Mediamorphosis 2013: Hacking the Body

1. 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

2. background/ interests online portfolio http://www.swampgirl67.net/

3. • 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 http://www.swampgirl67.net/

4. 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–

5. MINDtouch: mobile devices as non-verbal expression first video collection workshop in Vancouver June 2007

6. key points Image from MINDtouch 2007 Dublin MINDtouch: mobile devices as non-verbal expression

8. 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

11. MINDtouch: 1st participatory event - July 2009

12. MINDtouch: still of mixes for broadcast 2009-10

13. Graphic by Dave Palmer 2012 a collaborative research project with dance artist /choreographer Kate Sicchio

15. Hacking the Body

16. Hacking the Body Image by Camille Baker 2012

17. Image by Camille Baker 2013 Hacking the Body

18. Handmade sensor experiments http://vimeo.com/56206772 and in the dark http://vimeo.com/56206771

19. Hacking the Body ! Image from Sander Veenhof 2011

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

21. Hacking the Body Image by Kate Sicchio 2013

22. Image by Kate Sicchio 2012 Hacking the Body

23. Images from live events for MINDtouch C.Baker 2009-2010 participatory events and installation

24. 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;

25. 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;

26. http://www.iheartswitch.com http://www.fashioningtech.com/ http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/ current activity – “DIY” Fashion & Tech crafting explosion

27. current developments – fabric and textile innovations Fabric stretch sensors – knitted fabrics coated with conductive material Conductance

28. Deep breathing vs short shallow breathing current developments – multi-sensors & techniques

29. current developments – skin-like electronics Electronic Fingertip / smart surgical gloves and stick on ”tattoo” electronics

30. commercial work – functional wearables Voltaic – solar powered bag Heated gloves iPod jacket Solar panel bikini, TISCH, NYU ChanelRodarteHussein Chalayan

31. Suzanne Lee BioCouture current developments – bio-fabric/skin-like textiles Ande Domaske - German microbiologist - Milk Fabric

32. Emily Crane Micro-Nutrient Couture current developments – bio-fabric textiles

33. Donna Franklin, Fibre Reactive, Coded Cloth Exhibition current developments – bio-fabric textiles Pia Interlandi Symbiotica Lab, Australia

34. current developments – conductive inks and paints Bare Conductive Ink

35. 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

36. 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?

37. contact details: Camille, Baker, PhD Digital Media Media Artist / Curator / Lecturer Brunel University< London www.swampgirl67.net camille@swampgirl67.net Kate Sicchio, PhD Dance Technology Choreographer/ Media artist Performer Lincoln University, Lincoln www.sicchio.com kate@sicchio.com Kate Sicchio and Camille Baker August 2010