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Urban game uses RFID and Wi-Fi detection to create sound and light up trees

  • November 22nd, 2007
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The “NORDLICHT BLITZ PLAY” (Blitz Play Hero III) is an urban game that reads its boundaries from embedded RF transmitters scattered around the city and receivers in mobile devices carried by players. When the devices receive data from the city nodes, they create sounds that are played back on modified Nintendo DS game systems while [ READ MORE ]

Blitz Play Hero III game uses RFID, WiFi, and modified DS’s to do…something

  • November 22nd, 2007
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We’re not even going to pretend like we know exactly what the players who gather to play Blitz Play Hero III are attempting to accomplish — with phrases like “level 2: DRAW with CHALK within certain subjectively chosen (psychogeographic) WiFi areas and PLACE RFID-tags – all analogous- old school tagging!” sprinkled liberally around the website, [ READ MORE ]

Urban Game Deploys RFID to light up Christmas Trees

  • November 22nd, 2007
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I have been a gaming freak since childhood and don’t miss any opportunity if given a chance to try my hands at some new game. I just came across this game called NORDLICHT BLITZ PLAY and was about to dismiss it as just another game but it caught my attention since it was using RFID. This [ READ MORE ]

Rhizome News

  • October 10th, 2007
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http://cont3xt.net/ October 10, 2007
Curatorial Contexts CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based discussion platform for new media art. Founded in 2006 by Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl (a.k.a. Carlos Katastrofsky), and Franz Thalmair, it has been playing a significant role in the examination of the most important issues that have recently arisen in the field–not only regarding the production of [ READ MORE ]

Playing The Arcades Project With The Ludic Society

  • May 5th, 2007
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A report of the Evening of… Ludic Society by Omar Muñoz-Cremers Friedrich Nietzsche can be remembered for a host of revolutionary insights but the idea encapsulated in the title of his book Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Gay Science) remains to this day the most necessary inspiration. Not surprisingly the art, games, theory and political collective known [ READ MORE ]

Plymouth gets Gran Turismo art

  • February 19th, 2007
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Public art commissions can be expensive and indulgent affairs, but sometimes they’re fascinating and ‘challenging’ – in a good way. Social Hacking, a series of temporary exhibits, artist workshops and performances taking place in Plymouth between 21-24 of March, would certainly seem to fall into the latter category. Mostly because it has videogames in it. [ READ MORE ]