nino at RBO/SHIFT 2026
We are showing nino at RBO/SHIFT a new four-day festival connecting the worlds of opera and technology.
7 June 2026
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Embracing the Unexpected: The Open-Ended Possibilities of Digital Co-Creation
Ruth Gibson, Maaike Bleeker, Jane Harris, Ghilslane Boddington will be speaking on a panel at Riverside studios as part of OOTFest25
SATURDAY 7TH JUNE, 16:30-17:30
Can we let go of fixed outcomes by allowing audiences to help craft work in the moment? Can performing arts adopt gaming systems to become more inclusive and fun? Is it time to embrace risk?
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DOUBLE PRESENCING
Christina Seely, Ruth Gibson: Coventry University Centre for Dance Research @cdare_cu’s conversation series, C-DARE invites
TIME/DATE: May 15th 1:30-3pm GMT
In dialogue with Christina Seely, Ruth Gibson offers a nuanced exploration into the ways in which an environment-based exchange anchors their artistic practices, giving shape to her evolving concept of Double Presencing. Seely reflects on the entwined roles of the animal, the body, and the land within her photographic and film work, revealing how these elements form layered, embodied ecologies. Gibson, in turn, explores the porous boundaries between reality and imagination, focusing on the liminal, often playful thresholds where creative expression takes shape. READ MORE
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Dancers wanted for nino project
DANCERS wanted for ‘NINO’ research project by Gibson/Martelli.
Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli seek dancers to research & develop a new project where the lines between player, performer, and audience blurs — focusing on movement’s essence over physical traits. Images inspired by Joan Skinner’s ‘Releasing Dance Technique,’ are modelled as 3D characters and animated using motion capture data. READ MORE
DAZZLE: SOLO @DIGITAL BODY FESTIVAL
November 15 -17 2024, HACKNEY WICK LONDON
We are exhibiting DAZZLE SOLO at the DIGITAL BODY FESTIVAL – this new festival celebrates the intersection of the moving body and digital technology. Set across a series of spaces within one of East London’s most dynamic cultural and community hubs, the festival will feature exhibition spaces, performances, workshops and live conversations.
Get Tickets here https://digital-body.com/tickets/
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SYNTHETIC WORKSHOPS XI: Live Performance For XR
14 to 18 October 2024
TALK AND WORKSHOP
From 14 to 18 October 2024, the University of Turin will host a one-of-a-kind training event on Live Performance for XR conducted by the British artists collective Gibson/Martelli.
The initiative is part of the Officine Sintetiche project funded by the CRT Foundation, and is curated by Profs. Letizia Gioia Monda and Antonio Pizzo; It will be divided into two parts: READ MORE
BEYOND CONTROL: MOCO 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing
9th International Conference on Movement and Computing
Thursday 30 May – Sunday 2 June 2024
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Keynote artists for the 10th Anniversary conference, Gibson/Martelli, will also be demonstrating a selection of their performative VR works.. Read More
BEYOND CONFERENCE
21-22 November
Digital Catapult has invited Gibson/Martelli to participate in this year’s BEYOND Conference on November 21-22 at the Royal Institution where we will be on a panel titled Advancing Media Production: Exploring the boundaries of technology-enabled live performance.
Beyond brings researchers and makers across the creative industries together to explore the relationship between innovative research and business innovation. Read More
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Virtual Rehearsals New Methods in your Artistic Practice – Artists Talk
Bruno Martelli and Ruth Gibson will give a talk about the DAZZLE project as part of Virtual rehearsals – new methods in your artistic practice by Kulture Akademin and hosted by Bombina Bombast.
31 Aug 3-4.30 pm Read More
DAZZLE at DeDoelen, Rotterdam at VRDays/Immersive TechWeek
DAZZLE: A Re-Assembly of Bodies
December 1-4 2022
DeDoelen Rotterdam
VRDays Europe / Immersive Tech Week
Astonishing visuals build an optical framework for a multisensory live performance. This unique project re-imagines the Dazzle Ball held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1919. Zig-zag motifs — inspired by First World War naval camouflage — are applied to costumes and set design, playing with audiences’ vision and perception. Read More…
Quills
DAZZLE is featured in Quills Fest, Oregon Shakespeare Festivals inaugural immersive digital festival at the intersection of Live Theatre & Extended Reality happening this weekend Nov 19-20 2021
Sites, Sounds and Screens – Site Specific and Participatory Augmented Reality
October 28, 17.00-23.00 at Køge Harbour and KØS and through online screening
Gibson Martelli are presenting at the seminar Site-Specific and Participatory Augmented Reality. This is the first event in this series
‘What does it mean for public art that we can see, hear and connect with places we were previously completely cut off from? That we in immersive experiences can disappear into parallel or virtual realities or be transported to other locations, bodies or times? Or that we with greater ease can distort and manipulate our experience and understanding of real sites and situations in media such as AR or VR?Read More
REAL-IN Residency Showcase
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
Immersive Days #1: VR performance works and investigations into performance technologies
A presentation about our latest research and work investigating VR performance technologies.
