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7-9/11/06	Performing Places seminar on media and embodiment in the urban environment at the Theatre Academy of Finland.

26/10/06	M2HZ: a discussion on web and urban TV strategies with Adam Hyde and Bifo Berardi at Harju Youth House.

13-15/10/06	M2HZ: m-cult participates in the London meeting of Transmission network for online video and participatory media.

18/09/06	Uusimaa Regional Council grants initial funding for Live Lab Helsinki, a 3-year project to establish an urban media platform in Helsinki.

18/09/06	Call for Participation: Performing places seminar.

21/04/06	Mobicast project from Transsiberia presented at Kiasma's ARS06 and online at M2HZ

21/03/06	Map to Postfordist Life lectures launched on M2HZ.

15/03/06	Live lab Helsinki report for Uusimaa regional Council finalised.

05/02/06	AuroraFeast event by Nina Czegledy and team at Heureka Science Center.

16/12/05	Helsinki Troll Go East! events in the Eastern suburbs.

19/11/05	Mobile documentation of Helsinki by Night performance for M2HZ.

09-21/09/05	Capturing the Moving Mind Live: mobile documentation from the Trans-Siberian train.

07-21/09/05	Capturing the Moving Mind opening seminar and launch of mobicasting at Kurvi.

06-21/09/05	Channel workshop at Kurvi followed by launch of www.m2hz.net
25-30/05/05	2nd Helsinki Troll creative workshop and event planning.

26/05/05	m-cult celebrates its 5 years anniversary.

22-26/04/05	1st Helsinki Troll creative workshop exploring urban mobility in the Helsinki metropolitan area.

21/14/05	Digital television and civic participation -report presented at ArviD seminar, Ministry of Traffic and Communication

12/04/05	Feasibility study for Live lab Helsinki, laboratory for new media and urban culture kicks off at m-cult.
10-16/02/05	os tv project organises two participatory concept development workshops for seniors and experts.

01-02/02/05	USED project is presented at PLAN, pervasive and locative arts network conference, ICA, London.

27/01/05	os tv opening seminar at YLE presents challenges of civic participation in digital tv.

11-12/01/05	m-cult participates in the Indo-European working group on open networks in information society at Sarai Media Lab, New Delhi

15/12/04	m-cult and TIEKE launch a research commission on Civic participation in digital television (os tv).

26/11-01/12/04	Creative lab on concepting multi-user mobile contents is organised by Sagas, POEM and m-cult in Oulu.

15/11/04	USED, urban spaces and experience design project receives funding for 2005-07 from the Finnish Academy and Arts Council of Finland.

11/11/04	m-cult participates in the Expert meeting on the Art of Open archives at the DEAF 04 Festival, Rotterdam

28/10/04	m-cult and HIIT, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology announce partnership

23-28/10/04	The ISEA04 chain of events come to a close with the Kiasma exhibition and last touring workshop by Adam Hyde in BEK, Bergen.

15/10/04	m-cult moves office to the HTC building in Ruoholahti.

20/09/03
08/09/04	m-cult chair Heidi Tikka is awarded the first AVEK media arts prize of for her work in probing new technology's social and intimate odimensions.

24/08/04	Helsinki Agenda, an international strategy document on developing new media culture is handed over to Minister of Culture Tanja Karpela.

20/08/04	President of Finland Tarja Halonen grants the UNESCO Digital Arts Award to Sarai, Makrolab and Radioqualia projects at ISEA2004.

15-22/08/04	ISEA2004, International Symposium on Electronic Arts on the Baltic Sea, in Tallinn and Helsinki.

21/05/04	m-cult and m41lh2 architects complete a concept and proposal to launch centre activities in Helsinki’s bus station building in 2005.

26-27/04/04	Creative crossings: location, community and media – workshop at the Finnish institute in London together with BANFF and Arts Council of England.

28/02/04	Major third year support from the Finnish Cultural Foundation was granted towards establishment of the centre for new media culture.

05/01/04	Rajapinnalla (thresholders), 5-part documentary series on new media culture premieres on digital YLE Teema channel.

24/09/03	Finnish Semantic Web consortium launched.

20/09/03	ISEA2004 call for proposals closes, with over 1200 projects and papers submitted.

30/06/03	mediumi issue 2.2. “Internet is…” is published, guest editor Susanna Paasonen.

15/06/03	isea2004 2nd call for proposals opens.

30-31/05/03	Read_me 2.3. Software art festival takes place at Media Centre LUME.

30/04/03	mediumi journal’s second volume opens with an English issue 2.1 open source, guest editor Tapio Mäkelä.

30/04/03	The Nordic research project report Nordic media culture – actors and practices (eds. Minna Tarkka and Mirjam Martevo) is released.

