Methodologies for mobile media performance
Baker, Camille (2011) Methodologies for mobile media performance. Acoustic Space (9). pp. 131-144. ISSN 1407-2858
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The aim of this media art research has been to uncover 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. This performance series resulted in a collaborative live visual collage, made with mobile and wearable devices during in-person and remotely accessed telematic events. The live events were organised for participants to engage in through improvisation and experimentation using mobile video and generative VJing (video mixing) activities. This essay describes the methodological approach taken within this media art research.
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. This telematic, physical-virtual event-system is intended as a simulation of synaesthetic and embodied dream experiences or to mimic a telepathic affective exchange, creating a paradox in the notions of liveness/presence and of feeling/being-there. 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.
Title of Acoustic Space issue 9: 'Art as Research'.
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