Wednesday, June 9 at 10.00 – 11.10, Location: Online via Zoom
Registration: Please sign up here to receive the Zoom link.
Deadline for registration: June 8th
‘A hybrid gathering with both real workshops, installations and digital lectures! Immersive Days #1 is both a network and a new annual gathering of professional artists, curators, researchers, technicians, teachers and students within a broad field of immersive technologies and (artistic) practices. The initiative functions as a continuation of several symposiums, workshops and research into immersive technologies in art. We meet up to share, explore and playtest XR and immersive sound projects, often works in progress. We give feedback to each other and we share experiences and challenges. The aim is to build a strong collaborative platform, where we help and support each other. And then we try to investigate and map some of the latest technological and artistic developments within the fields of extended reality and spatial sound.’
Expanded Fields (Mozilla Hubs)
A moving image installation with film, sound and virtual reality.
Nov 27 -Dec 04
Concept & design Gibson/Martelli/Roche
Launch Event Talk at 7.30PM Friday as part of LIVE COLLISION
Expanded Fields (Mozilla Hubs) draws on a collaborative project between dance artist Jenny Roche, visual artist and choreographer Ruth Gibson, artist Bruno Martelli and composer Mel Mercier, with dancers Kévin Coquelard, Henry Montes and Ursula Robb.
DAZZLE SOLO at BFI London Film Festival 2020
From 7 to 18 October the BFI London Film Festival will be the first ever edition to be widely accessible wherever you are in the UK, with over 50 virtual premieres, free online events and cinema screenings across the land. We are showing DAZZLE SOLO as part of the festival.
Ars Electronica 2020: Festival for Art, Technology Society
September 09-13, 2020
We are showing a VR version in Mozilla Hubs of our moving image installation WAHAWAEWAO with our collaborators Carol Brown + Russell Scoones as part of the the Aotearoa Garden for Ars Electronica. See it in VR hereRead More
Expanded Fields at Limerick City Gallery
Expanded Fields – A moving image installation with live performance, sound and virtual reality.
23rd & 24th November 2019, Limerick City Gallery of Art
Collaboration with dance artist Jenny Roche, visual artist and choreographer Ruth Gibson, artist Bruno Martelli and composer Mel Mercier with dancers Kévin Coquelard, Henry Montes and Ursula Robb. Read More
4i Project
4i: Immersive Interaction design for Indie developers with Interactive Machine Learning
Aiming to support independent developers and artists in designing movement and body-based interaction for Virtual Reality and immersive media this project builds tools to allow designing by moving via Interactive Machine Learning. Creating better tools and working processes aims to enable developers to create better movement interaction for players, audiences and end-users.Read More
Enter Through The Headset 4
Private View: 5th September, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 6 – 28 September 2019
Claudia Hart, Gibson/Martelli, Michael Takeo Magruder, Ziv Schneider.
DAZZLE BALL 2020 supported by Creative XR
July 2019
I am pleased to announce that Gibson/ Martelli have been supported to develop a Virtual Reality prototype as part of the Creative XR scheme run by Digital Catapult alongside our collaborators Peut-Porter. Creative XR is designed to help content creators develop more ambitious prototypes and explore new ways of storytelling enabled by immersive technologies. Our project Dazzle Ball 2020 reimagines the 1919 Chelsea Arts Club ‘Dazzle’ Ball as a next-generation immersive performance. READ MORE
RCA Film Night: Ambient Occlusion
22 May 2019 | 6pm – 8pm
Battersea, Gorvy Lecture Theatre
We Are Here And We Are Everywhere At Once is presented at Ambient Occlusion at the RCA
Star Gods, Moon Rabbits opens in ChengDu
4 Nov – 4 Dec 2018 Daily 12-8pm
Intangible Cultural Heritage Park,
Guanghua Ave 2nd Section, Qingyang Qu, Chengdu Shi, Sichuan Sheng, China
This new media art installation re-establishes relationships between people, cities, art and life in a modern ritual. Read More
WE ARE HERE AND WE ARE EVERYWHERE AT ONCE screening at Light Moves Festival of Screendance
Sunday, November 11, 2018
2:00 PM 3:00 PM
Dance Limerick Performance Space
(St.John’s church) John’s Square Limerick, County Limerick Ireland (map)
THIS IS WHERE WE CAME IN
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 at TEI 2018
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
WAHAWAEWAO at Performance Arcade 2018
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.’
DOING DAY: DANCE / DIGITAL
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.