Gibson / Martelli
Graduates of RMIT with a joint PhD in immersivity and somatic sensing. Worldwide commissions include residencies in North America, China, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and exhibitions at the Barbican, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon and Detroit Institute of Arts, Venice Biennale.
Recent exhibitions include: ‘Enter Through The Headset 5’ at Gazelli Art House, London, ‘New Raw Green’, Sim Smith Gallery, London, ‘London Film Festival Expanded’, BFI, Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology + Society, and 79th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia.
Nominated for a British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) the duo are recipients of several awards: a Henry Moore Foundation New Commission, a National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) Award, in 2015 winning the Lumen Gold Prize.
The artists recently completed an AI and machine learning project with collaborators at Goldsmiths University of London and Creative Computing Institute UAL. Gibson is Associate Professor at Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. The artists live and work in London.
Last update on 10-03-2023
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Featured Artworks
Diamond and triangular shapes sequences Gibson / Martelli's Parade. Some shapes bear bright colour gradients, while others display a black and white, contrasting motif. Part of the duo's larger project MAN A, the piece places the viewer as a discoverer and bears different understanding layers. Indeed, while the work is reminiscent of tribal war paint and zebra stripes, the print conceals hidden motion-captured performers activated by a custom app. In doing so, the artists provide another depth to abstraction, whereby the device acts as revelatory to another realm of the piece.
Parade
2016
Medium
The Foundry
How Virtual Environments and Scenography Affect our Perception of Art
02/03/21
Online
“How Virtual Environments and Scenography Affect our Perception of Art” is part of a series of four panels organised by MoCDA, UCL and Hobs3D to discuss the relationship between space and aesthetics.
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Abstract Art in the Age of New Media is a virtual group show curated by Serena Tabacchi and Marie Chatel featuring works by Banz & Bowinkel, Gibson / Martelli, Joanne Hastie, Harrison, Willmott, Aaron Scheer, Alex Reben, Arnaud Laffond, Chris Dorland, Casey Reas, Darcy Gerbarg, Brendan Dawes, Kjetil Golid, Mathieu Merlet Briand, Maurice Benayoun, Mario Klingemann, Shohei Fujimoto, Yoshi Sodeoka, Sara Ludy, Snow Yunxue Fu, Markos Kay, Damjanksi, David Young, Gordon Berger, Bård Ionson, Manfred Mohr, Robbie Barrat.
A multidisciplinary team headed by two UCL researchers has been awarded a research grant from the British Academy to unravel the psychology of how people view and remember artworks in a gallery. The collaboration between cognitive psychologists, cultural and digital sector professionals takes place in the context of an online shift for art collections worldwide.
An art gallery is a psychologically interesting place. Different art objects form a spatial layout, and visitors must navigate around the space to view the objects. The team’s previous research shows the spatial environment surrounding an artwork is implicitly integrated with our aesthetic responses to the work itself. Building on recent neuroscientific work on how the brain represents space, this new project will investigate how spatial layout of objects within a museum can influence different aspects of the viewer’s experience.
How does the position of each object within the gallery layout affect how much we like the object, and how well we remember it? The researchers conducted a number of online experimental studies, using specially-developed art exhibitions within a virtual museum. This project involved a unique collaboration between cognitive psychology researchers Dr Mariana Babo-Rebelo and Prof Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL), art curators Serena Tabacchi and Marie Chatel (MoCDAt) virtual reality expert Kadine James and artist and developer Allen Namiq (Hobs3D).