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Composing an Interaction: a primer on building expressive interactive systems
I will visit the Immersive Art Space, and present the lecture-performance 'Composing an Interaction', along with an extended presentation geared towards immersive arts.
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Vocal Gestures and Space, Artist Talk by Franziska Baumann
Pioneering extended vocal techniques and live electronic processing with her SensorGlove, Franziska Baumann creates solo works at the intersection of voice, gesture, mediated voice and spatialised vocal spheres. Her compositions and improvisations push the boundaries of perception, vocal creation and sonic expression by exploring the convergence of the embodied and mediated voice through her gestural system.
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Keynote talk at the International Livecoding Conference 2023
I will give a keynote presentation at the International Livecoding Conference 2023 in Utrecht, talking about Human/Machine Entanglement. Livecoding is an act of rebellion against the fixed idea software as immutable, impenetrable, but yet advertised as neutral, systems that are humanity’s future – it inspires democratisation of the human/machine entanglement of our current society, by showing that code is mutable, alive, accessible, and above all an expression of concepts – which are personal and political. Ca. 20 years after the start of the projection era of livecoding, perhaps it is time to make up the balance of how the entanglement between humans and machines within the livecoding community has evolved. Her past livecoding works, Code LiveCode Live, Wezen-Gewording, Etudes pour le Livecoding à une Main, and the machine is learning all address different aspects of human/machine entanglement. In her presentation she will come back to topics she addressed in her paper Embodiment of Code at the first ICLC in 2015, her article “Interplay between Composition, Instrument Design and Performance” (2016) and her book “Composing Interactions – an Artist’s Guide to Building Expressive Interactive Systems” (2022).
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Guest lecture at Sandberg Institute
I have been invited to give a guest lecture at the Sandberg Institute
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Presentation "On constructing experiences: documenting the craft of interactive art" at Transformation Digital Art 2023
Transformation Digital Art 2023 aims to show and discuss existing and new strategies for the documentation, transmission, and preservation of digital art for and by artists, curators and conservators. In my presentation I will talk about the following: How do artists create an interactive, digital artwork? How do they shape an interactive experience? The artistic practices in which interactive, digital technology plays a role range from music, dance, and theater to visual art, media art, film, and beyond. Each of these disciplines brings along a different aesthetic context from which the use of interactive technology is approached, leading to different considerations on what are meaningful choices in shaping the experience elicited by these works. In this presentation, Baalman will discuss her method for documenting interactive artworks, to share knowledge, crafts and best practices across time, programming environments and artistic disciplines.
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Presentation at Kick-Off event The Turbine Plays
The Turbine Plays will showcase its first collaboration plan at the kick-off event on Tuesday 13th December 2022 at EnTranCe in the Energy Barn in Groningen. ‘The Turbine Plays’ is organised by Knowledge Centre Arts & Society and Centre of Expertise Energy. The Turbine Plays is designed around questions such as: How can public involvement and acceptance be stimulated in the transition from fossil to renewable energy sources, such as wind energy? What contribution can creative professionals make in a process of knowledge production on wind energy together with various stakeholders? Anyone who is curious about where creative professionals and scientists can take us in the landscape transition and wants to increase their knowledge in this field is welcome to attend the kick-off in the Energy Barn. The projectThe Turbine Plays is an artistic-driven research project initiated by Frouke Wiarda and further developed in collaboration with Judith van der Elst. Several speakers, artists, musicians and researchers will contribute. The day will be led by Wilbert van de Kamp (moderator of the day).
