<p>I have extensive experience as a Creative Director and Tech Lead on various physical and web-based interactive experiences. I spot opportunities, diagnose problems and make things happen.</p>
<p>I work with artists, architects, creative studios, cultural institutions, theatres and brands. I have programmed installations at the London Olympics, Tate Britain, Tate Modern and Music Festivals. I have made online experiences for Google Creative Lab, Haroon Mirza &amp; Nike.</p>
<p>I am a big picture thinker who thinks systems, concepts and code. I care about design and production values.</p>
<p>I have spent years making and using bespoke C++, JS &amp; OpenGL/ES/WebGL frameworks. Now, often Unity 3D is my rocket of choice to deliver explosive experiences. My work encompasses visual R&amp;D and prototyping, sensor technologies, web technologies, hardware integrations, realtime graphics, typography, shaders and live video streaming.</p>


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<h1>Bio</h1>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Ross Cairns creates digital experiences especially in collaboration with other disciplines. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In 2014 Ross received Tate Britain’s IK Prize along with Tommaso Lanza and David Di Duca for <i>After Dark</i>, a project which had a global media reach figure of one billion. Their robots, controlled through the Internet by members of the public at  home, roamed the Tate Gallery to view the masterpieces.  He has become a frequent collaborator with Jason Bruges Studio, Gabby Shawcross, BAT Studio, Helicar&amp;Lewis, Biblotheque Design, A Practise For Everyday Life and many others.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Ross, from Dundee, Scotland works frequently with Tommaso Lanza. In 2011 they established their company, The Workers, to create seriously playful digital products. The Workers’ approach of ‘getting digital collaborators in early’  fosters meaningful digital intervention. They seize  opportunities offered by the latest accessible and open source technology and then expose these opportunities to collaborators from other creative disciplines. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">He is an adept computer programmer and technologist, skilled in variety programming languages both high level (C#, JavaScript, Cg, Clojure, XSLT) and low level (C, C++, Objective-C, GLSL). Ross is self-taught in this area and explores how digital creations can communicate meaning or feeling effectively by action. By doing it.  </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Ross believes that programming is not just the domain of the developer or the computer programmer, and possessing a  playful attitude to computer code is vital for any practitioner in the creative sector.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">To engage traditional creative practises in code Ross created a series of themed workshops using Unity 3D technology. He has delivered these workshops to both Architecture and Interior Design students at Canterbury University of the Arts, University of Westminster and soon at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture. His goal is to encourage students to use digital tools as part of the creative process for projects where interactivity or digital technology is the vehicle for creation and not the final outcome.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Ross studied on the notable Design Interactions course at the Royal Collage of Art in London during 2007 to 2009. He was also a creative designer for the graphic design studio Atalanta in Glasgow, Scotland from 2006 to 2007. Prior to this he studied Interactive Media Design at the University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design from 2002 to 2006.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">He regularly speaks about his work, collaboration ethos and the potential of digital technologies at conferences and festivals both nationally and internationally such as Design Indaba in Cape Town and Resonate in Serbia.</span></p>


