Ruth Gibson is a visual artist and scholar who studied with Joan Skinner on her visits to the UK and with Gaby Agis for over thirty years. She collaborates with Bruno Martelli as Gibson/Martelli and is a Reader at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University gaining her doctorate from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Gibson draws on her experience of place, performing and filming in the field, informed by expeditions to endangered remote parts of the world including Oceania, Canada & Iceland. She has progressed a unique field of practice in performance capture, using computer games, virtual reality, print & video to create award-winning artworks exhibited worldwide. www.gibsonmartelli.com ~ [email protected]