We are working on a KairUs project with Andy and finally I get more into electronics. Fitted in very well with the fact that we had an Arduino and Processing workshop in CKC.
So on Sunday(with assistants from Andy) I built a Lie Detector sensor and a MP3 player Shield for an Arduino.
Working with the electronics is pretty straight forward and easy when you follow the instructions (recipe), you just have to be super alert and precise.
The coding is an other story, luckily there is a lot of templates and tutorials to start with
Killer Fashion Revolution won a divided Best Original Idea Prize in the MediaModo competition. MediaModo 2010 award ceremony was held at Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences in Kouvola, Finland 28th of October. The 8 finalists including Killer Fashion Revolution was also exhibited in the campus area. The competition finalist will also be exhibited next year in Poland, Russia and Germany. More about the competition on MediaModo-home page.
We have been continuing with the Field Research for the CKC Digital Art Lab and we went out in the Zoetermeer area and interviews youth about what they do and want to do during their free-time. Here is the video I edited from these sessions. I am also getting to know all the constraints of the CKC graphical guideline, yet no guidelines of how to animate the logo
More about what is going on in CKC Digital Art Lab and what we are really up to there can be found on our DIGITAL ART LAB -website… there you can also see me taking a Hip Hop class .
Finally I managed to edit the Helsinki City Art Lab – Blind Ice Cream Cue performance video. The Helsinki City Art Lab is a project I was initiating with 4 other artist in May 2010. A very proses oriented participatory art project that learned me a lot both about my self and also about art practices that performance artist have. More about the project can be found at our City Art Lab page.
Some months ago I moved to Rotterdam in the Netherlands and in end of September I started to work for Patzingzone “a transdisciplinary laboratory for innovation”. http://www.patchingzone.net/
I am working on the Digital Art Lab project. So 3 days a week I am commuting about an hour to Zoetermeers ‘Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur’ (centre for arts and culture) better known as CKC http://www.ckc-zoetermeer.nl/home. There together with the Patchingzone team, CKC staff and teachers we are now building an Digital Art Lab where traditional arts can meet technology. The lab is targeted to serve the youth going to CKC and youth in Zoetermeer area; “the primary research question for this project is: What should the new art courses for the digital generation look like?”
The project has just started, here is a video I made as a glimpse of Zoetermeer a part of our field research that took form in a derive -walk.
I am currently (Summer/ Fall 2010) working on a project in collaboration with other Taik students, Taik graduates and researchers from Sibelius Akatemia. Our aim is to develop educational online material about Finnish opera targeted for youth.
Mainly the material will be used during music classes in middle and secondary schools as well as institutions that offer music classes. The idea is to present Finish composers and operas, the first section we are working with is the “Isän Tyttö”-opera (Fathers girl). It is not about transferring the opera online, rather support understanding of opera online in a game like environment.
Because we are still working on the project there is not much published about it yet. Basic information in Finnish can be found here: Suomalainen ooppera verkkoon!
Involved in the project:
Producer, consulting expert (opera): Liisamaija Hautsalo
Production manager: Liisa Tervinen
Consulting expert (Finnish music history): Matti Huttunen
Consulting expert: Heidi Westerlund
Consulting expert (pedagogic): Leena Unkari-Virtanen
Animation, interaction design: Linda Kronman
Cordinator: Outi Parkkila
Coder: Juho Jouhtimäki
Visual designer: Virva Auvinen
Sound designer: Dimitri Paile
Killer Fashion Revolution was part of «Qui vive?» Moscow Biennale for Young Art Glob(e)scape -exhibition. The opening of the exhibition took place at ARTPLAY the center of contemporary art on 4th of July and the exhibition continued until end of July.
Killer Fashion Revolution and Clean Clothes Campaign Finland (Puhtaat vaatteet) collaborated 12.7.2010 to arrange a workshop for 30 young adults from 15 different countries at the CISV Seminar Camp arranged in Helsinki, Finland.
Through various activities the participants had interesting discussions relating to topics of human rights and ethical fashion. Prior to the workshop participants had seen the movie China Blue to arise questions.
Lotta Staffans and Katariina Oivo from the Finnish Clean Clothes Campaign led an awareness raising discussion about ethical fashion, how fashion industry often neglects human rights, and how these problems are dealt whit now, and what we can do as individual persons to arise awareness about the problem. After the discussion participants developed a own point of view to the new information through drama. Continuing on the topics of human rights, neglect of human rights and ethical fashion the participants collaborated in groups to bring forth their views in form of Killer Fashion Revolution designs.
Killer Fashion Revolution is part of Aalto University introduces itself -exhibition in Espoo Cultural Center 19.5.-22.6.2010, showing the broad field of practices that are current in the University. Images are from the exhibition opening where chief curator Juha Vilja welcomed Allto University to the culture center.
We are working on a KairUs project with Andy and finally I get more into electronics. Fitted in very well with the fact that we had an Arduino and Processing workshop in CKC.
Working with the electronics is pretty straight forward and easy when you follow the instructions (recipe), you just have to be super alert and precise.
I am currently (Summer/ Fall 2010) working on a project in collaboration with other Taik students, Taik graduates and researchers from Sibelius Akatemia. Our aim is to develop educational online material about Finnish opera targeted for youth.
