Camille Baker
Since the beginning
Works in London United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

BIO
Camille's media art interests include: responsive environments, networked performance and interactive media, mobile video, media installation, online communities, telematics, and new media curating.

See the online portfolio at : www.swampgirl67.net

Currently, she is a PhD Candidate at The University of East London, London England, in the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute PhD Programme.

Camille also holds 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.

Baker's background ranges from: Lead Curator, Conference Director and Co-Performance Art Curator of the New Forms Festival; to video artist; to web editor-in-chief of a pop-culture relationship support magazine Tales of Slacker Bonding (www.slackerbonding.com); to documentary, online video and animation artist; to visual arts curator/gallery owner; to new media and web design /developer; to poet and science fiction writer; to musician, singer/ songwriter and performer; to sculptor and modern dancer.

Camille has presented at MobileFest London December 2007, Cultural Studies NOW Conference 2007, University East London; Knowledge London Summer Party and Exhibition 2007, University of Westminster, London; Teaching and Learning Conference 2007, University East London; The New Forms Festival 2006: TRANSFORMATIONS, ArtCamp: the World's First un-Conference on Art, Vancouver, BC; The Caladan Gallery online exhibition, March 2005, Beverly, Massachusetts; The Planetary Collegium’s Consciousness Reframed 2004: Qi and Complexity Conference, Beijing, China in November 2004; The Fifth International Digital Arts and Culture Conference 2003, Melbourne, Australia; SXSW 2002 Interactive Award Finalist in Austin, Texas, 2002.

In 2005, Camille co-founded a performance media society called The Escape Artists Society, intended to showcase a diverse range of performance media artists, who demonstrate innovation and excellence in multi-disciplined performance (a hybrid of interventionist, ritual based, action based, artists and dancers working with new technologies), as well as new media artists in public spaces, and wearable art exhibitions (http://www.escapeartists.ca/).

From 2003-2006, Baker was a researcher for the wearable art installation and performance project whispers/between bodies project (http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca), with professors Thecla Schiphorst and Dr. Susan Kozel. This has involved research in performance and wearable design, biosensor testing and development, prototype garment construction, movement development with wearable computing, as well as website development and video editing.

As a producer/curator for the New Forms Festival (www.newformsfestival.com) for multiple events from 2002-2004, Camille explored new media arts exhibition and performance issues extensively. She researched the wealth of media-based art and performance, such as: recent developments, new media art and performance history, exhibition and event production, staging issues, arts funding and administration, as well as hands-on staging, exhibition and production planning.

As a media artist within various forms of art practice (installation, experience design, video art, web animation, as well as music and photography), Baker sees her work about creating artistic experiences using technology, not necessarily about manifesting her own creative vision or aesthetic per se and hope to continue to explore this approach in future works. Camille sees herself as a creative facilitator, using art, performance, music, social science, philosophy and science and other disciplines, as a source of tools to borrow from and sometimes she needs to create tools to make connections and something new when they are not available.
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DISCUSSION

FW: [Fwd: email art project: call for submissions Re:<o><o>]


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Subject: email art project: call for submissions Re:<o><o>
From: "donato mancini" <donatomancini@fivethreesix.com>
Date: Wed, December 24, 2003 5:39 pm
To: <crankmagazine@yahoo.ca>
Cc:

Re:<o><o>

An e-mail art project.

This e-mail is an invitation to collaborate in the project Re:<o><o>
Re:<o><o> is a project in progress first shown at the "Comme des Congres
Gallery" in Calgary, Alberta, Canada made up of a selection of pieces
from artists from around the world. This project is an investigation of
the possibilities of art creation using electronic-mail as a tool for
new artistic explorations. The selected pieces will be included in the
collection of e-mail art that will be presented at "Access Artist Run
Center" in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from January 24 to
February 14, 2004.

Submission Outline:

We will accept: text abstractions, visual e-mail poetry, image and text
experimentations, e-mail essays, conceptual e-mail, neo-text, text
drawing, photographic e-mail-collage, digital images, etc. Keep in mind:
the structure of the e-mail, as the frame for your
own experimentation.

There is no specific theme. The artist has the freedom to choose the
subject, the elements, and the structure of the piece. However, there
are some guidelines.

Guidelines:

Do not attach any files to download. The artist can incorporate images
that will be visible on the e-mail structure but not downloadable files.

Do not include sound or flash animations or any kind of media that will
require a computer to be presented, the e-mails will be shown printed on
paper out of the screen computer context.

Deadline for submissions: January 20th, 2004.

Send: send your e-mail-art-piece to: A@a--g.com or
albertoguedea@gmx.net with the subject: Re:PROJECT

Alberto Guedea, Curator

Access Artist Run Center.
www.access.rubyarts.org
www.a--g.com

For further information contact Alberto Guedea at: A@a--g.com , or
Access Artist Run Center at: vaarc@telus.net

Please forward this call to anyone you think may be interested.

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DISCUSSION

Curatorial Submissions - Extended deadline


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From: capital/newforms <malcolm@capitalmag.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:57:24 -0700
To: camib@telus.net
Subject: Curatorial Submissions

New Forms Festival 2004: Technography

Call-Out for Curatorial Submissions
Deadline: October 20th, 2003

CURATORIAL SUBMISSIONS

The New Forms Media Society (NFMS) is requesting programming proposals from
local and national curators and organizations to be presented at the New
Forms Festival (NFF) 2004: Technography. Submissions can include proposals
for conference events including roundtables, presentations and workshops,
gallery events including stationary installation and artworks in motion,
night performances and late night events.
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Programming proposals must include content relevant to NFF 2004

DISCUSSION

New Forms Festival 2003: Inter[sec/ac]tion


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New Forms Festival 2003: Inter[sec/ac]tion
A convergence of music, media and art

Gallery; Conference; New Cinema: Cinema as Music; SentienTechnics;
Interplay; Modified Music: An Evening of Wo/Man Meets Machine; Live
Interactions/(Break)ing Boundaries

NEXT Wednesday, July 30th - Saturday, August 2nd, Vancouver, BC.
July 25, 2003 - Staff and curators of The New Forms Festival invite you to
come and explore Inter[sec/ac]tion: A convergence of music, media and art,
beginning next Wednesday, July 30th. Featuring an interactive gallery,
conference, evening performances and late night events, you can investigate
the world net.art, film, gaming, 3D performance art and technology, sound
art and audio music, and cyber-feminism to name a few. For a schedule of
events and conference information for The Roundhouse Community Center,
Scotiabank Dance Center and New Forms Media Center please visit
www.newformsfestival.com <http://www.newformsfestival.com> .

GALLERY
Roundhouse Community Center Exhibition Hall
181 Roundhouse Mews (Yaletown), www.roundhouse.ca <http://www.roundhouse.ca>
Thursday, July 31st

DISCUSSION

Zed Peoples Choice Awards!


New Forms Festival 2003: Inter[sec/ac]tion
A convergence of music, media and art

Wednesday, July 30th - Saturday, August 2nd, Vancouver, BC.

July 22

EVENT

Dates for New Forms Festival 2003 - wrong here


Dates:
Wed Jul 30, 2003 00:00 - Mon Jul 14, 2003

Dates for New Forms Festival 2003 - are July 30th to Aug 2nd, IN Vancouver Canada - not as posted here