Memories of Seppo is a Tomi Dufva and Kaarlo Kajalainen created Art and Tech project for the course Media Art Installation. It was presented as an installation from 14.1.2013 to 25.1.2013.
Here’s a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGHJ9jIcODU
>> View the photos in Flickr
A mid-term exhibition by students from the Art & Tech minor programme Media Art Installation course (led by artist & doctoral candidate Andy Best)
Department of Art’s 5th floor gallery, Hämeentie 135C (Aalto ARTS, Arabia campus)
Exhibition opening Monday 14th January 16.00 – 17.00 followed by artists’ discussion and presentation of works (17.00 – 19.00)
Exhibition runs daily during normal university opening hours from 15th until 25th January 2013
Welcome!
The works:
TUNTIOPETTAJIEN TAUKOTILA (Lecturer’s break room)
Paula Lehtonen
Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka
Lecturer’s break room is an emancipatory interactive wind installation. The installation comments on the increased bureaucracy in the newly formed Aalto University and let’s you play with day-to-day overload of paper pollution.
The installation takes place in soon-to-become, glass-walled teachers’ workroom on the 5th floor. When a person passes by, he creates a gust of wind in the space sending the papers flying around. One can also start to mess around with the mass of paper, that normally fills our desktops. The wind is created by small Kinect-controlled fans that cover the floor area, and loads of A4 Aalto forms spread on top of the fans.
SHOW ME / DATA SMOG
Lassi Haaranen
Leo Holsti
Georgia Panagiotidou
Juan Duarte Regino
“Show me / Data Smog” includes an endless stream of information from different locations worldwide (we have chosen the four most popular news channels). Whether you are noticing it or not, the flow keeps on going. But what happens when you stop for a second to pay attention and you come closer to the facts and see the raw data? A cloud of smog covers the information you are trying to retrieve and it is not as comprehendible as you would have expected.
This fog (a visual filter) represents the content filters that are either applied on purpose by external parties or by our own internal barriers in processing the information accurately. This installation tries to raise the question of what is “real” from all information we gather and if it is even possible to process the content as intended.
* The term “Data Smog” is by David Shenk’s same titled book
MEMORIES
Kaarlo Karjalainen
Tomi Dufva
The installation is a set of eight monochromatic pictures which describe a life of Seppo during eight different decades of his life. The pictures are 8x8cm in size and each picture has a different frame. In addition the pictures are covered with a film of black thermochromatic paint which turns transparent when heated (by e.g. touch).
THE WELL
Laura Aalto-Setälä
Antti Granqvist
Hanne Aho
A video sculpture installation.
For further information please contact:
Andy Best, mr.andy.best (ÄT) gmail.com
or
Leena Närekangas, Aalto Media Factory: leena.narekangas (ÄT) aalto.fi
Chat is an Art and Tech project for the course Programming for Artists. It was presented as an installation on 11.12.2012.
Here’s a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxPUNE2pLIQ
The results of the WEARABLE II –course are presented by students on Wednesday 12th December in a classroom 6099, 6th floor fashion/textile department.
The Wearables II has focused on realization of individual projects. Please, come to see 5 final projects of the course.
Public is welcome!!
Laura Beloff, Erich Berger & all the students
The results are presented by students on Friday 26th October starting at 10 am in a classroom 6088, 6th floor fashion/textile department.
The main question of the course has been WHY?, which has been asked about the wide field of wearable technology. The question of WHY has been paralled with a question of HOW?; supporting the realization of the students’ ideas. The focus has been on the creative uses of wearable technology. The presented results are finalized and functioning projects, but still prototypes
Public is warmly welcomed!
Come and see/hear/test for example; SOUNDS COMING INSIDE YOUR HEAD… WEATHER RUG-PROJECT… HOW TO CONTROL A HUMAN… MAGICAL SHOES… WEARABLE DISPLAY… SOUND AND ENERGY GENERATING DEVICE… HOW TO FUNCTION AS A BAT…
You can also see the results on the blog held by the students: http://kamppeet.wordpress.com
The first course of Art & Technology minor studies; Wearable Technology I started a week ago. 15 students were chosen to attend the courses of multidisciplinary minor subject and execute their own media art installations during the academic year. Students will publish their blogs on this site as their work will proceed.
The selection of students for the academic year 2012-13 has been done and a reply has been sent to every applicant. In case you haven’t received any answer please get in contact. We will publish a schedule for the autumn 2012 courses very soon!