Definitely Picnic is all but a no-frills conference. A central salon looking like a slightly under-toned Biennale, wall sized projections, giant faces half open, performance actresses with heart-shaped heads, human avatars you can control though a mike (the Girlfriend Experience), press rooms with floors made of wood scraps, and above all the omnipresent RFID tag machines proposed by Mediamatic, to put to good use the RFID tags you would be given at the conference.

My favorite has been of course the Friend Drink Station, that would print free drinks coupons, too bad I accidentally deleted all the pictures from Amsterdam, and I can’t find a picture of it online.
Here is the iTea Table, that would show information about you to others when you sit,

and the photo booth, to take pictures of you with somebody else and have the pictures immediately published on Flickr and the profiles of both (you need to be enrolled to the Picnic network in order to access all this fun stuff) would become connected on the Picnic network, and so on.

Oh well. This and more you could do with your RFID tags; at the end of the first day, after a lifetime of spy stories and movies, I felt so nervous that I slipped my tag into a nearby lady’s bag on the bus. Just in case.