Steve Gibson — interactive media artist, interface designer and audio-visual performer. Immersive art, electronica, gaming, montage and post-minimalism, across 25+ years of practice.
Influenced by a diverse body of art and popular movements, Gibson's work fuses immersive art, electronica, gaming, montage and post-minimalism. He works in a range of media, from live audio-visuals to full-scale immersive installation.
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A collaboration with Paul Goodfellow, Control System Interference explores the harmonic balance of systems and how they can be disrupted by external forces — a live sonic environment controlled through embodied gesture, paired with a visual landscape controlled through embodied movement.
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VRitual AV uses the Leap Motion 3D controller, as well as a multi-touch iPad interface, to enable small-area gestural control of audio-visuals. The performer can move his hands to perform and mix music, lights and visuals in real-time with relative precision. The ultimate in tactile audio-visual interfaces!
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Edited by Steve Gibson, Yan Breuleux, Joseph Hyde and Donna Leishman, Audio-Visualism follows on from Live Visuals, covering the contemporary audio-visual world in greater detail — the work of artists who operate in the interstices between sound, video, light, immersion, virtuality and social engagement.
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Edited by Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman and Atau Tanaka, Live Visuals is both an overarching history of real-time visuals and audio-visual art, and a crucial source for understanding the various theories of audio-visual synchronization.
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Opto-Phono-Kinesia (OPK) is a body-based audio-visual performance piece. The title plays on the possible synaesthetic state involving connections between vision, sound and body motion — a synaesthetic intersection simulated by the simultaneity of body movement and audio-visual result.
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Virtual VJ employs motion tracking technology to allow participants to use space as an audio and video performance tool, uniting the roles of DJ and VJ into one interface for controlling sound and video together.
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DJ Nord is a Canadian DJ/VJ. His sets are eclectic, merging hard techno, electro, progressive house and experimental electronica. From 2011–15 he hosted a radio show on Culture Lab Radio Newcastle.
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Mount the Borgcycle™ and suddenly you are riding through a 3D recreation of a desert city. Choose between the roles of an insurgent, an invader or an onlooker — change sides if you feel the urge, and join the hunt for the main targets.
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A pop explosion of electronic music, hallucinogenic video and free improvisation — first in Victoria (Oct 2006), then Digital Art Weeks in Zurich (2007), and onward to China, Chicago, San Francisco, Singapore and beyond.
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"When Ghosts Will Die" is a performance-installation using sound, video, light and text controlled by motion-tracking technology to tell a story about the dangers of nuclear proliferation, inspired by Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen.
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Virtual DJ uses the tracking capabilities of the Gesture and Media System, letting one or more users treat space as an audio remix tool — waving an arm accesses loops, opens filters, plays samples, while robot lights follow the users in response.
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Contact: You and I Have an Appointment at the End of the World is a collaborative event with live electronic music by Steve Gibson, images by Randy Adams, and real-time interactive programming by Gibson and Jim Andrews.
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Telebody is a large-scale piece for two music and video performers, using digital instruments to give real-time control over an audio environment and images of two entire bodies — exploring man-machine relations and the human body.
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The Bride Stripped Bare was a band ahead of its time, mixing post-punk, noise, synthpop and prog rock with a perverse sense of humour, whiny vocals and mixed-media elements including 16mm film.
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