About

Mari Keski-Korsu (mkk)is interested in storytelling and moments that befall. She explores i.e. nations as imaginary communities, tourism as presented identities and also eco-social and structural changes. She works with mixed and locative media applying process oriented methods. She is/has been concentrated on i.e. net and video art, streaming happenings and live visual mixing. She is the initiator, organiser and one of the artists in mikroPaliskunta -project (www.mikropaliskunta.net, 2005 -) that studies contemporary image of Finland, sustainable travelling and organises expeditions. One of her projects inside mikroPaliskunta is Little Finnish Reindeer (reindeersdiary.blogspot.com). Amongst other main projects during the last years have been Elephant Paths (www.elephantpaths.net) that maps foot paths and social functions around the world.

Mari’s works has been shown around Finland and in several countries. She has a MA in new media (digital authoring) from University of Arts and Design Helsinki and BA in visual arts from Polytech of Western Lapland.

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E-mail: mkk at katastro fi

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