ID-i/o (pronounced idio) is a solo live audiovisual performance experience. A wearable "performance jacket" with inbuilt sensor-based technology (accelerometers and flex-sensors) is in ongoing development as a tool for gestural control of audiovisual resources.
photo: Loui Seselja
This project began 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 is continuing development in with the support of an Australia Council for the Arts Sounding Out grant.
photo: Peta Doherty
Performance at Tuned City, Berlin, Germany, 4th July 2008.
photo: Scott Morrison
The Australia Council for the Arts Sounding Out grant assisted in further development of the ID-i/o project by re-development of the technology for added mobility and the development of a new performance jacket.
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 Kate Shaw (Lecturer in Fashion, Canberra Institute of Technology) and finally designed (in consultation with Somaya) 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 development of future audiovisual performances using MaxMSP and Jitter.
Assistance with projection fabric testing and general consultation was supplied by technologist Nick Mariette (PhD Candidate - Computer Science, UNSW).
In April 2007, ID-i/o was included in Wade Marynowsky's Autonomous Improvisations v.1 exhibited at ArtSpace in Sydney, 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.
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
Performance of [re] at the Australasian Computer Music Conference, Adelaide, July 2006.
Performance for participants and facilitators of the Time_Place_Space 5 workshop, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, July 2006.
Performance in collaboration with video artist dpwolf at Gadget, a night of live experimental audiovisual performances, Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra, December 2005.

TBA excerpt - (Collaboration with video artist dpwolf
- Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle, October 1 2006 [quicktime mov]