Makersguild 2013 London
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Camille Baker and Kate Sicchio are media artists who research wearable technology and hacking the body through digital media performance. Their project "Hacking the Body" explores using open source coding and DIY electronics to create custom interfaces and emerging devices for multi-sensory participatory performances. They are interested in revealing the intimate "code" of the body and creating new aesthetic experiences through mobile and wearable technologies. Recent work includes workshops bringing artists and makers together to develop soft circuits, conductive materials, and other hackable garments.
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Makersguild 2013 London
- 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 Hacking the Body Maker’s Guild July 17, 2013 Westminster University, London Camille Baker and Kate Sicchio
- 2. background/ interests online portfolio http://www.swampgirl67.net/
- 3. previous work – wearable devices in garments the whisper project - a research project lead by Prof. Thecla Schiphorst and Dr. Susan Kozel in Vancouver Canada, that explored wearable devices and biofeedback embedded in fashion. 2003-2006; “…technology and communication metaphors that enable networked wearable devices to communicate affective states in a continuous manner” Thecla Schiphorst whisper at Siggraph 2005 http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca/
- 4. Kate Sicchio performance works 2008-2012 See http://www.sicchio.com for more of her work
- 5. Graphic by Dave Palmer 2012
- 6. 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
- 7. Hacking the Body Images © 2007 C. Baker - working with wired biosensors with participants & custom mobile software In PhD project MINDtouch
- 8. sensors, soft circuits + DIY electronics Images from Codasign workshop April 2012
- 9. Hacking the Body Image by Camille Baker 2012
- 10. Image by Camille Baker 2013 Hacking the Body
- 11. Handmade sensor experiments http://vimeo.com/56206772 and in the dark http://vimeo.com/56206771
- 12. Image by Kate Sicchio 2012 Hacking the Body
- 13. Hacking the Body Image by Kate Sicchio 2013
- 14. Images by Kasia Molga 2012 and Camille Baker 2010 Hacking the Body
- 15. Hacking the Body ! Image from Sander Veenhof 2011
- 16. Images C.Baker 2009-2010 - from live events for MINDtouch participatory events and installation
- 17. For Hacking the Body we are: 1) working with open-source coding, creating custom interfaces and emerging devices in multi-sensory participatory performances and choreography, 2) focusing on revealing hidden, intimate and sensuous ‘code’ of the body for interaction and play; 3) working with inexpensive electronics kits with easy to learn open-source programming environments, soft circuits and other technologies for wearable crafting; 4) exploring playful, expressive, gestural movement, as well as using the Hacker/Maker ethos to access body data; 5) developing artworks to develop a new performance & choreographics aesthetic, using mobile &other ‘hacked’ devices for performance and interactive artworks;
- 18. For Hacking the Body we are: 6) creating generative visual and sensual pieces with custom software and mobile media ‘apps’ and sensors (GPS, Accelerometers, QR readers, AR apps etc.) and gaming interfaces (Wii, Kinect, OmniTouch); 7) developing visual methods for tagging & categorising network media to create new tools for performance interaction and choreographic development, incorporated into custom haptic bio-interfaces; 8) learning from dancers, live and theatre artists, video artists and others in the DIY ‘Maker’ movement, to create new wearable electronics and mobile applications to share with other artists.
- 19. SKIN, which examines the future integration of sensitive materials in the area of emotional sensing – the shift from ‘ intelligent’ to ‘sensitive’ products and technologies. As part of SKIN, we have developed two ‘Soft Technology’ outfits to identify the future for high tech materials and Electronic Textile Development in the area’s of skin and emotional sensing. The dresses show emotive technology and how the body and the near environment can use pattern and color change to interact and predict the emotional state. -Philips website Philips Skin Probes 2008 earlier research – biosensing + wearables Sadly, Philips Design Probes research group was closed down
- 20. http://www.iheartswitch.com http://www.fashioningtech.com/ http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/ recent activity – “DIY” Fashion & Tech crafting explosion
- 21. current developments – skin-like electronics Electronic Fingertip / smart surgical gloves and stick on ”tattoo” electronics Images from http://www.mc10inc.com and http://www.ecouterre.com/worlds-first-electronic-fingertip-paves-way-for-smart-surgical-gloves/
- 22. Suzanne Lee BioCouture current developments – bio-fabric/skin-like textiles Ande Domaske - German microbiologist - Milk Fabric Images from http://www.biocouture.co.uk/ and http://www.ted.com/speakers/suzanne_lee.html See also http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11565/suzanne-lee-biocouture-growing- textiles.html http://www.greenpacks.org/2011/07/28/fabrics-made-out-of-milk-are-you-getting-yours-video/
- 23. Emily Crane Micro-Nutrient Couture current developments – bio-fabric textiles Images from http://emilycrane.co.uk/micronutrientcouture.html and http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/emily-crane-interview
- 24. Donna Franklin, Fibre Reactive, Coded Cloth Exhibition current developments – bio-fabric textiles Pia Interlandi Symbiotica Lab, Australia Fibre Reactive 2004-2008, orange bracket fungi (Pyconporus coccineus) silk, organza, perspex, wood. Curated by ANAT Executive Director, Melinda Rackham Symbiotica lab in Perth http://www.philippawagner.co.uk/blog/tags/pia-interlandi/ Pia Interlandi
- 25. current developments – conductive inks and paints Bare Conductive Ink http://www.bareconductive.com
- 26. commercial work – functional wearables Voltaic – solar powered bag Heated gloves iPod jacket Solar panel bikini, TISCH, NYU ChanelRodarteHussein Chalayan
- 27. inspiring work – emotional scent-sory fashion Scent video ‘Scentsory Design’, Director/ Producer: Dr. Jenny Tillotson 2010 UK
- 28. INTIMACY is a fashion project exploring the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high- tech garments entitled 'Intimacy White' and 'Intimacy Black' are made out of opaque smart e-foils that become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people - developed by Daan Roosegaarde’s Studio Roosegaarde and at V2_ Lab in Rotterdam inspiring work – smart e-foils http://www.studioroosegaarde.net/
- 29. recent HTB workshops – collaborative DIY Ethos: ISEA 2013, Workshop, Sydney Australia – June 9th, 2013
- 30. Tek* 2013, Workshop, Byron Bay, Australia – June 15th, 2013 recent HTB workshops – collaborative DIY Ethos:
- 31. Creativity and Cognition 2013, Workshop, Sydney Australia – June 17th, 2013 recent HTB workshops – collaborative DIY Ethos:
- 32. contact details: Camille, Baker, PhD Digital Media Media Artist / Curator / Lecturer Brunel University www.swampgirl67.net camille@swampgirl67.net Kate Sicchio, PhD Dance Technology Choreographer / Media Artist University of Lincoln www.sicchio.com kate@sicchio.com Kate Sicchio and Camille Baker August 2010