Adam Gibney’s research spans electronics, coding, digital fabrication and sound to explore meanings of reality, often devising immersive installations that react and are activated through audience or environmental interaction.

In this new work, solar panels mounted on Mermaid’s roof power a grid of 3D printed consoles placed on the gallery floor, creating a sighing, flickering ‘cyberbeing’ that responds to visitors as they walk around the space. The installation uses an AI moderator to interpret how each unit responds, using light, the movement of air and sound to reflect external stimuli – the audience – to create and almost-sentient machine.

Adam Gibney is an interdisciplinary artist with numerous awards that include the Aileen MacKeogh Award, the Siamsa Tíre Emerging Artist Award, the IMOCA graduate residency award, and the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary award. His solo exhibitions include Can you breathe for me? (Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, 2021 and The Dock, 2022), Projective Verse 9: Deep Breadths (Daegu Foundation of Culture, South Korea, 2017) and Euclid, I miss you…(Artbox, Dublin, 2016). Other notable exhibitions include I am sitting in a room (Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2022), Embracing (The Lab Gallery, Dublin 2022), Scaffold (The Bomb Factory, London, 2019), The Voyage (CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, 2016) and Futures (Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2014). In 2016, Adam represented Ireland in the V Moscow Biennale for Young Art – Deep Inside.

In 2019, Adam launched his first public art project, Your Seedling Language, in St. Catherine’s School, Rush, Co. Dublin. He was commissioned to create a temporary public art project for Graft, a project curated by both the Glucksman Gallery and the National Sculpture Factory and he is currently working on a public art project for Fingal County Council.

Adam has recently completed a practice-based research master’s degree at the Technological University of Dublin. Drawing on his interdisciplinary approach to technology in fine art, interaction design, and emerging media practices, he has lectured at several universities, including the Technological University of Dublin and The University of Limerick. He is currently Assistant Lecturer in Interaction Design at The National College of Art and Design, (NCAD) where he is also course coordinator for the Professional Diploma in Digital Making.