Hacking the Body
Hacking the Body is an ongoing series of performance investigation, by choreographer/technologist Kate Sicchio and media artist/curator Camille Baker, which highlights the issue of the collection of personal data by corporate and government entities, through the development of custom wearable and e-textile costumes and unique movement and choreographic investigations.
Sicchio and Baker as Hacking the Body, develop methods of making using wearable sensing devices to access physiological data to create unique interactive performances. This project develops bespoke embedded sensing and actuation systems within costumes, to create various public performances, which explore how dancers interpret physical interactions triggered by devices on their bodies as a means of nonverbal communication and movement creation.
As artists we question how this data demonstrates who we are as individuals, through movement, through our physiology? How does this unique individual data signature created through wearable technology relate to one’s performance expressivity and movement interaction? How can we explore these issues while enabling people access to their own data to interact with, and communicate with each, especially in performance contexts? This performance project builds upon a long standing collaborative iterations between the two lead artists, and the performance experiments they’ve developed in attempting to answer these questions.
Exhibitions and Events
2017
Performance of Feel Me at Refest2.0 , ITP NYU, New York City
Performance of Feel Me at Refest2.0 , ITP NYU, New York City
2016
Discussion Panel, Demo and Performance of Flutter/Stutter, International Conference on Live Interfaces, Brighton UK Invited presentation of performance and garment
Performances Flutter/Stutter and Feel Me, Watermans Arts Centre, Brent, Greater London and Access Space, Sheffield UK.
Artist Talk, ISEA International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2016, Hong Kong Invited talk on current work with technology and performance and ethics
2015
Documentary Wear Next Exhibition, touring Australia and Asia Video made during R&D residency at UCA and Siobhan Davies
Work-in-Progress Performance International Conference of Live Coding. University of Leeds, Leeds UK. Showing of prototype garment with dance improvisation
Discussion Panel Electronic Visualisation and Art, London UK
Invited participants on “Stitch Bitch Make/Perform: Wearable Technology in Performance” panel
Artists in Residence University of Creative Arts Epsom, UK Created prototype garments and worked with professional dancers at Siobhan Davies Studio; Funded by UCA
Artist Talk Babycastles Gallery, New York USA
Invited talk on current work with technology and performance
2014
Artist Talk Wearable Horizons. South Bank Centre, London UK Invited talk on current work with wearable technology, hacking and performance
Workshops Make Hack Do Festival. Science Museum, London UK Soft circuit workshops with approximately 800 participants (ages 9-14) over 5 days
2013
Artist Talk & Exhibition Elephant and Castle Maker Fair, London UK Work-in-Progress showing of early prototype garments
Workshop International Society of Electronic Arts, Sydney AUS Soft circuit workshops with approximately 15 participants
Conference Coporeal Computing. University of Surrey, Surrey UK Discussion of current work with wearable technology, hacking and performance
2012
Exhibition V& A Museum Digital Futures, London UK Work-in-Progress showing of early prototype garments
Exhibition Handmade at Future Everything, Manchester UK Work-in-Progress showing of early prototype garments
Conference. University of Leeds, Leeds UK Poster presentation of work with wearable technology, hacking and performance
Workshop & Performance Tek* Festival, Byron Bay AUS
Soft circuit workshops with approximately 15 participants; Work-in- Progress Performance with prototype garment
Workshop ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Sydney AUS Soft circuit workshops with approximately 15 participants
Conference Electronic Visualisation and Art, London UK Discussion of current work with wearable technology, hacking and performance