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Sunday 1 March 2009
Tag Pets
P+H Tag pet
Tag Pet uses an interaction with a smart card - a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag to bring out a unique creature inside your card into life.
Developed as an alpha prototype following a proposal for the Takeaway festival commission. We have thought about how to bring life and play into the ever increasing identity paranoia. Many of us now carry these kinds of tags, in personnel cards, transport tickets, cash cards, books, mobile phone handsets even.
Having antecedents in the project ‘Badger’ previously made for Mediamatic Hackers Camp at Picnic07 in Amsterdam, it follows on the brief of 'play with your tag'
We don't attempt to read any of the data off your card or keep a record of the id number. However if you are worried about the security of your transport card or id - and maybe you should be - we recommend the article on this website;
http://www.ru.nl/ds/research/rfid/
How it works
By scanning an RIFD card (of the Mifare type) at the Pet punch station - the ID of the tag is read and used by a bespoke software application to generate a profile, that creates a graphic image from the data read.
This generated graphic is a 'pet' that is an icon to represent your card's inner being. This can then be made into a badge, sticker or brooch. In this preview a set of printed stickers is output.
Stick the pet on your shirt and look for someone with a similar or pet mate. Is it just randomness, serendipity or fate that brings you together.
Punch and Hole
Tag Pet uses an interaction with a smart card - a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag to bring out a unique creature inside your card into life.
Developed as an alpha prototype following a proposal for the Takeaway festival commission. We have thought about how to bring life and play into the ever increasing identity paranoia. Many of us now carry these kinds of tags, in personnel cards, transport tickets, cash cards, books, mobile phone handsets even.
Having antecedents in the project ‘Badger’ previously made for Mediamatic Hackers Camp at Picnic07 in Amsterdam, it follows on the brief of 'play with your tag'
We don't attempt to read any of the data off your card or keep a record of the id number. However if you are worried about the security of your transport card or id - and maybe you should be - we recommend the article on this website;
http://www.ru.nl/ds/research/rfid/
How it works
By scanning an RIFD card (of the Mifare type) at the Pet punch station - the ID of the tag is read and used by a bespoke software application to generate a profile, that creates a graphic image from the data read.
This generated graphic is a 'pet' that is an icon to represent your card's inner being. This can then be made into a badge, sticker or brooch. In this preview a set of printed stickers is output.
Stick the pet on your shirt and look for someone with a similar or pet mate. Is it just randomness, serendipity or fate that brings you together.
Punch and Hole
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
Saturday 28 February 2009
Tag Pets
Tag Pets - Previewed at Kinetica Art Fair 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36014830@N04/sets/72157614801603860/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36014830@N04/sets/72157614801603860/
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