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Gil Fontimayor (a.k.a. Morty Fangilio) is a Filipino–American artist currently living and working in Basel, Switzerland.
His practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, creative coding, video art, installation, photography, poster design, and typeface design, channeling concepts of ecological shifts, the loss of earthly innocence, quantum theory, and the fragility of subatomic particles at the intersection of emergent realities.
His connection to Mountain View, California — the Silicon Valley city now home to Google HQ and the NASA Ames Research Center — where he lived as a young child, sparked a lasting fascination with space-time, nascent technologies, and science. As a result, he creates work that unleashes visceral pulses to unpack the invisible phenomena of the universe, deploying strategic and speculative narratives to inform the public of the unknown and acting as a science communicator.
His work has been exhibited in group and solo shows throughout Europe and is held in the permanent collection of the Plakatsammlung der Schule für Gestaltung Basel in Münchenstein, Switzerland.
Currently, he holds a research assistantship with the Applied Quantum Computing Lab at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics at the Hochschule für Life Sciences FHNW in Muttenz, Switzerland. In this interdisciplinary role, he collaborates with researchers to create visual art informed by quantum theory and its applications.
Previously, he held full-time art and design roles at The Wall Street Journal, a Pulitzer Prize–winning news organization in New York City.
He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Humanities and Sciences in Richmond, Virginia, USA, where he is now a faculty member in the Department of Graphic Design at VCUarts. He pursued graduate studies in visual communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW in Basel, Switzerland.
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Gil Fontimayor (a.k.a. Morty Fangilio) is a Filipino–American artist currently living and working in Basel, Switzerland.
His practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, creative coding, video art, installation, photography, poster design, and typeface design, channeling concepts of ecological shifts, the loss of earthly innocence, quantum theory, and the fragility of subatomic particles at the intersection of emergent realities.
His connection to Mountain View, California — the Silicon Valley city now home to Google HQ and the NASA Ames Research Center — where he lived as a young child, sparked a lasting fascination with space-time, nascent technologies, and science. As a result, he creates work that unleashes visceral pulses to unpack the invisible phenomena of the universe, deploying strategic and speculative narratives to inform the public of the unknown and acting as a science communicator.
His work has been exhibited in group and solo shows throughout Europe and is held in the permanent collection of the Plakatsammlung der Schule für Gestaltung Basel in Münchenstein, Switzerland.
Currently, he holds a research assistantship with the Applied Quantum Computing Lab at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics at the Hochschule für Life Sciences FHNW in Muttenz, Switzerland. In this interdisciplinary role, he collaborates with researchers to create visual art informed by quantum theory and its applications.
Previously, he held full-time art and design roles at The Wall Street Journal, a Pulitzer Prize–winning news organization in New York City.
He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Humanities and Sciences in Richmond, Virginia, USA, where he is now a faculty member in the Department of Graphic Design at VCUarts. He pursued graduate studies in visual communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW in Basel, Switzerland.
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