Camille Baker
Camille Baker is an artist-performer/researcher/curator crossing various art forms, interactive and immersive art, virtual reality art, mobile media, haptics, wearables and E-textiles, participatory performance, responsive interfaces and environments, and new media curating. Her other research interests include: experience design.
Camille has a fascination with all things emotional, embodied, felt, sensed, the visceral, physical, relational, and participatory, using video, communication devices and biofeedback. She has been on a continuous quest to work with new technologies, expressive methods, via art and performance, in order to find new ways to connect people with each other, over distance better and in more embodied, emotional ways.
Her PhD media art research, completed in 2010 through the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute (now located at University College Dublin), involved social mobile VJing called MINDtouch, as part of research on Liveness and Presence in mobile performance media.
Her background includes: music composition and performance; new media installation; online video and animation; media art instruction; Executive Director/Curator of The Escape Artists Society in Vancouver, Canada; Lead Curator, Conference Director and Co-Performance Art Curator for the New Forms Festival in Vancouver; documentary production; editor-in-chief of an online pop-culture relationship support magazine - Tales of Slacker Bonding (2000-2003); web design /development; visual arts curating; sculpture and modern dance performance.
See her portfolio online at https://camillebaker.me
Blogs:
http://swampgirl67.wordpress.com
Supervisors: Professor Lizbeth Goodman and Dr Susan Kozel
Address: Crawley, England, United Kingdom
Camille has a fascination with all things emotional, embodied, felt, sensed, the visceral, physical, relational, and participatory, using video, communication devices and biofeedback. She has been on a continuous quest to work with new technologies, expressive methods, via art and performance, in order to find new ways to connect people with each other, over distance better and in more embodied, emotional ways.
Her PhD media art research, completed in 2010 through the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute (now located at University College Dublin), involved social mobile VJing called MINDtouch, as part of research on Liveness and Presence in mobile performance media.
Her background includes: music composition and performance; new media installation; online video and animation; media art instruction; Executive Director/Curator of The Escape Artists Society in Vancouver, Canada; Lead Curator, Conference Director and Co-Performance Art Curator for the New Forms Festival in Vancouver; documentary production; editor-in-chief of an online pop-culture relationship support magazine - Tales of Slacker Bonding (2000-2003); web design /development; visual arts curating; sculpture and modern dance performance.
See her portfolio online at https://camillebaker.me
Blogs:
http://swampgirl67.wordpress.com
Supervisors: Professor Lizbeth Goodman and Dr Susan Kozel
Address: Crawley, England, United Kingdom
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Themes of embodiment, presence, liveness and connection through mobile, networked, and remote technology are revisited in the context of HD mobile cameras, selfies and live video streaming from the phone, as well as the impact of peer production, opensource and Maker culture on mobile media performance practices. It explores the surge in development of wearable devices in performance, as well as how the ‘quantified-self movement’ has affected performance works. It deals with concepts and developments in intermedial performance that incorporate mobile and wearable devices, especially from the artist’s, designer’s or dramaturge’s perspective as the creator and their creative process, working with technology as a collaborator, not just a tool or guide.
The book demonstrates how artists have repurposed the device – transforming it from merely a communication device, using voice and text only – to become a new collaborative medium, a full visual, synaesthetic, interactive and performative tool of deeper expression and social change. It discusses seminal works and the evolution of the medium, within intermedial digital art and performance practices as medium for artistic expression, creative process and staged performances. It focuses on projects and artists who have pushed mobile media performance beyond the conventional blackbox. Emerging visual, digital, interactive, tactile, gestural and theatrical or performance projects that incorporate mobile or wearable devices, used as vehicles for more challenging, experimental, experiential and immersive performative artworks are highlighted.
The book also contextualises Baker’s own media research and performance practice within the larger landscape with the field. It is bookended with interviews with the artists themselves on their creative process and intentions.
It is the outcome of three years of research of artistic works around the world, interviews, in-person viewings of performances, as well as incorporating and reflecting on her own ongoing practice and projects in context.
This is a preview of the book including the first chapter.