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

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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