Post on 22-Jan-2018
Interdisciplinary Journeyto wearable tech and etextiles in performance
Dr Camille BakerUniversity for the Creative Arts
• studied and performed modern dance as an undergraduate and in high school in Canada.
practice trajectory
modern dance studies circa 1987
still from motion design piece 2001
practice trajectory
• documentary film development, online video and animation, digital media and web design;
still from documentary Millennial
Love Project 1998
still from Illuminaries documentary
short 1999
practice trajectory
• owned and operated conventional contemporary art gallery in Vancouver in 1998;
stills from gallery circa 1998
• founder, web editor-in-chief of own online magazine (2000-2002),www.slackerbonding.com on GenX relationship and pop culture issues;
screenshot fromslackerbonding.com
2000-2002
practice trajectory
• founder, web editor-in-chief of own online magazine (2000-2002),www.slackerbonding.com on GenX relationship and pop culture issues;
practice trajectory
screenshot fromslackerbonding.com
2000-2002
• music composition and performance in alt-rock/pop/electronic bands from late 1993 - 2007: www.ultrapuss.com and www.spiritualheroine.com;
band photos from Spiritual Heroine 1997 and ultrapuss 2007
practice trajectory
practice trajectory
slideshow from gallery exhibition NFF 2004
• Lead Curator and Event Producer for The New Forms Festival producing + curating a gallery, conference and performances 2002-2004 - 3 years;
• Lead Curator and Event Producer for The New Forms Festival, a new media arts festival in Vancouver from 2002-2004 - 3 years;
practice trajectory slideshow from dance performance NFF 2004
• Co-Executive Director of The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S.) - a performance media event production, non-profit society, 2005-2007;
practice trajectory
Slide from eyeteasersvideo iPod event 2006
Dream Pod: Internal NetworksMasters final project 2004
internal networks: Dream Pod project
Led by Prof. 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
“…technology and communications metaphors that enable networked wearable devices to
communicate affective states in a continuous manner and share them between users or wearers”
the whisper[s] project
[Another pic of whicpers = siggraph 2005]
the whisper[s] project
A head-mounted display (HMD) 1990’s wired glove and joystick. Image: NASA
history of smart garments and wearable tech
early 20th century art imaginings of wearable technology
history of smart garments and wearable tech
The miniaturisation of technology has changed how people build & use wearable tech & electronicsSteve Mann through stages of development - Wearable Wireless Webcam - WearCam.org
Images: Steve Mann & Eyetap, Google Glass, Glass Up & Lumus OpticalSteve Mann’s LifeGlogging sensorcam, Microsoft SenseCam, Mann, Fung & Lo cam & Memoto
history of smart garments and wearable tech
history of smart garments and wearable tech
Benoît Maubrey’s Audio Ballerinas - circa 1989
a Berlin-based art group, AUDIO GRUPPE
http://www.benoitmaubrey.com/
history of smart garments and wearable tech
Isa Gordon - CyberFashion psymbiote.org 2004 - present
see visual research - 2002 and prior http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca/visualresearch.htm
see also http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca/whisper_lit_review.htm
Hug Shirt – Cute Circuit 2006 -wearable messaging
history of smart garments and wearable tech
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 colour change to interact and
predict the emotional state.
-Philips website
Philips Design Probes research group has since
been closed down.
Phillips SKIN Probes 2006-2008
history of smart garments and wearable tech
Huggy Pajamas 2010 - wearable messaging
history of smart garments and wearable tech
Aura 2010 – Marco Righetto - mobile-to-wearable device
history of smart garments and wearable tech
history of smart garments and wearable tech
‘Scentsory Design’, Jenny Tillotson 2010 - emotional scent-sory fashion
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–
still from MINDtouch 2010
MINDtouch: mobile devices as non-verbal expression
first video collection workshop in Vancouver June 2007
C. Baker - stills from participants’ videos from Dublin workshop October 2007
MINDtouch: video collection workshops : 2007-2009
MINDtouch: prototype 2: garment 2009
Images © 2009 C. Baker – beta garment with embedded electronics by Tara Baoth Mooney with Rachel Lesebikan
(completed August 2009)
MINDtouch: example event & user participation
Images from live events for MINDtouch C.Baker 2009-2010
MINDtouch: mixes for live broadcast 2010-2011
live video mixes: MINDtouch C.Baker 2009
Visual material mixed live over the mobile networks and the internet by the wearable sensors on live ‘performers’.
Daan Roosegaarde’s Intimacy Studio Roosegaarde and V2_ Lab in Rotterdam smart e-
foils 2010
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
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.
