University of East London

Graduate Student, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute

Phd Student

SMARTlab Digital Media Institute

Thesis Title: MindTouch : Emphemeral Transference

About

Camille Baker has a fascination with all things emotional, embodied, felt, sensed, the visceral, physical, relational, and participatory, using video, communication devices and biofeedback. She has been on a continuous quest to work with new technologies, expressive methods, via art and performance, in order to find new ways to connect people with each other, over distance better and in more embodied, emotional ways.

Her recent work involves a mobile performative VJing project called MindTouch, as a PHD Candidate with the SMARTlab at the University of East London, researching Mobile Performance Media. Her research interests include: mobile devices, video art, live cinema, performance and interactive media, responsive environments, media art installation, telematics, new media curating and networked communities.

Camille’s background ranges from music composition, singing and performance, to Executive Director/Curator of The Escape Artists Society in Vancouver, Canada, and Lead Curator, Conference Director and Co-Performance Art Curator for New Forms Festival in Vancouver, to editor-in-chief of an online pop-culture relationship support magazine - Tales of Slacker Bonding (2000-2003), to new media and web design /development, to documentary and online video and animation, to media art instructor, to visual arts curating, to sculpture and modern dance performance.

As a curator/artist-performer/researcher within various forms of art practice (installation, experience design, video art, web animation, performance and music), Camille continues to redefine her practice, both conceptually and practically.

Camille has presented at the EVA Conference 2010 London, TEXTURES, SLSAe 6th Annual Conference, Riga, Latvia, June 15-20th, 2010; ISEA 2009 Belfast August 25-30th, 2009; 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; FilMobile Conference 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.

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