Dear ThCl clubbers and friends,
The 3rd Thursday Club in the 2010 autumn season presents:
Thursday 14th October
2 presentations
Camille Baker and Derrick Welch
Camille Baker: MINDtouch: Embodied Ephemeral Transference:
The aim of this media art research has been to uncover new understandings
of the sensations of ‘liveness’ and ‘presence’ emerging 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.
The mobile media performance project, MINDtouch is based on a vision of
the exchange of dream imagery and embodied sensations through mobile
media, wearable biofeedback sensors and participatory, collaborative,
networked activities as live media performance events. The use of live
body data as a medium to mix concurrent streams of mobile video, in a
multi-thread, non-linguistic conversation creates a collaborative, visual
dialogue, intended to enable a more embodied and meaningful, personalised
exchange between people. The activities result in a collaborative live
visual collage, made with these devices during in-person and remotely
accessed telematic events. The live events enable participants to engage
through improvisation and experimentation using mobile video and
generative VJing (video mixing) activities through a database of live,
streamed and/or archived mobile video clips, retrieved, remixed by the
body data during the live event. This creates a collaborative, non-linear
narrative montage or ‘remix’, streamed back to the phones and the
Internet, attempting real-time interaction.
This is a practice-based PhD research project conducted at the SMARTlab
Digital Media Institute at the University of East London, under the
direction of Professor Lizbeth Goodman, made possible with BBC Funding.
Bio:
Camille Baker ecently presented at the ISEA 2009 in Belfast, Performing
Presence Conference in Exeter, March 27-20 2009; at Kinetica, for the
London Science Museum's: Man and Machine Series, November 2008; MobileFest
in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, November 2008; FilMobileConference and Exhibition, London,
April 2008;MobileFest London December 2007; Cultural Studies NOW
Conference 2007,University East London; Knowledge London 2007,
University of Westminster, London; The New Forms Festival
2006:TRANSFORMATIONS, ArtCamp: un-Conference on Art, Vancouver, Canada;
The Planetary Collegium’s Consciousness Reframed 2004: Qi and Complexity
Conference, Beijing, China, November 2004.
http://www.smartlab.uk.com/2projects/mindtouch.htmor
http://www.swampgirl67.net/filmobile.html)
Derrick Welsh: Drawing and Mobile Phones
http://www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/2010/05/11/new-associate-drawing-fellow-for-wimbledon/
Artist - "Derrick is one of the most important artists of the century" –
Guy Hilton, Art Dealer Broadcasting - "Derrick's role was really minister
without portfolio, if there was a problem or particularly tricky project"
- James Jegede, Chairmandefinition broadcast.
Bio
Derek Welch Associate Drawing Fellow. Wimbledon College of the Arts
2007 - Began research into Drawing messaging, sending drawings between
phones instead of txt messages.
2008 - Invited to become a Champion on Forum Nokia
2009 - Focusing on educational projects I am enthusing art departments to
understand the possibilities of drawing on touch screen devices and will
be
building this into the curriculum in the near future so that it can be
rolled out nationally
http://ipodtouchconf2010.ning.com/video/made-on-an-ipod
http://moshing.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/drawing-messaging/
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASXO13aveFcaZGc3N2MzdmhfMzBkdjZmcWpncw&hl=en&pli=1
and the events that he has participated in are listed – from 2007 – 2010,
events, benefits and critique.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiXO13aveFcadEZaR1YyX1UtaUZ5R1JJTElKbDIzclE&hl=en
Venue: 3/4, Ground floor, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths University of
London
Cost: Free to all
Date: THURSDAY 14th October 2010
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Further information contact: [log in to unmask]
Club convenor: Professor Janis Jefferies
Department: Computing (Digital Studios)
Map & How to get there: Ben Pimlott Building St. James's, New Cross London
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