Welcome to Media Lab Master Theses Presentations 23.-24.11.2009

We are proud to present our new nine MA candidates with their Master Thesis works. The thesis will be presented and discussed in an open sessions taking place in the Media Lab on 23.-24.11.2009.

You are welcome to see the presentation and to join the discussion. Here is the program:

Place: MLAB 4TH floor lecture room – open for all, welcome!

Monday 23.11.2009

9-10 Jukka Liukkonen: Taide 2060 toimijalähtöisellä skenaariomenetelmällä
Evaluators: Teemu Mäki Visual Culture, TaiK and Jarno Koponen Media Lab, TaiK

10-11 Keri Knowles: Lotus Window. Concentric ring structures for framing video narratives
Evaluators: Chris Hales Smartlab/Cetral St. Martins London England and Marita Liulia, Media Lab, TaiK

11-12 Virva Auvinen: Touch the unreachable – looking for the finnish identity. Designing art educational learning experience.
Evaluators: Marjo Mäenpää Pori Visual Culture, TaiK and Tarja Kankkunen Art Education, TaiK

12-13 — lunch break —

13-14 Sami Lanu: LaiskaMies livenä Second Lifessa. Miten musiikinesittäjän identiteetti ja esitys siirretään virtuaalimaailmaan?
Evaluators: Miikka Salavuo, Sibelius Academy and Markku Reunanen Media Lab, TaiK

14-15 Teemu Korpilahti: From Alan01 to AlanOnline – A study of the different charcteristics of physical media installations and non-material art
Evaluators: Andy Best Goldsmiths, University of London England and Marita Liulia Media Lab, TaiK

15-16 Suvi Kitunen: Designing a Deaf culture spesific web site. Participatory design research for knack.fi.
Evaluators: Yan Ki Lee RCA/ Helen Hamlyn Reasearch Centre London England and Mariana Salgado Media Lab, TaiK

Tuesday 24.11.2009

13-14 Kalle Mäntsälä: Hearspray. Designing interaction for a movement-controlled digital musical instrument
Evaluators: Ilkka Niemeläinen composer / producer and Koray Tahiroglu Department of Acoustics and Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology

14-15 Kalle Jarva: Dreams, Bytes & Dust. Explorations in Audiovisual Space and Beyond.
Evaluators: Jari Kauppinen Theatre Academy Helsinki and Nuno Correia Media Lab, TaiK

15-16 Sven Noben: Sign Language Media – an exploration of Flemish Deaf culture, media exigencies and cross-medial perspectives
Evaluators: Christian Vogler Institute of Language and Speech Processing Athens Greece and Antti Raike Media Lab, TaiK