Ross Phillips Archive

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:47:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:31:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:10:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:43:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:43:00 +0000

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

A Little Piece of Mind

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:00:00 +0000

I was asked to contribute a digital 'patch' as part of a charitable project from Design Agency Marque

http://alittlepieceofmind.org/

Funky Pixels, The new Ars Electronica Center

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Sound Reactive Flash

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:45:00 +0000

iDesign

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:38:00 +0000

Anechoic at iDesign

Design Cities at the Design Museum

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:11:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:44:00 +0000

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

POPVOX - Abbey Road

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:31:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:46:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:41:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:15:00 +0000

Brit Insurance Designs of the year

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:53:00 +0000

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

The Replenishing Body

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:44:00 +0000

An interactive video installation created in collaboration with Evian, The Replenishing Body consists of a grid of squares (5x5) which can each record a 1 second loop of film. Participants can create and orchestrate a giant composite moving creature, or simply a collage of moving snapshots by recording a close-up section of their body part. The grid starts empty at the beginning of the installation and becomes a constantly changing collorative artwork. Grids are periodically uploaded to a gallery which can be viewed on http://www.showstudio.com

Check out the full project here (and see higher quality movies)
http://www.showstudio.com/evianreplenishingbody

Dysfashional - Rotunda, Luxembourg - May to June 2007

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:44:00 +0000

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

Piacare

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:40:00 +0000

A reworking of Face by Fabrica at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai (MoCA).

More information here

SCIENCE OF SPYING

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:33:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:00:00 +0000

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

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:57:00 +0000

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/

BLOW, CLAP, TALK, HUM

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:52:00 +0000

Featuring an extensive selection of accessories from the A/W '06-7 collections, 'Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum' is a series of interactives that relies on specific noises created by the viewer. Possessing a particularly craft-based aesthetic, the playful interactives employ varying techniques that bring still-life images of carefully selected accessories –including shoes, bags, rings, hairpieces, necklaces and masks- to life. Each one of the four different interactives, encourages the viewer to make specific sounds –'blow', 'clap', 'talk' or 'hum'- into a microphone. These noises then activate a selection of accessories-themed 'stories' that take their form in a dress-up model, an animated crumpled paper sequence, a voice-activated selection of varyingly sized jewellery pieces and an animated shoe sequence, complete with 'footstep' audio.

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/blowclaptalkhum/blow/

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/blowclaptalkhum/clap/

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/blowclaptalkhum/talk/

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/blowclaptalkhum/hum/

Full project
http://www.showstudio.com/projects/blowclaptalkhum/

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:54:00 +0000

A reworking of Face by Fabrica in Collette, Paris

More information here

ANECHOIC

ross@showstudio.com (Ross Phillips) — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:42:00 +0000

Anechoic is a 'collections story' project that uses sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments the A/W '06-7 season by leading fashion brands. A live recording session in a specialist recording studio -a hemi-anechoic chamber- on 1 June 2006 was used to create a series of groundbreaking interactives that for the first time in fashion media, detail the precise sound of fashion materials such as feathers, sequins, glass crystals and beads, nylon, taffeta, leather, velvet, jacquard, zips and metallic chains.

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/anechoic/interactive/