Come and see the results of the ‘Reality Remix’ project at two free events at:
Ravensbourne July 27th
Siobhan Davies Studios on July 28th.
New technology makes possible the mixing of real and virtual worlds, but who will colonise this space? Meet a team of artists, designers and a choreographer exploring prototype ideas in mixed, virtual and augmented reality for experimentation with movement, costume and performance.
We’ve collaborated with Susan Kozel for an article in Transformations Journal. ‘The Weird Giggle’ can be read online here. Within the poetic digital space of Virtual Reality philosophical and cultural narratives collide. Do artistic experiments in VR provide the ultimate freedom for our development as a species or plunge it into passive reception of pure violence?
Opening 03 July 2018
Exhibition 04 July to 12 August 2018
We’re showing at FILE Electronic Language International Festival
SAO PAULO 2018 – The body is the message
FILE Electronic Language International Festival’s theme for FILE SÃO PAULO 2018 is “The Body is the Message“. Despite the apparent allusion to the world of the cyborg in the title, it refers to a different connection between technology and the body – to the aesthetic and artistic connection that is formed, which operates separately from the communicative flow of information and data – the appreciation of a work of art and of the way in which it is made.
For some time, artists have appropriated for their own use technologies from the field of medicine – in particular those devices that record the behavior of the internal organs of the human body – its heartbeats, brain waves, and breaths.
THIS IS WHERE WE CAME IN
3-5pm 13th May 2018
Angus Hughes Gallery, London
Angus-Hughes Gallery invites you to an exhibition tour led by guest artist Rosalind Davis about This is Where We Came In with artists Richard Ducker, and Gibson / Martelli. The tour leads an informal discussion between Rosalind and the exhibiting artists about their work and contemporary curation with tea and cakes.
The Bronze Key: Performing Data Encryption at the TO BE ARCHIVED event
11-13 April Malmö Konstmuseum
The archive and acts of archiving
Respecting the past, anticipating future archival needs
Sensitive to what is kept and what escapes
Dilemmas posed by digitization
Performances of public, cultural, and personal memory
Caretaking and caregiving
Openness, access and inclusion
Until 29th April 2018
coffeeismycupoftea space, London
G/M will be showing prints from their Ruined project at coffeeismycupoftea. In the ‘Ruined’ series of images the artists used a network conditioning tool to throttle bandwidth to the Apple Maps app creating a series of images showing low-resolution models downloaded before the final high resolution versions are displayed. The low polygon models with softened shapes and smeary, muddy textures speak to the idea of unmaking, the high tech creating a kind of ruin. The mapping software though up to the minute, cannot keep pace with the breakneck changes occurring in the physical world — at some of the map sites a hole in the ground is now occupied by a building in real life and vice versa. The digital echoes an imperfect ideal.
Richard Ducker + Gibson / Martelli
Angus Hughes Gallery
Private View 20th April 6-9pm
Exhibition 21st April – 13th May
An indeterminate zone, frozen, governed by history’s Law where escape requires of us to float, as if just above the ground. It is a location devoid of humanity, only dancing avatars: an analogue stage choreographed in the digital. Stress levels exceeded as vectors take opposite directions…
The Bronze Key : Performing Data Encryption TEI
Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions
March 18-21, Stockholm, Sweden
We are showing The Bronze Key part of the Performing Encryption project at TEI, the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions in Stockholm, Sweden
Ruth Gibson has been commissioned by the AHRC / EPSRC for a new project called ‘Reality Remix’ – which is part of their ‘Next Generation Immersive Experiences call.
Counter Narratives The Performance Arcade 2018
Wellington Waterfront, New Zealand
Exhibition 23 – 25th Feb
1-4 March 2018
‘The Performance Arcade is an acclaimed live art event that attracts 40,000 people every year to Wellington Waterfront since 2011. Audiences come for an exciting and diverse program of art, live music, and performance, installed within a special architectural arrangement of shipping containers that are stacked and arranged together to create an innovative new space for performance and arts presentation. This miniature festival offers new encounters between artists and public, creating a vibrant hub that activates the city and exposes communities to new ideas and cultural perspectives.’
SUN 4 FEB 2018, 10.30AM–4.30PM
Siobhan Davies Studios
£25 / 20
This day-long workshop invites you to actively engage in artists’ research to explore the intersection between the body, movement and the digital.
Wed Nov 15 2017 5:00pm
Gibson / Martelli will talk about their practice at this informal event organised by Weave.
PLATFORM is a monthly talk series by Weave (Abertay University) bringing artist, designers and scholars to Dundee to share their practice.
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
29 September 2017
The ART//GAMES//HACKATHON is an intensive workshop, which allows artists, coders and technologists to team up, collaborate and develop prototypes of game art projects. Read More
4th-30th September
Gazelli Art House, London
Gazelli Art House presents ‘Enter Through the Headset 2’, the second part of the ground breaking, annual, virtual reality exhibition at the gallery.
