Presentation of Hacking the Body 2.0 performances Feel Me & Flutter Stutter

1. Performing Identity through
Wearable Sensing
Hacking the Body 2.0
Camille Baker & Kate Sicchio

2. Graphic by Dave Palmer 2012
Hacking the Body - 1st Iteration
an ongoing collaboration
with dance artist
/choreographer Kate
Sicchio

3. 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

4. ethics of body data collection

5. ‘Unknown unknowns’
open score improv
‘Known unknowns’
sensing with the devices on their
bodies
‘Known Knowns’
what we were aiming to make
with the sensors, why we
wanted to collect data
‘Unknown knowns’
commercial devices and apps
Zizek/Rumsfield

6. Extending to Existing
Technologies
April 2015 residency experiments

7. DIY Garments with Haptics
April 2015 residency experiments

8. Hacking the Body 2.0 performance development
images by Camille Baker © November 21, 2015 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

9. Hacking the Body 2.0 performance development
images by Camille Baker © November 21, 2015 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

10. Hacking the Body 2.0 new garment development
images by Tara Baoth Mooney and Becky Stewart © August 2015 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

11. Hacking the Body 2.0 new garment development
sketch and prototype by Tara Baoth Mooney © November 2015 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

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

13. Hacking the Body 2.0 electronics development
prototypes by Becky Stewart & Tara Baoth Mooney © November 2015 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

14. Hacking the Body 2.0 electronics development
prototypes by Becky Stewart © November 2015 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

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

16. Hacking the Body 2.0 new garment development
sketch and prototype by Tara Baoth Mooney & Becky Stewart © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

17. Hacking the Body 2.0 final garments Flutter Stutter
images by Kate Sicchio © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

18. Hacking the Body 2.0 rehearsals Sheffield Flutter
Stutter
images by Kate Sicchio and Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

19. Hacking the Body 2.0 rehearsals Sheffield Feel Me
images by Kate Sicchio and Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

20. Hacking the Body 2.0 hacked garments
Feel Me
garments by OM Signal, hacked by Tara Baoth Mooney, images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

21. Hacking the Body 2.0 hacked garments Feel Me
garments by OM Signal, hacked by Tara Baoth Mooney, images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

22. Hacking the Body 2.0
Performance events

23. 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

24. Hacking the Body 2.0 performances of Feel Me
London Feb 16 and Sheffield Feb 18th
video shot by Arran Green and Camille Baker, edited by Dann Emmons February 2016 © Hacking The Body 2.0 part 2 – start 7:48

25. Hacking the Body 2.0 performances of Flutter/Stutter
London Feb 16 and Sheffield Feb 18th
images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2

26. Hacking the Body 2.0 performances of Flutter/Stutter
London Feb 16 and Sheffield Feb 18th
video shot by Arran Green and Camille Baker, edited by Daniel Emmons February 2016 © Hacking The Body 2.0 part 2 – start 9:

27. body data as personal identity

28. Thank you & questions
hackingthebody.wordpress.com
camillebaker.me
swampgirl67.net
sicchio.com
social
@hacking_body (instagram & twitter)