INTER/her – Camille Baker PhD

> INTER/her

Intimate immersive journey inside the female body

INTER/her is a sensory and emotional experience which looks from the inside out within in the virtual womb. This VR work is accompanied by a wearable haptic garment providing a visceral vibration responsive experience on the lower abdomen.

Details online https://www.peckhamdigital.org/artists/2023/camille_baker/

> INTER/her at Peckham Digital

Video introduction on instragram can be found here https://www.instagram.com/peckham_digital/reel/

Art in Flux – Radical Embodiment (15): Carolee Schneemann Film Series Thu 10 Nov 2022, 18:45, Barbican Cinema 3

Details online https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/carolee-schneemann-art-in-flux-radical-embodiment

> INTER/her Barbican Film

INTER/her Mini-Documentary

This is mini-doc about INTER/her created for a showing at the Barbican Arts Centre Cinema on November 11, 2022 as part of the Art in Flux – Radical Embodiment: Carolee Schneemann Film Series

> INTER/her was showcased as part fo the Extended Senses Symposium, in a collaboration between the University for the Creative Arts and the University of Greenwich September 8th, 9th and 10th at University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence Gallery

See info here https://www.extendedsenses22.co.uk/team-4-2

In the TV studio at University of Greenwich

> INTER/her past exhibitions

INTER/her Project at ArtSci Salon | Camille Baker PhD — A Hub for the Arts & Science communities in Toronto and Beyond

Who Cares? Technologies and /of /with Care – speakers series and exhibitions, Exhibition Opening Thursday, April 7th until April 28th, 2022, Ivey Library, New College, 20 Willcox Street, Toronto, Canada

Details https://artscisalon.com/who-cares/camille-baker/

See also the speaker series recorded talk from 25 Mar 2022 on Youtube below

NeOn Festival, November 10th-14th, 2021, Overgate Mall, Dundee, online https://neondigitalarts.com/event/inter-her/

> INTER/her NEon /

Video Interviews with the Dundee Courier can be found online at https://jwp.io/s/8TUzZ913 and https://jwp.io/s/pERhVeOw

See also Scottish TV clip here https://www.facebook.com/799233017/videos/886188128736399/

Brighton Digital Festival, November 3rd-7th, 2021, Locked In Gallery, Hove

Details online https://brightondigitalfestival.org.uk/events/inter-her

> INTER/her Brighton Gallery

> INTER/her longlisted in August and then shortlisted in September 2021 for the Lumen Prize 2021 – 3D/Interactive category

https://www.lumenprize.com/2021-3d/interactive-shortlist

> Gallery from exhibition in Sheffield September 15th – October 8th, 2021

> And from exhibition at the Brewery Tap Project Space Gallery, Folkestone from June 23rd-July 6th, 2021

> INTER/her website

The new website for the INTER/her project was launched on 3rd April 2021. Big thanks to Centre Neptune for the design & build. All future information regarding the project can be found there, including installation locations, dates and visiting times. Hope to see you there.

> Online Exhibition / Promotion

INTER/her is participating in a group virtual exhibition called Art in Flux: Reclaimed, celebrating some of the most radical and innovative media artists of our times. Online from March 30th to April 30th, 2021

online at http://www.artinfluxlondon.com/reclaimed-exhibition.html

Also see the project profile on the crowd funding site Artizen here

> Videos

Draft version of the vaginal canal with Endometriosis by collaborator Sarah Büttner (October 2020)

A talk by collaborator Maf’j Alverez (July 2020) on the prototyping of the early exploration and research phase of the project.

> Gallery

Sketch by Sarah Büttner for the visual design process Oct 2020

> Timeline

2019 – 2021

> Collaborators

Camille Baker – Artist/Artistic Director
Maf’j Alverez – Unity Interaction Designer & 3D Artist
Kat Austen – Sound Designer
Sarah Büttner – Tiltbrush / 3D Object Artist
Andy Baker – extra Unity programming advice
Paul Hayes – additional electronics construction & finishing for haptic corset

> Abstract

INTER/her is an intimate, immersive and VR installation that explores of the inner world of over 40’s women’s bodies and the reproductive diseases they suffer: endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, Ovarian and other cysts, cervical, ovarian, uterine and endometrial cancers and the lack of clear medical information/ support they face.

INTER/her is explored through a feminist lens, as personal exploration, public education, and community building, positioning the physical body as a site to explore psychological issues of womanhood, identity and the sense of self, exploring the body.