Productions

On A gray background text: 2-5.12.2024 Minna Tarkka Lectures. On the bottom, M-Cult's logo.

Minna Tarkka Lectures 2024

M-Cult's new annual initiative focused on the potential of art, media, and technology in democratic societies.

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Keskuspuistohanke

M-Cultin arkistot ja aktiviteetit Helsingin keskuspuistossa samalla sivustolla syyskuusta 2024.

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Ideal Behaviour - EMAP residence 2024

An ‘IKEA-hack’ to trick AI recruiting –media art problematizes automated hiring processes.

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SYSTEMS Exhibition

Rethinking systems and art.

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Plant Futures - EMAP residence 2023

Visualising futures of local plants.

Potato Internet testing

Potato Internet - EMAP residence 2022

Caroline Sinders and Trammell Hudson envision a small-scale internet.

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Song of Lead

Healing the soil with Pia Lindman.

Woad seeds held by a human palm

A Library of Seeds

Joss Allen celebrates the interrelationship of seeds and humans.

Map of Central Park waterways

Hydrofuturology

Imagining local water futures with Sophea Lerner.

Care as social investment, black text on background of lime green and beige

Institute of Care

Collaborative project to map out futures of care.

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The Great Offshore

Deciphering the logics of offshore finance with RYBN.org.

Central Park map

Central Park Archives

Co-archiving an urban forest.

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Money Lab Helsinki

Laboratory of digital economy and organisation.

Care Project Administration 2020

Care Project Administration

Economies of care explored by the Forms of Ownership collective.

Maunula Staircase group talk

Maunula Staircase

Jeanne van Heeswijk and friends stir up discussion on local futures.

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The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda)

Metahaven's film explores truth and lies in the internet era.

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Network Effects

Confonting the material, mental and political effects of today's online world.

The Hidden Life of an Amazon User

The Hidden Life of an Amazon User

Joana Moll makes visible the energy costs of an online purchase.

Mosaic Virus triptych of tulips

Mosaic Virus

Anna Ridler speculates with algorithmic tulips.

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The Web Politics Trilogy

Online activism project by artist collective Disnovation.org.

Public Faculty #13 on the rocks

Public Faculty

Jeanne van Heeswijk skecthes collective futures.

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WWW 30 club

An evening to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web.

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Maunula Remix

Discursive event on processes of collaborative art.

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Bottled Songs

Audiovisual exploration of terrorism in the age of social media by Chloé Galibert-Laîné & Kevin B. Lee.

Actors on the street demonstrating with signs.

Avatar Influence Game

Experimental game commission with artists Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen.

Audience looking at the models showing the Maunula Collection

Maunula Collection

Otto Karvonen and Justus Kantakoski claim clothes as public art.

Breakfast from the Past, Muhammad Saifi

Breakfast from the Past

Workshop of located memories led by Babak Arzani and Johanna Raekallio.

Printed picture of Dan, people playing Mölkky in the background

Maunula Looks

Street photography on local identity by Rogério Nuno Costa and Jaime Culebro.

A comic about mummy being lonely and sad, then finding the Saunabaari singing group and joining.

Partizaning Maunula

Local interventions in collaboration with the Partizaning collective.

Two boys looking at the screens in the exhibition of Recovered Utopias

Recovered Utopias

Project on past and present utopias with Axel Straschnoy.

Dance performance with self-made umbrellas

Reform 75/100

Feminist project on the gender pension gap by Bernadette Wolbring.

Martial Law at Patterimäki park hands up behind a fence

Martial Law

Anastasia Artemeva's site-specific project to re-imagine WW1 trenches.

Embassy of future at youth house, kids with cat masks

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eeefff group speculates on futures economy with kids.

Sounds and Stories Live Performance with Knitting ladies

Sounds and Stories Live

Knitted soundscapes with composer Jobina Tinnemans and friends.

Details of work by Elena Mazzi, Valentina Karga and La Jetée

Karga/Mazzi/La Jetee

Local dialogues on global change - an exhibition at Maunula House.

