Victoria Gibson is an Integrated Media Artist blending sound + light + motion to create amazing art experiences. Creating magic using advanced techniques to spark curiosity while encouraging audience engagement with lively subject matter and interactive elements. She makes complex and experimental works that emerge from the nexus of art and technology, but remain accessible and fun.
Awards and Residencies
2022 Media Artist Production Grant, BC Arts Council
2020 Digital Originals Grant, an initiative of the Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Showcase BC grant, a program of Creative BC
2018 Montreal Contemporary Music Lab – MCML at Concordia University, QC
2017 Canada Council for the Arts Touring Grant
2017 Waterloo Region Contemporary Music Sessions – WRCMS at Laurier University, ON
2015 Fresh!AIR Residency – Caetani Cultural Centre + Alan Brooks Nature Centre, Vernon, BC
2015 Banff Centre for the Arts —Emergence Residency —interactive storytelling
2013 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant Award to attend classes at STEIM, NL
2011 Center for Performance Research Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Headlands Centre for the Arts Residency, Sausalito, CA in collaboration with Lisle Ellis
2009 Banff Centre for the Arts Residency — photography and video with Pauline Oliveros
Major Works
2022 BOXSET — Integrated Media Arts Performance at KW Studios Atrium, Vancouver, co-produced with the Heart of the City Festival. Credits: Play the Moment improvised music in dialogue with Miriam Esquitin, improvising movement artist and 12ft rear projection screen controlled by Victoria.
2021 Future Music Online Series – Experimental performance and works in progress – featuring interviews with collaborators, live streamed electroacoustic performance, live improvised audio and visual processing and artist talks about past work
2018 Sound Seed: Tribute to Pauline Oliveros DVD and Live Performance
DVD release concert presented by Somewhere There at Array Music, Toronto, Canada,
Live performance premiere with guitar and vocals played through computer while controlling
audio and visual samples presented by 2018 The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) at the Abrons Art Centre in NYC, USA. 2018 Vancouver performance presented by Quiet City at the Toast Collective Artist Space. Credits: Artist, composer, musician, graphic design, post-production and programmer.
2017 Coastal Contours (2017) First Track: Top Secret DaDa #1 (demo)
Demo Run time: 3min 37secCoastal Contours short film. Combining the music of the Paul Plimley Trio and images provided by the award winning visual artist Eric Metcalfe. Animation and Production by Victoria Gibson
Share A Tweet 2014 Commission by Locomoto Collective for interactive installation Share A Tweet, shown as part of the Patterns Festival, shown at Aberthau Community Centre, Vancouver BC and Aurora Festival, Powell River, BC.
Credits: Artist, composer, musician, post-production and programmer. Thanks to Paul Plimley for piano on Asian Garden scene and Jude Abrams for bird video on several scenes.
excavating desire/fouilles pour le désire 2012 internet based network (telematic) performance with 3 other women based in other cities premiere as part of the 121212 Festival of Cyberperformance, New Zealand; shown 2013 Network Music Festival, Birmingham, UK and 2013 Maker Faire, PNE, Vancouver, CA
2018 Arranged for conducted live improvising orchestra and electronics – performed by the NOW Orchestra Workshop ensemble at the Western Front, Vancouver, CA.
Credits: Composer, producer, bandleader, musician, video creator. Play the Moment members: Victoria Gibson (Vancouver, Canada), Jude Abrams (Toronto, Powell River, CA) and Sonia Paço-Rocchia (Mons, BE, Montreal, CA) live drawing + creating music and Christina deRoos (Detroit, USA) manipulating the visuals. Special thanks to Sonia for French translation of titles.
Rise Up, Fallen Angel: a new paradigm in gallery exhibits 2011 Center for Performance Research residency project production shown May 26, 27 + 28 on site in Brooklyn, NY
Credits: Play the Moment Composers Collective: Victoria Gibson, leader, guitar, vocals + computer; Paul Plimley, guitar; Lisle Ellis, bass + electronics; Christina deRoos, projection artist; Producer, live sound, streaming, Thomas Bell
Bandwidth: Interactive Installation 2010 EMPAC visual music project production shown on site, public premiere at the 2011 Guelph Jazz Festival Nuit Blanche, shown 2012 Lumen Festival, Staten Island, NY and 2013 Maker Faire, PNE, Vancouver, CA
Credits: Composer, producer, animator
A New Beginning, A Playground 2009 Commission based on a concept by Oliveros and Ione. 20min silent film for musical performance collaboration with the Chris Chafe Trio. Shown at The Walter Philips Gallery, Banff in concert plus telematic performance on Second Life and in Toronto. Thanks to Ione for mentorship and materials.
