Projects art projects
Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2012, August 23-26, 2012 is an international festival to present media and electronic art projects in public space. The festival focuses on artistic interventions which open up the spatial and social experience of the city, by an innovative use of the visual, interactive and participatory potentials of media and architecture. The objective is to present new insights into the urban environment and to encourage a debate about the uses of public / media space.
The European Urban Media Network for Connecting Cities is a 4-year initiative to create an infrastructure for producing, presenting and circulating artistic and social content on media facades and screens in urban public space. The core network is formed by organisations in 11 European cities and the project is supported by EU Culture programme.
M2HZ urban television from Helsinki: a mix of media art, community media, multicultural and experimental programmes.
In the animation workshop, we experiment with children and open tools for creating 2D animations. The workshop introduces a variety of techniques - cut out, stop motion and motion tracking - and uses objects and drawings as materials for small animations.
Media Facades 2010 is a European festival of media art and urban media which took over public space in 7 European cities - Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Helsinki, Linz, Liverpool and Madrid - between August 27 and October 3, 2010.
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.
Helsinki Troll was a project of research and experimentation into night-time mobility in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
ISEA2004 gathered 1500 artists and researchers, representing 54 nationalities, to a travelling symposium including a sonic Baltic cruise and conferences, exhibitions and workshops in Tallinn and Helsinki. Altogether the ISEA2004 events reached 40.000 visitors - making it one of the biggest electronic arts event in Europe to date.
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. Read_me 2.3 presented software-based artistic and critical projects as well as talks and performances on code-based experimentation and action.