New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance

This book explores the new and varied artistic and performative projects that have developed since the onset of the smart phone. The author examines how mobile devices are used in performative and video artworks for participatory, or interactive, visual works and performances. She discusses the key and compelling works within digital art and performance that use the mobile media tools, as well as fast developing wearable technology, to create a new medium for expression. The focus is on the new affordances that have been made through the exponential technological development of mobile technologies, and the changing landscape of art and performance practices in response to this development.

Author: Camille Baker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/24/2018
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781472467188

About the Author

Camille C. Baker is Reader for the School of Communication Design, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, UK. She is also a media artist-performer/researcher/curator with recent work in participatory mobile and sensor performance using wearable technologies, now exploring creative coding and electronic development for smart-fashion projects.

Her other research interests have included: responsive interfaces and environments, video art and live cinema, experience design, telematics, networked communities, web animation, digital media curating, and music composition and performance.

She has a fascination with all things embodied, felt, sensed, the visceral, physical, relational, and participatory, using video, mobile and biofeedback devices. She is passionate about working with new technologies, expressive methods, in art and performance, seeking new methods to connect people over distance, in better and more embodied, emotional ways. She explores new mechanisms to elicit engaging experiences using evolving approaches to participatory performance.