Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli

'It is important for us to innovate rather than adapt. To experiment with different formats & new methods of interaction. We take many risks with each new artwork challenging what we learned from the last. Our ideas demand many skills therefore our work is collaborative. We go under the umbrella name of Igloo & invite different artists to create with us. We believe in growing pieces rather than designing them, exploring ideas of being in other peoples stories, allowing audiences to join the dots, providing libraries of motion for play & provoking imagination so that certain things can be left unsaid.’

Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli have collaborated on multimedia projects since 1995. Forming Igloo after the success of Daylight Robbery, a motion capture animation & WindowsNinetyEight, CdRom 1996-8, BAFTA nominated in 2002. Recipients of a Royal Opera House commission for Goodbye Venus and a NESTA grant for SwanQuake. Informed by contemporary dance practice, the body is the medium that drives the effects of multiple software & hardware use, which generate the screen based & live performance pieces.