Lecture: Emboddied Interaction

Wearable Technology
Mobile Media
Interaction Installations
Telematics

Device shrinkage leading to hi-tech jewellery and biometrics e.g Taser jacket and USB necklace.

New materials. Luminescent, colour changing, electrically conductive. Thermo-chromic inks.

L’echape Communicante

Steve Mann. Wearable Computers. Him being a pioneer in his field. Werable computers are:
- worn, not carried
user controllable
operate in real time (although they may have a sleep mode).

“sousveillance” - embedded cameras. Surveilling back.

Benoit Maubrey. Die Audio Gruppe
1982 Audio Jackets
1989 Audio Ballerinas
2003 Audio Peacocks

Golan Levin - Dialtones (a telesymphony)
Arts Electronica Festival

Paul De Marinis - merging the acoustic and interactive.
1998 Raindance
2004 Firebird
Sound embedded in water

Joachim Sauter ART COM Berlin Interactive Performance
Virtual to Physical interaction
2007 Duality
2002 Famous Grouse Experience

Holistic experience design using all of the senses

Media Stage and Costume Design
Architecture Generated in real time from plant growing algorithm. Infrared reflective costumes.
Four cameras in realtime motion capture for volume generators.

David Rokeby
Very Nervous System (1986-1990) Soft VNS
Vision inextricably linked with surveillance.
2003 Sorting Daemon. Automatically classifying people. Prejudice institutionalised in software programs.

Paul Garrin / David Rokeby
1994-96 Border Patrol. Thomas Squat=re Riot 1988. Security through insecurity (pre 9/11).

Erkki Kurenniemi
DIMI Ballet 1971. Optical video to sound synthesiser.

Paul Sermon
Telematics - computers and wireless (GPS).
Telepresence - to appear, or have an effect at a location other than their true location.
1992 Telematic Dreaming
1993 telematic Vision

You are as sensitive to what happens to your own image as your are to your own body.

1977 Satellite Arts Projects. Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
1980 Hole in Space. Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz.

1984 Good Moning Mr Orwell.
Nam June Paik. NY, Paris, and San Francisco.