By Mark Roberti

Dec. 1, 2005—The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague has opened the RFID Lab, which offers a curriculum on uses of RFID in interactive design, media arts and entertainment.



The lab grew out of an exhibit using RFID at the opening of the academy in January, where visitors placed hats on an area of a table with an interrogator (reader) under it. A tag in each hat triggered a different video, projected on a wall.

"We didn't plan to set up an RFID lab," says Pawel Pokutycki, the lab's coordinator. "But it turned out RFID is relatively easy to use and offers great potential for design of tangible interfaces, interactive art installations and other applications, so we decided to do more workshops and projects with RFID."