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gary-martin is an artist and designer exploring how ecological awareness can be restyled—not as a message, but as a mood, a medium, and a way of being. Shaped by perspectives of new materialism, deep listening, and bad environmentalism, his practice of ambient ecology aims to foster ecological attunement through atmosphere, rather than instruction or representation. His work takes form as participatory art, speculative tools, and audio-visual composition.
for over a decade he has facilitated art projects with young people across Wales, and partners like Cadw, The King's Trust, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Tate.
he is a studio resident at Pervasive Media Studio, and is a creative producer with pyka, co-creating access-first sound explorations. he is also a lecturer in the school of creative arts at the University of Gloucestershire where his teaching focuses on creative practice in relation to networked cultures and political ecology.
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My paper about my practice research project 'Practicing Scales' was recently published in the International Journal of Creative Media Research. The project explores material entanglement through music performance and spatial audio composition, utilising the disassembly and reassembly of musical ‘objects’ as a method for investigation. Read and listen here.