I have been invited to present Sgraffito in 3D at the Best in Heritage conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This conference is the world's only survey of the best museum, heritage and conservation projects. My work will be presented alongside the work of Tjebbe van Tijen and Ewald van Vugt.

On Thursday the 2nd of September we'll be holding the Test_Lab in Rotterdam for everybody who couldn't make it to ISEA in Dortmund this week. You'll be able to see and try out the projects made in the fields of augmented reality, wearable technology, and ecology at V2_Lab by myself, Anouk Wipprecht, Mark Shepard and Ivan Henriques. And if that isn't enough, there will be free cocktails for all. The evening starts at 20:00 and it's free entrance.
http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-summer-sessions-2010

During the summer I've made a silicone copy of my head which has been augmented with touch- and pressure sensors and lights were placed underneath the soft plastic skin. Touching the head manipulates a portrait of the person holding the head on a screen behind the artwork. The installation lets you make a self portrait by touching and pushing on the skin of the head. You watch yourself through the gaze of the artwork. Today I presented the first prototype sketch of the project made during the V2_ SummerSessions 2010 at ISEA Festival in a Test_Lab together with Anouk Wipprecht, Mark Shepard and Ivan Henriques and the wonderful folk from V2_ Lab. The projects were demonstrated in action and tried out by the audience.

This summer I will be doing an artist in residency at V2_ in Rotterdam where I will make a 3D self portrait of my head which will be merged with a camera, motors and sensors. People using the installation will be able to manipulate my head as an inter-face in order to see themselves through the eyes of the artist.
http://www.v2.nl/lab/projects/headhunters

For Berlin Fashion Week 2010 Melissa Coleman and I were invited to teach a Masterclass Electronics For Fashion. The first day participants could make a garment move up and down. The second day they integrated light into clothing. Results of the masterclass were presented by Van Raveschot, who wore clothing designed by Eppo Dekker.

During the month of May I worked on the design and production of the exhibition Pretty Smart Textiles held at Nutshuis in The Hague. This exhibition, which was curated by Melissa Coleman and Dorith Sjardijn, explores the latest innovations today in electronic textiles created by Dutch artists and designers. Work was exhibited by Daan Roosegaarde, Maartje Dijkstra, Meg Grant, Nicky Assmann, Dorith Sjardijn, Melissa Coleman, Heike Sperber, Marina Venendaal, Karina van Heck, Florian Kräutli, Aduen Darriba, Anouk Wipprecht, Charlotte ‘t Hart, Evelyn Lebis, Paula Kassenaar, Paula Segura Meccia, Mark Kwikkers and Anja Hertenberger. During the opening there was a talk by Piem Wirtz of V2_ and the official opening was done by Syuzi Pakhchyan of Fashioning Technlogy.The exhibition was featured on Wired.com, Fashioning Technlogy, Design.nl, Ecouterre and Talk2myshirt. Pictures of all the works can be found on prettysmarttextiles.com.

The last few weeks I have been designing and organising the exhibition State of the AR in cooperation with the AR+RFID Lab. ‘State of the AR’ is a retrospective exhibition of art and design that have been developed over the past three years in collaboration with the AR+RFID Lab at the KABK. The KABK’s AR+RFID Lab specializes in researching the usability of new visualization techniques for art and design. The Lab collaborates closely with the Bio-Robotics Lab of the TU-Delft. For the many projects of the AR+RFID Lab that have been established with the collaboration of artists and designers please visit http://www.arlab.nl/projects.html. A special component of the exhibition ‘State of the AR’ is the ‘Augmented Exhibition’ which can only be viewed with a special headset. For the operation of the headset an expert will be present each day from 16.00 to 18.00. At other times it is possible to watch along with an automated visitor. Visitors can also evoke 3D images on a monitor themselves, using AR-books. The long tradition of technical visualization methods that preceded AR can be seen at the ‘Laterna Magica’ formation, where pieces from the Magic Lantern Museum in Scheveningen are exhibited. For more details download the invitation and the programme.

The AR+RFID Lab presented the Reconstruction Lab installation, part of Sgraffito in 3D, in an item of RTL4 EditieNL about Augmented Reality. See the video.

