Nora Gibson's "Intrinsic" is a multi-channel choreographic video work with a soundscore created with electrical brain data, that emboides a quantum perspective on human consciousness

Excerpt from Intrinsic (2024). Run time: 4min 57sec. Nora Gibson: Conception, choreography, programming, dancing, editing, and sound design.

Intrinsic is a multi-channel choreographic video work that presents a quantum perspective on human consciousness. Can we reduce experience to what is classically measurable and quantifiable, or is there a quantum corollary where our body is in communion with itself in a Platonic realm? Through volumetric capture and other custom programming, the body is presented as something both quantifiable and unquantifiable. Intrinsic offers a multi-layered concept of the body, where it exists in non-local planes of diminishing concreteness. The accompanying soundscore was created by using electrical brain data live-fed to a modular synthesizer.

NORA GIBSON is a new media artist and choreographer whose work investigates the body-mind, selfhood, and conscious experience. She makes immersive/interactive video installation, utilizing choreography, sound design, bio-reactive programming, and full dome projection.

Her work in new media has been presented by Istanbul Digital Art Festival, Jacob's Pillow, (US), MUTEK (CA), Ars Electronica (AUT), the Society for Art & Technology (CA) the Fels Planetarium (US), Contemporary & Digital Art Fair("CADAF") (NYC), Urban Screens Production (AUS), and The Hexagram Network (CA). Her work has been further supported through an internship with the BIAPT neuroscience lab at McGill University. She teaches at the intersect of performance & technology.