Camille Baker
PLATINUM WINNER FOR ART
Mini-documentary on INTER/her project
This is a virtual reality and physical art installation - the VR for Oculus Quest is available here but the full experience includes a haptic belt that allows visitors to feel where inside the body they would feel the reproductive disease that the virtual reality stories are
describing.
INTER/her: Intimate Journey Inside the Female Body - an immersive installation and VR artwork focussed on post-reproductive diseases and pain over 40's women experience: endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, Ovarian and other cysts, cervical, ovarian, uterine, and endometrial cancers. The sensory and emotional experience moving from the outside within a real dome space into VR space, with a 3D audio soundscape of the voices and stories of real women recounting their experiences, making it an intimate, emotional, and possibly haunting experience, with accompanying wearable haptic garment providing a visceral vibration responsive experience on the lower abdomen, where the various diseases occur.
Camille Baker 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. Baker explores new mechanisms to elicit engaging experiences using evolving approaches to technology and the body in participatory and interactive performance.
INTER/her: Intimate journey inside the female body - LUMEN Prize 2021 shortlisted lumenprize.com/2021-3d/interactive-shortlist.