation of principles and methods from classical crafts and arts into digital art. He has so far worked on 2 AR+RFID-projects [Sgraffito in 3D and Kröller-Müller] as a 3D-animator.

Ferenc Molnár
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
info@baseground.nl

Ferenc Molnár is a multimedia artist based in The Hague since 1991. His fascination with fine art started at early childhood and since then had been trained by some of Hungary’s leading artists in traditional fine arts and attended three years of architect studies. Ferenc has been involved in various video productions in the Netherlands since 1998 and has been active as vj on national and on international events since 2002. From 2006 he has returned to the KABK to study photography and that’s where he started to experiment with AR. His focus is on the possibilities and on the impact of this new technology as a communication platform in our visual culture. In close co-operation with the AR-lab and with a group of students from the KABK Ferenc had completed his first AR project at the Kröller Müller museum in the summer of 2009.

Alrik Stelling
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
a.stelling@tele2.nl

Alrik is a 4th year Autonomous Art | Painting student at the Royal Academy of Art.

Jing Foon Yu
Graphic Designer / Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
jingeling@gmail.com

Jing is a graphic designer and a student at the Royal Academy of Arts. After graduating from Art, Design  &  Communication, she studied a year in England, Fashion Promotion and Illustration, with a VSB scholarship. After working in the graphic industry for a couple of years, she started the part time course at the academy, while still working for a publishing house. In the summer of 2009, Jing contributed to an exhibition in the Kröller-Müller museum, realized in cooperation with the Lab.

Marcel Kerkmans
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
marcelkerkmans85@gmail.com

Marcel Kerkmans is currently in his 3rd year Furniture Design at the Royal Academy of Arts the Hague. His first collaboration with the AR lab was the Kröller-Müller project in the summer of 2009. His interest are 3D design, making conceptual furniture, wearable computing and technical solutions for various kinds of projects.


Project Partners
Joachim Rotteveel
media artist
info@joachimrotteveel.com

Joachim Rotteveel is an independent artist based in The Hague. He studied at the Academy of Arts (AKV|St.Joost) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and graduated from the Media Technology MSc-program at Leiden University. In his early work he practiced old media like painting, sculpting. During the following years he performed as a video artist (VJ). Today his artistic research spans diverse fields, taking a critical approach to technosocial issues in Art, Science and Technology. In 2008, his work resulted in the exhibition Sgraffito in 3D in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, including AR installations realized in cooperation with the Lab. www.joachimrotteveel.com

Martin Sjardijn
media artist
martin@sjardijn.com

Martin Sjardijn was born in 1947, The Hague, The Netherlands. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Netherlands, and some years Cultural Sciences and Philosophy. After painting for many years, Sjardijn started using the computer as a tool to simulate weightlessness as in nearby outer space. When the Internet came in 1990 he started gaining more knowledge to work on with Virtual Reality, Head Mounted Displays and Datagloves with tactile feedback at the Delft University of Technology. In 2000 he developed and educational- and art-project with the Groninger Museum. Projects are available at www.sjardijn.com

Marina de Haas
Royal Academy of Art (KABK)
marinadehaas@hotmail.com

Marina de Haas studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and now works for the Lab on art projects with use of Augmented Reality technology.

Jurjen Caarls
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
j.caarls@tudelft.nl

Jurjen Caarls is currently finishing his PhD at the Delft University of Technology, and developed the first version of the mobile Augmented Reality demonstrator. His focus lies on accurate pose estimation using image processing and sensor fusion.

Jan Willem Brandenburg
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
ar+rfid (at) brand (dot) vvtp (dot) tudelft (dot) nl

Jan Willem Brandenburg finished his Masters in Applied Physics at the Delft University, graduating on autonomous learning systems. Currently he works as a researcher and develops image processing algorithms and software for the augmented reality setup of the AR+RFID lab.


Raj Bose
Chess High Performance Solutions
Raj.Bose@chess.nl

Raj Bose is technical manager with Chess, business line High Performance Solutions. Chess-HPS is specialized in custom designed intelligent camera systems and high speed processing electronics and software. Target applications are medical, industrial inspection and security.

Barbara Vos
interior designer
info@barbaravos.nl

Barbara Vos is an interior designer graduated from the the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in 2003. She started her own design studio and is working on interiors and products as well as creating fashion. Besides her work she is doing the Post Graduate Course Industrial Design at the KABK.

Rainer Bullhorst
Bullhorst Architecten Stedenbouwers
info@bullhorstarchitecten.nl

Rainer Bullhorst is an architect and industrial designer who founded his office Bullhorst Architecten Stedenbouwers in the Hague in 1980. He teaches Interior Design and Architecture at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), the Universities of Leiden, Hamburg and Sarajevo. Since 1970 he is regularly publishing on architecture and industrial design.

Ben Kuipers
landscape architect
bkuipers@freeler.nl

Ben Kuipers studied landscape architecture at the agricultural university of Wageningen. Since 1985 professional carreer, combining landscape architecture with urban design. After a series of employments (city of Amsterdam, Ministry of Agriculture, city of Delft, Kuiper Compagnons Rotterdam and KAAP 3 - urban designs offices) he started his own one-man office in 1999. Since than networking and collaborating with collegue-designers on several topics; from square till urban region development. Having office in Bacinol Delft and collaboration with OD 205 (office for urban design, research and landscape), with the intention to become partner.

Micky Piller
Escher in Het Paleis, The Hague
mpiller@escherinhetpaleis.nl / arttext@tiscali.nl

Micky Piller is an art historian and wrote for numerous Dutch papers, weekly's and Dutch and international magazines. Currently she is parttime working as curator in M.C. Escher Museum, Escher in Het Paleis in the center of The Hague. In that function she is host for a presentation of the AR+RFID Lab in June 2008 at Escher in Het Paleis.
Partime she is still writing about art, artists and other things.

Dirk van Oosterbosch
interaction designer
dirk@ixopusada.com

Dirk van Oosterbosch is interaction designer. He provokes active user participation by making complex new technologies easy through clean designed intuitive interfaces. At the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, graphic design he used the computer as a tool to create a myriad of other tools, like VJ-kits for ixopusada collective or a social network browser. During his MA media design at the Piet Zwart Institute, he developed intellistener, a tool for hyper audio. Currently Dirk is mostly active in the field of physical computing. He is an active member of meta (making electronic thingies in Amsterdam) and the interface designer of Fritzing.

 

 

 

 

 

Partners




Partners

Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK)
TU Delft
Fabrique - communication and design
Chess
Image Processing Systems
Escher in het Paleis
Techniek Museum
Vermeer Centrum
Bullhorst Architecten Stedenbouwers
Ir. Kuipers - landscape architect
Barbara Vos - interior designer
Dirk van Oosterbosch - interaction designer
Martin Sjardijn - media artist


 



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