February 2nd, 2012
Researchers and students at the Department of Media in the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture at Aalto University have created Le Pavilion de la Finlande à l’exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris, a film that brings together archival materials with computer generated imagery in order to render a simulation of the Pavilion of Finland and the 1900 World Exposition in Paris. The documentary, that is 8:30 minutes long, will be shown at Musèe d’Orsay in Paris, France in the Akseli Gallen Kallela, A Passion for Finland, exhibition beginning February 7 until May 6, 2012.
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February 2nd, 2012
The Dean has appointed Teemu Leinonen as Associate Professor for five years. The field of the professorship is New Media Design and Learning.
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December 30th, 2011
Our application process page is now updated. The application time is 2.1.-15.2.2012.
December 20th, 2011
Seasons Greetings from the Media Lab Helsinki!
Our card awaits you here:
http://www.aalto.fi/christmas/
December 14th, 2011
Media Lab Helsinki gets mentioned in Times Higher Education article “The new new thing”, on MIT Media Lab and other related institutions. It is one of the 9 institutions mentioned in the section “Follow the leader” (“Other university interdisciplinary research centres exploring the human dimensions of new technologies”, bottom of page), and the only one from a non Anglo-Saxon country. Curiously, it is the only one with a very similar name to “the granddaddy of the field” MIT Media Lab.
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December 7th, 2011
Media Lab Demo Day on 15.12. will be a public event, starting at 13 in Lasipalatsi 2nd floor, Mannerheimintie street 22-24 – in the center of Helsinki.
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November 15th, 2011
The City Sets education, research and urban media art project has officially been selected as a part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme.
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November 14th, 2011
Media Lab graduate (2011) Sebastian Greger won the SIGCHI final thesis competition with his work “The Absent Peer – Non-users in Social Interaction Design”. Thanks & well done, Sebu!
November 7th, 2011
Monday 21.11.2011 9-15, in the 4th floor lecture room 4319
Hämeentie 135 C, Helsinki
9-10
Mikko Pykäri: Emotion Differentiation. Four stages of emotion differentiation in am emotionally influenced process of composing.
Advisor: Samu Mielonen
Evaluators: Jukka Purma Media Lab and Kimmo Lehtonen University of Turku
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November 4th, 2011
The internationally renowned executive producer Fred Fuchs visited the Crucible Studio and Departments of Media, Television and Film on Thursday 3rd November. He gave a presentation of his production work with Francis Ford Coppola in the American Zoetrope Studios and today, and consulted the departments’ on-going experimental productions for cinema, television and cross/new media, while we looked for future collaboration possibilities with the North American audiovisual industry.
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