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Camille C. Baker
Camille C. Baker is an artist-performer/researcher/curator within various art forms: immersive experiences, participatory performance and interactive art, mobile media art, tech fashion/soft circuits/DIY electronics, responsive interfaces and environments and emerging media curating. Maker of participatory performance and immersive artwork, she has developed methods to explore expressive non-verbal modes of communication, extended embodiment and presence in real and mixed reality and interactive art contexts, using XR, haptics/e-textiles, wearable devices and mobile media. She has an ongoing fascination with all things emotional, embodied, felt, sensed, the visceral, physical and relational. Her current artwork touring is INTER/her: An Intimate Journey Inside the Female Body; and was shortlisted for the LUMEN Prize 2021 (lumenprize.com/2021-3d/interactive-shortlist). She was also a principal investigator for the University for the Creative Arts for the EU-funded ‘STARTS Ecosystem’ (starts.eu) April 2019–November 2021 and founder/initiator for the ‘EU WEAR Sustain’ project (wearsustain.eu) January 2017–April 2019. Her monograph New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance for Routledge, Taylor & Francis (2018), showcases exciting approaches and artist wearables, mobile phones and VR/AR, as well as her own work. She has been running a regular meet-up group with smart/e-textile artists and designers since 2014, called e-stitches, where participants share their practice and facilitate workshops of new techniques and innovations. She is a senior tutor of digital direction and a professor of interactive and immersive arts at the Royal College of Art in London, United Kingdom.
Contact: Royal College of Art, School of Communication, London SW7 2EP, UK.