Camille Baker, PhD Digital Media Media artist/researcher/lecturer Digital Media/Broadcast Brunel University, London, UK Dublin, Ireland April 27, 2012 Tech Garments & Mobile Media Performance Mediamorphosis May10, 2013 Westminster University, London Camille Baker, PhD Digital Media

background/ interests online portfolio

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 /bio research interests still from video piece ©2001 online portfolio

SMARTlab PhD media art research : 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 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

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

Image by Camille Baker 2012

Image by Camille Baker 2013 Hacking the Body

Handmade sensor experiments and in the dark

Hacking the Body Image from Sander Veenhof 2011

Images by Kasia Molga 2012 and Camille Baker 2010 Hacking the Body

Image by Kate Sicchio 2013

Image by Kate Sicchio 2012 Hacking the Body

Images from live events for MINDtouch C.Baker 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;

-- media curator/ producer/ artist/ instructor living in Vancouver current activity – “DIY” Fashion & Tech crafting explosion

-- media curator/ producer/ artist/ instructor living in Vancouver -- current developments – fabric and textile innovations Fabric stretch sensors – knitted fabrics coated with conductive material Conductance

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 bag Heated gloves iPod jacket Solar panel bikini, TISCH, NYU ChanelRodarte Hussein Chalayan

Suzanne Lee BioCouture -- media curator/ producer/ artist/ instructor living in Vancouver -- current developments – bio-fabric/skin-like textiles Ande Domaske - German microbiologist - Milk Fabric

-- media curator/ producer/ artist/ instructor living in Vancouver -- Emily Crane Micro-Nutrient Couture current developments – bio-fabric textiles

-- media curator/ producer/ artist/ instructor living in Vancouver -- Donna Franklin, Fibre Reactive, Coded Cloth Exhibition current developments – bio-fabric textiles Pia Interlandi Symbiotica 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 Media Media Artist / Curator / Lecturer Brunel University< London Kate Sicchio, PhD Dance Technology Choreographer/ Media artist Performer Lincoln University, Lincoln Kate Sicchio and Camille Baker August 2010