My research progress will be updated when I can (last edited Aug 5th /08):

I am working on my practiced-based PhD at the University of East London (UK), in the SMARTlab Digital Arts Centre PhD program (started fall 2006), researching “liveness in networked performance as experienced using mobile devices”, and biosensors, mobile phone media to create collaborative, networked VJ performances for my project.

i:. May 2008 - Recent video overview of my research:

1. April 5, 2008, FilMobile Conference and Exhibition: Embodied Presence in Mobile Media Performance, University of Westminster, London, England.
   • see images and video from that show here
2. December 6, 2007, MobileFest London: Mobile Video VJ Performance, University of Westminster, London, England.
3. Cultural Studies Now - Panel 1 - July 19th, 2007 and updated info/ presentation page
4. Teaching Learning Conference, UEL - brainstorm session - July 5th, 2007
5. Magic and Complexity - February 2007 and video of presentation

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I am interested in the new “happenings” of the networked performance, mobile media, and how locative and mobile activities / games are changing our perception of performance. I'm interested in the sense of play and collaboration that is instilled in both the performers and the users/audience, or even the users/audience as the performers, and the perceptual shift in the concept of “live”. These are live performance events that can be publicized through a website or cell phone, eliciting instant crowd response (Flash Mobs) or only involving the performer and the user.

I try to keep up on my writing (last edited Aug 5th/i i 08):

1) Three journal papers in the works for the International Journal of Performance and Digital Art, a collaborative article with Kasia Molga and Max Schleser for the International Journal of Media Practice, and Brunel University's School of Arts, postgraduate Perfomance Studies' online journal Body, Space and Technology for Fall 2008/Spring 2009.

**2) 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

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3) I submitted paper on my SMARTlab research to perthDAC2007, the paper found here, Biosensors, Liveness and Networked Performance with Mobile Devices: Emerging Perspectives, when its completed.

4) There's a feature on me and my non-profit org TEAS on VJ Theory art section.

5) I posted a few entries on the blog for Furtherfield media art blog, a few of them:

• Article on VJing or Live Cinema at the moment for online New Media Art magazine Furtherfield, "A remix of preoccupations: Database video art, Performance Video, Live Cinema + VJing" June 2006

• Interactive DVD review for online New Media Art magazine Furtherfield, Interactive Cinema: Marie Tyrell, April 2006

6) Completed art review on the Quebec artist Martin iBeauregard, for new brunt magazine October, 2005 for ithe LIVE Bienniel in Vancouver, for which Beauregard iperformed at the grunt gallery.

7) Was to present a paper for The Altered States: itransformations of perception, place, and performance iConference Proceedings, July 2005, Planetary  Collegium, iPlymouth, UK (.pdf)

 8) March 2005, Telepathy Project, Caladan Gallery  online exhibition, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA iiwww.caladangallery.com/gallery/baker (web) and iidirector@caladangallery.com (email)

i9) Telepathy Through Biosensor Media Stimulation, i"Consciousness Reframed 2004: Qi and Complexity iConference Proceedings", published November 2004, iPlanetary Collegium, Beijing, China (.doc)

10) Biosensor and Media Art Induced Meditation and iTelepathy , "LEA Special Issue: From the Extraordinary ito ithe Uncanny: The Persistence of a Parallel Universe", iSeptember 2004 , Guest Editor: Michael Punt , The iLeonardo Electronic Almanac. (web)

11) Internal Networks: Telepathy Meets Technology," iDigital Arts Conference 2003 Proceedings, May 2003, ipublished on DVD.

As a media artist/researcher, I'm working on (last edited June 16th /08):

**Loadsof funding applied for, nothing else funded as of June 2008.

i1) Went to the University College of Dance in Stockholm, Sweden April 18-22/07, to help facilitate workshops on:

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

i2) Coordinating a VJ Theory/TEAS/ VIVO skype discussion group in May 26th with skype + live.

i3) o-going learning and practice in VJ skills and research for a mobile iphone/VJ iperformance project

4–Keep watching this space for updates on projects–

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past research projects ...

-–> 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, biosensor testing and development, installation design and set up, videography and editing, prototype garment construction, movement development with wearables, as well as graphic design and website development.

I was a creative manager, wearable iexperience design coordinator, video documenter, and iwebicontent coordinator.

–> I was involved in editing Dr. Kozel’s book on Performance and Technology for MIT Press, due out soon.

I also hold a Masters in Applied Science in Interactive Arts, completed in April 2004 in the Graduate Program in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. My research focused on Interactive Video Art Installation, Embodiment/Bodies and Performance, Wearable Art and Virtual Sensor Environments, and Philosophy of Art and Technology:

i:. Interactive Version
i:. :. HTML Journal Version
i:. :. :. Print Download
i:. research movie - an intro to my thesis content.