Credits: Artist, graphic design, video editing, titling
Selected Credits
2025 Kitoki_VideoDance (Brussels, Belgium) selected “7pm: Our Community Tribute” – ” 7 pm: nuestro homenaje comunitario” part of the Social Distance Project featuring Miriam Esquitín, movement artist. The short film was included in the online gallery and was selected for a featured showing as part of the Contradanse festival in Brussels.
2021 Percussionist for Polymer Dance Moon Festival performance, Renfrew Community Centre
2021 Composer/Producer for film of “Hold Your Breath” shown at 2021 NYCEMF online
2021 You Are Here (YAH) music in animated video, “We Are the Glitch” by Elizabeth Barnes, visual artist, shown at Soundbox 4 online festival, OSU, Oregon. USA
2020 You Are Here (YAH) music selected for animated videos by Elizabeth Barnes, visual artist
2020 You Are Here video series posted on Vimeo – improvised music with Paul Plimley
2020 Polymer Dance and VIXmedia video series posted on Vimeo – improvised dance and music
2019 Composer/performer for “10.29.09” played in 16 channel diffusion as part of the Sonologues Festival presented by RedShift Music Society at the Vancouver Public Library.
2019 Producer, Audio Mixing and Mastering Engineer, Graphic Design for “Artful Dodger” CD by Babin, Loewen, Plimley.
2018-19 Saron player in Indonesian Consulate Gamelan (Javanese style) for Museum of Anthropology and various Indonesian Cultural Celebrations
2018 Artist Talk -“Art About Science” as part of Art. Science. Cadence. presented by Curiosity Collider at Cafe Deux Soliel, Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Sound Seed: Tribute to Pauline Oliveros work in progress showing at Array Music, part of the Somewhere There Series in Toronto, Canada.
2018 Electroacoustic performance premiere of Echoes of You Far Away at the NEAMO Festival 20th anniversary in San Diego, USA.
2015 ISCM showing of Bandwidth: Interactive Installation as part of the DIY showcase held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
2014 Laptop player in the Global Network Orchestra, a project of Roger B. Dannenberg, Professor of Computer Science, Art, and Music, Carnegie Mellon University, performed and streamed from Ammerman Center 14th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium at Connecticut College, USA.
2013 Guitar, vocals for free improvised performance as part of the Oorsprong Curators Series, Amsterdam, NL with Frank Mauceri, sax, electronics, and Ángel Faraldo electronics.
2012 Producer, animator and musician for “Angels Among Us” video of work-in-progress interactive installation screened as part of “DaDa Reboot” series curated by Thom Sokoloski at Toronto Nuit Blanche, Heritage Distillery District, Toronto, Ontario.
2011 Visual and performance artist in on-line Women and Identity Festival, based in New York, but shown on the internet– Deep Listening. Curated by Carole Ione.
2010 Anthony Braxton: Sonic Genome World Premiere – performance on laptop computer and vocals – included improvised vocal solo with large ensemble
2009 Recorded as a guest with The Deep Listening Band at the Cistern Chapel, Fort Worden, WA – vocals and hand percussion
Employment
2021 – present – Sessional Instructor for the New Media Gallery Lab in New Westminster, BC
2019 – 2021 – Sessional Instructor for VIVO Media Arts in East Vancouver, BC.
2019 – Instructor for Girls Rock Camp in east Vancouver, BC.
2011 – 2014 Victoria G. Fine Imagery — Project management and graphic design
2010 – 2011 Glacier Media Group — Publishing Support Executive
2008 – 2010 Granville Island Publishing — Assistant to the Publisher
Education
2014 Langara College – CSS and html5 course
2013 STEIM Amsterdam, NL
— Workshop – using Kinect with Isadora with Jamie Griffith
— Workshop – using Sense/Stage wireless with Marije Ballman
Advanced Style for Designers in Word – Alandale College
2010 EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
– Multi-media Performance Practice Summer Intensive – using Isadora with Mark Coniglio and Johannes Birringer
Simon Fraser University Publishing Certificate in Social Media Marketing
2009 Vivo course in Pure Data with Brady Marks
Western Front – NOW improvisation workshops
2000-2006 University of British Columbia – BA Major in Music
1997-2000 Vancouver Community College transfer credit