Heidi Tikka

 

 

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Heidi Tikka is a practicing media artist and a researcher. In her art and her research she has inquired into affective technologies, arguing for the social and cultural situatedness of an affective experience and its technological mediations. She is currently a doctorate candidate at the UIAH Media Lab, where she has also been teaching media art and media culture since 1997, of which 2001-2002 as the acting professor in multimedia and communication. In 2002 she was awarded a 3-year grant from the Arts Council of Finland for developing media art projects. Her projects often involve collaborations, most frequently with her son.

2004

 

Practicing media artist, producer

IN PROGRESS:

  • Situations4X
    mobile service experiment in conjunction with ISEA 2004, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki
  • The Double
    interactive video installaiton, will be completed for Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK, November 2004

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

  • A child at the interface: 3 interactive installations, presentation in "The Interface: questions of agency in ICT and new media art", Lancaster University, UK

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2003

 

Practicing media artist, producer

Company, Heidi Tikka Media Productions, since 2003

PROJECTS:

  • Syntymiä
    mobile service experiment, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki
  • Imaginary Journey
    crossmedia project in conjunction with the "Ideologia II", Biennial of Nordic Art, Göteborg
    http://imaginaryjourney.uiah.fi/

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Mother, Child in F2F, Cité L'Etat, Brussels

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2002

 

Professor, multimedia and communication, Media Lab UIAH (until 30.6.02)

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

  • Of Technology and Representation in "Negotiating Proper Distance" Monstrous Thinking, ELIA Comhar, Dublin, Ireland 25.10.02
  • Designing affective interfaces: What does love have to do with it?
    "Responsibility under Uncertainty: Science, Technology, and Accountability", EASST, York, UK , 31.7.-3.8.2002
    http://www.york.ac.uk/org/satsu/easst2002/

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Mother, Child in F2F, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
  • Mother, Child in F2F, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada, 2002
  • Screen Memories in Valokuva ja video, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland, 2002

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2001

 

Professor, multimedia and communication, Media Lab UIAH

INSTALLATIONS:

  • Another Eye
    Interactive video projection, 2001 presented as "Remembering, passing through" in conjunction with "granice/borders", curated by Malgorzata Liciewicz, Baltic Sea Culture Centre, Gdansk, Poland, 2001, incl. catalogue

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Mother, Child in F2F, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada, 2001
  • Mother, Child in F2F, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 2001
  • Mother, Child in F2F, The Embassy of Finland, Washington DC, USA, 2001

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2000

 

Researcher, Media Lab UIAH

INSTALLATIONS:

  • Mother, Child
    Interactive video projection, 2000, in conjunction with F2F New Wight Gallery at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 2000

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

  • The Space of Gallery
    Summary of the licentiate thesis work in Haunted Spaces, ed. Eeva Kurki, Working Papers F12, UIAH, Helsinki

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Screen memories in "Valoa", The Finnish Photography Museum, Helsinki

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1999

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

  • Negotiating Proper Distance
    Licentiate of Arts thesis work including a written thesis and two installations "Sovitus", 1995 and "Screen Memories", 1994

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Enclosed in "What is real?", The triennale of Finnish photography, Mikkeli Art Museum, Finland

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1998

PROJECTS:

  • Mobile Zones
    Curated series of international site specific projects in conjunction with MuuMediaFestival and Kiasma Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 1998
    Curator, festival catalogue co-editor

INSTALLATIONS:

  • Enclosed
    Mixed media installation with zoetrope, 1998 in conjunction with "What is real?", The triennale of Finnish photography, Helsinki Art Hall, Finland
  • Hospital garments
    Series of photographs, collaborative project with Tammiharju mental ward, 1998 "Visions", Knipnäs mental ward, Tammisaari, Finland, collection of Tammiharju mental ward

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Sovitus in "Encoded identites", Gallery Otso, Espoo, Finland
  • Screen memories in "The Naked and the Masked - images of woman in Finnish art", Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland

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