🦄, Designer and Creative Technologist

I design and code creative applications of technology with stunning visual executions, immersive 3D content, and networked user experiences.

Augmented Reality at Snap Inc, Mixed Reality at Microsoft, award winner and co-founder at The Workers, ex-Royal College of Art, visiting tutor to the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, and a nice person.

Hello, I am Ross Cairns

I am an artist, designer and creative technologist. I have 14 years professional experience designing, creating and facilitating immersive experiences and innovative applications.

Contact

ross@electricglen.com
+44 (0) 7751244728

2018-2020

  • Senior designer / creative technologist for Microsoft Mixed Reality Studios exploring AR, VR, MR, AI and immersive experiences.

2018

  • Freelance creative technologist for Litho.cc
  • AI + interactive experiences as freelance creative technologist for Jonathan Yeo
  • Senior creative technologist exploring conversational design at LBG
  • AR prototype as freelance creative technologist for Umbrellium
  • Thesis tutor on Design for Performance and Interaction MA at the Bartlett School of Architecture
  • Speaker at Pattern & Chaos (Norwich 2018)

2017

  • Inmarsat Volvo Ocean Race installation’s software for Jason Bruges Studio
  • Wandering Meadow installation for Great Ormond Street Hospital with Sister Arrow
  • VR system for Hitachi Rail Europe
  • Creative technologist consultant for Jason Bruges Studio
  • Freelance creative technologist for Agency of Design
  • Unity3d creative coding workshops for University of Westminster and University of Creative Arts
  • Freelance creative technology consultant for Tricycle Theatre
  • Founded Creative Technology Studio Ltd.

2016

  • Listening Living Room installation with BAT Studio for Guy’s Hospital
  • ProjectLab VR dance performance with Light Surgeons for Old Market Theatre
  • Freelance creative technologist for Bare Conductive
  • Visiting lecturer at University for the Creative Arts
  • Kavital installation for Bene at Clerkenwell Design Week
  • Highcross Lanterns installation with Studio of Cinematic Architecture
  • Panel discussion member at Remix Summit London
  • Pidee Raspberry Pi addon with Hackney Swingers Club
  • Visiting lecturer and Unity3d creative coding workshops at University of Creative Arts

2015

  • Invited presenter at Resonate.io Belgrade
  • Invited presenter at Design Indaba Cape Town
  • Allude installation for Berlin Fashion Week with Bibliotheque Design
  • RESET installation for Bibliotheque Design
  • Studio Blackburn website for Studio Blackburn
  • ‘Where did the selfies take us’ installation with BAT Studio & Eleanor Meredith
  • Marketing concepts for Baby Bundle
  • Straylight installation with BAT Studio for HTC
  • Presented at Ravensbourne
  • Presented at Royal College of Art

2014

  • Reset installation for Bibliothèque Design
  • After Dark installation for Tate Britain
  • Winner of the inaugural IK Prize by Tate Britain
  • Branding for WildFlower
  • Installation at Hackney Wicked with Hackney Swingers Club
  • Music To Move To platform for Fuel Theatre
  • Freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio

2013

  • Nike Feel TV as freelance creative technologist for Hellicar&Lewis
  • Where You Are website for Visual Editions supported by Google Creative Lab
  • Bloomberg Connects installation for Tate Modern with Studio Blackburn and Jason Bruges Studio
  • YourTour for Design with Heritage (consortium of V&A, UCA, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts)
  • Haroon Mirza’s 0/0/0/0 website with APFEL
  • #GetWinterized installation for Anna Lomax for Converse
  • Freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio
  • In Limbo iOS app with Leo Bridle

2012

  • London Olympic’s Coca-Cola pavilion Ariel Dynamics installation as freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio
  • Kinect workshops for Southbank Centre with Jason Bruges Studio
  • 21st Century Light Modulator as freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio
  • ListeningNYC iOS app as freelance creative technologist for COSM
  • iOS Libraries as freelance objective-c developer for Xively/Umbreillium

2011

  • Awesomecross as freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio
  • Feathered Flight installation for Museum fĂźr Naturkunde Berlin as freelance creative technologist for TheGreenEyl
  • Big Art Mob website as freelance frontend developer with Art Public for Channel 4
  • Tech City Launchpad award winner for StatRace platform proposal
  • Ollo website for Bibliothèque Design

2010 and before

  • 2010 C0-founded The Workers (London) Ltd with Tommaso Lanza
  • 2009 Dundee Contemporary Arts iOS app
  • 2007-09 Design Interactions MA, Royal College of Art
  • 2007 Freelance designer and creative coder
  • 2006-07 Designer, Atalanta Advertising and Design
  • 2002-04 Interactive Media Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee

Photo by the immensely talented Martina Lang