Interdisciplinary Journeyto wearable tech and etextiles in performance

Dr Camille BakerUniversity for the Creative Arts

• studied and performed modern dance as an undergraduate and in high school in Canada.

practice trajectory

modern dance studies circa 1987

still from motion design piece 2001

practice trajectory

• documentary film development, online video and animation, digital media and web design;

still from documentary Millennial

Love Project 1998

still from Illuminaries documentary

short 1999

practice trajectory

• owned and operated conventional contemporary art gallery in Vancouver in 1998;

stills from gallery circa 1998

• founder, web editor-in-chief of own online magazine (2000-2002),www.slackerbonding.com on GenX relationship and pop culture issues;

screenshot fromslackerbonding.com

2000-2002

practice trajectory

• founder, web editor-in-chief of own online magazine (2000-2002),www.slackerbonding.com on GenX relationship and pop culture issues;

practice trajectory

screenshot fromslackerbonding.com

2000-2002

• music composition and performance in alt-rock/pop/electronic bands from late 1993 - 2007: www.ultrapuss.com and www.spiritualheroine.com;

band photos from Spiritual Heroine 1997 and ultrapuss 2007

practice trajectory

practice trajectory

slideshow from gallery exhibition NFF 2004

• Lead Curator and Event Producer for The New Forms Festival producing + curating a gallery, conference and performances 2002-2004 - 3 years;

• Lead Curator and Event Producer for The New Forms Festival, a new media arts festival in Vancouver from 2002-2004 - 3 years;

practice trajectory slideshow from dance performance NFF 2004

• Co-Executive Director of The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S.) - a performance media event production, non-profit society, 2005-2007;

practice trajectory

Slide from eyeteasersvideo iPod event 2006

Dream Pod: Internal NetworksMasters final project 2004

internal networks: Dream Pod project

Led by Prof. Thecla Schiphorst and Dr. Susan Kozel

(2003-2006) Vancouver, Canada

http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca/

whisper[s] : wearable, handheld, intimate,

sensory, personal, expressive, responsive

system

the whisper[s] project

“…technology and communications metaphors that enable networked wearable devices to

communicate affective states in a continuous manner and share them between users or wearers”

the whisper[s] project

[Another pic of whicpers = siggraph 2005]

the whisper[s] project

A head-mounted display (HMD) 1990’s wired glove and joystick. Image: NASA

history of smart garments and wearable tech

early 20th century art imaginings of wearable technology

history of smart garments and wearable tech

The miniaturisation of technology has changed how people build & use wearable tech & electronicsSteve Mann through stages of development - Wearable Wireless Webcam - WearCam.org

Images: Steve Mann & Eyetap, Google Glass, Glass Up & Lumus OpticalSteve Mann’s LifeGlogging sensorcam, Microsoft SenseCam, Mann, Fung & Lo cam & Memoto

history of smart garments and wearable tech

history of smart garments and wearable tech

Benoît Maubrey’s Audio Ballerinas - circa 1989

a Berlin-based art group, AUDIO GRUPPE

http://www.benoitmaubrey.com/

history of smart garments and wearable tech

Isa Gordon - CyberFashion psymbiote.org 2004 - present

see visual research - 2002 and prior http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca/visualresearch.htm

see also http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca/whisper_lit_review.htm

Hug Shirt – Cute Circuit 2006 -wearable messaging

history of smart garments and wearable tech

SKIN, which examines the future integration of

sensitive materials in the area of emotional

sensing – the shift from ‘ intelligent’ to ‘sensitive’

products and technologies.

As part of SKIN, we have developed two ‘Soft

Technology’ outfits to identify the future for high

tech materials and Electronic Textile

Development in the area’s of skin and emotional

sensing.

The dresses show emotive technology and how

the body and the near environment can use

pattern and colour change to interact and

predict the emotional state.

-Philips website

Philips Design Probes research group has since

been closed down.

Phillips SKIN Probes 2006-2008

history of smart garments and wearable tech

Huggy Pajamas 2010 - wearable messaging

history of smart garments and wearable tech

Aura 2010 – Marco Righetto - mobile-to-wearable device

history of smart garments and wearable tech

history of smart garments and wearable tech

‘Scentsory Design’, Jenny Tillotson 2010 - emotional scent-sory fashion

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–

still from MINDtouch 2010

MINDtouch: mobile devices as non-verbal expression

first video collection workshop in Vancouver June 2007

C. Baker - stills from participants’ videos from Dublin workshop October 2007

MINDtouch: video collection workshops : 2007-2009

MINDtouch: prototype 2: garment 2009

Images © 2009 C. Baker – beta garment with embedded electronics by Tara Baoth Mooney with Rachel Lesebikan

(completed August 2009)

MINDtouch: example event & user participation

Images from live events for MINDtouch C.Baker 2009-2010

MINDtouch: mixes for live broadcast 2010-2011

live video mixes: MINDtouch C.Baker 2009

Visual material mixed live over the mobile networks and the internet by the wearable sensors on live ‘performers’.

