When RFIDs meet Artist's painting
Résumé
This work challenges the conventional art experience. It brings
together the fields of art, science, and software integration. The
goal was to create a new kind of painting based on embedded
technology, experimenting with a new media: paintings
augmented with RFIDs. The aim was to achieve interaction
between the artist's paintings and art gallery visitors: RFIDs
deliver the living voice and words of the artist. They are artist's
prompts for visitors. Tags can be read or written through an NFC
enabled mobile handset. RFIDs are easy to use. They can provide
audio and text-rich information. They can also carry references to
web sites allowing downloads of content. The user receives a rich
level of information delivered on their NFC mobile phone. RFID
tags and NFC mobile phones are a new flexible communication
tool closing the gap between artists and the public. A painting by
Olivier Haberman has been used to demonstrate our proposal. The
effects of this new kind of painting have been evaluated with a
diverse group of people.