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Book launch event 'Composing Interactions'
This event we will celebrate the launch of my book into the world. There will be presentations by SuperPosition, STUKK and myself, and a performance by Andi Otto
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[POSTPONED] Book launch event 'Composing Interactions'
This event we will celebrate the launch of my book into the world. There will be presentations by SuperPosition, STUKK and myself, and a performance by Cathy van Eck
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Lecture in Experimental Instrument Design Course
During this course you will design and build your own experimental electronic or electro-acoustic instrument or sound installation. You will learn about the development of experimental instruments, sound design, music practice and performance. You will test ideas, build a small synthesizer, explore sounds and styles of playing and use the available makerspaces at X and TU Delft Science Centre to develop your own instrument or sound installation. With artists Marije Baalman, Rafaele Andrade, Mihalis Shammas, Teun Verkerk and Riccardo Marogna.
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PANT public Taiwan
During this special Taipei edition of the Platform Artists Netherlands Taiwan, we will present the outcome of the workshop given earlier in the week, and I will contextualize it in my work with Wind Instruments, amongst which the exhibition in Soulangh.
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On constructing experiences: Documenting the craft of interactive art
How can you create an interactive, digital artwork? How can you shape an interactive experience? The artistic practices in which interactive, digital technology plays a role range from music, dance, and theater to visual art, media art, film, and beyond. Each of these disciplines brings along a different aesthetic context from which the use of interactive technology is approached, leading to different considerations on what are meaningful choices in shaping the experience elicited by these works. In this open talk, Baalman will discuss her method for documenting interactive artworks, to share knowledge, crafts and best practices across time, programming environments and artistic disciplines.
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Guest lecture, Master class and Open talk at Aalborg University
I'm invited to give a guest lecture, master class and open talk at Aalborg University
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Guest lecture at Conservatorium van Amsterdam
A guest lecture for the composition department. I will talk about my work and the book 'Composing Interactions'
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Guest lecture at MIT (online)
In this lecture I presented my work on Wind Instruments and Wezen-Gewording, and about my upcoming book "Just a question of mapping".
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Presentation at IAC - Interactive arts – translating gestures to experience (CANCELED)
How can gestures through the use of sensors and controllers, computational processing be translated to output media, such as sound, light and video? That is the topic of the book Just a question of mapping that Marije Baalman is currently working on. Drawing from her own experience of working in the field as artist and researcher, and from case studies with musical instrument inventors and performers, choreographers for interactive dance, software engineers and media artists, she is bringing together insights from different fields into how to approach this question. The book’s aim is to bridge aesthetical concepts and technological implementations, and to be used as a handbook for artists, researchers and teachers who are in the field, or coming into the field. This presentation is part of my Norway tour for the book "Just a question of mapping".
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Presentation at BEK - Personal retrospective on mapping in my artistic projects (CANCELED)
Marije Baalman is currently writing a book on mapping: how can gestures through the use of sensors and controllers, computational processing be translated to output media, such as sound, light and video. Her motivation comes from her own artistic work, where the topic of mapping has played a core part since 2001, when she started building her first digital musical instrument, the STRIMIDILATOR. Over the past 19 years, she has made digital instruments, participative installations, dance performances, and kites (wind instruments). In the presentation she will trace through these numerous projects and discuss the different approaches to mapping that she explored in these projects. This presentation is part of my Norway tour for the book "Just a question of mapping".
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Presentation "Mapping the question of mapping" at the Live Interfaces conference
In this paper I propose a method to study the question of mapping: the field between what happens in an environment, a gesture, to what happens in an output medium. This paper is part of my research for the book "Just a question of mapping".
