RFID Performance Art Update

I'm just going to put this out there and you do with it what you will, OK? My newsreader finally found this about the upcoming performance art thing coming June 4th: [Here's the link by the way so you can verify that I'm not making this up... and, to be clear, I'm not dissing on this. I just don't fully get it.] Pictured here I assume are the 16 ceramic plumb bobs referred to below.


16 Horsepower is a performance piece in which I scan pieces of ceramic and graphite embedded with RFID tags to trigger different sounds from an audio database culminating in a series of tracks triggered by a RFID chip in my arm. This piece aims to help the audience understand and imagine the coming "Internet of Things" as well as emerging capabilities to modify the human body.I have had the pleasure of collaborating with ceramicist Michelle Anderson and programmer Stephen Koch. Anderson created 16 ceramic plumb bobs that walk a line between handmade and mass-produced objects. Koch built an application in Flash that allows me to rapidly and easily create and manage audio dense RFID projects.
This piece will be debuted at the upcoming Ask the Robot show on June 4th, 2006