Studio Residents

Gary-Martin (he/they) is an artist, designer, and educator based in Y Fenni. He is interested in systems of production and consumption, and their ecological entanglement. His work spans participatory art, speculative tools, and new musical interfaces, and has delivered projects with Cadw, The King’s Trust, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Tate Britain. He is member of pyka, resident at Pervasive Media Studio, and a lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire where his teaching focuses on critical practice in relation to networked cultures and political ecology.

Gary-Martin was part of the MyWorld 'More Than AI' Sandbox where he worked with pyka in developing The Conductor for The Expression Orchestra; a suite of multi-sensory instruments that provide diverse access to shared musical expression. The Conductor is a custom programme that interprets performer interactions with the instruments, and adaptively translates these into musical outputs. The Conductor demonstrates the potential of Machine Intelligence to enhance creative expression by honouring performer intentions that would previously have gone unheard, offering an alternative to narratives of AI replacing human creativity. Gary-Martin led on the praxis of ethical data training and access-first design, and supported wider experience design.