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Presentation at Faculty of Senses - Aesthetics of mapping in interactive arts and embodiment
“There is nothing more human than the machine” Gottfried Willem Raes said during a panel discussion at the NIME 2007. Humans have been making technology to extend the capabilities of their bodies (including the mind) for milennia. Currently, digital technologies are at the forefront of this – and technology is often used as a synonym for digital technology. Interactive technologies provide ways for us to explore different senses of our body. In different artistic disciplines there are various approaches. In music the creating of digital musical instruments allow us to explore new musical concepts in an embodied way. In dance, the use of interactive technologies can change our sense of the body, as how we move affects the environment in a different way. Interactive technologies can help us to experience physical phenomena that normally we cannot perceive with our senses. To achieve these new experiences for our bodies we make use of interactive systems consisting of sensors, electronics and algorithms. The design of these systems is often called ‘mapping’: from gesture to sound, light, haptics or video. While the implementation often requires ‘engineering’ skills, the choices are motivated by the aesthetic concepts for the experience the artist wants to create. The choices that we make for these systems, determine how the system perceives and acts in the world, and thus how these systems can interact with us and vice versa. In the talk, I want to discuss the different aesthetic motivations and how these relate to notions of embodiment and possible design approaches for creating these systems. This presentation is part of my Norway tour for the book "Just a question of mapping".
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Presentation at the Conference for interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM19)
At this conference I will give a presentation titled "Unraveling the question of mapping and the aesthetics of digital musical instruments" as a position paper to motivate the topic of my book Just a question of mapping.
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Presentation in the education program for Impakt
In preparation for the Impakt Festival later in the year, Impakt organises a lecture/workshop with the photography students of the HKU. I will present elements of my research for the Malbody Centre project on this afternoon.
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Fit for the Future
De publieksdialogen van De Nieuwe Utrechtse School proberen een antwoord te geven op de vraag: hoe wordt het gezondheidszorgsysteem ‘fit for the future’? Deze avond wordt er gesproken over de gevolgen van digitalisering in de gezondheidszorg. Hoe kunnen we die digitalisering kritisch tegen het licht houden en er op een verantwoorde manier gebruik van maken?
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Panel discussion at Augment & Disrupt
I will take part (on behalf of New Emergences) in a panel discussion about Future Interfaces at the EMAP conference 'Augment & Disrupt' organised by Impakt. Panel: The Body Extended - how interfaces as extensions of our bodies can increase our capabilities, create social coherence or allow marginalized people to participate more fully in our society.
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Presentation at Processing Community Day Amsterdam
At the Processing Community Day in Amsterdam I gave a presentation about my book project 'Just a question of mapping'.
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Presentatie over livecoding bij Exception Twente
Muziek maken met code? Live on stage? Hoe werkt dat? Aan de hand van de audioprogrammeertaal SuperCollider legt Marije Baalman uit hoe je een live muziekperformance kan maken met code als interface. Ook de geschiedenis van de livecoding beweging komt aan bod, waar je nog meer performances kan vinden online, en waar je zelf kan beginnen.
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Talk at Robot Love: All-Inclusive Cyborg Talks on the Uniformy vs Diversity panel
All-Inclusive Cyborg Talks is a series of lectures and debates to deepen the theme. The narrative Be (com) ing Cyborg is viewed from a different angle . Debates sharpen our vision on a viable future with technology. The talks take place during Dutch Design Week 2018. UNIFORMITY VS DIVERSITY Discussion leader: Danielle Arets Technology offers many the opportunity to participate in society. Thus there is more room for diversity. The practice is different. The paradox of technology is that, despite the possibilities, the instrument is often used to control, manage, homogenize society. Contacts lists on smartphones consist for 95% of people who look like us. Algorithms still produce stereotypes that are not just ridiculous. Conscious feedback is needed for a multiform society. With Femke Snelting, Jennifer Kanary, Luis Lobo Guerrero and Marije Baalman.
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Human-Media Interaction/Intimate Technologies at the conference on philosophy of human technology relations
During this presentation/workshop I will talk about the mediation of touch. The touch garment created for The Malbody Centre project will be a key element during this presentation.
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Presentation at Creative Coding Utrecht
Creative Coding Utrecht (CCU) is a local platform for makers and people interested in the creative & artistic potential of technologies. Every first Thursday of the month we explore new expressions made with code and hardware. Think of visuals, music, apps, digital design, VR, games, new instruments, literature, spatial design, datadesign, or(…). Artists, designers, and developers will give presentations showing their work-in-progress or finished projects, and tell how they came about. After each presentation the audience can ask questions and come up with suggestions, with time for drinks in between and afterwards. I will talk about Sense/Stage and my current project The Malbody Centre.