Maunula-film premiere, audience

Maunula - film

Collaborative film realised in residency with Riikka Kuoppala and Thomas Martin.

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Our Coming Community

Valentina Karga's collective totem representing the future values of a community.

Man watching tv, making a gesture with his hands, looking unhappy

I'm Talking to You

Elena Mazzi encourages local responses to global media of crisis.

Shadows of three performers, an image of a sad girl projected on the wall

Candy Star

Choreographer Juli Reinartz explores media identities with teenagers.

Maunula Atmospheres close up of sky with birds

Maunula Atmospheres

Artist duo La Jetée deciphers climate change in private archives of a neighbourhood.

YKON Dinner games - the vodka shot

YKON Dinner Games

Workshop with YKON to experiment on the social format of the dinner.

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Heavy Metal Detector

Steve Maher detects underground music subcultures.

Night Searchers bus station facade projection by Maija Saksman

Night Searchers

Nocturnal urban observations by Seppo Renvall, Maija Saksman and friends.

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Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2015

Media art festival highlighting visibility and invisibility in urban spaces.

Spectre of People virtual demonstration

The Spectre of People

Virtual protest against austerity politics.

Conducting Senses coal hill with projection, still from a video

Conducting Senses

Interactive projection and soundscape at Helsinki coastline by Fernando Visockis and Andre Vicentini.

Tales from Frontiers Jone Takamäki playing music, projection on the background

Tales from Frontiers

Audiovisual facade projection at the Helsinki Observatory, Night of the Arts 2015.

Interrupting the Everyday Time bank campaign

Interrupting the Everyday

Information activism project with Tactical Tech.

Minna Långström still from video

Minna Långström - Media artist of the month

The artist presents a set of interdisciplinary work in context of her solo show at Sinne gallery.

Kalle Hamm speaking in gallery

Kalle Hamm - media artist of the month

Kalle Hamm presents work on otherness, minorities and immigration realized together with Dzamil Kamanger.

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Re:miksi

Media art education project to encourage children's agency online.

Arttu Merimaa still from interview

Arttu Merimaa - Media artist of the month

The artist deconstructs masculinity and runs the Alkovi window gallery.

Organic Cinema plants and screen

Organic Cinema

World Wilder Lab amplifies the whispers of plants.

Urban Alphabets workshop, participant looking at the letters on their phone

Urban Alphabets

Suse Miessner invites citizens to message with their city's own alphabets.

Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen sitting in a summer landscape

Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta Kalleinen - Media artists of the month

Interviewed on the Vartiosaari island, the artist duo discuss their participatory practice.

Fish-Go-Round! lit umbrellas and dark background

Fish-go-Round!

Live performance for electronic music, radiowaves, lights and dancers by Shinji Kanki and friends.

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Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2014

Media art festival enrolling urban flora and fauna, as well as radio signals, networks and citizens as participants.

I, Cloud still from game, billboard in the desert

I, Cloud and Uncharted

Timo Bredenberg explores the desert of the net economy.

Human Beeing facade close up with bees

Human Beeing

With help from The Constitute, bees take over facades.

Marjatta Oja still from interview

Marjatta Oja - Media artist of the month

The artist discusses her work ranging from "situation sculptures" to music videos.

Petri Kuljuntausta still from video

Petri Kuljuntausta - Media artist of the month

The pioneer of Finnish sound art speaks about his work with soundscapes and electronic music.

Heidi Tikka interviewed at gallery Sculptor

Heidi Tikka - Media artist of the month

Heidi Tikka's interactive and site-specific works relate to affectivity and embodiment.

Erich Berger speaks in rocky landscape

Erich Berger - Media artist of the month

The artist discusses the approaches of bio art and art-science collaborations while presenting a set of work.

Hanna Haaslahti still from interview

Hanna Haaslahti - Media artist of the month

The artist presents her work and discusses relations of space, body and technology.

Dialogues Deconstructed City facade projection

Dialogue – Deconstructed City

VJ group Random Doctors explore the social, spatial and political structures of the city.

TransEurope Slow viewers looking at screen

TransEurope Slow

A virtual bike ride through changing European cities.

