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Camille Baker, „Ephemeral Touch: Bio-Sensing Devices and Skin Interfaces for Personal
Engagement“
SMARTlab Digital Media Institute, UK
My work is an enquiryinto how embodied experiences could be embedded into media art practices, as
well as how they could be experienced in the body, to access memory and altered consciousness. Theassumption for me is always that the body is the integral site of the mind, so the experience must take
place within the body. This research intended to return to the body forinterpersonal exchange, wisdom,
transcendence, and exploration, to immersively attune people to their own bodily sensations to harness the
‘virtuality’ of sensation, imagination and adreamlike imaginative state. My aim is to understand how
people can find alternate, embodied ways to ‘connect to each other’, wireless biofeedback sensor
technology is used to assistas the embodied ‘interface’ with mobile devices. From there, it might be
determined whether such an interface can facilitate various other non-verbal forms of communication andexchange. It might also reveal other opportunities or value from the body-as-interface, possibly serving as
a conduit between technology and the body or for unique socialinteractions. Visceral, proprioceptive
sensations of the internal activity include: hormones, pheromones, fluids and/or nervous reactions and
responses triggered by emotional or otherthoughts, affect or situations encountered by a person. I am
interested in how this embodiment might be experienced and shared through the use of wearable devices
to extend felt presencethrough time and space, just as telepathic exchanges can be said to extend
emotionally and affectively experiences, responses and sensations from one body/ mind to another.