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Presentation at Hold me Now, Studium Generale, Rietveld
With the project “The Malbody Centre” Marije Baalman is investigating how body protheses may mediate our senses in a speculative futuristic setting, a further development of wearables into so-called e-bodilies. The project will eventually be presented as a multiparticipant environment, where participants will each take on the role of a malbody, a person with e-bodilies not functioning according to the norm and cast out of society. The project takes a critical stance at body based sensing (the body as the last frontier between privacy and big data), the control of artificial intelligence over our experience of the world (what if not only our news sources are controlled by this, but also our bodily experiences?) and how our society deals with people who divert from the norm (diversity in terms of ability and body). Of our senses, touch is perhaps the one most directly connected to our emotional state and being. Touching someone else can be an expression of intimacy, affection, giving comfort to a violation of privacy or integrity, its interpretation depending on social and personal context. Mediating touch through technologies can (perhaps) be achieved with sensors and haptic feedback devices. During the presentation Marije Baalman will present her first theoretical and practical investigations for developing a speculative prothesis for mediating touch.
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Immersion, Interaction and Participation in Art and Technology
Coming from a diverse background of physics, electronic music, larp and just “making things”, Marije Baalman has been involved in a number of projects that are on the border between art and technology. The projects involve live performance (Wezen – Gewording, Chrysalis, Wind Instrument), installations (Just Noticeable Difference, N-Polytope, Sonobotanics), as well as R&D projects creating frameworks for sound spatialisation (Wave Field Synthesis), and wireless sensing technologies for use in artistic projects (Sense/Stage). The red line through this work is finding ways to create engaging environments for an audience by means of real-time interaction and evolving processes. Currently, she is moving toward creating multi participant environments, attempting to bring her experience from creating interactive works together with her experience with creating and playing larp. During the talk, she will present some of the projects that she has worked on in the past years and how they were developed and presented.
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Chrysalis presentation and Q & A
Presenting the outcome of the residency at Sussex, exploring recurrent neural networks and conceptors with realtime sensor data
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Crafting micro-behaviors of light and sound in N-Polytope
Artists Animate the Expo 67 Archives highlights artists’ processes of working in/with archives by presenting, discussing, and reflecting on artists’ research-creation processes. Marije Baalman has undertaken the Technical Direction, Embedded Systems, Media Composition Programming as a collaborator with Christopher Salter, on the installation N-Polytope at the Musée d’art contemporain’s upcoming exhibition, In Search of Expo 67. Monika Kin Gagnon will moderate the discussion. In Search of Expo 67 brings together works by nineteen Québec and Canadian artists inspired by the most innovative, experimental and provocative dimensions of the original event, and its artistic, social and political context. Created in dialogue with the spirit of 1967, these works (sixteen of which are newly commissioned) challenge some of the underlying presumptions of Expo 67 while also highlighting its undeniable inventiveness. The exhibition is co-curated by Lesley Johnstone and Monika Kin Gagnon at the Musée d’art contemporain from June 21 to October 8, 2017
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Wireless sensing for artistic applications, a reflection on Sense/Stage to motivate the design of the next stage
Presentation at the NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) conference 2017
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Inclusive Hardware and Software
Accessibility of sensors, algorithms and 3D printers allow us to make customised instruments for everyday life, and in particular for music. This makes it possible to make custom interfaces for making music for people with very specific abilities, instead of having to resort to the mass-produced musical interfaces, which assume a standardised set of gestures. Being able to play music is an important aspect of quality of life – it is fun, it stimulates movement, it allows you to communicate, it releases tension, and it gives you a sense of being in control. In this talk we will reflect on the process of making such instruments, and the challenges and solutions we found for them. In particular we will show the instrument that was made at STEIM in collaboration with the Vanboeijen Institute, and the DJ-interface made for DJ Luki by Kassen and Moos.
