Camille Carol Baker

Royal College of Art | RCA · School of Communication

New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance explores various performative projects and forms of expression that have emerged since the onset of the smartphone. It focuses mainly on new concepts and developments that have emerged in mobile media performance. It showcases the intimate and phenomenological mobile aesthetic that has been unfolding w...

This Special Issue is a series of articles generated from the Extended Senses Symposium 2022 , held at University of Greenwich, 8–9 September 2022, including an exhibition (8–10 September in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery). The main theme of the symposium was to explore ways to extend and expand the body through new and emerging modalities and techno...

INTER/her is an immersive installation and virtual reality artwork highlighting (post)reproductive diseases that women over 30 frequently experience, including endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, ovarian and other cysts and growths, as well as the more serious cervical, ovarian, uterine and endometrial cancers. The artwork presents an abstract, intima...

INTER/her: Intimate Journey inside the FemaleBody isan immersive installation and Virtual Reality artwork focussing onpost-reproductive diseases that for women over 30 can often experience,including: endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, ovarian and other cysts, as well asmore serious cervical, ovarian, uterine and endometrial cancers. The project isan...

This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself – the artefact, artwork or performance – contributors instead highlight the emotional, intellectual, intuitive, instinctive and step-b...

This chapter will cover both high level issues how new technology is developing to the degree that it is collecting or using all our personal, body data in its many forms, to measure and provide health or other information to the user, but also to the companies that sell the devices and this reveals many privacy and ethical issues to be addressed....

This paper reports on results from the project WEAR (Wearable technologists Engage with Artists for Responsible innovation), which between 2017-2018 has facilitated sustainable innovation processes in the field of smart textiles and wearable technology. 46 design-technology interdisciplinary projects and start-ups throughout Europe were selected th...

This paper presents the results of the EU-funded innovation action project WEAR Sustain (Wearable technologists Engage with Artists for Responsible innovation), which involved a total of 46 teams in 2 rounds of seed funding with the goal of setting the stage for sustainable and ethical transformation of the field of textile wearable technology. Loo...

Purpose: As wearable technologies and eTextile sectors mature they are being increasingly used in couture and high street fashion. However, much of the innovation in this space has been driven by technological and commercial imperatives. It is time to reconsider this technological landscape in the bigger picture of a sustainable human-centred world...

Wearable technologies are a nascent market, growing exponentially and moving into our everyday lives more and more. They are exciting in their capacity to break down barriers between artists and designers and digital technology companies. Technology is becoming more efficient, accurate, and personalized. Hardware is becoming smaller, less visible,...

This paper features the creative practice from the long-running collaborative research project, Hacking the Body and Hacking the Body 2.0, between media artist/researcher Camille Baker and media artist/choreographer Kate Sicchio. It focuses on our ongoing concerns to combine, rework, reconstruct and evolve our performative research on the use of we...

The technology fervour over the last 2–3 years around wearable technology that collects user’s personal body data, under the pretense of medical or fitness monitoring, highlights that it is time to raise critical questions. The ethics of corporate data collection has only begun to be discussed outside media arts forums and the fine print for wearab...

This chapter broadly addresses the activities and revelations resulting from the author’s coordination of the European Commission funded project, FET-Art from September 2013 to June 2014 as they pertain to the CHI 2014 workshop April 2014 on Curating the Digital: Spaces for Art and Interaction theme of “fostering collaborations between artists and...

This paper will discuss the progress of the project, which will have been completed for a couple months and all the analysis and reports on outcomes will be delivered, and discuss its findings and the outcomes of the project events and collaborative residencies. I discuss in depth a few selected supported collaborations as case studies and the diff...

In this article, three London-based creative practitioners examine the new emerging possibilities of mobile media in the domain of art and media practice. The three practice-based research projects reflect their diverse backgrounds and perspectives within the emerging field of mobile media, in an effort to define the new genre of mobile media art a...

This article reviews discoveries that emerged from the author's MINDtouch media research project, in which a mobile device was repurposed for visual and non-verbal communication through gestural and visual mobile expressivity. The work revealed new insights from emerging mobile media and participatory performance practices. The author contextualize...

The Life Project explores issues of psychological projection into technology by diving into the convoluted relationship between practical purpose and emotional attachment, through both the creative act of designing and making robot entities with artificial emotions, and the social act of engaging with them. This process explores the concept of body...

This article looks at the practical methods developed by the author, tested, and employed to try to instill creativity in Broadcast Media Design students' in their video production practice. The article provides examples of activities used with undergraduate students in the Broadcast Media Design program module in a British university, and focuses...

The aim of the author's media art research has been to uncover any new understandings of the sensations of liveness and presence that may emerge in participatory networked performance, using mobile phones and physiological wearable devices. To practically investigate these concepts, a mobile media performance series was created, called MINDtouch.Th...

If you could share and exchange your dream imagery, feelings and sensations with your friends and loved ones, how would you do it? If could not only share and exchange, but remix and collage them, what would it look like or feel like? How would it work? Explored through the new media performance project, MindTouch, uses biofeedback sensors and mobi...

This is speculative paper that explores the paradigm-shifting concept of initiating a mind/body to computer communication or interaction, it is not intended necessarily a prescriptive work. This idea pushes the boundaries of accepted conventional science, in terms of human versus computer capabilities and the potential for these capabilities to wor...