Steve Gibson & Paul Goodfellow

Steve Gibson is an interactive media artist, audio-visual performer and Associate Professor in Innovative Digital Media at Northumbria University, Newcastle. His experimental electronic collaborative CDs include SPASM: The Sound of Virtual Reality and Hacking the Future. He performs as a body-based performer using motion tracking and gestural interfaces to control audio-visuals by movement in 3D space and has exhibited these projects at many world-leading venues including Ars Electronica, 404 Festival Mexico City, Banff Centre for the Arts, Digital Art Weeks, and the European Media Arts Festival.

Paul Goodfellow
Paul Goodfellow is an artist and Senior Lecturer with an interest in the application of systems and processes in the understanding of nature and art. His current research explores how we have shifted our attention from a material engagement with the Earth to a primary engagement with systems which describe and simulate the Earth. Paul has presented his work at both conferences and exhibitions, including ISEA (Istanbul), Transart Film Festival (Berlin), Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei) and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Newcastle).

ARTWORK

Control System Interference (Live A/V)
Control System Interference (CSI) explores the harmonic balance of systems and how they can be disrupted by external forces. Gibson crafts a live sonic environment controlled through embodied gesture, and Goodfellow creates a visual landscape controlled through embodied movement. Each ecosystem, the audio and the visual operates as an open system which is kept in balance by its artist in much the same way Earth self-regulates. The project uses two Leap Motion Controllers to control a complex audio-visual system, mapping spatial movement to audio-visual result in a transparent but rich manner.

CSI serves as a metaphor for the complex relationship between humanity and the environment. By mirroring the way technological advancements can unsettle ecological balance, the project invites audiences to contemplate the consequences of interference within any system—be it natural or artificial. It underscores the potential for both discord and innovation when systems intersect and influence one another. Through this collaborative exploration, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of interconnectedness and the possibilities that arise from embracing both harmony and disruption. CSI is an artistic investigation into balance, change, and the new forms that emerge when information streams are crossed and systems converge.

ARTWORK LINK
https://vimeo.com/showcase/11444023

BOOK LAUNCH
AUDIO-VISUALISM:
Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image
Edited by Steve Gibson, Yan Breuleux, Joseph Hyde and Donna Leishman
Books will be available for purchase at a reduced rate.

Audio-Visualism follows on from Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice, which covered a broad history of Live Visual and Audio-Visual practice. Audio-Visualism explores the contemporary audio-visual world in greater detail, focusing on the works of artists who work in the interstices between sound, video, light, immersion, virtuality, and social engagement. This book establishes how the relationship between sound and image continues to be a dominant theme in the 21stCentury. With contributions by scholars, researchers, and active practitioners, this collection demonstrates the knowledge spectrum of Audio-Visualism as movement, a practice, a research field and a philosophy.

TALK (Steve Gibson)
Control System Interference: Embodied Gesture, Ecological Disruption, and the Energy of Interfering Systems
Control System Interference (CSI) is a collaborative live audio-visual performance by Steve Gibson and Paul Goodfellow that explores the harmonic balance of systems and how they can be disrupted by external forces. The project uses the Leap Motion Controller to control a complex audio-visual system, mapping spatial movement to audio-visual result in a transparent but rich manner. CSI is consciously designed to minimise its environmental footprint, as a compact, low-energy model for collaborative audio-visual performance. All screens and interfaces are hidden from the stage, focusing audience attention exclusively on the performer’s body and the audio-visual environment produced. In this talk, Gibson will discuss the process of developing gestural interaction and media synchronization for CSI, focusing on how the piece generates a total media environment with the most minimal of means.

WEBSITE
https://www.telebody.ws/