Ghislaine Boddington
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of Greenwich
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
Ghislaine Boddington is an artist, curator, director and presenter, specialising in the future human, body responsive technologies and immersive experiences. She is co-founder and Creative Director of body>data>space (fka shinkansen), a pioneering interactive creative design collective who have advocated for the living body to be at the heart of the digital debate since the early 1990s. With a background in dance and performing arts and a long-term focus on the blending of our virtual and physical bodies, she engages in highly topical digital issues for our living bodies, including telepresence, biometrics, identity and representation of the self/other, connected body enhancements, digital intimacy and collective embodiment of the future. (excerpt from https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/las/ghislaine-boddington)
ISEA2016
Reader in Digital Creative Industries, University of Greenwich and Director of Body Data Space, UK
ISEA2011
Ghislaine Boddington is an artist, director and curator specialising in interdisciplinarity in the performing arts and the integration of body responsive technologies, virtual physical networks and interactive interfaces. Ghislaine develops solutions based on twenty years work with shinkansen and Future Physical (1989 – 2004, now archived at British Library) and with, amongst others, the ICA and Dance Umbrella. She has directed and curated numerous events, workshops and symposia on body technology throughout eastern and western Europe, the US and Asia (including Arizona State University, International Theater Festival Hamburg, and the Theatre der Welt) . She is well known for her work on cultural identity and inter-authorship processes of creation. She works as part of body>data>space, an interdisciplinary design collective based in East London and engages in creating fascinating connections between performance, architecture, new media and virtual worlds. She process directs large scale projects across Europe (EU Culture) and internationally, enabling an exchange of skills and knowledge and creating networks among young professionals in numerous countries. She holds an Artist Research Associateship at ResCen, Middlesex University, where she explores tele-kinetics, tele-presence and tele-intuition. She regularly writes and collates collections of topical thoughts from artists worldwide. Ghislaine is an Associate Editor for Theatre Dance and Performance Training. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
ISEA2002
Ghislaine Boddington (born 1962) is a British artist, curator, presenter and director specializing in body responsive technologies and immersive experiences, pioneering it as ‘hyper-enhancement of the senses’ and ‘hyper-embodiment’ since the late 80s.
Last Known Location:
- London, United Kingdom
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Title: Introducing Future Physical
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ISEA2002
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Title: I Feel Therefore I Am: Robots and Avatars, Our Colleagues and Playmates of the Future
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ISEA2011
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Title: The Internet of Bodies: Future Human / Machine Choreographies
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ISEA2016
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Title: Can Non-anthropocentric Relationships Lead to True Intimacy with Technology?
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ISEA2016
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Title: Future Love: The Internet of Bodies
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ISEA2016
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