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At Hand by Heidi Tikka opens 27th Aug 2010 on the City Wall Helsinki

August 24th, 2010

At Hand by Heidi Tikka, Media Lab doctoral student (software design by Teemu Korpilahti, Media Lab alumnus) opens on the City Wall Helsinki in Lasipalatsi in the Helsinki Festival Night of Arts on Friday 27 August, 2010. At Hand is an interactive piece designed for touch screens in public space. The project is about urban gestures, micro spaces of the street and the possibility of encountering otherness. Its starting point is in European flows of migration and specifically the recent appearance of beggars in Helsinki’s city spaces. How should we encounter and respond to the new gestures of plea directed towards us?

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25.-31.10.2010 Media Lab people at Shift Festival

August 24th, 2010

Media Lab students were invited to participate the Shift Festival – a New Media Art and Electronic Music Festival in Switzerland. The theme of this year festival is LOST & FOUND – rediscover and reinterpret. The festival special guest is the Swiss pioneer of electronic music Bruno Spoerri (born 1935).

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Our old students, please note

August 6th, 2010

We have quite a few special arrangements in the begin of the academic year. Please see more text on TaiK website.

Alan01 at ACM Multimedia 2010

August 2nd, 2010

The alan01 installation, produced by Crucible Studio and presented worldwide, will next be exhibited at the ACM Multimedia 2010 Interactive Art Exhibition at Palazzo Médici Riccardi in Firenze, Italy. The exhibition runs from 25th October to 6th November.

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User Driven Open Innovation wrapped up

June 23rd, 2010

After two years of work the project (http://www.flexibleservices.fi/en/node/24) User Driven Open Innovation, a part of (http://www.tivit.fi/en/) TIIVIT research program at TEKES, has ended up officially.

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Finnish Pavilion 1900 installation at the Design Museum

June 1st, 2010

The virtual reconstruction of the Finnish World Fair Pavilion of 1900 will be exhibited at the Design Museum in Helsinki during the summer until October of 2010. The combination of an immersive display, 3D glasses and virtual soundscape enable the visitors to interactively view the pavilion and the works of art that were exhibited there.

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MobiSpray – Paint My City exhibition 24.5.-4.6.2010 Lume

May 24th, 2010

MobiSpray – Paint My City exhibition is the first solo exhibition of photography by Media artist Jürgen Scheible a.k.a. MobiLenin. During the last two years Scheible traveled around the globe ‘painting’ on more than 130 buildings, places and objects in over 50 cities. The resulting outcomes were photographed and build the series of large format color prints of this exhibition.

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Virva E. Auvinen has been awarded the Golden 2010 MUSE prize

May 24th, 2010

(Eng/Fi)

New Media Designer, Virva E. Auvinen, a masters graduate of the Aalto University Media Lab, has been awarded the Golden 2010 MUSE prize. The award comes in the student category of the annual competition organized by the international AAM Media & Technology Committee. Winning projects for each category were chosen by an international group of museum media professionals and the awards were presented at the AAM annual conference in Los Angeles on 23rd May 2010. Virva E. Auvinen’s winning project is her graduate thesis production from the Media Lab, a concept named “Touch the Unreachable”.

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INVITATION: Jürgen Scheible’s defence on Thu 27.5. at 12

May 21st, 2010

*Find BELOW too: Press release in Finnish, abstract in English*

INVITATION

Academic dissertation to be presented for public examination with the permission of the Research Board of the Aalto University School of Art and Design, in Sampo auditorium (Media Centre LUME), Hämeentie 135 C, Helsinki

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Media Lab Spring Demo Day on 20.5.2010

May 14th, 2010

Two times a year, we bring out our people from the offices, studios and classrooms to show what they’ve been busy with. This Spring Demo Day 20.5.2010 is open for all and takes place in the Studio Theatre, Lume. The programme:

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