We do things and are interested in all kinds of stuff .
Yes, this website is still under construction.We know it has taken forever but at least it's finally on the way!
For now: Devise is a full service exhibition agency, meaning we work with clients from the very beginning, to the very end or completion of their artistic projects and exhibitions. We work with artists, designers, marketing agencies and galleries. In fact, if you have a project where you need some help with some technical video editing, sequencing or projecting then we probably want to work with you.
Right now this website is simply a collection of some things we have done and are really stoked on. we'll add more as we go along. Devise has a lot of video kit that we hire out, we're available as technicians or consultants it all depends on your needs. We have a pretty solid foundation in contemporary art, and we're pretty handy with a drill as well a keyboard, so if you need some help with your exhibition then do get in touch at this adress:
We were contacted by Somerset House and Inventory Studio to design the av solution for an ambitious project that sky staged in the embankment galleries at Somerset House.
The Exhibition, Frontline: A Year of Journalism & Conflict, focused on some of the major news stories of 2011. It was curated and art directed to reflect a sense of the role that new media has on news reporting.
The climax of the exhibition was a film installation revealing how news of the demise of Colonel Gaddafi’s dictatorship spread across the world. 24 channels of synchronised video were shown on CRT type monitors using Brightsign technology. The installation was conceived as an analogy of the way uncontrolled and uncensored footage is released across multiple channels of media.
The 10minute film contained content from a wide range of sources; some archive material, some mobile phone footage. It reflected the volume of information coming through a newsroom and the tasks faced by broadcasters when deciding what to share with their viewers. Our knowhow and expertise enabled sky and inventory studio to stage an exhibition that told the story as they wished to tell it. 
Inventory Studio, Pundersons Gardens
Somerset House Embankment Galleries is London's leading fashion and fashion photography venue. We have worked with them on the last two years of programming delivering AV solutions for exhibitions including: Frontline: A year of Journalism and Conflict, Masters of Style: Celebrating the Stories behind Italian Fashion and Pick Me Up.
For the graphic art fair Pick Me Up we supplied a cinema. The images below are from Masters of Style, an exhibition celebrating italian design culture and fashion. Carmody Groarke architects designed the brilliant freestanding exhibition structures. We contributed with the AV-design for the exhibition. This included a double height projection and monitors showing runway shows from leading italian designers. 
Somerset House
For the Design Festival at the V&A we worked with Judy Lindsay, Head of the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection, to bring together a selection of work from recent design graduates from University of the Arts London. The show was curated by Giles Deacon who chose to place the works amongst the V&A's permanent collections of British arts and crafts creating a juxtaposition of the future and the past. 
We've worked closely with Bloomberg New Contemporaries over the years helping young artists display their work at this prestigious annual exhibition. In 2010 we project managed the AV side of the exhibition at the A Foundation in Liverpool. Here is a video with the selectors from that year:
Dazed & Confused Magazine celebrated their twentieth birthday with an exhibition a Somerset House. We were contacted by Emma Reeves and set designer Jack Flanagan to come up with an elegant solution for displaying a series of photographs that had first featured in a 1998 issue of the magazine. Guested edited by Alexander McQueen, Shot by Nick Knight and styled by Katie England, the series Fashion Able? Had caused quite a stir when first published and is considered to be an important moment the magazines history. 
We came up with a way to create an immersive projection space using powder-coated scaffolding poles and metal screens that formed a cube like structure. The photographs were played back in high-definition from synchronised solid state players. The tone of the installation was futuristic and sharp like the images themselves. For this exhibition we also installed a touch screen video for Showstudio and a fashion film for Nick Knight. Somerset House 
We have done a lot of work with this London based jewellery and accessories label. We've art directed and produced videos, installed static exhibitions and done bits and bobs for the web.
Below is a picture of a window display at Selfridges on Oxford St that we installed. We art directed and produced the video specifically for this purpose, drawing inspiration from the brands collection and ensuring that the finished product looked ace on a 9-screen Hantarex wall. We'll upload the video soon. 
RP/Encore
Mustafa Hulusi is an artist that we have worked closely with over the last couple of years. His video works are considered and slow, often beautiful and ethereal. We have done a lot of media compiling and editing for the artist. Here are some stills from the Roses series.
London residents will be familiar with the imagery from the billboards and posters around the east end. For this series we stabilised and retouched 47 individual channels, each one a steady focus pull of an individual rose in full bloom. 
Mustafa Hulusi
Max Wigram Gallery on New Bond st shows some of the most exiting artists in London. There are lot of painters and sculptors, but also artists working with moving image and sound.
These pictures are from Mustafa Hulusi's Afyon exhibition which we edited, compiled and installed. Shot on location in Cypress this four channel video had an accompanying sound track of hypnotic Oud music which we also cut and spliced together. We used adtec media servers to ensure that the installation was frame accurate and stable. The work was sold to the tate; so if we're lucky we might get to see it soon. 
Other artist's we've worked with at Max Wigram gallery include Slater Bradley, Pavel Buchler, Cori Archangel and Marine Hugonnier. Max Wigram
We met Hussein Chalayan at the Royal Academy during the GSK contemporary exhibition where he showed his piece Son’ of Sonzai Suru. We were interested in the way he used video as a sculptural medium in the same way that other artists might use wood or stone. This is something we too, have pursued in our own studio.
Hussein invited us to collaborate on a piece of work in this vein for his exhibition, Proximity Sensors, at Gallerist in Istanbul. The above image is from devise HQ and was taken during the testing phases of the sculpture we made for the exhibition.
We shot and edited a video of a woman's face wearing different makeup styles from the last 90years of women's fashion and developed a way to fit the video to the contours of a cast face we made in the studio. The finished product was a classical bust with a moving face that transported the viewers on a journey from the 1920's to the present day. Below is an image of the sculpture courtesy of Architecture of Life. 
Here is a quick test video taken in our studio during the preliminary stages of testing.
The Sun celebrated 40 years of page three with a charity art auction held in aid of breast cancer awareness. We project managed the arthandling, transport and installation of the works. The event took place in the V&A's lobby and included some brilliant artists, named in the list below: 