Media Lab Demo Day 11.12.2003
in the Foyer and Sampo Hall, Lume

updated on Thu 11.12. at 8.55

13.00 Demo space opens

ON STAGE

13.00 WELCOME
Philip Dean

SANKARI - THE ULTIMATE LIVE PUHEKARAOKE IN MINDTREK

Greetings from Mindtrek by Petri Kola and Minna Nurminen.
Sankari is a TV-show developed in the Media Lab at UIAH Helsinki. Players from the audience get a chance to test their improvization skills in a new kind of drama game. One month ago Sankari won the MindTrek competition which is the most important multimedia competition in Finlad. The prize money was 20 000e.
http://mlab.uiah.fi/sankari

13.10 IAN: CREATING NARRATION IN 2D GAMES including :
- Snowman in hell - Vol. I
- Mistake Boy and January Sunday Church Service
- Dead Superstar Croquet

The course has been learning by doing course of game design. The students have been playing games and creating prototype games for various game platforms. Out of six prototype projects three will be presented on demoday presentation.
The students of the course are: Wong Suk Ki, Janne Kaasalainen, Miska Natunen, Miikka Junnila, Teemu Kivikangas, Lauri Huikuri, Joakim Achren, Timo Anttila, Wesa Aapro, Kalle Määttä and Jürgen Scheible. Teachers: Teijo Pellinen, Rasmus Vuori and guest star Henrik Niinimäki.

Snowman in hell - Vol. I

Snowman in hell is a mixture of a platform game and a puzzle game. It's also a horror story that takes place in Dante's inferno. Hell is no place for a snowman, but guided by Vergilius, you have to find your way to the lowest level of hell...
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTERS:
Janne Kaasalainen
Miska Natunen
Jurgen Scheible
Miikka Junnila
CONTACT INFORMATION:
miikka.junnila@helsinki.fi

Mistake Boy and January Sunday Church Service

Mistake Boy is an experimental, narrative computer game utilizing voice interface.
WORKING GROUP:
Wesa Aapro
Teemu Kivikangas
Kalle Määttä
Suk Ki Wong
PRESENTERS:
Wesa Aapro
Teemu Kivikangas
CONTACT INFORMATION:
tkivikan@uiah.fi
waapro@uiah.fi

Dead Superstar Croquet

WORKING GROUP: Joakim Achren, Timo Anttila, Lauri Huikuri
CONTACT INFORMATION: joakim.achren@uiah.fi

13.25 MEDIA MANAGEMENT

Nerds from Mars, economists from Venus - are there any means or even desire to get to the same planet? The learning objectives of this basic course are knowing the building blocks of the digital media production and being able to communicate in multitalented working group.
During the lectures students prepared together a team based exercise: Teams produced a short project plan with a mission, recourses, timetables and budget.
CONTEXT:
Media Management - obligatory course for MA03. Collaborative study project with the Students from Helsinki School of Ecnomics - language and communiation studies.
PRESENTERS:
Marjo Mäenpää, Tarja Toikka and students
CONTACT INFORMATION:
http://mlab.uiah.fi/mediamanagement/mediamanagement
marjo.maenpaa@uiah.fi
tarja.toikka@uiah.fi

13.35 IMMEDIATE IMPRESSIONS

Immediate Impressions is an application that enables participants of different kinds of events (in this case the Demoday itself) to document –informally- their impressions about the event in a shared and collaborative way. The installation consists of: a screen that displays different aspects of the event (a map, a schedule), a web cam mounted in a flexible arm (for capturing audio/video) and a series of props (different hats and sets of fake glasses /mustache /noses) to conceal oneself at wish, when recording an impression.
CONTEXT:
Immediate study project (The Good, Bad, Irrelevant conference)
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTERS:
Pekka Salonen
Giedre Kligyte
Andrea Botero
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Giedre Kligyte, gkligyte@uiah.fi

13.45 OBSESSION

Presentation of a generative tool for cinematic montage.
CONTACT INFORMATION: pia.tikka@uiah.fi, rasmus.vuori@uiah.fi, mauri.kaipainen@uiah.fi

13.50 - 14.10 Pause - coffee

14.10 CRUCIBLE STUDIO UPDATE: interactive politics, participatory comedy and narrative spaces

In Media Centre Lume and Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Crucible Studio studies and develops narration of the digital, non-linear and interactive media. Since Summer 2003, the studio's collaborative research productions, including the doctoral research on "Interactive narratives in cross-media systems" and the interactive political talk-show "Election Star," have been funded by the Academy of Finland, the EC project IntelCities and the National Technology Agency of Finland. The Banff2003 television festival concept winner "Accidental Lovers," participatory black comedy for television, is under script-writing with the support of the AVEK Promotion Centre for
Audiovisual Culture and has been invited to the New Media for a New Millenium EC project proposal coordinated by British Telecom Exact and European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications. Also, two research productions on interactive narrative spaces are on their way to be finalised by the International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2004: Hanna Haaslahti's ScrambleSuit and Pia Tikka's Obsession.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
http://crucible.lume.fi
lumi@uiah.fi, juhani.tenhunen@lume.fi

