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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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”.
*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
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:
Dear applicants / New MA students
The lists below are NOT official. The application office still needs to check that everything is legal and by the rules. The official results will be published on 28.5.2010. You will receive a letter with very good information in it – read it well and act as guided. Also those who are not listed here, will get a letter with information on possibilities to receive feedback.
*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 Helsinki, in Sampo auditorium (Media Centre LUME), Hämeentie 135 C
Jürgen Scheible, researcher and doctoral student at the Media Lab of the Department of Media within the Aalto University School of Art and Design, received on April 16th 2010 the Best Speaker Award at TECHNARTE International Conference on Art and Technology in Bilbao Spain. During the event Scheible ‘painted’ the ‘Arriaga Theatre’ one of the most emblematic buildings of Bilbao (see photo) using his MobiSpray art tool. MobiSpray uses the Mobile phone as spray can to spray dabs of digital paint via large scale projections onto buildings and objects (http://www.mobispray.com).