Camille Baker
Artist-performer, Researcher & curator @ Royal College of Art
Camille Baker (UK) is an artist-performer/researcher/curator within various art forms: immersive experiences, participatory performance, interactive art, mobile media art, tech fashion/soft circuits/DIY electronics, responsive interfaces and environments, and emerging media curating. Maker of participatory performance and immersive artwork, Baker develops methods to explore expressive non-verbal modes of communication, extended embodiment, and presence in real and mixed reality and interactive art contexts, using XR, haptics/e-textiles, wearable devices, and mobile media. She has an ongoing fascination with all things emotional, embodied, felt, sensed, visceral, physical, and relational. Her current artwork touring is INTER/her: An Intimate Journey Inside the Female Body inter-her.art/; LUMEN Prize 2021 shortlisted lumenprize.com/2021-3d/interactive-shortlist. Baker also was Principal Investigator for UCA for the EU-funded STARTS Ecosystem (starts.eu) Apr 2019-Nov 2021 and founder/ initiator for the EU WEAR Sustain project Jan 2017–April 2019 (wearsustain.eu). Baker’s monograph New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance (pub. 2018), showcases exciting approaches and artists’ wearables, mobile phones, and VR/AR, as well as her own work.