Daan Roosegaarde’s Intimacy Studio Roosegaarde and V2_ Lab in Rotterdam smart e-

foils 2010

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

INTIMACY is a fashion project exploring the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech

garments entitled 'Intimacy White' and 'Intimacy Black' are made out of opaque smart e-foils that become

increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people.

Donna Franklin, Fibre Reactive, Coded Cloth orange bracket fungi (Pyconporus coccineus) silk, organza, perspex, wood. Exhibition 2004 - 2008 Pia Interlandi, Dissolvable

Fabrics 2008-2011

Symbiotica Lab, Australia

bio-fabric/skin-like textiles

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

Suzanne Lee - BioCouture 2010 now BioFabricate

2014-2016 conference and NASA/Nike Material

Innovator, pioneer in growing fabric through bacteria

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

Ande Domaske - German microbiologist, using Milk

Fiber 2011 and her current company Quik Milk

bio-fabric/skin-like textiles

Emily Crane 2008-2011Micro-Nutrient Couture

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

bio-fabric/skin-like textiles

Victoria Gearney - Synthetic Biology Fashion http://www.victoriageaney.com

Guilia Tomesela – Ruhr emotional corset

2014 http://gitomasello.com

Guilia Tomesela - Sustainable bio-wearable tech 2015

http://gitomasello.com

inspiring work in smart garments

& wearable tech

bio-fabric/skin-like textiles

micro-biological textiles

Anna Dumitru 2014- present – Normal Flora Project

Communicating Bacteria dress

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

The Human Sensor 2016 by Kasia Molga. See also Manchester European City of Science 2016

Wearables for Art and Science

Wearables in Performance

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

Revealuxion_Version ii-1 /r 2015 Kieun Kim

Wearables in Performance

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

Idoru() 2013 by Afroditi Psarra

Cosmic Bitcasting 2016 by Afroditi Psarra

inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech

The Wearable Fashion Orchestra 2014 by Marina Castan

Wearables in Performance

Graphic by Dave Palmer 2012

Hacking the Body

an ongoing collaboration

with dance artist

/choreographer Kate

Sicchio

June 2013 HTB workshops – collaborative DIY Ethos:

ISEA 2013, Workshop,

Sydney Australia – June 9th,

2013

Tek* 2013, Workshop, Byron Bay,

Australia – June 15th, 2013

Creativity and Cognition 2013,

Workshop, Sydney Australia –

June 17th, 2013

we are exploring:

- etextiles and haptic actuation as non-verbal

communication in various types of performance;

- making bespoke sensors and Smart Garments as

performance & interaction research;

- novel uses of body data from sensing devices as

choreographic or performance devising material;

- ethics of data collection and body data as personal

identity and expression in performance.

Hacking The Body 2.0

DIY Garments with Haptics

April 2015 residency experiments

Hacking the Body 2.0 – new garment development

2015

sketches by Tara Baoth Mooney © November 2015 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 electronics development 2015

prototypes by Becky Stewart & Tara Baoth Mooney © November 2015 – Hacking 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 new garment development 2015

sketch and prototype by Tara Baoth Mooney & Becky Stewart © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 electronics development 2015

image and garment by Tara Baoth Mooney © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 final garments Flutter Stutter

2016

images by Kate Sicchio © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 final garments Flutter Stutter

2016

image and garment by Tara Baoth Mooney © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 performances of Flutter/Stutter

London Feb 16 and Sheffield Feb 18th, 2016

images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 hacked garments

Feel Me

2016

garments by OM Signal, hacked by Tara Baoth Mooney, images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 hacked garments Feel Me 2016

garments by OM Signal, hacked by Tara Baoth Mooney, images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2

Hacking the Body 2.0 performances of Feel Me

London Feb 16 and Sheffield Feb 18th

images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

e-stitches (formerly Stitch, Bitch,

Make/Perform), started November 2014

with Melissa Coleman, supported by Irini

Papadimitriou, Director of the V&A Digital

Progammes.

The focus is on the current wearable tech and etextile issues, such as:

-how we can add more critical and aesthetic

voices to the wearable tech discourse and

development;

-bringing in artists, designers and performers

to learn and collaborate;

-help shape future directions in this design

research area.

other activities

Wearable Tech

& eTextiles

Computing

science

Fashion

Design

DIY Makers /

Crafters

Interaction

/Product

Designers

Artists/

Performers

Biotech/Medi

cal

Fitness/

Sports Textiles

industry

Military

WEAR: Ethical, Sustainable, Environmental, Aesthetic Network of European Hubs to promote new

directions in design, collaboration, manufacturing and supply-chain (Horizon 2020 proposal under

consideration).

other activities

Thank you & questions

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