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Interplay between Composition, Instrument Design and Performance
Presentation at the Symposium on Musical Instruments in the 21st Century — Identities, Configurations, Practices
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Musical Organics - Becoming - an exploration of the interplay between composition
'Becoming - an exploration of the interplay between composition, instrument design and performance'. During the development of the piece 'Wezen-Gewording' (Being-Becoming) the concepts of instrument composition and performance blurred for me as a maker and raised questions about the interplay between these elements. In this talk I will reflect on the development process and discuss how the traditional notions of instrument composition and performance seem to be contrasting with the modern practice of a sound artist such as myself.
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Keynote talk at DAFX
Digital audio out of the box - digital audio effects in art and experimental music. While since the late 1990's laptops have become a common element in electronic music on stage in recent years there is a move away again from the laptop towards dedicated devices that perform one particular task. With the advent of platforms such as the BeagleBone Raspberry Pi, but also Arduino, efficient computing of digital audio has found a large interest amongst artists who create their own instruments or sounding objects usually within the context of open source software and hardware. In this talk I will show various examples of these applications of digital audio in the field of art and experimental music; and discuss how their development and discourse is embedded in the open source movement.
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LOOP in Berlin
A Summit for Music Makers. Loop is three days of performances, talks, and interactive workshops aimed at exchanging ideas at the cutting edge of music creativity and technology. Bringing together artists technologists and other creative thinkers Loop is a collective exploration of what it is to make music today and what it could be tomorrow. I am taking part in the Open Source panel: https://loop.ableton.com/program/state-open-source/
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Embodiment of Code
The code we read on the screens of a livecoding performance is an expression of our compositional concepts. In this paper I reflect on the practice of livecoding from the concept of embodiment as proposed by Varela Thompson and Rosch (1991): how we as coders embody the code how machines can embody code and how we inevitably need to deal with the physicality of the machines and our own bodies that we use in our performances and how we adapt both our machines and bodies to enable our performances.
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3DMin symposium
3 day symposium on instrument design where I will be talking about 'Interplay between composition, instrument design and performance'
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Composición de comportamientos para ambientes performativos
Actualmente la composición en tiempo real con datos provenientes de sensores cuyas salidas son sonido y luz juega un papel central . En esta plática pondré de relieve los acercamientos y métodos que uso para la creación de ambientes performativos —tanto en instalaciones como en contextos de ejecución— además daré ejemplos de mi trabajo. También voy a discutir el hardware y software que he desarrollado para poder crear estos trabajos.
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Livecoding and the Body
Presentation followed by discussion with Sally Jane Norman and Renick Bell
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Using Sense/Stage in live performance and interactive real-time environments
The Sense/Stage infrastructure was developed to provide a low-cost, open source, wireless sensing and data sharing framework for use in interactive artistic works. Since the original research-creation project the infrastructure has been further developed and currently has a slowly growing user base across the world. New research and development directions are towards creating modules for analysing and mapping sensor data to various output media.
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Keynote talk at Linux Audio Conference
Keynote speech for the annual Linux Audio Conference this year in Graz, Austria.
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Between art and technology
Coming from a mixed background of physics, electronic music, theatre and “making things” Marije Baalman has been involved in a number of projects that are on the border between art and technology. The projects involve live performance (Schwelle Chronotopia), installations (Just Noticeable Difference, N-Polytope), as well as R&D projects creating frameworks for sound spatialisation (Wave Field Synthesis) and wireless sensing technologies for use in artistic projects (Sense/Stage). The red line through this work is finding ways to create engaging environments for an audience by means of realtime interaction and evolving processes.
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| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
| performances | performance installations | exhibitions | larps | residencies | workshops |
| work session | presentations | panel discussions | symposium | meetup | radio |