<h1 class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Code Experience</b></span></h1>
<h3 class="p3"><em><span class="s1"><b>Languages</b></span></em></h3>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1">C#, JavaScript, C++, GLSL, Cg, Objective-C, Bash, XSLT, PHP</span></p>
<h3 class="p6"><em><span class="s1"><b>Frameworks</b></span></em></h3>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1">Unity 3D (Shaders, ShaderLab, Native API Plugin Development), OpenFrameworks, Three.js, Video (GStreamer, WebRTC, OpenCV), Node.js, Databases (Redis, MySQL, Postgres, Carto), Web based technologies (Pug, Less/Sass, WebSockets, WebRTC, HTTP), Protocols (Midi, OSC, UDP/TCP, RSTP)</span></p>
<h3 class="p6"><em><span class="s1"><b>Active Interests</b></span></em></h3>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1">Virtual Reality (6 degree VR, Augmented Reality, 360), Graphic Pipelines, Functional Programming (Reactive Programming, Clojure, Emacs Lisp)</span></p>
<h1>Timeline</h1>
<h3><span class="s1">2016</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><span class="s1">Listening Room, Guy&#8217;s Hospital – BAT Studio</span></li>
<li>ProjectLab, Old Market Theatre, Brighton</li>
<li>Bare Conductive, Freelance Creative Technologist</li>
<li><span class="s1">Visiting Lecturer, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury</span></li>
<li>Kavital for Bene, Clerkenwell Design Week</li>
<li><span class="s1">Highcross Lantern&#8217;s with SOCA, Leicester</span></li>
<li>Remix Summit London, Panel Disscusion Member</li>
</ul>
<h3>2015</h3>
<ul>
<li><span class="s1">Resonate.io Belgrade, Presentation, </span></li>
<li><span class="s1">Design Indaba Cape Town Presentation</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">Allude, Berlin Fashion Week</span></li>
<li>Studio Blackburn / Special Normal</li>
<li>Where Did The Selfies Take Us, UK Touring Exhibit – with BAT Studio &amp; Eleanor Meredith</li>
<li>Baby Bundle Launch Concepts</li>
<li>HTC Straylight – BAT Studio</li>
<li>Ravensbourne, Presentation/Workshop</li>
<li>Royal College of Art, Presentation</li>
</ul>
<h3>2014</h3>
<ul>
<li><span class="s1">Reset for Bibliothèque Design</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">Tate Britons&#8217;s IK Prize</span></li>
<li>WildFlower</li>
<li>Hackney Swinger Club at Hackney Wicked</li>
<li>Music To Move To – Fuel Theatre</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="s1">2013</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><span class="s1">Nike Feel TV – Hellicar&amp;Lewis<br />
</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">Where You Are – Visual Editions / Google Creative Lab<br />
</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">Bloomberg Connect – Tate Modern</span></li>
<li>Design With Heritage – V&amp;A / UCL / The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts</li>
<li>0/0/0/0 for Haroon Mirza with APFEL</li>
<li>Converse #GetWinterized – Anna Lomax</li>
</ul>
<h3>2012</h3>
<ul>
<li><span class="s1">CocaCola&#8217;s Pavillion&#8217;s Ariel Dynamics, London Olympics – JBS</span></li>
<li>Kinect Workshop – Southbank Centre</li>
<li>21st Century Light Modulator – JBS</li>
<li>ListeningNYC iPhone App – COSM</li>
<li>iOS Community Libraries – Xively</li>
</ul>
<h3>2011</h3>
<ul>
<li><span class="s1">Awesomecross, BF Goodrich, Orange County, LA – JBS</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">Freelance creative coder for Jason Bruges Studio (2011-2014)</span></li>
<li>Feathered Flight – Museum für Naturkunde Berlin with TheGreenEyl</li>
<li>Big Art Mob – Art Public / Channel 4</li>
<li>StatRace – Tech City Launchpad Award</li>
<li>Ollo – Bibliothèque Desgin</li>
</ul>
<h3>2010 and before</h3>
<ul>
<li>2010: Co-Founded The Workers with Tommaso Lanza</li>
<li>2009: Dundee Contemporary Arts, iPhone App</li>
<li><span class="s1">2007/09: Interaction Design, Royal College of Art</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">2007: <a href="http://127.0.0.1/rosscairns/"><span class="s2">RossCairns.com</span></a> – Freelance Designer and Creative Coder</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">2006/07: Designer, Atalanta Advertising and Design</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">2002/04: Interactive Media Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art &amp; Design, University of Dundee</span></li>
</ul>


Long Bio

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<h3>OpenSource Licenses</h3>
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Credits

<h1>Hello, I am Ross Cairns</h1>
<p>I am an artist, designer and creative technologist. I have 14 years professional experience designing, creating and facilitating immersive experiences and innovative applications.</p>
<h2>Contact</h2>
<p><a href="mailto:ross@electricglen.com">ross@electricglen.com</a><br />
<a href="tel://00447751244728/">+44 (0) 7751244728</a></p>