Binoculars to.. from, eyes on public screen

Binoculars to... from

An exchange of gazes between cities orchestrated by Mar Canet and Varvara Guljajeva.

Dance AR participants move with devices

Dance.AR

Sander Veenhof's augmented reality makes smart phone users move.

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Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2013

Media art festival exploring the networked city.

Closeup Nordic Outbreak screen

Nordic Outbreak

Public screenings and seminar on Nordic media art.

Robin Hood monster made of big banks

Robin Hood

Public intervention by Robin Hood cooperative, investment bank for the precariat.

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Tuomo Rainio - Media artist of the month

Interview with artist Tuomo Rainio at his show The Reconfigured Image, April 2013.

Paula Lehtonen still from interview

Paula Lehtonen - Media artist of the month

The artist presents recent work, on the electronic blue, vjing and the perception of bats.

Albert Laine interviewed by his computer

Albert Laine - Media artist of the month

Albert Laine, a wizard of 3D techniques and hardware hacks, interviewed at his studio.

Jaakko Pesonen still from interview

Jaakko Pesonen - Media artist of the month

In the interview, the artist presents projects discussing homofobia and artificial intelligence.

The Race Code pictures of participants

The Race Code

Public face recognition and profiling by Timo Wright and Matti Niinimäki.

Urban Takes Helsinki people looking at the picture wall

Urban Takes Helsinki

Michelle Teran reflects on YouTube videos as urban sense-making.

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Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2012

Media art and urban media for all - in the second Media Facades Festival edition in Helsinki.

NTA punch lines - boxers

News Transformation Agency

YKON transforms news to script different futures.

City Canvas detail from the walk

City Canvas

An urban walk with ephemeral projections by Albert Laine and collaborators.

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Reading Kamppi

A collaborative project reflecting on words and images in the cityscape.

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Kallio Archive

Open-source video archive on the changing neighbourhood of Kallio.

Mia Mäkelä interviewed in front of projection

Mia Mäkelä - Media artist of the month

The artist presents her practice ranging from live cinema and remix to algae gathering.

Timo Wright speaks in close-up

Timo Wright - Media artist of the month

The artist presents his projects on ethnic profiling, consumption and urban culture.

Timo Bredenberg still from interview 2012

Timo Bredenberg - Media artist of the month

Visual artist Timo Bredenberg explores internet communities and movements.

Artvertiser Helsinki - "Your art here" on the Bio Rex facade

Artvertiser Helsinki

Julian Oliver and Damian Stewart imagine a near future where advertising is replaced by art.

Shinji Kanki still from video interview

Shinji Kanki - Media artist of the month

Interview with composer of experimental music, educator and radio dj Shinji Kanki.

Riikka Kuoppala Mom I'm Hungry still from video

Riikka Kuoppala - Media artist of the month

The artist presents her media and collaborative work on psychology, abstraction and poverty.

Snowman from animation calendar 2014

Children's animation calendar

Animated Christmas calendars created with kids in Kontula.

Air Hunger projection at Mannerheim statue

Air Hunger

Breath-generated, site-specific landscapes by Hanna Haaslahti.

City Sleep Light Helsinki by Antoine Schmitt

City Sleep Light

Antoine Schmitt dreams with data and facades.

At Hand viewers touching the screen

At Hand

Heidi Tikka traces urban gestures and the possibility of encountering otherness.

Giants of the Hoods dancer on Kallio facade

Giants of the Hoods

Dance moves on public facades by the Giants of the Hoods group.

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Finnish Techno Review

Documentation of Finnish VJ and electronic music festival KTK at Kuudes linja club, Helsinki.

Open source world map

Open Code

Tabloid newspaper advocating FLOSS and open source culture.

Tenantspin Kontula News screenshot

We are the people, this is the place

Neighbourhood film exchanges Helsinki-Liverpool with tenantspin.

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Panorama

Multilingual programme with news from Finland.

Kallio City Reporters at Sauna Harju

City Reporters

Workshops to produce videos on local life and history.

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Read_me 2.3. festival

Festival on software art.