This summer I have been assisting my girlfriend and colleague Melissa Coleman with her artist-in-residency project at V2_Lab. Media Vintage is a series of electronic textiles that contain audio memories. It remembers a time when technology was built to last and tries to imagine how digital data storage could be visual, physical and meaningful. Alpha is a suitcase in which you can weave temporary secret messages in Morse code. Bravo is a tapestry that sings a song from long ago when your fingers read the embroidered Braille. Charlie is a trench-coat that reads fabric punchcards and tells you stories from an old man's life. The work was presented at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz and then at the Test_Lab: Summer Sessions event in Rotterdam. Watch the of the Test_Lab: Summer Sessions - video-stream on the V2_ website.

Eric Schrijver and I are teaching a weekly Web Design class at the KABK, Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag. The introductory course ‘Web Design' focuses on mastering basic skills in the development of interactive content for the web. Student information and websites [under construction] can be found at kabk-webdesign.net.

AR+RFID Lab and students of the Royal Academy of Art, supported by Martin Sjardijn and I, developed a series of interactive installations for the Sweet Summer Night festival at the Kröller-Müller Museum. A large 360 degrees rotating display was placed in the park to watch 3D-animations superimposed over the real sculptures. Rollators where enhanced with laptops, cameras and augmented reality software. While walking with a rollator the public could meet illusionary reactions to the park and its statues. See the work process and some visual material at the AR+RFID Lab site + YouTube.

During the 11th edition of the GSDI World Conference in Rotterdam Geonovum presented the first Dutch Augmented Reality Atlas to celebrate the opening of the National GeoRegistry. The AR+RFID Lab was commissioned to develop this unique atlas. Wim van Eck made the 3D content and I designed the book. A small Flash-based AR-application can be found on nationaalgeoregister.nl and some movies of the conference at the GeoReport Channel.

The KABK's AR+RFID Lab and Joachim Rotteveel exhibited the Augmented Reality applications for cultural heritage at CHI Nederland Conference 2009, the Dutch conference for Human Computer Interaction and User Experience Design on the 11th of June in Leiden. The 3D-Popup Book and Reconstruction Lab were part of the exhibition Sgraffito in 3D at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen earlier this year.

Make a connection with the year 2030! ICTDelta, the annual congress organised by ICTRegie, was about how ICT can contribute to health, safety and prosperity in The Netherlands. Yolande Kolstee (AR+RFID Lab) and Joachim Rotteveel gave a talk and demo on innovative augmented reality applications in the cultural sector.

Test_Lab: Better Than Reality at V2_ on the 11th of december was an event on Augmented Reality featuring: CREW (Eric Joris and Vincent Jacobs), Joachim Rotteveel, Marnix de Nijs, Boris Debackere, and Jonas Hielscher. Test_Lab is a bi-monthly event at V2_ in Rotterdam which provides a platform for showcasing contemporary artistic research and development (aRt&D). I presented the augmented reality installations developed in cooperation with AR+RFiD Lab and part of the show Sgraffito in 3D in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen until the 4th of January. More on the event is to be found in the V2_ Archive.

The AR+RFID Lab participated in the Business of Design Week '08 event in Hong Kong. Wim van Eck presented AR-interfaces he made in cooperation with Joachim Rotteveel for the exhibition Sgraffito in 3D.

Press:
www.visionunion.com/article.jsp?code=200812160054
www.relva.com.cn/thread-3735-1-1.html

The opening in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen of the exhibition Sgraffito in 3D: Late medieval earthenware as viewed by Joachim Rotteveel on Saturday the 8th of November started the same time as the exhibitions 'Images of Erasmus' and 'From the collection Ploos van Amstel Knoef'. There were speeches by museum director Sjarel Ex, Secretary of State Frank Heemskerk the former mayor of Rotterdam Ivo Opstelten. AR+RFID Lab provided an ongoing performance with a head-mounted display in an augmented reality setting. Alexandra Gaba-van Dongen gave a lecture in the auditorium.

Veronica Publishing and Touching Media publish the world's first public magazine with markerless augmented reality technology. On Page 15 of the Dutch tv-guide TotaalTV you can find an advertisment for Sgraffito in 3D in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. While holding the magazine in front of a webcam a 3D-animation of an archeological pot appears on your screen and breaks into pieces. Download the software (PC only) and print the pages at the site Beyond Reality.

A special on Augmented Reality where Yolande Kolstee of the AR+RFID Lab presented a preview of the exhibition 'Sgraffito in 3D'. This event was organised by Sylvia Visser of Beyond Reality AKA Touching Media. More information on the AR Special can be found on the Picnic 2008 site.