Camille Baker, a PhD reader in interface and interaction, explores the intersection of art, technology, and empowerment through various projects including wearable technology and immersive experiences. Her work focuses on the ethical implications and innovation in wearables, particularly in enhancing personal well-being and addressing women's health issues. Notable projects include 'mindtouch' and 'inter/her', which utilize technology to create participatory art that promotes social interventions and personal exploration.

1. Camille Baker, PhD
Reader in Interface and Interaction
School of Film, Media and Performing Arts
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Art, Technology & Empowerment

2. • studied and performed modern dance as an undergraduate and in high school in Canada circa 1987
practice trajectory

3. trajectory: dance, music, video art, web, curating… new media
Images and artworks/ design works © C. Baker 1991-2000

4. Dream Pod: Internal Networks
my Masters final project 2004

5. Researcher on the seminal wearable performance research project,
led by Profosssor 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
research: art & technology - wearables

6. Images © C. Baker - stills from participants’ videos from Vancouver workshop July 2007 and Dublin workshop October 2007
SMARTlab PhD media art research 2006-2011:
MINDtouch mobile performance
–to uncover
any new
understanding
s of the
sensations of
‘liveness’ and
‘presence’
that may
emerge when
using mobile
technologies
and wearable
devices in
performance
contexts–

7. MINDtouch: prototype 2: garment 2009
Images © 2009 C. Baker – beta garment with embedded electronics by Tara Baoth Mooney with Rachel Lesebikan
(completed August 2009)

8. • ICT & Art Connect London West Jan
18/19, 2014
• ICT & Art Connect
Edinburgh Jan 24, 25, 2014
• ICT & Art Connect Barcelona, Feb
20/21, 2014
FET-Art/ICT & Art Connect: EU Project
2013-14

9. Hacking the Body 2.0 performance Flutter Stutter 2016
images by Ceri Isaacs © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2
performance, design & technology
research
(with collaborator Dr Kate Sicchio)

10. #WEARsustain
ETHICS &
SUSTAINABILITY
Personal
(Data)
|
Environmental
|
Material
|
Critical
SUSTAINABLE
INNOVATION
Art/Tech Collaboration
|
Open Calls
(Cross Border::Cross
Sector)
|
€2.4m Awards:
|
48 Innovations to market
|
Best Practice Methods
WEARABLES
ECOSYSTEM
Be part of the next
generation of
wearables
|
40+ Network of
Hubs & Advocacy
Centres
|
Aesthetic
Ethical
Support
WEAR Sustain- SUSTAINABILITY
STRATEGY & TOOLKIT
Sustainable & Disruptive Innovation >>
Next Generation Wearables
|
Wearables Ecosystem
|
New Knowledge
|
Ethics & Sustainability Guidelines
KNOWLEDGE
EXCHANGE
Events
|
Symposia
|
Local Meet-ups
|
Digital Platform
4 KEY PROJECT ELEMENTS
WEARSUSTAIN.EU

12. Monograph released August, 2018

13. www.starts.eu
Froth of the Daydream, Julie Desmet Weaver. STARTS Residencies

14. ACTIVATE: Multidisciplinary Immersive Experience Research – immersive artistic experience
to support citizens facing climate uncertainty toward stewardship and resilience
In development: Art-led social intervention

15. MINDtouch VR – Immersive, live, social performance – an interpretation of thesis project
focussed crowd vj-ing in real-time, using updated VR/MR technology to connect to remote
collaborators
In development: Communal Online Creativity

16. Impressive FemTech Art & Design Projects
Personalisable Fragrance and Massage
Jewellery for the Senses
Modern design innovation. Sensual wellbeing.

17. Impressive FemTech Art &
Design Projects
Flora aims to incentive this symbiotic relationship that
raises the beneficial presence of microbes and
bacteria in the human body.
Flora uses techniques of microencapsulation of
targeted bacteria in a non-woven fabric making it
possible to wear the probiotics that keep our body
healthy.
Creating scaffolds for the exponential bacterial growth
in appropriate areas of the body, our clothes and
accessories become the ecosystem that balance and
support our skin flora.
https://gitomasello.com/Future-Flora

18. Impressive FemTech Art &
Design Projects
LOVEWEAR is a smart underwear that helps
people of all abilities to self-explore and
enhance their own intimacy and sexuality.
LOVEWEAR wants to empower the wearer
through a tactile experience achieved by
Inflatable inserts, activated within
the underwear linen, through the interaction
with a connected pillow. The wearer can
hug, cuddle, caress, press this interface as a
surrogate for the human contact or just explore
its surface as he would explore his own body,
facilitating gestures.
https://www.re-fream.eu/portfolio/lovewear-
emanuela-corti-witsense-team/

19. An immersive, intimate, haptic experience that takes takes participants inside the female body, to
explore lesser understood post-reproductive diseases, such as fibroids, polyps, endometriosis, cysts &
cancers emotionally, based on my on and other female family & friends experiences.
INTER/her - immersive art-ed project

20. INTER/her immersive experience … influences
Rosario Dawson – Misting Vagina Installation Burning Man 2011 Walk-in Vagina by South African artist Reshma Chhiba 2013

21. INTER/her immersive experience… reference
reference image (inside my mouth) © 2020 C. Baker

22. INTER/her immersive experience …early 3D/ Unity tests
Using the voices of women telling their stories of fibroids, polyps, endometriosis, cysts & cancers and
what they went through, layered and triggering the haptic corset as they travel to different parts of the
uterus – with different journeys depending on which they would like to experience first
INTER/her © 2020 M Alverez

23. INTER/her immersive experience…early sketches
design sketch © 2020 C. Baker

24. INTER/her immersive experience …early sketches
experience sketch © 2020 C. Baker

25. Thank you & questions
@swampgirl67
portfolio: www.camillebaker.me and
http://www.swampgirl67.net/
CBaker10@uca.ac.uk