Antti Granqvist: Pointless Media
Georgia Panagiotidou: Keystrokes
Hanne Aho & Salla Salin: Shadowplay
Jenni Kokkomäki: Four Variations To The Theme Song
Kaarlo Kajalainen: Fugly
Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka: It’s Not Just In Your Head
Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka: It’s Not Just In Your Head
Lassi Haaranen: Amplification
Paula Lehtonen: Full of Nothing
Warehouse Tech in the L3 Gallery
Warehouse Tech in the L3 Gallery
Warehouse Tech in the L3 Gallery
© Images: Paula Lehtonen
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The MA level study module Art and Technology, which was kicked off the present academic year will continue in the academic year 2013-14. It brings media art and electronic art as independent subjects to the curriculum of the university. It’s also an example of new multi-disciplinary collaboration that is made possible by Aalto.
The study module combines media artistic thinking and practice with the aesthetic and philosophical foundations of the field. Students are encouraged to cross over boundaries between technology, art and design.
When: May 15-29, 2013.
The opening of the exhibition is on Tues May 14th at 18. Welcome!
Where: L3 Gallery, Tyynenmerenkatu 6, Jätkäsaari (tram 9)
Opening Hours: Tue-Sun 12-18
The pilot programme Art & Technology that started in fall 2012 brings together a group of talented students from within Aalto University to test their skills and experiment in the multidisciplinary field of media art, combining technology, art and design. The result of this experiment will be showcased in the Warehouse Tech exhibition that presents media and electronic art over two weeks in L3 Gallery, in Jätkäsaari.
The emphasis of the Art and Tehcnology pilot programme is on interactive artworks that are either spatial, embodied, or mobile. Some themes are interactive installations, experimental user interfaces, wearable electronics and ubiquitous technology. The programme combines media thinking and practice with the aesthetic and philosophical foundations of visual arts. Students are encouraged to cross boundaries between art, technology, and design.
A wide variety of working methods have been used, such as a study of ‘fugly’ phenomena on the Internet, and the recording of personal everyday data, to EEG brain scans controlling non-newtonian liquids. The exhibition is sure to bring surprise and delight to all visitors!
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
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.