RFID Audio Bar
I love interactive environments. We have all this incredible sensing and computational power but so far the quality and nature of interaction in our our built environment has remained about the same. Cheap and plentiful RFID tags are a promising avenue for low fidelity sensing in a standardized package.
Enter the RFID Audio Bar at the The Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde in Denmark. Artist Mogens Jacobsen was recently commissioned to present the museum’s “vast archive of sound-art”.
“Care for another glass of Drum and Bass?”. Of course the problem with interactive environments is that they are impossible to discuss without actually first experiencing. Interactivity alone is not enough, it needs to create a new experience, encourage exploration, or allow discovery and learning that otherwise would not have happened. Off to Denmark!