Projects & Artworks
MIKROPALISKUNTA
2006 - 2007
mikroPaliskunta is an art project that travelled through Finland from
the northest Nuorgam to the southest Hanko studying contemporary image
of Finland 21.8. - 4.9.2006. Who is Finnish? What are the symbols of Finland?
How has the image of Finland changed? And who defines it? The expedition
travelled by a biodiesel car that was packed with five artists and protagonist
of the project; a stuffed reindeer that was searching for new members
to its herd and symbolising the image of Finland as the travellers tend
to see it.
Reindeer's
trip is presented on a website. There was a camera attached to the reindeer's
horn that took pictures during the whole trip for image line that reaches
through the country. The reindeer also collected stories, meetings, before/after
postcards and videos. The image line functions as an interface to this
material.
mikroPaliskunta made another travel in summer 2007: mikroPaliskunta Berlin
Round Tour 2007. This time there was an aim to study Finland and Finnish
from point of view of an foreign country. Berlin Round Tour 2007 events
and findings are shared online. The first trip was documented on a single
website, organised around themes and locations. The second one spread
across existing blogging, placemarking and bookmarking services, photo
and video sharing websites (i.e. Jaiku, Blogspot, Flickr, Vimeo, Tagzania).
Unique tag "mikropaliskunta" acts as a label for relevant content
on and between different online spaces. This also facilitates anyone to
take part in the "movement", because tagging is open by nature.
Related
links:
http://www.mikropaliskunta.net
http://mikropaliskunta.jaiku.com
http://reindeersdiary.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eijamakivuoti
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mesq
mikroPaliskunta
description (.pdf, 1275kt)
ELEPHANT PATHS
2003 -
Elephant Paths is a project that explores a geographical and social space
by mapping paths. It reveals a point of view connected to a space, telling
a short story of a moment via video triptychs and texts. It links these
places together with mapping traces and social relations. Altogether it
creates a spatial map that can be experienced via GPS –devices (Global
Positioning System) and the Internet.
Related links:
http://www.elephantpaths.net
SIGMA
2004 -
Sigma is an ambient duo (Mauno Tuominen and Petri Frestadius), which participated
already to Expand in 2001. Ville Ojajärvi has worked with them doing
live visuals for years and invited me to do collaboration. We arranged
a happening in Koetila, Helsinki in May 2004. I really enjoy working with
Sigma visuals, because the concerts are long; for example in Koetila we
played non-stop troughout the whole week-end.
I want to design live visuals with bands and musicians who’s music
really touch my soul and has a message that I can believe in. Working
with live visuals is a combination of three sources of energy: the musician(s),
visual artist(s) and the audience. All of these three together can create
a new world; time and space with energy flow.
The collaboration with Sigma continues.
Related links:
Pictures
from Koetila
http://www.studiomanus.com
http://www.koe.fi
NAZCA
2003 -
Nazca, a political rock band, invited Mari Keski-Korsu and Mika Meskanen
to do live visuals for their concert in Sibelius Academy Chamber Hall,
Helsinki in 2003. The concert was very experimental with live visuals
on screen and ten TV’s on stage with the band. The greatest moment
was when the whole audience was sitting in total silence during one minute
silent moment with TV’s glowing and showing news footage from Iraq
war. This gig was followed by numerous concerts (Club Semifinal, Tarmo,
Factory, Lume Mediacenter etc.).
Related links:
http://www.nazca.net
http://www.koti.org/mesq
SINGING
BRIDGES
2002 -
Jodi Rose is an Australian sound artist working with a project Singing
Bridges. She travels around the world recording the bridges and making
sounds and music out of them. I collaborated with her first in Expand's
Shadow happening for Di-Fusion in Helsinki working with visuals in 2002
. We also had a concert in PixelAche Festival 2004. PixelACHE Club in
Helsinki featured a performance based on the Singing Bridges material,
created in collaboration with myself (video), Lasse Kaikkonen (live improvisation
on atonal kantele) and Jussi Lehtipuu (cello) with live manipulation and
processing of bridge sounds by Jodi Rose.
Related links:
http://www.singinbridges.net
http://www.pixelache.ac
CAFÉ NOWHERE
- Interactive soap opera
Media Lab, University of Arts and Design, 2003
Aim of Café Nowhere was to create cinematic style, interactive
program for digital television, which promotes viewer participation
through real-time viewer interaction using an engaging linear narrative.
Café Nowhere
is a stage where the lives of four individuals collide and intersect.
The story revolves around the affair between Alex and
Marja -and the effect it has on their significant others.
Café Nowhere is composed of "mini episodes". Each episode
is approximately 10 minutes long, including interactive and non-interactive
scenes. One episode of Café Nowhere includes three interactive
scenes, with non-interactive scenes in between them. Together they form
a linear, dramatic story-line.
I worked as a concept designer and script writer for
Cafe Nowhere.
Related links:
http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/cafenowhere
XXX – One
handed media shenanigans
Katastro.fi, 2002 -
XXX is a Katastro.fi project. It is a web magazine format designed to
be open for all the people to submit their texts, articles, images or
whatever they want in the framework of the theme of each issue. XXX is
an ongoing project and at the moment there are two issues published and
the third one is coming up before the end of the year 2004.
