I have been fascinated by the “happenings” of networked performance, mobile media/ pervasive media/ locative activities/games of the last 5-8 years and how they are changing our perception of performance. I am excited by the sense of play and collaboration instilled in mobile and interactive media projects, in terms of performance and participation by the public, as well as the perceptual shift in the concept of “liveness”. Live performance events now are promoted primarily through viral and social media, eliciting much great public participation - very interesting times!

My media art and technology research interests include:

*   Mobile Media/Video, Locative and Participatory Performance
*   Wearables, Techno/Techno-Fashion and Sensory Experiences
*   Networked and Live Cinema Performance
*   Experimental Video, Non-linear and Interactive Narrative
*   Interactive Art and Immersive Video Installation

Past and future media art activities (last edited April 30/2011):

upcoming...

• ISEA2011 Istanbul WORKSHOP - MINDtouch: Mobile Video Creativity Workshop

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past:

1) Low Lives 3, online performance event, April 29 and 30th, 2011, MINDtouch Wearable Telematic VJing, ONLINE and Live in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

2) Digital Stages Performance Festival, April 22-26, 2011 MINDtouch mobile media workshop, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK.

3) Digital Resources for the Humanities and the Arts 2010 Conference (DRHA), Sept 5-8th, 2010, performance event and presentation paper of MINDtouch PhD research, Brunel University, London, UK.

4) EVA Conference 2010 London, July 5th, 2010, PhD research workshop: presentation on PhD research MINDtouch: mobile performance media, London, UK.

5) TEXTURES, SLSAe 6th Annual Conference, June 15-20, 2010:

• paper presentation on Art as Research, and
• Material Interfaces Panel (wearable technologies) on my MINDtouch research, Riga, Latvia.

6) paper presentation and panel participation at ISEA 2009, August 25-31, 2009, in Belfast on my research, here are my presenations:

• MINDtouch: embodied ephemeral transferance: Mobile Particapatory Performance Research
• MINDtouch / SMARTfashion developments on the Wearables Panel, chaired by Valerie Lamontagne

8) May 2009, I also did a guest lecture presentation for University of Plymouth's School of Art, Design and Media, for series called Sensory Extensions

9) March 2009, Performing Presence, Exeter, MindTouch: embodied ephemeral transference (biosensor-mobile media performance practices)

10) November 2008, I went to Sao Paulo, Brazil for MobileFest 2008 to present my work, embodied presence in mobile media performance

11) April 5, 2008, FilMobile Conference and Exhibition: Embodied Presence in Mobile Media Performance, University of Westminster, London - images and video from that show.

12) December 6, 2007, MobileFest London: Mobile Video VJ Performance, University of Westminster, London, England.

Recent media art/performance research (last edited April 30/2011):

1) Interactive media artist and painter, Kasia Molga and I have begun a new project called Layers of Frozen Shadows and were short-listed for the MADE (Mobility for Digital Arts Europe) commission.

2) A new research project involves repurposing the mobile phone into a more multi-modal, synaesthetic, and tactile performance and expression device, seeking new ways for users to express themselves in intimate, tactile, visual and non-verbal ways, akin to sending remote ‘touch’ messages, intuitively understood at a pre-conscious level, enabling a more direct route to interpersonal communication. This mobile video research is about developing a new gestural and video vocabulary/symbolic lexicon to express one's self.

3) I hope to produce a new mobile video art film this summer;

4) I will keep learning and practicing VJ/ video mixingskills for on-going mobileivideo/VJ performance research.

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past research projects ...

––> I co-facilitated workshops with Dr. Susan Kozel and Dr Lone Hansen, University Dance College of Stockholm, Sweden, April 18-22/07 on:

• mobile social choreographies: performing our urban spaces through locative media, focussing on performance and choreography with mobile devices.

-–> I was a researcher for the wearable art installation and performance research the whispers project, with professors Thecla Schiphorst and Dr. Susan Kozel from Jan 2003-Nov 2005. This involved:

• research in performance and wearable design and prototype garment construction,
• biosensor testing and development,
• creative manager, installation design and set up,
• videography, video documentation andiwebicontent creater and coordinator,
• wearableiexperience design coordinator, movement development with wearables.

–> I was involved in editing Dr. Kozel’s book Closer on Performance and Technology, MIT Press, published 2007.

*** see MINDtouch Ephemeral Transference, on my SMARTlab PhD workshop + performance documentation:

• pdf thesis available here SOON!!!
• PhD Viva presentatation can be seen here
• previous research presentation 2009 Annual Review
• previous research overview: MINDtouch BBC Project: Embodiment Theory & User Interface Devices

recent academic writing - updated intermittently (last edited April 30/2011):

• methodologies for mobile media performance (April 2011) INTRANSBIOTICS / ART AS RESEARCH 2010 (Ed) Rasa Šmite, RIXC, MPLab, Riga.
• “MINDtouch”–embodied ephemeral transference: Mobile media performance research (March 2011), IN International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Intellect Press, Volume7 (1), Bristol, UK: Intellect Press, pps. 99–118.

previous journal papers in the last year:

• Aesthetics of Mobile Media (June 2009), a collaborative article with Kasia Molga and Max Schleser, IN Journal of Media Practice, Intellect Press, Volume 10 Issue 2&3, and
• ‘Liveness’ and ‘presence’ in bio-networked mobile media performance practices: emerging perspectives (November 2008), IN International Journal of Performance and Digital Art, Intellect Press, Volume 4 Issue 2&3.

My Masters in Applied Science, Interactive Arts, was completed in April 2004 in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser Universit, Vancouver, Canada .That research focused on Interactive Video Installation, Embodiment and Performance, Wearable devices and Sensor Environments, as wellas the Philosophy of Technology.

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