Promoting the Hacking the Body project and with a workshop for the Elephant and castle Maker Faire 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
Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire
July 6, 2013
Westminster University, London
Camille Baker and Kate Sicchio

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

3. Kate Sicchio performance works 2008-2012
See http://www.sicchio.com for more of her work

4. Graphic by Dave Palmer 2012

5. 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

6. Hacking the Body

7. sensors, soft circuits +
DIY electronics
Images © 2008 C. Baker – Michael Markert working on biosensing electronics for custom software

8. Hacking the Body
Image by Camille Baker 2012

9. Image by Camille Baker 2013
Hacking the Body

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

11. Image by Kate Sicchio 2012
Hacking the Body

12. Hacking the Body
Image by Kate Sicchio 2013

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

14. Hacking the Body
!
Image from Sander Veenhof 2011

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

16. For Hacking the Body we are:
1) working with open-source 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;

17. For Hacking the Body we are:
1) 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);
2) 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;
3) learning from dancers, live artists, musicians and
others in the DIY and ‘Maker’ movement to create
new wearable electronics and mobile applications;

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

19. Workshops – Collaborative DIY Ethos:
ISEA 2013, Workshop, Sydney Australia

20. Workshops – Collaborative DIY
Ethos:
Tek* 2013, Workshop, Byron Bay Australia

21. Workshops – Collaborative DIY
Ethos:
Creativity and Cognition 2013, Workshop, Sydney Australia

22. Our blog:
http://wordpress.hackingthebody.com

23. 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