gibson martelli are participants at Choreographic Coding Lab at MotionBank in Mainz, Germany for the week to develop their project nino. We are experimenting with the Captury markerless mocap system to look at controlling characters in real-time in our game world. More
April 11 2025 7PM with artist panel afterwards
April 12 2025 7PM
April 13 2025 5PM
duration 45′
Shadows play
on weathered textures,
landscapes both natural and surreal.
Light dances
on surfaces,
virtual and visceral.Avatars breathe,
embodying the earth,
the sky,
and the storm within,
drifting between worlds—
animated by the unseen currents
of a dancer’s breath,
captured in the pulse
of motion.
The WOW + FLUTTER site is now live, featuring documentation that sets out our process of developing a dual-sited performance, connecting North & South East England using video, motion capture, virtual environments, costumes & live music linked via a 10GB interconnect. It’s a short playbook of ideas and techniques to guide others navigating virtual production studios. Innovate UK’s Launchpad scheme funded the project. As a case study project, WOW+FLUTTER looks towards creating new virtual performance ‘spaces’ Read More
Date: Tuesday, September 3rd 2024, 3 – 5.30 pm
We are sharing an in-process rehearsal of our WOW+FLUTTER project for an invited audience, and we would love for you to come. WOW+FLUTTER uses state-of-the-art virtual production techniques to develop methodologies for creating dual-sited performances, connecting North & South East England. At both sites, performers connect using high-speed video, motion capture, virtual environments, costumes, and live music. Read More
Opening in Lingshui
Dec 4-10 2023
We are exhibiting in this new festival: ‘Relying on Lingshui’s original ecology, humanities and nature, combined with current avant-garde art and advanced technology, one of the four major sections of the first Lingshui ‘Yuanchuang·Lingjing’ Science and Technology Art Festival – ‘Mirror of Virtual Reality & Natural Growth’ public art exhibition will be held in December The grand opening in Lingshui, Hainan on the 4th December’
Gibson/Martelli are undertaking a research residency to explore movement in avatars with motion capture at Gilles Jobin’s #Studios44MocapLab in Geneva. The artists have never had the chance to work with Gilles & team or work with a Qualisys Mocap system. During the residency, combined with mocap, they will experiment with live-controlling avatars with mocap and then iterate in Virtual Reality, using virtual cameras and working with Company Gilles Jobin lead dancer Susana Panades Diaz. Read More..
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May-June 2023
Gibson/Martelli are currently artists in residence at the Tuxedo Residency in Los Angeles, California. For the residency, the artists develop a series of virtual reality experiences using machine learning to generate imagery from prompts which are then laboriously converted into 3d characters and subsequently animated using motion-captured dance. Read More…
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Feb 2023
Gibson/Martelli are the inaugural artists-in-residence at the TVLab at Taubman College of Architecture, University of Michigan.
The TVLab artist residency is the pilot for the U-M Arts Initiative Visiting Artist Integration Project, a visiting artist program to integrate the creative vision and dynamic thinking of artists into the U-M process of engagement and learning. The program is just one example of the Arts Initiative’s work with emerging and established artists to create a mutually beneficial exchange between artists and the university to enhance learning, support artists and drive discovery. Read More
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14 APRIL 2022
11:45 AM & 15.45 PM
We invite you to join our open rehearsal, see the performance progress, participate in a prototype DAZZLE experience, and meet the artists to discuss the project at the Virtual Production Test Stage. DAZZLE – A Reassembly of Bodies is a multi-dimensional installation combining dance, music, mixed reality and fashion created by Gibson, Martelli, Pollmann and Roth. Read More…
Read More14 APRIL 2022
11:45 AM & 15.45 PM
We invite you to join our open rehearsal, see the performance progress, participate in a prototype DAZZLE experience, and meet the artists to discuss the project at the Virtual Production Test Stage. DAZZLE – A Reassembly of Bodies is a multi-dimensional installation combining dance, music, mixed reality and fashion created by Gibson, Martelli, Pollmann and Roth. Read More…
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Artists Gibson /Martelli join the jury of the London Film Festival Expanded Programme of Immersive work.
LFF Expanded runs from 6-17 October 2021
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Gibson / Martelli & Peut Porter’s Bine Roth are heading with performer Hannah Burfield to DeMontfort University in Leicester where they have been invited to work in the MoCap Lab as part of an RSC ‘Audiences of the Future’ research project.
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11 June 2021 10.30-11 GMT
Gibson/Martelli and Peut-Porter (UK) are participating with their project Dazzle in the REAL-IN Residency programme and present the preliminary results of their research on interactive art and immersive technology
“The REAL-IN CONVENTION aims to bring together artists, producers, cultural institutions, policy makers, industry experts and researchers to explore the potentials of 3D-scanning and volumetric capture technologies for interactive and digital arts. With XR technologies becoming increasingly more accessible, how can creatives seize the opportunity to produce courageous and inventive artistic content? How can technological tools and immersive storytelling be used to develop innovative participatory and social audience experiences? And how to create an immediate and lasting ecosystem that inspires new ideas and drives creative advancement?”
The REAL-IN CONVENTION is part of VRHam 4-12 June
We are undertaking an artist retreat at Cill Rialaig in Ireland. We use residencies as a method for expanding our work, taking it outside of a purely studio-based practice. This residency offers an incredible opportunity to soak up and absorb the spectacular surroundings and appreciate the landscape as a natural part of our sensorial experience.
‘Landscapes are culture before they are nature, constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock’ – Simon Schama Landscape and Memory.
Meet n’ Greet Event October 10th
We’re happy to announce that we are the inaugural residents in the Xenoform Labs residency programme in San Francisco. Our 3 week residency here is concerned with extending the physical into the virtual, we will work to develop novel body-based interfaces for virtual reality.
9th Oct- 14th Oct 2017
In this short residency artists Gibson / Martelli from London are invited into the Black Box Studio of the Inter Arts Centre in central Malmö (www.iac.lu.se) to join Susan Kozel (http://livingarchives.mah.se) in exploring the potential for performing encryption.Read More
Exhibition Extended until 3 Sept.
Pah Homestead, Auckland
Gibson / Martelli with Carol Brown and Russell Scoones
Movement and landscape in flux, five figures cut between times and places.
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April
GOSH Arts have invited artists Gibson/Martelli to undertake a research project at Great Ormond Street Hospital during April 2017.. Read more…Read More
October 2016
Gazell.io
We are pleased to announce that we are artists-in-residence at www.gazell.io for October.
During the artistic process a plethora of images are produced -often unused in the finished product and thus never reaching the public domain. These experimental images are part of the technical exploration process, provoking new pathways to visualisations – by-products of research, they can signify significant leaps of invention and potential thinking.
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