RFID artworks

While at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program my master’s thesis was centered on RFID technology; I created a physical audio database with queries trigged with RFID embedded objects and injected a RFID chip into my shoulder to become a “part of the database.” 

This work continued in a number of residencies, exhibitions and presentations in Barcelona, New York and Seattle.

“Trainor's work reveals for us an alternative mode of imagination, one that unsettles security's orientation to unanticipated surprises, one that is, as Jane Bennett describes, 'enchanting.'“

- Lousie Amoore, The Politics of Possibility, Risk and Security Beyond Probability, Duke University Press

  • Presenting my RFID projects to the audience during Targeted Publics: Arts and Technologies of the Security City at CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) with Professor Louise Amoore, PhD, Durham University Department of Geography and Tijuana artist Marcos Ramírez Erre who may be best know for his Toy An-Horse project at the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • Injecting an RFID chip to become a cyborg,
    Queens, NYC, 2005.

  • Description goes hereTesting an RFID interface built during my residency at the Dr. James & Janie Washington Cultural Center in 2010. I embedded stones from Dr. Washington’s studio with RFID and used audio from his collection of Edison wax cylinders to explore the contents of his extensive personal library.

 

Articles about my RFID projects

Meghan Trainor Puce L' Art/ Meghan Trainor Tags Art, MCD: Musiques Cultures Digitales, Special Issue 2011

Response Before the Event: On Forgetting the War on Terror, Terrorism and the Politics of Response, by Louise Amoore, 2009

New Brave World workshop at iMAL: RFID and art, Régine Debatty, we-make-money-not-art, March 24, 2008

'Strange Things' electronic art exhibit cranks up the voltage , Regina Hackett, The Seattle PI, December 20, 2007

Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing RFID Applications, London Knowledge Lab

RFIDs y fractales, la tecnología como y para el arte, Juan Freire, Nómada, September 2, 2006

Le nuove cose (in)animate, Valentina Tanni, Exibart, July 17, 2006

Body Modification and the “Internet of Things”, Jo-Anne Green, Networked Performance, May 31, 2006

Arphid Watch: Meghan Trainor in New York, Bruce Sterling, Beyond the Beyond, Wired blog, May 30, 2006

Spime Art, Bruce Sterling, Beyond the Beyond, Wired blog, February 13, 2006

Crece el número de artistas que utilizan tecnología RFID para crear sus obras, RFID-Spain, February 13, 2006

Artists Burnish RFID's Image, Mark Baard, Wired News, February 3, 2006

With Hidden Numbers, we-make-money-not-art, September 29, 2005

The Accidental DJ, Technology Section / Cate T. Corcoran, Women's Wear Daily, June 15, 2005

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