Steve Gibson
Northumbria University Reader in Innovative Digital Media
Edinburgh
Steve Gibson is an interactive media artist, interface designer, electronic musician and media curator. He currently serves as Reader in Innovative Digital Media at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Simultaneously deeply involved with technology and deeply suspicious of its effects, Gibson’s work celebrates both the liberation and paranoia of techno-fetishism. Influenced by a diverse body of art and popular movements his practice-based work fuses immersive art, audio-visual performance and DIY design. He works in a range of media, from live electronic music to game art to virtual reality installation.
Steve Gibson’s works have been exhibited in such venues as: Ars Electronica; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Banff Centre for the Arts; Digital Art Weeks; the European Media Arts Festival; ISEA; Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich; the San Francisco Art Institute; 4 & 6CyberConf. His work has been published internationally by Leonardo Electronic Almanac, St. Martin’s Press, The MIT Press, New World Perspectives, Turnaround Productions, Future Publications, Urra Apogeo, and Passagen Verlag.