25th August
Bandai Namco Shanghai Base
Don’t miss the chance to see Gibson / Martelli at the MEGA SENS ‘Op Art Party’ a ‘psychedelic feast of hearing and vision.’ Inspired by the Op Art movement, which became popularized by ‘The Responsive Eye’ a 1965 MoMa exhibition. Read More
Friday 18th August
Pah Homestead, Auckland
Artist Talk and celebration of the exhibitionRead 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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6 July 2017
Ravensbourne, London
THE UNQUIET LANDSCAPE: VR TECHNIQUES IN THE ART OF GIBSON/MARTELLI
We are speaking at 2017 VR UK Festival at Ravensbourne 6 July 2017
‘Gibson and Martelli have integrated interactive narratives with humans in motion in a range of landscape settings from the Canadian lakes and the expanses of the Arctic to dystopian scenes in Bethnal Green. Since the late 1990s they have deployed a range of virtual and augmented reality technologies in conjunction with physical installations. This workshop explores their current work.’
Exhibition continues to 4 Oct
Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
These are extraordinary times.
Of unanchored worlds, ruptured spaces
Fabricated and dislocated places
Alternative languages, signs and systems
Confusions of reality and fictions.
Here are the dispossessed and the reinvented
The unfathomable, the inexplicable
The vampyres, visitors and hoodlums.These are StrangeLands.
(US journalist Dan Rather’s Facebook post of 22 January 2017 currently has over 220k shares and 21k comments.)
Artist Talk 16th May 2017
We are presenting at the Collusion VR/AR lab. This lab will take a practical and theoretical approach, framed within a peer-to-peer environment. There will be taught sessions covering Unity software, HTC Vive, HoloLens, 360 video, use of sound and project workflow. This will be balanced with theoretical talks on virtual, augmented and mixed reality by artists and our industry partners
The programme is run by Cambridge-based Collusion, which works at the intersection of arts, technology and human interaction.
5-6 May
NUI Galway
Our collaborator Susan Kozel is speaking about her practice, exploring the convergence between philosophy, dance and media technologies. Read more…Read More
22 April
University of Roehampton
Ruth Gibson (C-DaRE) will be speaking at Dance Fields ‘Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the 21st Century’. Ruth will be leading a practical session with Dr Carol Brown, (University of Auckland). Read more…Read More
Artist talk
8 April CAC- Lab Shanghai
Mediated Reality, opens a conceptual and technical workspace for artists pushing the boundaries which frame conventional VR/AR and motion capture technologies. Join Bruno Martelli and Fito Segrera for a conversation on mediated reality at the CAC- Lab in Shanghai.
9 April 2017 2 -5pm
Bruno will be talking about his work at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai organised by MANA
MAM 4777 Bin Jiang Avenue PuDong Shanghai
Artist Talk & Special Event
Friday 7th & Sat 8th April
Ruth Gibson will be showing MAN A for VR and Huff & Puff on Friday afternoon at the Now Play This Festival. On Saturday evening she will be talking about interaction and play in public spaces alongside Ashvin de Vos (Variant Office) and Toby Parkin (Science Museum).
Exhibition 1st – 30th April 2017
We are exited to be showing work in the great group show alongside artists:
Anne de Boer / Elliot Dodd / Henry Driver / Will Kendrick / Charley Peters / Caspar Sawyer
Private View: Friday 31st March 6-9pm SLAM Last Fridays
Exhibition continues 1st – 30th April 2017
Jan 2017
We are currently transitioning over to our new website, so apologies if any links or pages are broken. We hope to complete the changeover by the end of Feb 2017, but we won’t have every project transferred over. Any problems let us know info@gibsonmartelli.com
VR Fest 2 Dec 7-10pm 2016
Studio Gibson / Martelli
We are pleased to announce VR Fest 2016 an evening event of artists talks and presentations with an emphasis on digital media and VR. There will be loads of opportunities to try out various VR experiences at this informal event. Please note the event is invitation only.
We’ve contributed a chapter to this great book..
‘You have the artistic talent, but do you know how to make a success of it? The thing they don’t teach you in art school is just how active and engaged you need to be; you’ll have to become your own finance, business and marketing manager, as well as a researcher, curator and administrator. Read More…
8 November 2016
With hardware and software and becoming more affordable and easier to use, VR is once again capturing the imagination of artists. It is both a tool and environment potentially offering a wide range of experiences not just for one body but also for a collective. The potential for empathy, dislocation and shared sensory experience is rich for artistic work but the technology tends to be directed towards the consumer electronics market and ever more ‘intimate’ and targeted advertising.
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27 September 2016
Here’s a review of the talk we did at Artful Spark at the Barbican. Artful Spark is a quarterly event about cross discipline collaboration and boundary defying work that brings together commissioners, coders, producers, game designers and artists to explore the possibilities presented by emerging technology.
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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