Abstracts - York St John University

performance practices with hacking practices and ethos, resulting in practical ‘hacking’
tools and a ‘Toolkit’ for artists to implement in their performance creation process,
especially when working with mobile and sensing technologies. We will use hacking
culture and theory as a theoretical framework to connect technology and performance
ideologies and critically examine key thinkers and practitioners from both domains, and
offer a new slant on how ‘the body’ is a rich source of experiential knowledge to be
harnessed for publicly shared interactive artworks. This not only informs our own practice
and research, but may provide an alternate process for others attempting to bridge these
fields.
Camille Baker is a media artist-­‐performer/researcher/curator working within various art
forms: mobile media, participatory performance, soft circuits & e-­‐fashion, interactive &
video installation, live cinema, telematic performance and responsive environments. She
has presented at the Exhibiting Performance Conference, University of Westminster, March
3rd, 2013; Digital Workshop at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London November 27th,
2012; EVA Conference 2012 London; Art &ICT 2-­‐day workshop at EU headquarters
Brussels, Belgium April 26th & 27th, 2012; Future Fashion Panel for Better Fashion Week
on Sustainability in Fashion, Dublin, Ireland, April 27, 2012; MINA Mobile Media Conference,
New Zealand, November 2011; International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) 2011
Istanbul, Turkey; Low Lives 3, telematic performance Salt Lake City, Utah, USA April 29,
2011; Digital Stages Performance Festival 2011, London; EVA Conference 2010 London;
TEXTURES, SLSAe 6th Annual Conference, Riga, Latvia, 2010; ISEA 2009 Belfast, Northern
Ireland, MobileFest, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 2008, and more.
'Visual Moonbounce and the Cosmic Flaneur'
Daniela de Paulis (Leiden University)
Visual Moonbounce (VM) is an application of Moonbounce technology developed by visual
artist and PhD researcher Daniela de Paulis in collaboration with CAMRAS (radio amateurs
association) over her two years residency at Dwingeloo radio telescope in The Netherlands.
The artist applied this technology to several of her works, including the live performance
OPTICKS and the film 'le Voyage dans la Lune'. VM allows sending images from a radio
station on Earth to the Moon as radio signals. These are reflected back on Earth by the
Moon's surface and received by Dwingeloo radio telescope, where the signals are
reconverted into the original images. During each live performance of OPTICKS various
radio stations on Earth collaborate for sending digital images to the Moon and back in real
time, creating a network of adventurous communication where the people who submit the
images for Moonbounce become virtual astronauts and space farers. In the live
performance lecture, I will present the Visual Moonbounce technology in greater details
and I will introduce the concept of 'Cosmic Flaneur' in relation to the OPTICKS project.
Daniela de Paulis is a visual artist and lecturer living and working between Italy and The
Netherlands. She works with video, installation, performance and has been an active
practitioner since 2001, often collaborating with other artists, scientists and radio
amateurs. She holds a BA from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy, and a Master
Degree in Fine Arts from Plymouth University, UK. Since October 2009 she has been the
first artist in residence at Dwingeloo radio telescope (NL) where she developed, together
with the CAMRAS and ASTRON team, a technology called Visual Moonbounce, which allows
sending images to the Moon and back as radio signals. She is currently a PhD student at
Leiden University, developing her research on Visual Moonbounce and its links to
Visionary Architecture and Space Research. Since 2010 she has been collaborating with the
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