Videogrid at Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A

Decode looks at three current themes within digital design: Code shows how computer code, whether bespoke and tailored, or hacked and shared, has become a new design tool; Interactivity presents works that respond to our physical presence; Network charts or reworks the traces we leave behind.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/decode/exhibition

Taking More Libertys

Taking More Liberty's celebrated the creativity and exuberance of London streets with a unique photographic interactive situated in the Carnaby Street windows of Liberty between 5 - 26th October 2009. The project was the sequel to the 2004 project Taking Liberty's; this time engineered especially to dovetail with SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution at Somerset House. Passers-by posed in front of the camera and the images were uploaded live to be showcased as part of the exhibition and in the above gallery.

Incheon Digital Art Festival 2009

The exhibition presents a vision of a new city where people communicate, cross borders, and traverse time zones in a digital environment. The show's three sub-themes -- Inter-Face, Inter-Space, Inter-Time -- reflect on the aesthetics of new media art. INDAF strives to explore the impact of contemporary information society through media art works.

Head to Toe for Super Contemporary

http://www.designmuseum.org/headtotoe/

For this interactive installation, four pods around London take short videos of the heads, bodies or legs of the people standing in front. Use the arrows to flick through the participants or click on a video for a random selection. Visit the pods at the Design Museum, Selfridges, Covent Garden or Ideas Store and get yourself featured here.

Head to Toe is one of fifteen new commissions in the Super Contemporary exhibition presented by the Design Museum and Beefeater 24.

27,000 videos + so far!

Art Rock

Videogrid was displayed as part of the digitial art exhibtion at Art rock 2009

Funky Pixels, The new Ars Electronica Center

Sound Reactive Flash

iDesign

Anechoic at iDesign

Design Cities at the Design Museum

Design Cities at the Design Museum London showcases over 1000 moving videogrids captured when the exhibition was in Istanbul. Visitors can browse the collection using two buttons in front of a large lcd screen





photos by luke hayes

Ars Electronica 2008 - Honorary mention Interactive art

Camera, light and touchscreen at the OK Center in Linz,Austria.

POPVOX - Abbey Road

A video installation created for SHOWstudio during Fashion Djs. A machine asks 5 questions and then edits and uploads the finished video to showstudio.com. Willing participants include Mike Figgis, Mick Jones, Boy George and Jourdan, amongst many others.



Click here for all the videos

The Replenishing Body wins Honorary mention at Ars Electronica Grand Prix 2008

Replenishing Body has won an honorary mention in the interactive arts category at this years Ars Electronica Grand Prix. Started in 1987, Prix Ars Electronica is the foremost international prize for computer art so I am really pleased that the project has been recognised.

Design Cities - Istanbul Modern

I was fortunate to be included in the selection for a new exhibition called design citites which starts in the Istanbul Modern before moving to London's Design museum in September.





Some information on the exhibition:

This exhibition, curated by Deyan Sudjic, looks at the history of design from the mid-19th century through to the present. It stresses the conjunction of urban centers with great designers and traces how these have moved around the world until the present.

This exhibition will give the opportunity to look at the masters of modern and contemporary design through their sketches, drawings, models, objects and furniture that they have designed and created.

Highlights of the exhibition include work by the following:

London: Owen Jones, William Morris; Vienna: Joseph Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner; Dessau: Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt; Paris: Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray, Cassandre; Milan: Achille Castiglioni, Bob Noorda, Gio Ponti, Joe Columbo, Vico Magistretti, Ettore Sottsass; Los Angeles: Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Eliot Noyes, Saul Bass, Harry Beroia; Tokyo: Sony Research, Yamaha research, Issey Miyake, Shiro Kuramata; London: Ron Arad, Jasper Morrison, Ross Lovegrove, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Barnbrook, Sam Hecht, David Chipperfield, Peter Savile.

İstanbul Modern’s new exhibition "Design Cities" is bringing together some of the most significant design products of the last century for the first time in this country. Seeing all these design icons in one setting will no doubt be a major inspiration for anyone that has any interest in the subject.

Deyan Sudjic writes that "The Design Museum is delighted to be working with Istanbul Modern in producing a spectacular exploration of the way in which design has shaped contemporary culture."

Replenishing Body project video

Brit Insurance Designs of the year

The Replenishing Body (see below) was shortlisted in the Interactive category in 2008's Designs of the year currently running at the Design Museum. The following is taken from the exhibition program.

"The Replenishing Body Kiosk was created by Ross
Phillips, head of interactive at SHOWstudio, the online
fashion broadcasting company, founded by Nick Knight.
For this project they partnered with Evian to devise
an exhibition at a London west-end gallery, allowing
visitors to become part of ‘The Replenishing Body’. The
interactive video installation, inspired by the fact that the
human body is made up of 60% water, used a 25 section,
touch screen video grid where visitors were invited
to make a one-second video recording of a close-up
section of their body, which was added to a constantly
moving, composite video portrait. Each recording was
then added on top of previous footage so that the video
grid became a continually transformed display thanks to
the visitor’s participation."

