NORA GIBSON
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Ribbon Dance (2021): Still from interactive installation work that captures sweeping arm gestures
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the dream (2022): This piece is an installation where participants wear brain sensors while relaxing, and their brain's electrical activity animates the particles that are projected onto large scrims in real-time. Video link HERE
Parallax (2022) Dome installation piece shown at the Satosphere in Montreal, QC October 2022. This piece is comprised of data from the HYG star database to create a vast and immersive "jewelbox" overhead.
Non-Algorithmic (2023): Two-channel video installation for generative visuals and volumetric point cloud dancer with sound score created from EEG-recorded (gamma) brain waves. This installation captures the Penrose/Hameroff theory of consciousness as it relates to quantum physics.
Dance 1 (2022) Movement data and theta brainwave actvity of the artist were extracted to animate this installation for projection and sound, creating a "self portrait" of constantly moving attributes.
SUSPEND_360 (2023): Volumetric point cloud dance and sound score created using the artist's physiological data. Designed for a rectangular/360 immersive presentation.
SUSPEND (2022): Installation and digital painting depicting dance captured by sensors and converted to point cloud imagery. This piece celebrates flow states of mind, where thinking is seemingly suspended and which many people associate with feelings of well-being. Video link HERE
Captured Moments of Sympathetic Nervous Response (2022) An example from a series of photographic stills that reflect the artist's atonomic nervous system responses via live electrodermal sensor data to various stimuli.
Water Helix (2022) This piece is an installation for projection and movement sensor. The participant may control the rotation of the water spirals via their own movement. Video link HERE
Waterfall (2020) LED wall installation presented by CADAF, Digital Art Month, NYC Audio-reactive visuals.
The Thinker (2021): This projection installation piece uses live brain activity to control the visuals, which portray images that suggest 'the self' exists simultaneously at micro and macro levels. The 30,000 particles that swirl throughout are individually made up of an image of a spinal column, which is, itself, made up of small heads, which is then seen as resting within that same universe, which is where the whole body is seen dancing. By controlling the visuals with the artist's brain activity, there is also a concentric relationship of mind/body within the space. Video link HERE
choreographic game (2022) This installation work is a game for 0-2 people, where one can create a choeographic experience via midi device. Video link HERE
A/V Installation - Lightbox NYC (2020)
Ionic Movement (2021): This digital painting is animated through electrical brain activity, and was inspired by research on ion channels, and the constant motion of their gating process. Video link HERE
Trio (2021): This digital painting is a danced cannon for two human figures and a circle, which is animated via the motion sensor data taken from the dance phrase performed by the human figures. The piece considers the significance of geometry as a reference point in many styles of dance training, and so it has been made a visible and present figure in the dance rather than remaining an abstraction. Video link HERE
unstilled (2022) This digital painting utilized movement captured by a webcam to cause the ripple-like effect in the water texture. The water monoliths float undisturbed. This piece is a metaphor for how our thoughts move like ripples across the stillness of consciousness. Video link HERE
Encoded (2022) This digital painting utilzed recorded sensor data from a dance phrase the artist performed. Depicted is a fantastical cell-like image. The piece was inspired by research related to stored memory in DNA. Video link HERE
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NORA GIBSON CONTEMPORARY BALLET
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