Donna Franklin, Fibre Reactive, Coded Cloth orange bracket fungi (Pyconporus coccineus) silk, organza, perspex, wood. Exhibition 2004 - 2008 Pia Interlandi, Dissolvable
Fabrics 2008-2011
Symbiotica Lab, Australia
bio-fabric/skin-like textiles
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
Suzanne Lee - BioCouture 2010 now BioFabricate
2014-2016 conference and NASA/Nike Material
Innovator, pioneer in growing fabric through bacteria
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
Ande Domaske - German microbiologist, using Milk
Fiber 2011 and her current company Quik Milk
bio-fabric/skin-like textiles
Emily Crane 2008-2011Micro-Nutrient Couture
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
bio-fabric/skin-like textiles
Victoria Gearney - Synthetic Biology Fashion http://www.victoriageaney.com
Guilia Tomesela – Ruhr emotional corset
2014 http://gitomasello.com
Guilia Tomesela - Sustainable bio-wearable tech 2015
http://gitomasello.com
inspiring work in smart garments
& wearable tech
bio-fabric/skin-like textiles
micro-biological textiles
Anna Dumitru 2014- present – Normal Flora Project
Communicating Bacteria dress
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
The Human Sensor 2016 by Kasia Molga. See also Manchester European City of Science 2016
Wearables for Art and Science
Wearables in Performance
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
Revealuxion_Version ii-1 /r 2015 Kieun Kim
Wearables in Performance
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
Idoru() 2013 by Afroditi Psarra
Cosmic Bitcasting 2016 by Afroditi Psarra
inspiring work in smart garments & wearable tech
The Wearable Fashion Orchestra 2014 by Marina Castan
Wearables in Performance
Graphic by Dave Palmer 2012
Hacking the Body
an ongoing collaboration
with dance artist
/choreographer Kate
Sicchio
June 2013 HTB workshops – collaborative DIY Ethos:
ISEA 2013, Workshop,
Sydney Australia – June 9th,
2013
Tek* 2013, Workshop, Byron Bay,
Australia – June 15th, 2013
Creativity and Cognition 2013,
Workshop, Sydney Australia –
June 17th, 2013
we are 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
DIY Garments with Haptics
April 2015 residency experiments
Hacking the Body 2.0 – new garment development
2015
sketches by Tara Baoth Mooney © November 2015 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2
Hacking the Body 2.0 electronics development 2015
prototypes by Becky Stewart & Tara Baoth Mooney © November 2015 – Hacking 2.0 part 2
Hacking the Body 2.0 new garment development 2015
sketch and prototype by Tara Baoth Mooney & Becky Stewart © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2
Hacking the Body 2.0 electronics development 2015
image and garment by Tara Baoth Mooney © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2
Hacking the Body 2.0 final garments Flutter Stutter
2016
images by Kate Sicchio © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2
Hacking the Body 2.0 final garments Flutter Stutter
2016
image and garment by Tara Baoth Mooney © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2
Hacking the Body 2.0 performances of Flutter/Stutter
London Feb 16 and Sheffield Feb 18th, 2016
images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking the Body 2.0 part 2
Hacking the Body 2.0 hacked garments
Feel Me
2016
garments by OM Signal, hacked by Tara Baoth Mooney, images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2
Hacking the Body 2.0 hacked garments Feel Me 2016
garments by OM Signal, hacked by Tara Baoth Mooney, images by Camille Baker © February 2016 – Hacking 2.0 part 2
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
e-stitches (formerly Stitch, Bitch,
Make/Perform), started November 2014
with Melissa Coleman, supported by Irini
Papadimitriou, Director of the V&A Digital
Progammes.
The focus is on the current wearable tech and etextile issues, such as:
-how we can add more critical and aesthetic
voices to the wearable tech discourse and
development;
-bringing in artists, designers and performers
to learn and collaborate;
-help shape future directions in this design
research area.
other activities
Wearable Tech
& eTextiles
Computing
science
Fashion
Design
DIY Makers /
Crafters
Interaction
/Product
Designers
Artists/
Performers
Biotech/Medi
cal
Fitness/
Sports Textiles
industry
Military
WEAR: Ethical, Sustainable, Environmental, Aesthetic Network of European Hubs to promote new
directions in design, collaboration, manufacturing and supply-chain (Horizon 2020 proposal under
consideration).
other activities
Thank you & questions
hackingthebody.co.uk
swagirl67.net
social
@swampgirl67 twitter
camillebaker.me
swampgirl67.net
video
https://vimeo.com/168129310
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