Events co-produced by m-cult range from focused seminars and interdisciplinary workshops
to major international conferences and festivals such as ISEA2004. A special emphasis is
on the development of mobile events: events that involve movement, geographical distribution
and live capture on the move.
Aurora Feast presented an arts and science event on the Northern lights phenomenon at the science
center Heureka, February 5 2006, and launched a participatory concept map online. The event was
realized by artist Nina Czegledy collaborating with an international team of experts, and supported by
Canada Council, Heureka, Canadian embassy, Finnish Meteorological Institute and m-cult.
Helsinki Troll is a project of research and experimentation into night-time
mobility in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The project maps out mobility
patterns, mental distances and layers of the built environment from a pedestrian
and public perspective, in order to create a series of .re-enchantment. interventions
in suburban locations. Initiated by the Paris-based architecture and design project
TROLL Protocol, Helsinki Troll is co-produced by m-cult and partners. The events take
place in the Helsinki metropolitan area in Autumn 2005.
Capturing the Moving Mind (September 7-21) is a Trans-Siberian conference on the changing forms
of movement and management in globalisation. m-cult produced a ?mobile capture concept for
documenting the conference as it moved from Helsinki and Moscow via Novosibirsk and Ulanbaatar
to Beijing. The concept is a co-production with Kiasma and the conference organisers, realised
in collaboration with media artist, developer Adam Hyde. The project?s final results will be
presented at the ARS06 exhibition in Kiasma, April 2006.
The 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art (August 14th - 22nd, 2004)
presented a Sonic, Wearable and Wireless experience on the Baltic Sea, in Tallinn
and Helsinki. The symposium included conferences on interdisciplinary practices,
exhibitions and an extensive electronic sound programme on the Silja Opera cruiser
ferry. The symposium was attended by over 1400 participants from 54 countries and
its programme received an audience of 50.000 visitors. ISEA2004 was coordinated by
m-cult (main organizer, Helsinki), Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn) and Kiasma
museum of contemporary art and LUME media centre as main Finnish partners. The
event's patrons were UNESCO and President Tarja Halonen.
Read_me, the first international festival dedicated to software art was brought
from Moscow to Helsinki in 2003 by its curators Alexei Shulgin and Olga Goriunova.
The festival launched the software art repository runme.org, and its sessions took
place at media centre Lume, May 30-31, 2003. The event was co-produced by NIFCA,
The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Media centre Lume and m-cult.
Quality competition of Nordic digital media culture Prix Möbius Nordica
was organized for the first time on January 25th, 2003 at Media Centre
LUME in Helsinki. The aims of the competition are to support Nordic media
culture production and to advance its international recognition. The winners
of the Nordic competition participated in the Prix Möbius International
competition in Athens in November 2003.
