SONORO SECRETO
GEMA FB MARTÍNMISTERIOSO OBJETO RESIDENCY
JUNE 2023
Gema FB Martín is a clinical psychologist, scientist and audiovisual artist whose practice explores the intersections between technology, mental health and creative expression. Her research focuses on human–machine interaction, artificial emotions and immersive environments, while her artistic work investigates sound and its narrative potential.
During her ACME residency, Sonoro Secreto, Gema explored a simple but increasingly relevant question: where and how do we share a secret in a world of cookies, chats and virtual assistants designed to capture what we think, feel and desire? Could a sound object offer a space for listening without generating data?
Working with reclaimed materials from ACME, she investigated how their forms and acoustic properties could create spaces for private listening. The research developed through both individual experimentation and a two-day participatory workshop, where participants explored the acoustics of recycled materials and created their own sound objects to hold and give voice to their secrets.
Materials: reclaimed wood, metal, sound, secrets.
Location: ACME
Year: 2023
Misterioso Objeto was an ACME Estudio residency programme developed between 2022 and 2023, bringing together five creators —nodoCCS, Vicent Orts, Pía Mendaro, Gema FB Martín and Lucas Muñoz— to explore circularity through collective creation.
Each resident was invited to develop a new work using offcuts and surplus materials from ACME's productions, while inheriting a fragment or material from the previous resident. This created a continuous chain of transformation, turning the residency into a collective Cadáver Exquisito in which each work became the starting point for the next.
The programme explored circularity not only as a material practice, but also as a model for shared authorship, collaboration and resourcefulness — recovering materials, tools and existing resources to encourage creative processes that adapt to the world rather than requiring the world to adapt to them.