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August 31, 2004

Lähtö lähenee - Last minute business

Yhdeksän päivää siihen, kun lähden Tokioon. Tekemistä tullisäännösten tarkistamisesta muumilahjojen ostoon.

Nine days until I leave for Tokyo. Things to remember from checking customs regulations to buying an electric transformer, the Japan Rail pass, new Finnish novels...

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Posted by hrantavu at 04:07 PM

Academic Activities

(Updated June 07)

Doctoral student, Assistant, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2002-

Degrees

MA, Film and Television studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1999
B.Soc.Sc, International relations, Tampere University, 1998

Work and studies abroad

Visiting research student, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006
Visiting researcher, Waseda University, Tokyo, 2004
Exchange student, Université de Bourgogne, 1996-1997

Articles

Rantavuo, Heli. 2003. The Mobile Multimedia Phone and Artistic Expression: Case Study Moby Click. In: Proceedings of The Good, the bad, and the irrelevant: The use and the future of information and communication technologies COST269 conference. 3-5 September 2003, UIAH. 217-221. Helsinki: UIAH.

Rantavuo, Heli. 2003. Viewer in charge of mobile multimedia technology: Technology fights back, and the researcher looks for backup. In: Kurki, Eeva (Ed.) Dialogeja taiteissa ja mediassa. Dialogues in Arts and media. Working papers F 25. 25-30. Helsinki: UIAH. http://www.uiah.fi/subfrontpage.asp?path=1;1456;2175;2804 (3.10.2005)

Rantavuo, Heli. 2003. Valokuvataidetta mobiilin multimedian näyttelyssä: Tapaus Moby Click. In: Kurki, Eeva (Ed.) Dialogeja taiteissa ja mediassa. Dialogues in Arts and media. Working papers F 25. 30-35. Helsinki: UIAH. http://www.uiah.fi/subfrontpage.asp?path=1;1456;2175;2804 (3.10.2005)

Chapters

Heli Rantavuo. 2006. Valokuvataidetta multimediapuhelimella: tapaus Moby Click. Repo, Petteri, Koskinen, Ilpo, Grönman, Heidi (Eds) Innovaatioiden kotiutuminen. Kuluttajatutkimuskeskuksen vuosikirja. Helsinki: Kuluttajatutkimuskeskus.

Heli Rantavuo. 2006. Kamera kännykässä – kuvan käyttö henkilökohtaisessa viestinnässä. Valaskivi, Katja (Ed) Vaurauden lapset. Näkökulmia japanilaiseen ja suomalaiseen nykykulttuuriin. Tampere: Vastapaino.

Rantavuo, Heli. 2005. The Mobile Multimedia Phone and Artistic Expression: Case Study Moby Click. In: Haddon, L., Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. and Kant, A. (Ed.) Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs. Dordrecht: Springer.

Edited publications

Botero, Andrea, Rantavuo Heli (Eds.) 2003. Discovering new media. Working papers F 26. Helsinki: UIAH. http://www.uiah.fi/subfrontpage.asp?path=1;1456;2175;2804 (3.10.2005)

Invited lectures

Media-archaeology and snapshot photography. Department of Informatics, Tallinn University, Tallinn, April 2007.

Snapshot photography with mobile phones and digital cameras. Media and design research MA seminar, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Helsinki, March 2006.

Mobile image in Japan and in Finland. Faculty of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Waseda University, Tokyo, November 2004.

New cultures of using image. Lecture series Perspectives into image, Dept. of visual culture, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2003.

The Camera phone as a device for photography and visual communication from the user’s perspective. Media and design research MA seminar, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2003.

Conference presentations

Playing with broadband: Circulating digital snapshots. COST298 Conference Participation in the Broadband Society, Moscow, 2007.

Play and playfulness in digital snapshot photography. Association of Cultural Studies Crossroads in Cultural studies conference, Istanbul, 2006.

Shifting agency in digital snapshot photography: capturing emotion with digital cameras and mobile camera phones. Helsinki Institute for Science and Technology Studies seminar Agency in technically mediated society, Helsinki University, 2005.

Digital photographic storytelling. MIT4 The Work of Stories conference, MIT, Boston, May 2005. http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit4/subs/mit4_abstracts.html#rz (3.10.2005)

Narratives in Mobile Multimedia. Narrative ways of knowing research seminar, University of Tampere, 2003.

The Camera phone as a device for photography and visual communication from the user’s perspective: Case Moby Click. Elomedia research school seminar, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2003.

Theses

Therapeutic discourse in film. Tongues Untied and Tell Me What You Saw. Master of Arts thesis. 31 August 1999, Universiteit van Amsterdam. (Unpublished)

Human Rights in the European Union development cooperation with the ACP countries. Bachelor of Social Sciences thesis. 9 December 1997, University of Tampere. (Unpublished)

Reports

Ekberg, Jan (Ed.) 2002. Technology Watch Report. Contributions by Ekberg, Jan, Valjakka, Sari, Rantavuo, Heli, Kubitschke, Lutz, Stroetmann, Veli, Stroetmann, Karl, Cullen, Kevin. 30 May 2002. EC / IST.

Rantavuo, Heli. 2002. Micromovies. Competition, seminar, lounge. Tampere Film Festival 2002 5.-10.3. 2002. (Unpublished report.) http://www.culminatum.fi/zdoc/micromovies.pdf (3.10.2005)

Fellowships and grants

Emil Aaltonen foundation, doctoral studies abroad at London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006.

University of Art and Design for doctoral studies abroad at London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006.

Canon Foundation in Europe, Research Fellowship, Waseda University, 2004.

Teaching

Tutoring in Interactive Audiovisual Storytelling, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki from 2005.

Other activities

Coordinator, Visual data analysis methods seminar, Media Lab and Pori School of Visual Culture, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 11.-19.11.2005

Article and conference paper reviews for Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces conference, University of art and Design Helsinki, 2007; Digital Creativity, 2006; Tools conference, Media Lab, University of art and Design Helsinki, 2006.

Evaluator of Master of Arts final theses, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, from 2003.

Art university pedagogy, 10 study weeks, 2005-2006.

Posted by hrantavu at 03:52 PM