I work as a concept designer and submit comics etc.
for XXX.
Related links:
http://xxx.katastro.fi
http://www.katastro.fi
DOUBLE LIFE- Interactive animation serie
Saraxa Media, 2001-2003
Published in England, Holland and Finland
Double Life is a cross media concept that allows users to explore the
digital contents with their own created personal animation characters.
Double Life community works as an interactive avatar animation
series on TV and as a virtual avatar-world on web. Double Life offers
thoroughbred interactivity for it's users and allows them to create content
on their own conditions, to have visible virtual identities and meet
other members of the community as digital beings within three mediums
(TV, mobile and Internet). I
worked as a concept designer and a scriptwriter for Double Life. It was
my graduation work from Medialaboratory in University of Arts and Design,
Helsinki.
Related links:
Screenshots
from Double Life
http://www.mlab.uiah.fi
http://www.saraxa.com
DObject
Chris Hales Workshop, 2002
DObject is a a interactive video experiment. It plays with objects and
actions people have on these certain objects.
A viewer can change the object of a character posses in the movie. The
action remains the same. This means that if a person is eating porrige
and the object is changed to a newspaper, the person continues eating
the newspaper.
I worked as a concept designer and designer for DObject.
Related links:
Screenshot from DObject
A
DIVE INTO AVANTO - Digital Glitch, Traditional Noise and Other User
Experiences
2001
Avanto Festival in Helsinki is the only Nordic festival on experimental film
and music. Avanto is a puzzling mixture of art, techno criticism, concerts
oozing holy atmosphere, and club gigs displaying arctic hysteria. In the feature
spiced up with image and sound, Hanna Harris, Mari Keski-Korsu and Mika Meskanen
describe their festival experience.
I
worked as a concept designer, director of photography/film and writer for Avanto
-feature.
Related links:
http://www.m-cult.net/mediumi
http://www.avanto.com
EXPAND
2001 - 2003
Expand used Internet streaming technologies to connect physical event places
in digital domain to create a space for collaboration and participation. Cyberspace
is not just an extension of real world but a conduit of social activity and
a meeting space.
It
started as a project of a student group in the MediaLab of the University
of Art
and Design.
Related links:
Pictures from Expand happening in Meteori
Expand site
TRAM’N’BUS
Netcult, 2001
Tram’N’Bus is about recording sounds of public transportation
and making music out of it. The collection point of these sounds
and music is situated in the Internet.
Public transportation system is the bloodstream of the city. When people
flow smoothly from place to another, the city feels healthy and active.
Each city's bloodstream has its own genuine mix of tram models and buses,
and in their opening doors can be heard the personal voice of the city.
Thus, a Tram-n-Bus song from Riga should sound different compared to
a one from Tokyo.
I worked as a concept designer for Tram’N’Bus.
A project in Media
Lab, funded by UNESCO, wanted to replicate the TNB-website. The
new site content is sounds of water.
Related links:
http://tram-n-bus.uiah.fi
http://unesco.uiah.fi/water/about
INSECT
CITY
2000
Cities are infrastructures. Infrastructure is a powerlfull word
that makes others small. Individuals don’t count. Insects
make infrastructures, too. Can human made infrastructures be compared
to insect mades?
Insect City is a project consentrating on comparing a human and
an insect.
Is there a big difference?
The project
was developed by Mari Keski-Korsu, Satu Lavinen, Susanna Ruohonen,
Antti Sinnemaa and Tommi Tienhaara. I worked
as a concept designer and a designer for Insect City.
Related links:
Insect
City
REAKTIO
reAktio
was founded in 1998 in Tornio, Finland. It was first a group
of artists who wanted to work together and find ways to improve
the
cultural
athmosphere in Northern Finland. Time has passed and group members
have moved all
over Finland. But reAktio members still collaborate and have
exhibitions as a group. The initiators are the core of the group;
Tiina Ekosaari,
Mari Keski-Korsu, Eija Mäkivuoti and Jukka Ritola but reAktio
also has visiting artists. Main tool
for expression in reAktio is photography, but there are definately
no limitations.
Exhibitions:
2002 Taivas feat. reAktio, Kellarikalleria, Suonenjoki
2002 O.tila, Kivipankki, Jämsä
2001 O.tila, Rantagalleria, Oulu
2001 O.tila , Railway station attick, Tornio
2000 Praha, Cafe Nina, Tornio
1999 reAktio, Akti exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Haparanda, Sweden
1999 reAktio slideshow, Tornio center
1999 reAktio exhibition, City Hall, Tornio
Related links:
Pictures of my works
ONNELLINEN
Polytech of Western Lapland, 2000
Onnellinen is a hypertext writing and reading area. It is community
based narrative where everybody can add their own paths of text.
Sceleton for
the story was written by me.
Onnellinen was
my graduation work from Polytech
of Western Lapland. PHP-code was done by Joona Järvelä.
OPPOSITE
1998
Opposite is one of the first experiments I have done with
hypertext and community-thinking. It is a collection of thoughts
and opinions about opposite sex.
SOME OLD PHOTOS AND STUFF
Photos from England
Photos from Helsinki
Photos of BATW
Timeless
Muskrat's Diary
Funny
Received SMS's in autumn 2000
Pumppu
Don't break