27/02/03	The Finnish Cultural Foundation grants second-year support for m-cult to establish a centre for new media culture.

25/01/03	The english version of m-cult.net –service is launched, including a database of Nordic media culture actors.

25/01/03	Prix Möbius Nordica-competition for Nordic interactive productions takes place at Media centre LUME.

15/01/03	Read_me software art festival site and call for proposals at runme.org repository are opened.

16/12/02	The report “Media Art – Finnish actors and international models”, written by Tapio Mäkelä and Minna Tarkka is handed over to Minister of Culture Kaarina Dromberg.

11/12/02	The planning document for the new media culture centre is presented to decision-makers and experts of the field at Kiasma museum of contemporary art.

12/12/02	At Kiasma museum of contemporary art, m-cult presents the planning document of the centre for new media culture for practitioners and decision-makers of the field.

20/09/03	ISEA2004 call for proposals closes, with over 1200 projects and papers submitted.

30/06/03	mediumi issue 2.2. “Internet is…” is published, guest editor Susanna Paasonen.

15/06/03	isea2004 2nd call for proposals opens.

30-31/05/03	Read_me 2.3. Software art festival takes place at Media Centre LUME.

30/04/03	mediumi journal’s second volume opens with an English issue 2.1 open source, guest editor Tapio Mäkelä.

30/04/03	The Nordic research project report Nordic media culture – actors and practices (eds. Minna Tarkka and Mirjam Martevo) is released.

27/02/03	The Finnish Cultural Foundation grants second-year support for m-cult to establish a centre for new media culture.

25/01/03	The english version of m-cult.net –service is launched, including a database of Nordic media culture actors.

25/01/03	Prix Möbius Nordica-competition for Nordic interactive productions takes place at Media centre LUME.

15/01/03	Read_me software art festival site and call for proposals at runme.org repository are opened.

16/12/02	The report “Media Art – Finnish actors and international models”, written by Tapio Mäkelä and Minna Tarkka is handed over to Minister of Culture Kaarina Dromberg.

11/12/02	The planning document for the new media culture centre is presented to decision-makers and experts of the field at Kiasma museum of contemporary art.

12/12/02	At Kiasma museum of contemporary art, m-cult presents the planning document of the centre for new media culture for practitioners and decision-makers of the field.

10/12/02	mediumi issue 1.3 on digital television is launched.

25/10/02	ISEA2004 web site is published and the project is presented at ISEA2002 event in Nagoya, Japan.

18-19/10/02	A workshop Searching for an urban media space envisions locations for the centre in Helsinki, m-cult office, Perämiehenkatu 11.

1/10/02	m-cult.net - server for new media culture and mediumi 1.2 experience industry are published.

25/9/02	Prix Möbius Nordica competition kicks off.

11/6/02	New media culture as innovation environment - Finnish and international research (eds. Minna Tarkka ja Tapio Mäkelä) is published, presenting the results of m-cult’s research project on media culture 2001-02 at the strategic meeting of the current cabinet’s Content production project at Suomenlinna.

7-8/6/02	m-cult organizes a seminar on ”Nordic media culture - actors and practices” at Hanasaari Cultural Centre.

9/4/02	mediumi 1.1 mobile culture is published.

28/2/02	m-cult is granted an allowance of 100 000 e by the Finnish Cultural Foundation to establish a centre for media culture.

13-14/1/02	v2 workshop on the development of metadata and online archives in media culture at Media Centre LUME.

6/11/01	Web journal for media culture mediumi is launched at Lasipalatsi Film and Media Centre in Helsinki and at MindTrek event in Tampere. 1.0 publication holds the theme eCity.

30/3/01	International ISEA Board elects m-cult as main organizer of ISEA2004 event.

27/4/01	Prix Möbius Finlande 2001 competition at Kiasma.

10/12/00	Tapio Mäkelä and Minna Tarkka present the concept of ISEA2004 at ISEA2000 event in Paris.

30/5/00	Publishing seminar of m-cult “WAPping Content? Content for Technology, Quality for Content” is organized at the Museum of Art and Design.

27/3/00	Founding seminar of Media Culture Association m-cult in Helsinki.

29/11/99	Marita Liulia and Minna Tarkka write a commentary published in Helsingin Sanomat on Finnish Media Culture Requires a Centre of Expertise.

19-21/11/99	/~CONNECTED Networked Media Culture in a Changing Europe, an event coordinated by Tapio Mäkelä brings together Finnish and European media culture actors at Lasipalatsi Film and Media Centre.

28/10/99	Minna Tarkka and Perttu Rastas invite a discussion event on Does Finland Need an Independent Media Centre? at Kiasma.

5/8/99	Minna Tarkka makes an initiative on founding a Centre for Media Art in Finland.