Richard Gil is an interdisciplinary artist working across interactive installation, live audiovisual performance, and mixed media. Using code, light, sound, and physical materials, he creates works that shift over time, responding to systems, environments, and the presence of a viewer.
Most of his practice is built through generative processes using JavaScript, GLSL shaders, and WebGL, but the technology itself is never the destination. Instead, it becomes a way of making intangible experiences tangible: the movement of time, the accumulation of memory, and the rhythms that exist beneath everyday life. His audiovisual performances use custom software and MIDI controllers to transform sound into spatial and visible material, while his physical works explore how a single moment can be preserved through layers of color, texture, and repetition. At the center of Gil’s work is an interest in transformation. He is drawn to systems that are constantly becoming rather than simply existing, as well as the tension between order and unpredictability. Whether working digitally or physically, he crafts environments that invite viewers to slow down and encounter change as something they can see, hear, and inhabit.
Based in Houston, Texas, Richard Gil continues to develop work that bridges computational processes and the human experience, exploring how technology can become material for wonder.