Nominated by Dee Halligan

More information here

Dysfashional - Rotunda, Luxembourg - May to June 2007

Anechoic interactive displayed at Dysfashional - Rotunda, Luxembourg - May to June 2007

SCIENCE OF SPYING

Find out if you've got what it takes to be a modern-day spy in this new interactive family exhibition. Test your spy skills before exploring the latest spy gadgets and techniques. Go undercover on a secret mission and see if you can escape without being caught.

I worked on 3 installations for the exhibition. A brain and body scanner, and a game called escape which is the finale to the experience. I was responsible for the actual building of the scanners and the initial concept for Escape. The work was done with Joe Stephenson and Andrew Allenson for Pickledonion Productions. The exhibition is touring world wide.











More info can be found here
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/science_of_spying.aspx

TOKYO STYLE CLASH

TOKYO STYLE CLASH was a chance for Toyko’s most stylish to battle it out and find out if they were HOT or NOT? From the 14th until the 16th October, a roster of 9 photographers were set up in the front window of BEAMS' Harajuku store, waiting to take over 1,400 entrants portraits.

All of the photographs were then used to create an interactive game that was played over six weeks on SHOWstudio during October and November 2006. by a celebrity panel and the worldwide SHOWstudio audience, who collectively decided who really has the hottest look in Tokyo!!






http://www.showstudio.com/projects/tokyostyleclash/index.php

CONFESSIONS

Who's 'a wanker'? What male stylist can't keep their clothes on? Which former curator of a national museum smokes in Grade 1* listed buildings? And what esteemed fashion writer has 'the back of a swimmer and the head of a monkey'?!! We knew champagne + a fashion crowd would yield sensational results, but add the SHOWstudio 'Confessions' Interactive and there was controversy! View the scurrilous secrets of the Bal Masqué's guests in this highly entertaining series of confessional clips.




http://www.showstudio.com/projects/balmasque/confessions/

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

A reworking of Face by Fabrica in Collette, Paris





More information here

Istanbul Street Portrait

A reworking of Face by Fabrica in Istanbul.



More information here

PSP AMAZE ME

AMAZE ME is inspired by the brief issued by art director Alexi Brodovitch to photographer Richard Avedon — simply to “amaze him”.
The challenge asked you, the public, to respond to a brief set by a panel of six leading creative industry figures in six different territories. The interactive booths were installed in London, Antwerp, Rome, Dublin, Barcelona and Berlin. Entrants came to one of our micro-studio booths and made a 30 second video pitch. The best six entrants won a PSP™(Playstation®Portable), plus an exclusive opportunity to work with the panellist they attempted to amaze.




http://www.showstudio.com/projects/pspamazeme/en/

Check out a few of the winning videos

daddy_winner.mov
fink_winner.mov

ANAKANA

A kaleidoscopic sound reactive that changes colour-ways based on the ambient noise outside the restaurant. Potential customers could then browse the menu by touching a sensor to page through food and drinks.

TAKING LIBERTY'S

An interactive camera/sensor was placed in the window of the Regent Street Liberty's store to capture the 'looks' of over 17,000 participants during the period from 14 February - 4 April 2004. All the images are posted on SHOWstudio, including Katy England's shortlist of 10 finalists and the ultimate winner.

View all 17,000+ here!

RANDOM ACTS OF LOVE

A simple project for valentines day 2004. We asked our viewers to write a valentines message and submit it, along with their email address, into our database before the 14th. When the day came everyone who entered a message received a random message of love from someone else who took part.

You can see a selection of messages below.

randomacts.html

ELEY KISHIMOTO

A sound reactive installation created for Eley Kishimoto's store in Southwark london. A monitor was mounted flush into a wall covered in their iconic 'flash' design wallpaper. As visitors to the shop make noises, the wallpaper seems to come alive as it reacts with one of 3 distinct interactive designs



A mouse controlled example of one of the interactive designs can be seen here.

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/elk/elk_interactive.html

DARE

DARE is an interactive installation piece designed and created specifically for the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York. The exhibition has run from June 19th until October 26th, 2003 in the Museums’ Warner Room.

DARE, the title of which refers to the Italian verb "to give" and the English verb meaning "to be bold”, consists of four touch-screens and a video projection. Each screen is interface and display: they require action as well as observation, writing as well as reading. At the opening, the exhibit was essentially a black canvas, awaiting and inviting visitors to be participants and to play along. On the other hand, on October 26th at the end of the show, it included stories told through a sequence of marks and images that recreate the past and the present of those museum visitors who in four months interacted with it. DARE creates its own documents, its own accounts of itself and its own records of those who contributed to its making.

DARE consists of four pieces: GRID and FACE, that relate to images, whereas DRAW and MODE relate to gestures and the creation of lines or marks. All pieces are playful; they all record user’s interactions onto a hard disk with a date and time stamp. These can all be recreated as a time based sequence.

Text Taken from
http://www.fabrica.it/project.php?id=63

I was responsible for Grid and Face which have since been used in various other situations.

See here and here for further description of individual pieces.




Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI)