ABOUT

• Ramyah Gowrishankar is a New Media designer who is interested in investigating the relationships that evolve around people and their everyday objects and is always searching for interesting stories about the world around her.

  
  

  Her work is a unique amalgamation of problem solving functionality and artistic sensibilities. She has worked on projects ranging from visual communication, interaction design, film making, Animation and interactive & mobile media.

  
  

  She was awarded a fellowship at The Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences(IAMAS) in Japan and has been an Artist in residence at ‘Kitchen Budapest’, a unique new media lab of east Europe and has collaborated on a number of projects with them since.

  
  

  She is currently doing her Masters in New Media at Media Lab Helsinki in TaiK.

  
  

  This website contains her selected works and creations.

  
  

RESUME

• Ramyah Gowrishankar
  

  Nationality: Indian

  Date of Birth: 30th September 1983

  
  EDUCATION
  

  August 2008 - December 2011

  MASTER OF ARTS

  Media Lab Helsinki

  Course: MA Program in New Media

  
  

  2007 Jan – April:

  EXCHANGE PROGRAM

  Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, Japan

  Course: Dynamic Sensory Programming

  
  

  2001- 2006 :

  UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

  Srishti, School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, India.

  Prof. Diploma - Communication Design

  
  

  1987 – 2001

  PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION,

  Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi, India

  (Majored in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computers)

  
  AWARDS
  

  . Media Lab graduate grant for MA thesis work in 2011

  . B.N Reddi Scholarship in the year 2006

  . Certificate of Commendation in the year 2006

  
  PUBLICATIONS
  

  THE MUSIC SLEEVE : FABRIC AS AN ELECTRONIC INTERFACE MEDIUM

  Ramyah Gowrishankar, Katharina Bredies, Rosan Chow

  Nordic Design Research Conferences 2011

  
  TUTORING
  

  . WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO TEXTILE LIGHTING AND SOFT CIRCUITS 15–16.03.2012 Dept. of Design. ARTS. Aalto University, Helsinki.

  . E-EMBROIDERY WORKSHOP 17.03 –18.03 2012 Pixelversity 2012, Helsinki.

  . TEXTILES PERSPECTIVE FOR ELECTRONICS 12&13.04.2012 Design Factory, Helsinki.

  
  LANGUAGE SKILLS
  

  English- Official Language

  Hindi - National language

  Tamil - Native language

  
  APPLICATION SKILLS
  

  Adobe - Illustrator / Photoshop/ InDesign/ Premiere/ Audition, Flash

  Final Cut Pro

  Programming Languages :

  Cycling ’74 - Max/Msp, Jitter

  Isadora, Pure Data,

  Processing, Flash Action Script

  
  WORK EXPERIENCE
  

  May 2012-ongoing

  Arki research Group, Media Lab Helsinki, Aalto University

  Research Assistant(part-time)

  
  

  March 2012-ongoing

  TEXTILES INTERACTION LAB, Aalto University

  Project Coordinator (part-time)

  
  

  August-November 2010

  DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES

  Internship

  Designing Wearable electronics and e-textiles.

  
  

  June-August 2009

  GREEN PEACE FINLAND

  Freelance Visual Game Designer

  Visual design for online game - as a part of Green Peace's anti-Nuclear campaign

  
  

  April 2009

  PIXELACHE '09 (www.2009.pixelache.ac)

  Exhibition- Hue jump - Kiasma, Helsinki

  
  

  April 2008- July 2008

  KITCHEN BUDAPEST (www.kitchenbudapest.hu)

  Artist in Residency

  
  

  March 2008

  GOING TO SCHOOL (www.goigtoschool.com), New Delhi

  Freelance Designer

  
  

  September 2007- December 2007

  NOKIA DESIGN OASIS, Bangalore, India

  User Research and Concept development for Nokia Live India Project.

  I led a team of four students from Srishti, School of Art Design and Technology through the whole process from user research to conceptualizing a phone design for a specific user category for NOKIA Design, Bangalore. The project was initiated by Jeanne Marelle of NOKIA Design, London. It was challenging, yet exciting to work with students and channel their thought processes into productive and insightful directions for the project.

  
  

  June 2007 - August 2007

  ONWARD RESEARCH

  Bangalore, India

  Freelance Research Associate

  As a research associate at Onward Research I was involved in design research work for reputed companies like NOKIA, The Design Store, MHIO etc. The research focus was to understand user needs and unmet opportunities to suggest better design, product or business solutions. The work involved interacting with different kinds of people, in their various contexts to understand them holistically.

  
  

  March 2004

  Global Concerns India(GCI), Bangalore, India

  Graphic Design

  GCI is a non-governmental organization that works with children and women in communities in and around Bangalore, India. Designed a brochure to give an idea of their work and achievements at a glance to potential funders and other interested groups Worked with hand done illustrations that tell a parallel story as one reads the brochure.

  
  

  Feb 2006

  Holistic IT Institute (Holisticit.com), New Delhi

  Visual Media

  Designed an audio video tutorial for Visual C++ to familiarize students with basics of programming and the software - worked with Arun Mehta, a leading cyber activist in India.

  
  

  May 2003

  HP LABS INDIA, Bangalore

  Film

  Co-directed films to showcase product concepts developed by the hp labs India. other films.

  
  

  July 2002

  Hukuhudo Percept , New Delhi

  Graphic Design/ Packaging

  Interned in this advertising firm and worked on print and packaging material for companies like Fem and bambino.

  
  EXHIBITIONS
  AMOS ANDERSON MUSEUM - PART OF GOTTBERG-KÅHRE PROJECT

  Project: Responsive video projection

  Amos anderson Museum, Helsinki August 2009

  
  PIXELACHE 09 HELSINKI

  Project: Hue Jump

  Interactive Installation - Kiasma Gallery, Helsinki April 2009

  
  KITCHEN BUDAPEST RESIDENCY PROJECT

  Project: Cross Connect

  Interactive Media Installation Millenaris, Budapest June 2008

  
  INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED MEDIA ARTS AND SCIENCES

  Project: ANDMirror

  Interactive Media Installation Softopia, Gifu, Japan Feb 2007

  
  ARS ELECTRONICA 2005 Campus Exhibit

  Project:Hinges On

  Responsive Media Installation Ars Electronica 2005, Linz

  
  SRISHTI GRADUATE SHOW

  Project: Minus the Manual

  Interaction Design Final Diploma Project July-October 2006

  
  Project: Curious Green

  Film Srishti Bangalore July-Sept 2004

  AWARDS : Jurer’s Appreciation Award at the Multi-Visual Academy Film festival in Chennai, India in January 2005.

  SCREENINGS:

  . ‘EXPERIMENTA 2007’ the international film festival in Mumbai and Bangalore in March ‘07.

  . Collective Chaos - A film Club in Bangalore.

  
  WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
  

  Ars Electronica 2005

  Linz Sept 2005

  Exhibited and participated in this annual New Media festival.

  
  

  Doors 8

  New Delhi Jan 2005

  Attended the seminars and workshops at the Doors 8 conference.

  Participated in Social Robots, a workshop led by Roger Ibars that explored a different view point on our everyday objects.

  
  

  Wireless Fidelity

  Srishti Bangalore Dec 2004

  The workshop, led by Vickram Krishna , explored the possibilities of wireless networks, Internet streaming and community radio.

  
  

  Nazariya Film Festival

  Srishti Bangalore July 2004

  Co-organized and created documentation material for this non-fiction film festival.

  
  

  Future Academy

  Participated in this international symposium on the future of art and design academies hosted by Srishti and curated by Dr. Clementine Deliss from UK

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