14.20 LADYBUG

Ladybug is a media artwork based on four narrational animation scenes and a dynamic montage between them. The piece of work is experimenting with an idea to change a playing order of the scenes but at the same time maintain a logical story aspect of the film narration. Because there are four scenes the total amount of different kind of animations is 24. The media of Ladybug is DVD where a viewer has two kinds of ways to watch the animations. In a random option he or she lets a generative random algorithm order the scenes. In an interactive option the viewer can construct any particular playing order he or she wants. Ladybug's plot is dealing with a little known private life of Sandman. What happens to him depends on the playing order of the scenes.
CONTEXT:
MA final thesis work
WORKING GROUP:
Ville Eerikäinen, Noa Nakai
PRESENTERS:
Ville Eerikäinen
CONTACT INFORMATION:
ville.eerikainen@uiah.fi

14.30 UNESCO Young Digital Creator programme

CONTEXT:
Learning Environments for Progressive Inquiry Research Group
WORKING GROUP:
Tarmo Toikkanen
Giedre Kligyte
Janne Pietarila
Teemu Leinonen
Doyun Lee, UNESCO Coordinator
PRESENTERS:
Giedre Kligyte
CONTACT INFORMATION:
gkligyte@uiah.fi
http://unesco.uiah.fi/

14.40 MARINAN PUUTARHA (MARINA'S GARDEN)

Marina's Garden is a narrative research through scriptwriting for interactive media. One of the artistic outcomes of the research will be an interactive poetic installation. In the installation the visitor enters an intimate space of the poet, Marina, in her moment of loss - after death of her lover, and is asked to take an active part in the scene of remebering and writing: in the creation of poetic images.
CONTEXT: MA Final Thesis production
PRESENTER: Riikka Pelo
CONTACT INFORMATION: riikka.pelo@uiah.fi

NOTE! 15.00 IN SAMPO HALL
Elokuvantaju - CinemaSense: Japanese pages going public today

14.50 - 15.10 Pause - coffee

15.10 SANELMA - chat-bot from 30s

Sanelma is a chat-bot planned for the museum context. Sanelma is jazz-girl from Helsinki at 30s century. She is desperately wondering, whom to marry; Olavi - a decadent journalist, cityoptimist, or Armas, engeneer and futurist or Ilmari, a poet, a friend of Edith Södergran.
Just now Sanelma is going to skating rink - actually to the one near Johannes Church which can be seen in Sulho Sipilä´s painting from 1932.
CONTEXT:
Studyproject with Finnish National Gallery and University of Arts Philadelphia / MUMMI
WORKING GROUP:
Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Tarja Toikka, Jyrki Heinonen, Teriina Lindblom, Eeva-Kaisa Nojonen, Leena Saarinen, Marjo Mäenpää
PRESENTERS:
Marjo Mäenpää, Leena Saarinen and students
CONTACT INFORMATION:
marjo.maenpaa@uiah.fi

15.20 Exploring CARTA MARINA Cultural Heritage Forum

We will present the CIPHER project. Cipher - the name stands for Communities of Interest to Promote the Heritage of European Regions - is a European funded project whose objective is to build Cultural Heritage (CH) Forums. CIPHER has partners in Ireland, UK, the Czech Republic, and Austria.
Exploring Carta Marina is the CH Forum that we are creating in Finland. It is based in the Harkko Museum and is built around the narratives of the Carta Marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus. Exploring Carta Marina features the first digital interactive version of the Carta Marina. It also contains digital resource organization and navigation tools designed following similarity-clustering paradigms.
CONTEXT:
The Forum is part of the work being done for the CIPHER project in the Systems of Representation research group. The work in Exploring Carta Marina is part of a collaboration with the University of Uppsala Library in Sweden, the Harkko Museum in Raisio, and the Friisila and Ihala schools in Raisio.
WORKING GROUP:
Lily Díaz, Jazmin Aviles, Lotta Partanen, Janne Pietarila
PRESENTERS:
Lily Díaz, Lotta Partanen
CONTACT INFORMATION:
diaz@uiah.fi, lpartane@uiah.fi
http://cipher.uiah.fi

15.35 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE IRRELEVANT

The Good, The Bad and The Irrelevant conference, organised by the Media Lab, took place on September 3-5 2003, in the Media Centre Lume of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. The themes covered in the conference consisted of The extended human, Users as innovators, Dealing with diversity, and The reconfiguration of society.
As an integral part of the conference programme, a method to document discussions emerging from the conference topics using the Lume TV studio premises, was introduced. These TV studio discussions can be reviewed on the conference web site (goodbad.uiah.fi) which aims to be a forum and a resource for all interested in the conference topics.
CONTEXT:
ARKI Research group
Conference organised by Mlab and Cost 269
WORKING GROUP:
Kari-Hans Kommonen, Andrea Botero, Teriina Lindblom, Marjaana Laakkonen, Petri Kola, Riikka Vainio-Garcia, Miguel Lara, Matti Arvilommi, Markku Reunanen, Timo Pankakoski + many other students and collaborators from inside and outside UIAH..
PRESENTERS:
Teriina Lindblom
CONTACT INFORMATION:
http:// goodbad.uiah.fi
goodbad@uiah.fi

