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Biography
Visual artist and choreographer Ruth Gibson works across disciplines to produce objects, software and installations in partnership with artist Bruno Martelli. She exhibits in galleries and museums internationally creating award-winning projects using computer games, virtual reality, print and video.
A Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Dance Research, Ruth investigates and creates new performance spaces using digital technology. Her commitment to the field of interdisciplinary and collaborative research was recognised in 2010 when she was awarded a three year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Creative Fellowship to examine image interpretation through motion capture, dance and computer visualisation. She has received a National Endowment for Technology and the Arts (NESTA) Innovation Award for SwanQuake and a Henry Moore Foundation New Commission for VISITOR. Her first work with Martelli Windowsninetyeight won a British Academy of Film and Television Award (BAFTA) nomination for Interactive Art. More recently she won the Lumen Prize for MAN A, an augmented reality project.
Ruth has worked as a motion capture performer, supervisor and advisor for Vicon, Motek, Animazoo, Televirtual and for the BBC. She co-authored SwanQuake: the user manual, a selection of articles and essays opening up discursive reflections on the making of an interactive artwork, do-it yourself instructions of the process and the ontology of game art.
Skinner Releasing Technique underpins her practice, she is a certified SRT teacher and combines the technique with her performance technology research.
Vision Statement
Gibson’s current practice examines the postmodern notion of simulacra. This concept is based on the idea that nothing is real, the world is a series of interlocking illusions, swimming in a sea of media driven images and signs that are bewildering and ultimately uninterpretable. Her desire is to play in the spaces between the 'real' and the 'imaginary' to provide a counterpoint to simulated landscapes via the human form. She exploits virtual reality to explore the relationship between the natural and the artificial in both wilderness and urban environments. The creative expansion of interface development into new territories evolving science, new display technologies and somatic practices is at the heart of her research.
Keywords
- N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
- Performance
- Dance
- Art
- Virtual
- Augmented
- Mixed
- Reality
- Immersion
- Interactive
- Installation
- Mobile
- apps
- Mocap
- Film
- Immersive
- Participation
- HCI
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Projects
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Capturing stillness: visualisations of dance through motion capture technologies
Gibson, R., Martelli, B. & Whatley, S.
18/05/10 → 18/05/13
Project: Research
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CRAFT WEEK: YKK presents the DAZZLE Collective
Gibson, R., Martelli, B., Pollmann, A. & Roth, B., 9 May 2022Research output: Other contribution
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DAZZLE - A Reassembly of Bodies
Gibson, R., Martelli, B., Pollmann, A. & Roth, B., 14 Apr 2022Research output: Other contribution
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“And then again, I draw myself to the detail”: Capturing experiential states in contemporary dance making through Expanded Fields
Gibson, R. & Roche, J., 3 Mar 2022, In: Performance Research. 26, 4, p. 71-77 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Abstract Art in the Age of New Media Exhibition
Gibson, R. & Martelli, B., 8 Feb 2021Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
Activities
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Interaction, immersion & expériences collectives - Focus projet artistique
Ruth Gibson (Speaker)
9 Jul 2022 → 10 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Member of UKRI AHRC Peer Review College
Ruth Gibson (Reviewer)
1 Mar 2022 → 31 Dec 2022Activity: Other › Reviewer of proposals for funding
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Corporeal Literacy - Embodiment, Perception, Immersion
Ruth Gibson (Speaker)
26 May 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Gastsprecher Beitrag - Digital Body Lab No.1 - Berlin
Ruth Gibson (Speaker) & Bruno Martelli (Speaker)
9 Sep 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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REAL-IN Residency Showcase
Ruth Gibson (Speaker)
4 Jun 2021 → 12 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Prizes
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AHRC/IRC UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities
Gibson, Ruth (Recipient) & Roche, J. (Recipient), 17 Jun 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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AHRC and EPSRC Next Generation of Immersive Experiences
Gibson, Ruth (Recipient), DeLappe, J. (Recipient) & Jayemanne, D. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Christie/CAFKA Award Canada
Gibson, Ruth (Recipient) & Martelli, B. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Coventry University International Research Collaboration Fellowship
Gibson, Ruth (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Coventry University Pump Prime Funding
Gibson, Ruth (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)