Application to Media Lab MA programmes
December 30th, 2011Our application process page is now updated. The application time is 2.1.-15.2.2012.
Seasons Greetings
December 20th, 2011Seasons Greetings from the Media Lab Helsinki!
Our card awaits you here:
http://www.aalto.fi/christmas/
Media Lab Helsinki gets mentioned in Times Higher Education article
December 14th, 2011Media 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.
Media Lab Demo Day 15.12.2011
December 7th, 2011Media 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.
City Sets in the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme
November 15th, 2011The City Sets education, research and urban media art project has officially been selected as a part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme.
Awarded in SIGCHI competition
November 14th, 2011Media 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!
MA THESIS PRESENTATIONS IN NEW MEDIA AND SOUND IN NEW MEDIA / FALL 2011
November 7th, 2011Monday 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
Fred Fuchs visited on Thu 3rd November
November 4th, 2011The 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.
Juhani Räisänen defends his doctoral thesis on 4.11.2011 in TAIK
October 20th, 2011* Please note: abstract (Fi/Eng) and press release (Fi) also attached! *
INVITATION
Alumni news: Virva’s price
September 30th, 2011MA Virva Emilia Auvinen’s work “Isabella – The Secret Recipes” concept design for edutainment game won the art and design contest at NEM summit Torino (Implementing Future Media Internet). The price is given by European Commission Information Society and Media.