stills from collaboratively and biosensor mixing videos form events Sept-Dec 2009

MINDtouch was a practiced-based PhD conducted through the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute (2006-2010), now at the University College Dublin. I was investigaing whether liveness and presence can be experiences during networked performance contexts, using mobile devices and biosensors, and explored this by creating a project that tried to embody technology through mobile media and social video mixing. I created collaborative, networked VJ collages or 'mixes from participants collected and live videoclips that were then streamed live to the internet and (ideally) to mobile phones during the live events. This is now much easier using ustream, but was quite difficult only a year or so during my project.

Links to previous live events can be seen here: CLICK HERE

:. some examples of the video captured during previous workshops.

• FilMobile Conference and Exhibition: Embodied Presence in Mobile Media Performance, University of Westminster, London, England, April 5, 2008.
• see images and video from that show here

:. more info on this project: MINDtouch BBC Project: Embodiment Theory & User Interface Devicesi

:. May 2009 - brief phd "plumline" overview of my practice-based research performance project:

i:. May 2008 - more detailed video overview of my research: