Media Lab DEMO DAY 18.5.2000

Taideteollinen korkeakoulu - UIAH
Leonia Auditorium, Media Center Lume
Hämeentie 135 C
Helsinki

Programme

13.00 Welcome - Philip Dean

13.15 Media Lab Research news - Timo Honkela

13.25 Future Media Home project - Kari-Hans Kommonen

13.45 Method practicum
Individual projects by Till Bortels, Giedre Kligyte, Cilla Lönnqvist, Misha Mantere
Maria Koskijoki, tutor

Explorations and exercises in the possibilities of using qualitative research methodologies in design research.

14.00 Akvaario
project group: Teijo Pellinen, Justus Hyvärinen, Kimmo Kari, Oskari Martimo, Minna Nurminen, Petri Kola + the rest of the group here : http://www.akvaario.net/akvaario/tekijat/tekijat.html

Ari and Eira live in their own apartments behind the TV screen. Both have come to the point where they need care and attention. Viewers can take care of them via telephone. Ari's and Eira's nature will be modelled according to the treatment they receive. - The aim of the programme is to get Finnish night birds to collectively care for and develop the 'pet' characters. The joint project runs also at the Internet address at which viewers can keep a 'night diary'. It reflects the collective state of mind of the viewers and their interpretations of the development of the characters themselves.
Presenting: Teijo Pellinen
http://www.akvaario.net/

14.15 Semana Santa
Exhibition production, demo video production - Media Lab students: Perttu Hämäläinen, Giedre Kligyte, Tomi Knuutila, Taina Myöhänen, Päivi Romppanen, Timo Viikari

Exhibition materials, exhibition production - Anthropology students: Laura Ekholm, Elina Hartikainen, Johanna Illman, Laura Kokko, Marja Paavilainen, Kati Vyyryläinen

Tutors: Lily DÍaz /Tutor and researcher (new media design, anthropology), UIAH
Eija-Maija Kotilainen /Tutor, curator, manager (anthropology, museum studies), docent of anthropology University of Helsinki, director of the Helinä Rautavaara Museum.
Antti Huittinen /Tutor (stereographics), UIAH
Antti Ikonen /Tutor (soundscape design), UIAH
Maria Koskijoki /Tutor and researcher (anthropology, material culture), UIAH
Jon Nykänen /Tutor (new media), UIAH
Patrick Rastenberger /Tutor (photography), UIAH
Ilkka Ruohonen /Tutor and researcher (anthropology), University of Helsinki
Jukka Ylitalo /Tutor (experimental interface design), UIAH

The aim of the project was to study and realize an exhibition displaying an "other" culture. This was experimented by creating an exhibition "Semana Santa (Easter) in Carúpano, Venezuela" at the Helinä Rautavaara Museum from materials collected by a group of anthropology students and researchers during Easter 1999. Media Lab students worked together with students from the department of Anthropology at the University of Helsinki in the three stages of the project: study (lectures, discussions), design stage and the production of the exhibition.
Presenting: the team
http://mlab.uiah.fi/displayculture/

14.30 Watch it!
In March 2000, Media Lab collaborated with visual artist Eva Saro (Geneve) in developing a pilot for a web-workshop to train visual awareness. The workshop, organized at Lasipalatsi's Nykyaika stage, involved image-reading professionals from different fields as well as the general public. - For the workshop, we developed digital image-questioning practices and a website, which contains an image bank commentaries and demos as well as a record of the workshop results: images transformed by the participants.
Presenting: Minna Tarkka, Tomi Knuutila, Giedre Kligyte, Leena Saarinen, Rasmus Vuori
http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/watchit/

14.40 CONTINENT - media art exhibition at Lasipalatsi in September
Continent-exhibition showcases new multimedia and internet artworks produced in Helsinki, Brussels and Paris in a European 'master-class' workshop during 1999-2000. The 20 participants represent new up-and-comingmedia artists from the 3 countries. Continent shows open in September both in Helsinki and in Brussels, and the project belongs to the Cultural capital programme of the respective cities. For the Lasipalatsi show, Media Lab, Elisa Communications and Hewlett Packard Finland collaborate to produce a mobile exhibition concept which we will present briefly, together with a couple of artworks from the exhibition.
Kristian Simolin: Virtual Homage
Maari Fabritius: Katumuisti/Street memory
Presenting: Minna Tarkka, Cilla Lönnqvist
http://www.continent-imaw.net

14.50 Elokuvan taju - CinemaSense
Antti Raike (Media Lab / Elomedia) producer, researcher
Karri Laitinen (Media Lab) web designer
Samu Heikkilä production systems, LUME, editing of videoclips
Harry Malmelin translations into Finnish Sign Language
Petra Juva Sign Language presentations
Kaisa Peippo Translation into English

The CinemaSense portal is a joint project of the Media Lab, Department of Film and Television and Elomedia postgraduate school at the University of Art and Design. The objective of our project is to develop for the Internet a user-friendly, multilingual distance learning service on film expression, by the end of the year 2000. The languages used in this multilingual portal are Finnish, English and Finnish Sign Language.
Presenting: Karri Laitinen
http://mlab.uiah.fi/elokuvantaju/beta/index.html

Coffee break 15.00 - 15.30 in the foyer

15.30 CIS - Critical Information Spaces project
The design of information environments is based on strong assumptions about the human and the machine, about culture and society. What is the strategic and tactical role of the designer in supporting or contesting these assumptions? Starting from a cultural-critical approach, the CIS project (1999-2000) aims at imagining, prototyping and designing alternatives. Of the ongoing design and research projects, three prototypes will be presented briefly.
Presenting: Minna Tarkka, Heidi Tikka, Jukka Ylitalo
http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/cis

Airgarden
project group: Ville Martin, Misha Mantere, Merja Nieminen
Airgarden addresses phenomena in informationalized society through a process of nodal description formalized in small interactive essays. The project started has a textual base, investigating self organizing design processes and theories concerning the relationship between space and information especially in urban contexts.
Presenting: Ville Martin, Merja Nieminen

Clashscapes: The Lunatic Children's Book of Moments
project group: Leena Saarinen, Riikka Pelo
Clashcapes is a practice-oriented research project for producing significant and ambitious literature in new and old media. It consists of several subprojects from scriptwriting multi-user environments and chatterbots to designing techniques for writing digital and printed novels. One of the subprojects, The Lunatic Children's Book of Moments, is an experiment and a research about collaborative writing, imaginary geography and spatial narrative. It is a digital proserosary consisting of a series of cybertextual experiments, which are based on the overlapping relationship between our intimate fiction. Book of Moments aims at inventing revolutionary methods for producing cyberliterature.
Presenting: Riikka Pelo, Leena Saarinen

Meta-matic - more poetic than practical
Jokko Korhonen, Johanna Höysniemi concept designers The term meta-matic comes from Swiss neo-dadaist Jean Tinguely who created mechanical sculptures that automatically generated "art". Our meta-matic concept goes beyond rethinking the browser, it presents a new way to visualize and hear content as well as a completely new way to interact with it. The user of meta-matic is a "data-artist"; With meta-matic browsing transcends banal navigation: throught a symbol system it becomes an audiovisual creative process. The symbol system that makes up a meta-matic comes from the user. In the meta-matic the user accesses and retrieves data through audiovisual interactive views represented by the user's personal symbols.
Presenting: Jokko Korhonen, Johanna Höysniemi

15.50 Intro to Fabrica New Media
by Petri Saarikko

Media Lab UIAH student Petri Saarikko took a two week trial period in Benetton's 'Fabrica' New Media department, Treviso Italy in February 2000. Petri participated Fabrica's collaborative web art project 'Annex'. He was invited to work for two weeks in creating Colors Magazine web site for 'Monoculture' issua 36. Petri presents his personal effort done before and while being there.
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~petri/

15.55 History of Computer and Video Games
by Petri Kuittinen

My text, which is still under work, covers all areas of computer and video gaming from the earliest experiments to current date. It concentrates on the introductions of new concepts, important persons, design methods, technological breaktroughs and biggest commercial hits. The result will published on the WWW, containing more than 500 links to further information.
Presenting: Petri Kuittinen, with assistance of Jon Nykänen

16.05 Game Mobile
Miha Kuhar (Department of Product and Strategic Design), Concept development and design, product & interface design
Marjaana Laakkonen (Media Lab), Concept development and design, visual design, videos
Cilla Lönnqvist (Media Lab), Concept development and design, programming and interaction design
Duncan Wilson (Department of Product and Strategic Design), Concept development and design, product & interface design

GameMobile combines elements from sports and on-line computer games. It utilizes mobile technology to encourage players to go out and move. Instead of playing in front of a screen, the game can take place anytime and anywhere. The points are scored by moving. This motivates the players to walk, jog or cycle instead of using cars or busses. The game world and the everyday life are linked together.
Presenting: Cilla Lönnqvist, Marjaana Laakkonen, Duncan Wilson

16.20 CAN'T ANYONE HELP? - a screamactive horror movie
production group: Minna Nurminen, Markku Mastomäki, Petri Kola

It's loud! It's horrifying! It's interactive! - "Can't anyone help?" presents you with the scariest interactive user experience... ever! Are you smart and loud enough to warn our hero and save the girl before they meet their gruesome destiny? This time it's all up to you!

Installations & videos
in the foyer

- Till Bortels: " Very closed circuit TeleVision" - self-surveillance terminal - lets you (and others) keep control of yourself (and others).
- Giedre Kligyte - Chris Hales workshop material
- Video self portraits
- Computer Animation Studio clips

Refreshments

Info: Anna Arsniva, tel 09-756 30 404.

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