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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2018-2020</b></h3>
<ul>
<li>Senior designer / creative technologist for Microsoft Mixed Reality Studios exploring AR, VR, MR, AI and immersive experiences.</li>
</ul>


<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2018</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Freelance creative technologist for Litho.cc</li>
<li>AI + interactive experiences as freelance creative technologist for Jonathan Yeo</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior creative technologist exploring conversational design at LBG</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AR prototype as freelance creative technologist for Umbrellium</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thesis tutor on Design for Performance and Interaction MA at the Bartlett School of Architecture</span></li>
<li>Speaker at Pattern &amp; Chaos (Norwich 2018)</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2017</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inmarsat Volvo Ocean Race installation&#8217;s software for Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wandering Meadow installation for Great Ormond Street Hospital with Sister Arrow</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">VR system for Hitachi Rail Europe</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative technologist consultant for Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freelance creative technologist for Agency of Design</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unity3d creative coding workshops for University of Westminster and University of Creative Arts</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freelance creative technology consultant for Tricycle Theatre</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Founded Creative Technology Studio Ltd.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2016</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listening Living Room installation with BAT Studio for Guy&#8217;s Hospital</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ProjectLab VR dance performance with Light Surgeons for Old Market Theatre</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freelance creative technologist for Bare Conductive</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visiting lecturer at University for the Creative Arts</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kavital installation for Bene at Clerkenwell Design Week</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highcross Lanterns installation with Studio of Cinematic Architecture</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Panel discussion member at Remix Summit London</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pidee Raspberry Pi addon with Hackney Swingers Club</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visiting lecturer and Unity3d creative coding workshops at University of Creative Arts</span></li>
</ul>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2015</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Invited presenter at </span><a href="http://resonate.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resonate.io</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Belgrade</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Invited presenter at Design Indaba Cape Town</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Allude installation for Berlin Fashion Week with Bibliotheque Design</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RESET installation for Bibliotheque Design</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Studio Blackburn website for Studio Blackburn</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8216;Where did the selfies take us&#8217; installation with BAT Studio &amp; Eleanor Meredith</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marketing concepts for Baby Bundle</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Straylight installation with BAT Studio for HTC</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presented at Ravensbourne</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presented at Royal College of Art</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2014</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reset installation for Bibliothèque Design</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">After Dark installation for Tate Britain</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Winner of the inaugural IK Prize by Tate Britain </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Branding for WildFlower</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Installation at Hackney Wicked with Hackney Swingers Club</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music To Move To platform for Fuel Theatre</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2013</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nike Feel TV as freelance creative technologist for Hellicar&amp;Lewis</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where You Are website for Visual Editions supported by Google Creative Lab</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bloomberg Connects installation for Tate Modern with Studio Blackburn and Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">YourTour for Design with Heritage (consortium of V&amp;A, UCA, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haroon Mirza&#8217;s 0/0/0/0 website with APFEL</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#GetWinterized installation for Anna Lomax for Converse</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Limbo iOS app with Leo Bridle</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2012</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">London Olympic&#8217;s Coca-Cola pavilion Ariel Dynamics installation as freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kinect workshops for Southbank Centre with Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">21st Century Light Modulator as freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ListeningNYC iOS app as freelance creative technologist for COSM</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">iOS Libraries as freelance objective-c developer for Xively/Umbreillium</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2011</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Awesomecross as freelance creative technologist for Jason Bruges Studio</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Feathered Flight installation for Museum für Naturkunde Berlin as freelance creative technologist for TheGreenEyl</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Big Art Mob website as freelance frontend developer with Art Public for Channel 4</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tech City Launchpad award winner for StatRace platform proposal</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ollo website for Bibliothèque Design</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>2010 and before</b></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2010 C0-founded The Workers (London) Ltd with Tommaso Lanza</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2009 Dundee Contemporary Arts iOS app</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2007-09 Design Interactions MA, Royal College of Art</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2007 Freelance designer and creative coder</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2006-07 Designer, Atalanta Advertising and Design</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2002-04 Interactive Media Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art &amp; Design, University of Dundee</span></li>
</ul>


<p><em>Photo by the immensely talented <a href="http://www.martinalang.co.uk/">Martina Lang</a></em></p>


About and contact

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<h1>After Dark at Tate Britain</h1>
<p>The live broadcast event, held over five consecutive nights, enabled over 100,000 people to control and “see” through the eyes of one of four custom-built, video-streaming robots from a web browser.</p>
<p>While the robots allowed visitors to “see” and explore, four art experts provided live commentary over the video streams, creating another level of engagement and experience that would be impossible during daylight hours.</p>


<h3>Role</h3>
<p>Concept, Visual Design, Code</p>
<h3>More info</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.afterdark.io/">www.afterdark.io</a></p>


<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<ul>
<li>WebGL, GLSL Shaders + Three.js — realtime colour grading (custom 3D LUT from Da Vinci Resolve Workflow)</li>
<li>GStreamer — custom pipelines to send a low latency H264 streaming from HD Camera attached to a Raspberry Pi 2, over wifi, to a receiving Linux PC to a V4L virtual device</li>
<li>WebRTC, Peer.js — low latency, robot to robot controller, video streaming</li>
<li>WebSockets— realtime messaging</li>
<li>Redis — realtime state</li>
<li>PostgreSQL — queue stateLiveStream + Blackmagic Video Capture– robot splitscreen + commentator audio, live video broadcasting</li>
<li>Node.js — robot control, serial comms, server applications and management</li>
<li>NW.js – various applications from queue management to video composition</li>
<li>OpenFrameworks/C++ — early prototypes (including embedding grey codes into video stream)</li>
</ul>


<h3>Thanks</h3>
<p>Tate&#8217;s IT Team for being onboard, championing the project, and making it possible to leverage their infrastructure.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/RALSpace/">RAL Space</a> for specifying the right hardware for the robots, providing consultation and trips to their workplace.</p>


Concept, visual design, code

After Dark at Tate Britian

<h1>Things that didn&#8217;t happen</h1>
<p>Cinema 4D, Redshift</p>


Things that didn’t happen

<h2>ProjectLab</h2>
<p>Three day collaboration in the Old Market Theatre in Brighton to investigate the use of VR technology and projection in performance. A 20 minute performance was created which comprised of three scene.</p>
<p>The first scene, Chair, looks into field of view and a prop that can sit between two states (the real and the improbable).</p>
<p>Geometry investigated relationship between the dancers.</p>
<p>And, the final scene Negative Space plays with architectural scales and light.</p>


<h2>Role</h2>
<p>Creative Direction, Code</p>
<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<p>Unity3D, ShaderForge, StreamVR, HTC Vive, OSC</p>
<h3>Collaborators</h3>
<p>Christopher Allen, Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster, Tommaso Lanza, Dave Meckin, Rebecca Bassett-Graham, Georgia Godfrey</p>


Visual design, code

ProjectLab

<p>Nike Feel TV: freelance creative technologist &#8211; live streamed event where viewers triggered<br />
visual effects and content via social media – built real time visual effects system and social<br />
interaction platform.</p>
<p>Client: Helicar&amp;Lewis. Created with an awesome team that included: <a href="https://joelgethinlewis.com/">Joel Gethin Lewis</a>, <a href="https://hellicarstudio.com/">Pete Hellicar, </a><a href="https://amalieenglesson.com/">Amalie Englesson</a>, <a href="https://www.roxlu.com/">Roxlu</a>, <a href="https://www.kimchiandchips.com/works/">Kimchi and Chips.</a></p>


<p>Code: OpenFrameworks, C++, GLSL, Node.js, Websockets, GStreamer</p>


Creative code

Nike Feel TV

<h1>HTC Straylight</h1>
<p>A mobile app for controlling BAT Studio&#8217;s Straylight, an ambitious ‘Vortex Tunnel’ installation which featured at various UK music festivals during 2016.</p>
<p>Designed to celebrate the HTC M9 smartphone&#8217;s advanced 3D capabilities the mobile app created a mirror vortex on the mobiles display using live video feeds from both the front and back facing cameras. As the mobile phone rotated, so too did the giant steel vortex tunnel.</p>


<h3>Role</h3>
<p>Digital Concept, Visual Design, Code</p>
<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<p>Three.js, Raspberry Pi, Redis, WebSockets, Relay Board</p>
<h3>More Info</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.batstudio.co.uk/filter/All/Straylight">batstudio.co.uk/filter/All/Straylight</a><br />
<a href="http://github.com/rc1/HTCStrayLight">github.com/rc1/HTCStrayLight</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>


Digital concept, visual design, code

HTC Straylight

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Where You Are

<p>Tate Drawing for Tate Modern &amp; Jason Bruges Studio in collaboration with Studio Blackburn.</p>


UX, code

Tate Drawing Bar

<h2>Highcross Lanterns&#8217; Ambient</h2>
<p>Generative digital artwork for the seven, seven meter tall totems in Leicester’s Highcross.</p>
<p>The public artwork responds to the positions of the sun, a hyperlocal forecast and proximity of people walking nearby.</p>
<h3>More info</h3>
<p><a href="http://theworkers.net/highcross">theworkers.net/highcross</a></p>


<h3>Role</h3>
<p>Visual Design, Code</p>
<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<ul>
<li>Unity3d  — volumetric shaders using Cg and other shaders using ShaderLab</li>
<li>C# — inc. custom SSI UDP client</li>
<li>Node.js — sun position calculations</li>
<li>PHP &amp; XSLT — realtime weather with content management for palettes and events creation</li>
</ul>


<h3>Clients</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.socalondon.com/">Studio of Cinematic Architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="http://levitate.uk.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Levitate Architecture and Design Studio</a></li>
</ul>


<h3>Commissioned By</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.hammerson.com/">Hammerson</a></li>
</ul>


Highcross

<h1>50 Million Pixels</h1>
<p>Interactive image mosaic machine conceived for <a href="http://www.bibliothequedesign.com/">Bibliothèque Design&#8217;s</a> 10th anniversary birthday exhibition.</p>
<p>The concept was later re-adapted for <a href="https://www.allude-cashmere.com/en">Allude Cashmere</a> during Berlin&#8217;s Fashion Week to present their latest collection and new seasons colour palette.</p>
<h3>More info</h3>
<p><a href="http://theworkers.net/reset">theworkers.net/reset</a><br />
<a href="http://theworkers.net/allude">theworkers.net/allude</a><a href="http://theworkers.net/reset"><br />
</a></p>


<h2>Role</h2>
<p>Concept, Code</p>
<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<p>OpenGL, OpenFrameworks, NodeWebkit, Redis, WebSockets, Node.js, Bash, Arduino, 24 x RaspberryPi Model B+, Ubuntu</p>
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Concept, code

50 Million Pixels

<p>Collaboration with Sister Arrow for Great Ormond Street Hospital</p>


Wandering meadow

<p>Since 2018, I have been working for Microsoft&#8217;s Mixed Reality Studios as a Senior Designer and Creative Technologist.</p>
<p>We are a studio of artists, designers, engineers, and producers who make experiences across mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality with an emphasis on the HoloLens 2 platform.</p>
<p>The two images on this page are not my own but they are representative of the platforms we work with. Unfortunately, my work with Microsoft to date has been under NDA.</p>


Senior designer, creative technologist

Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Studios

<h1>Kavital Experience</h1>
<p>An immersive narrative experience inside the uninhabited offices of a fictional energy company poised to announce a momentous discovery.</p>
<p>The prop based experience explored the themes of energy, disbelief and faith in technology.</p>
<p>The experience was created as a play on the prop within a retail environment for <a href="http://bene.com/">Bene</a> during Clerkenwell Design Week.</p>
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<h3>Role</h3>
<p>Concept, Creative Direction</p>
<h3>More Info</h3>
<p><a href="http://theworkers.net/kavital">theworkers.net/kavital</a></p>


<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<ul>
<li>Node.js – to collect and process data of all the UK&#8217;s current and proposed power generation facilities including a satellite imagery.</li>
<li>Raspberry Pis, Bash, HTML5 — to create a serious of fake animated Windows desktop computers.</li>
<li>Twillo — to fake phone calls and SMS messages to phones within the space.</li>
<li>Cinema4d — to model fictional plans.</li>
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Art, visual design

