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Camille Baker, PhD Digital Media
Media artist/researcher/lecturer
Digital Media/Broadcast
Brunel University, London, UK
Dublin, IrelandApril 27, 2012
Tech Garments &Mobile Media Performance
MediamorphosisMay10, 2013
Westminster University, London
Camille Baker, PhD Digital Media
background/ interests
online portfolio http://www.swampgirl67.net/
• mobile media art and participatory performance,
• participatory video and electronic media installation,
• wearable devices, smart fashion, synaesthetic interfaces,
• networked & telematic performance;
• responsive environments design and interaction;
• digital and electronic art, interactive and performance media curating.
background /bioresearch interests
still from video piece ©2001
online portfolio http://www.swampgirl67.net/
SMARTlab PhD media art research 2006-2011: MINDtouch mobile
performance
–to uncover any new understandings of the sensations of ‘liveness’ and ‘presence’ that may emerge when using mobile technologies and wearable devices in performance contexts–
MINDtouch: mobile devices as non-verbal expression
first video collection workshop in Vancouver June 2007
key points
Image from MINDtouch 2007 Dublin
MINDtouch: mobile devices as non-verbal expression
Images© 2007 C. Baker - stills from participants’ videos from Dublin workshop October 2007
MINDtouch: mobile devices as non-verbal expression
Video Love Letters’ involves developing a novel method to repurpose the mobile phone, To send video message to wearable technologies and smart textiles to touch the skin.
Images from MINDtouch 2007-2008
MINDtouch: mobile devices as non-verbal expression
sensors + software
Images © 2008 C. Baker – Michael Markert working on biosensing electronics for custom software
MINDtouch: prototype 2: garment
Images © 2009 C. Baker – beta garment with embedded electronics by Tara Baoth Mooney and Rachel Lesebikan
(completed August 2009)
MINDtouch: 1st participatory event - July 2009
MINDtouch: still of mixes for broadcast 2009-10
Graphic by Dave Palmer 2012
a collaborative research project with dance artist /choreographer Kate Sicchio
sensors, soft circuits + DIY electronics
Images © 2008 C. Baker – Michael Markert working on biosensing electronics for custom software
Hacking the Body
Hacking the Body
Image by Camille Baker 2012
Image by Camille Baker 2013
Hacking the Body
Handmade sensor experiments
http://vimeo.com/56206772 and in the dark http://vimeo.com/56206771
Hacking the Body
Image from Sander Veenhof 2011
Images by Kasia Molga 2012 and Camille Baker 2010
Hacking the Body
Hacking the Body
Image by Kate Sicchio 2013
Image by Kate Sicchio 2012
Hacking the Body
Images from live events for MINDtouch C.Baker 2009-2010
participatory events and installation
For Hacking the Body we are:
1) working with open-source and live coding with custom interfaces and emerging devices in performance, focusing on revealing hidden, intimate and sensuous ‘code’ of the body for interaction and play;
2) working with inexpensive electronics kits with easy to learn open-source programming environments, soft circuits and other technologies for wearable crafting;
3) consider the possibilities of playful, expressive, gestural, live coding, as well as using the DIY maker ethos in multi-sensory participatory performances with new devices;
4) developing artworks that explore a new performance aesthetic using mobile and other ‘hacked’ devices for live coding, performance and interactive artworks;
For Hacking the Body we are:
5) adapting to and developing new technologies, creating generative visual and sensual pieces with custom software and mobile media ‘apps’ and sensors (GPS, Accelerometers, QR readers, AR apps etc.) and gestural gaming interfaces (Wii, Kinect, OmniTouch);
6) developing visual methods for tagging & categorising network media to create ambient narrative constructions and performance interactions, generative elements incorporated into custom interfaces for various platforms;
7) learning from dancers, live artists, musicians and others in the DIY and ‘Maker’ movement to create new wearable electronics and mobile applications;
http://www.iheartswitch.comhttp://www.fashioningtech.com/
http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/
current activity – “DIY” Fashion & Tech crafting explosion
current developments – fabric and textile innovations
Fabric stretch sensors – knitted fabrics coated with conductive material
Con
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Deep breathing vs short shallow breathing
current developments – multi-sensors & techniques
current developments – skin-like electronics
Electronic Fingertip / smart surgical gloves and stick on ”tattoo” electronics
commercial work – functional wearables
Voltaic – solar powered bagHeated gloves
iPod jacket
Solar panel bikini, TISCH, NYU
ChanelRodarteHussein Chalayan
Suzanne Lee
BioCouture
current developments – bio-fabric/skin-like textiles
Ande Domaske - German microbiologist
- Milk Fabric
Emily CraneMicro-Nutrient Couture
current developments – bio-fabric textiles
Donna Franklin, Fibre Reactive, Coded Cloth
Exhibition
current developments – bio-fabric textiles
Pia InterlandiSymbiotica Lab, Australia
current developments – conductive inks and paints
Bare Conductive Ink
Hacking the Body
A media performance research project that explores ways to ‘Hack’ the data from the body and create new visual and performance feedback mechanisms for users to engage and play with their mobile devices
ImageS from Kate Sicchio 2011
Panel Topic Questions:
1) How do bio tools provide new strategies for communicating sensory experience and exploring subtle bodily impulses through performance work?
2) How might Open-Sourcing biosensor technologies play an important part in the development of these tools and bio-sensing performance culture?
3) How, as practitioners, do we assess the efficacy of the tools we are using, both in development and through feedback after a performance?
4) How do we balance garnering information about interior states from technology whilst working with our senses directly?
5) What role does visualising and sonifiying bodily signals have in defining how authentic our mediated experiences are?
contact details:
Camille, Baker, PhD Digital MediaMedia Artist / Curator / LecturerBrunel University< Londonwww.swampgirl67.net [email protected]
Kate Sicchio, PhD Dance TechnologyChoreographer/ Media artist PerformerLincoln University, [email protected]
Kate Sicchio and Camille Baker August 2010
