ID-i/o
About
ID-i/o is a solo live audiovisual performance experience. A wearable "performance jacket" with inbuilt sensor technology (accelerometers), is utilised as a gestural controller for audiovisual materials. Data generated by arm movement, is sent (via microcontroller - two have been used: Angelo Fraietta's miniCV Controller and an Arduino bluetooth microcontroller) to a MaxMSP patch, managing data and audio, then passing on selected data to a Jitter patch controlling the video component.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
photo: Kazumichi Grime
Conceptually, this performance work explores slow and subtle movements which, often due to the nature of audiovisual and controller technology availabe, is at times overlooked in favour of more rapid physical motion.
photo: Peta Doherty
This project began conceptual development at the Australian Network for the Arts and Technology (ANAT), Create_Space 2005 New Media Lab held at the Meat Market, Melbourne, October 2005. The project was fully developed (from 2006 to 2009) with the support of an Australia Council for the Arts Sounding Out instrument building grant.
photo: Loui Seselja
This solo performance work was the logical progression from the sensor trio collaboration, HyperSense Complex (pictured above), which used flex sensor technology as gestural interface.
Performances & Events
NOWnow festival 2010
Performance in collaboration with Jon Hunter at NOWnow festival, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia, 22nd January 2010.
Part of Autonomous Improvisation - Primavera 2009
Audiovisual documentation of ID-i/o was included in Wade Marynowsky's Autonomous Improvisation v1 installation exhibited as part of Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, September - November 2009.
photo: Maria-Eleni Alesandre
Cells Button festival 2009
Performance at Cells Button #3, House of Natural Fiber, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 7th August 2009.
Liquid Architecture festival 2009
Performance at Liquid Architecture 10, Carriageworks Sydney, Australia, 27th June 2009.
photo: Kazumichi Grime
Peats Ridge festival 2008
Performance in collaboration with Dan MacKinlay and Michael Norris at Peats Ridge festival, Peats Ridge, NSW, Australia, 30th December 2008.
photo: Christian Malejka
Electofringe festival program launch 2008
Performance at Electrofringe festival program launch, Serial Space, Sydney, 20th September 2008.
International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2008
Performance at Electricity, POST Museum, International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2008, Singapore, 25th July 2008.
photo: Jodi Rose
Tuned City festival 2008
Performance at Tuned City, Berlin, Germany, 4th July 2008.
photo: Scott Morrison
Part of Autonomous Improvisation - ArtSpace 2007
Audiovisual documentation ID-i/o was included in Wade Marynowsky's Autonomous Improvisation v1 installation exhibited at ArtSpace, alongside 36 other experimental performers such as Robin Fox, Clayton Thomas, Lucas Abela, Toydeath, Toecutter and Gail Priest. An ID-i/o performance was recorded in the ArtSpace artist studios and then incorporated into the work consisting of 'audiovisual trios' of randomly selected performers driven by MaxMSP and Jitter. The work also provides audiovisual documentation representing a slice Australia's contemporary experimental performance. April, 2007.
Electrofringe 2006
Performance of TBA in collaboration with video artist dpwolf as part of the SPA[v]CE series, Electrofringe, Newcastle, October 2006.
photo: Peta Doherty 
photo: Peta Doherty
Australasian Computer Music Conference 2006
Performance of [re] at the Australasian Computer Music Conference, Adelaide, July 2006.
Time_Place_Space 5
Performance for participants and facilitators of the Time_Place_Space 5 workshop, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, July 2006.
Gadget
Performance in collaboration with video artist dpwolf at Gadget, a night of live experimental audiovisual performances, Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra, December 2005.
Sounding Out: Outcomes
The Australia Council for the Arts Sounding Out grant assisted in further development of the ID-i/o project by constructing a new jacket, new sensors, new wiring and the integration of a Bluetooth component in the microcontroller, facilitating mobilty (enabled by wirelessness), inclusion of video materials (in additon to existing audio control) and a jacket capable of being a projection surface.
photo: Jaimi Kark 
photo: Jaimi Kark
This involved collaboration with technologist Nick Engel (from Dolby Laboratories Inc - previously Lake Technology), to assist in implementing the shift from MIDI to wireless, using bluetooth including the addition of the bluetooth module by Angelo Fraietta's to the miniCV Controller, and additionally, the Arduino bluetooth microcontroller. In addition, 3-axis (ADXL 330) accelerometers and custom cabling were also implemented.
The performance jacket was developed, in the early stages in consultation with Melissa Penrose (designer), Kate Shaw (Lecturer in Fashion, Canberra Institute of Technology) and finally (through indepth and iterative consultation, with main design features devised by Somaya) designed and constructed by emerging fashion designer Jaimi Kark. The jacket was designed as both a garment to house the technological components (accelerometers, microcontroller and wires) and as a video projection surface so for the ability to perform audiovisually.
Assistance withMaxMSP patch construction, fabric projection tests, daughterboard construction, soldering and general consultation was supplied by technologist Nick Mariette (PhD Candidate - Computer Science, UNSW).
AudioVisual Documentation
- AV excerpt - Liquid Architecture 10, Carriageworks, Sydney, June 27 2009 [quicktime mov]
- [re] excerpt - Das Kleine Field Recording Festival at Tuned City Festival, Wriezener Bahnhof, Berlin, July 4 2008 [vimeo]
TBA excerpt - collaboration with video artist dpwolf
- Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle, October 1 2006 [quicktime mov]- [re] excerpt - collaboration with video artist dpwolf - Gadget, Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra, December 8 2005 [quicktime mov]
- [re] excerpt - Gadget, Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra, December 8 2005 [mp3 audio]
Reviews & Articles
- Osbourne, Tony, "Architectural Meltdown" RealTime, Issue 92, August - September 2009, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue92/9537, accessed on 5 February 2010
- Davis, Anna, "An Improvising Automaton" RealTime, Issue 79, June - July 2007, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue79/8596, accessed on 18 May 2008
- Rodgers, Jessica, "Student to put on show with musical jacket" Monitor Online, January 2006, accessed on 5 February 2006
- Hamilton, Andy, "On Location: Liquid Architecture", The Wire, Issue 259, September 2005
- Kubikle Kitten, "Liquid Architecture feat Thomas Brinkmann", In the Mix, 6th July 2005, http://www.inthemix.com.au/reviews/events/21751/, 6th July 2005, accessed on 26 August 2005
Technical assistance for this project (from 2005 to 2007) was generously provided by Nick Mariette, Nick Engel with fashion design and construction by Jaimi Kark.