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Editor's Notes

• #3: This is… READ SCREEN The conceptual framework behind it has been focussed on recent rhetoric and practices of personal code mining and data collection, and how we can access, yet question the variety of parameters of body information and the states of being. ‘Hacking the Body’ version 1, centred on ways to train & engage performers in using emerging technologies and devices, as a means to enhance their creative process, but also to devise new forms of immersive experiences for audiences. Our objective was to explore ways in which human physical states could be meaningfully exposed in the network and repurposed, thereby 'hacking the body'.
• #4: Hacking the Body’ used an open, solution-driven, hands-on ethos as the main principle of hacking employed to investigate and make novel art and performance works. This first iteration also used the ‘hacking’ ethos as a starting point to re-imagine uses for and re-purpose internal signals from the body.
• #6: Hacker ethics are concerned primarily with sharing, openness, collaboration, and engaging in the hands-on imperative, which we employed in Hacking the Body version 1. Hackers created a methodology that we employed in Hacking the Body. We drew upon various discourses to further hacking as a method for collaborative modes of making performance and interactive works.
• #7: READ SCREEN
• #8: Using various Hacker/ Maker techniques to ‘Hack” biofeedback data from the body (using handmade soft circuit sensors), we explored creating visual and interactive performative activities for participants to engage in and play using their mobile and gaming devices.
• #9: We used mainly handmade and soft sensors with conductive fabrics, inks and threads, but in the current or future iterations we intend to embed etextile sensors into bio-fabrics (made from fungus, milk or other materials and processes) to create natural and and more ethical sustatinable interfaces, which also easier and more comfortable for performers to perform in.
• #10: As part of the giving back to the community dimension of hacker ethics, we facilitated three workshops in Australia 2013 as part of three different festivals and conferences –teaching soft-circuits, wearable electronics, and the basics of Arduino coding.
• #12: As a spinoff of version 1 Hacking the Body, and the Australian workshops, we were invited to teach very basic soft circuits to kids (and their parents) at the Science Museum last year.
• #13: With exponentially increased corporate development of wearable technology for fitness and health, Hacking the Body 2.0 is slightly different performance investigation, looking at body data and states of the body, from the point of view of data ethics and personal identity through code. We still hope to re-imagine the uses of this code, re-code or repurpose them into live choreographed performances using custom-made smart costumes and exploring new approaches to live audience experience and engagement through wearable sensing, actuation and intervention directly to and on the dancers’ bodies.
• #14: [Play video] https://vimeo.com/133353621 11
• #15: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #16: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #17: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #18: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #19: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #20: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #21: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #22: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #23: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #24: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #25: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #26: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.
• #27: The touch sensors are being embedded in a pleated fabric. The pleats will encase the conductive materials that act as antennae for a series of capacitive touch sensors. The conductive materials are aligned all in one direction, or may form a grid structure. The software on the computer (and eventually on an iPad or mobile phone) will register which garment's actuators are listening to which sensors. It then sends the messages from the touch sensors to the correct actuator. The actuators in the garments are small motors to control the tightening and loosening of elastic bands to create a squeezing sensation on the body that the dancer will interpret as a form of communication from the other dancer and respond in movement.