Kavital Experience

<h2>Ollo</h2>
<p>Web enabled, multi-touch re-interpretation of Biblotheque&#8217;s logo concept for Ollo. Have a play above.</p>


<h3>Role</h3>
<p>Interaction Design, Code</p>
<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<p>Three.js, RxJS, toxiclibsjs, glMatrix</p>


Interaction design, code

Ollo

<h1>Awesomecross</h1>
<p>Lighting control &amp; effects system that responded in realtime to GPS and acceleration coming from the race cars for <a href="https://www.jasonbruges.com/">Jason Bruges Studio</a>.</p>


<p>Tech used: OpenFrameworks, DMX, OSC.</p>


Code, lighting effects<br />
 

Awesomecross

<h2>Pidee</h2>
<p>A project to create a simple one button, 3 LEDs and 8 switches add on board for the Raspberry Pi, with friends from the <a href="http://hackneyswingers.club">Hackney Swingers Club</a>. The board was born out of the need to identify and debug multiple Raspberry Pis on large scale installations.</p>
<p>However, we also had a desire to make something so kids in schools can jump in and use GPIO right away. Something safe so they can set an input to an output and not fry the Pi.</p>
<p>This is why we made the Pidee board and we hope you like it too.</p>
<h3>More info</h3>
<p><a href="http://theworkers.net/pidee">theworkers.net/pidee<br />
</a><a href="http://github.com/pidee">github.com/pidee</a></p>


<h3>Role</h3>
<p>Concept, Visual Design, Code</p>
<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<p>C++, C, OpenFrameworks, Node.js, Bash</p>


Pidee

<p>Bloomberg Connects for Tate Modern &amp; Jason Bruges Studio in collaboration with Studio Blackburn.</p>


Bloomberg Connects

<h1>TR3x3</h1>
<p>A study in matrices, quaternions and recursion to make baron organic forms.</p>


<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<p>OpenFrameworks, C++, Shaders (GLSL – vertex, geometry and fragment)</p>


TR3x3

<h2>A room with many sounds</h2>
<p>The Listening Living Room is a special place inside Guy’s Hospital in London, UK: a contemplative space for cancer patients, outside the clinical environment.</p>
<p>Embedded in a fully bespoke bamboo interior designed by <a href="http://www.batstudio.co.uk/">BAT Studio</a>, four listening zones play high-fidelity generative soundscapes sampled from 35 locations across the world through highly directional speakers.</p>
<h3>More info</h3>
<p><a href="http://theworkers.net/reset">theworkers.net/living-room</a></p>
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<h2>Role</h2>
<p>Digital Concept, Visual Design, Code</p>
<h3>Tech Used</h3>
<p>Unity3D, c#, Node.js, PHP, XSLT, Custom PCB (Eagle)</p>


Hospital Living Room

Digital concept, visual design

Wild Flower

<p>Your Tour was a project conducted as part of Design with Research, a 12 month Knowledge Exchange project which was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and coordinated by the Bartlett at University College London and the V&amp;A museum in London.</p>


<p>The Your Tour application was an exploration of the possibilities location aware applications will offer museums as indoor location technology improves. The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich designed by the architects Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman, features a collection spanning 5,000 years of human creativity. The curatorial intent of the exhibition is to layout the objects as if there were a living room with few descriptions, allowing the objects to be appreciated in a pure form. It creates a unique space and refreshing take on curation but suffers from low visitor dwell times.</p>


<p>The Your Tour application used an openFrameworks application to locate visitors in the exhibition and update a native iPad app the visitors were carrying. The app which provided more context about the objects the user was near. The iPad app was designed to feature no UI to maintain the curatorial spirit of the exhibition. The system logged various metrics for the research team to evaluate the impact of this digital intervention.</p>
<p>My involvement was the application design and development in collaboration with David Di Duca, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UCL, AHRC and the V&amp;A museum.</p>