15.45 MOBILE MEDIA INTEREST GROUP

There are currently tens of students and researchers studying and working with mobile media at the Media Lab, the Crucible Studio, and elsewhere in UIAH. The freshly opened site http://mlab.uiah.fi/mobile now lists these people and projects in one place. The mobile media interest group aims to increase mobile media education, research, and content production activities across UIAH departments, and the site has been established to help in this aim.
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTERS:
Eeva Melvasalo, design
Heli Rantavuo and the Mobile media interest group, content
John Evans, Moblog

15.50 "LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR"

Love thy neighbour is a hybrid of interactive cinema and a computer game. It's also a drama about two neighbours having difficulties with each other. And it's about making lots of noise.
CONTEXT:
Interactive cinema workshop
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTERS:
Jinwoo Chung
Miikka Junnila
Leonidas Kambiselis
CONTACT INFORMATION:
miikka.junnila@helsinki.fi

15.55 - 16.15 Pause - coffee

16.15 IDIS group presents: DUMAS and AthosMail

The IDIS group focuses on human-computer interaction, especially spoken dialogues and user modelling. Recently we've been working in the EU-project DUMAS, the goal of which is to build the AthosMail, interactive email reading system. We'll present our work on message prioritizing component, based on the user's preferences and actions on the set of messages. And you can also test the Cooperativity Model which allows the system to choose an appropriate answer depending on the user's previous actions, knowledge, and skill.
Are you looking for a topic for your final thesis? Come and discuss if you're interested in spoken interaction - we will start user testing in the spring and would welcome your help in the design and conducting of the tests.
CONTEXT:
Presentation of the research of the newly established research group
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTERS:
Kristiina Jokinen, Kari Kanto, Antti Kerminen, Jyrki Rissanen
CONTACT INFORMATION:
kjokinen@uiah.fi
www.mlab.uiah.fi/taichi/

16.25 SOLAR ECLIPSE

We experimented with solar panels transforming light into sound in Ed Osbornes sound workshop in the fall term.
The first solarpanel - called 5/4 - is used to give electricity to a circuit of a few capasitors and resistors and a chip. The amount of light changes the pattern, the pitch and color of the sound. We are using light resistors which give even more variation to the sound. Through the circuit the are three possible positions to get the sound out. Each have their own sound.
The other solar panel piece - called 0/I - is a modification of an old calculator that also uses solar panel as an electric source. 0/I is sonifying calculations - numaric data.
Keywords: Solar panel, feedback, electric noise, contact microphone, contact speaker, Ralf Schreiber
CONTEXT:
Ed Osborn's Sound workshop outcome
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTERS:
Koray Tahiroglu
Joni Lyytikäinen
Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski
CONTACT INFORMATION:
ktahirog@uiah.fi
jlyytika@uiah.fi

16.30 THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM

The goal of the UIAH Media Lab doctoral programme is to educate highest level researhers and experts in the field of digital interactive media. The program organizes courses, workshops and seminars within the Lab and UIAH, and is partner to Helsinki area universities and other higher level education structures in arranging doctoral education for its students. Media Lab Doctoral students come from a variety of disciplines and from many countries. Currently there are 32 doctoral students in the program. Prof. Mauri Kaipainen and Heli Rantavuo present the latest news on the programme.
PRESENTERS: Mauri Kaipainen and Heli Rantavuo

16.40 INTERACTIVE MUSIC VIDEO

While watching this music video, you as the viewer can have a realtime impact on the performance of the main performer (musician) in the video. You can decide how interesting or boring the performance shall be. By clapping your hand and making noise you will influence the musicians actions. The louder the noise, the wilder the performance gets. Stopping to make noise prevents the musician from performing. But wait, he will try to seduce you to make noise again.
CONTEXT:
This project was done during the interactive cinema workshop with Chris Hales in October 3003.
WORKING GROUP:
Music, Text, Visuals & Programming by Lenin's Godson (Jürgen Scheible)
PRESENTERS:
Jürgen Scheible
CONTACT INFORMATION:
jscheib@uiah.fi

16.45 { JOURNEYS IN DESIGN }

Is an interactive piece on Diversity in visual communication and cross-cultural design. It introduces designers from 12 different countries who share their perspective on issues around designing across cultures, globalization and its impact on diversity.
The project aims to start a dialogue and raise awareness among designers about their role in these processes.
CONTEXT:
MA final thesis work
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTER:
Simona Schimanovich
CONTACT INFORMATION:
sschiman@uiah.fi
050 471 8853

16.55 AQUATIC, interactive sound installation

Aquatic is an interactive media installation inviting the audience to participate in a multisensorial experience. It is a three-dimensional interactive water soundscape to be explored through bodily movements within the space of the installation. The soundscape handles three emotional states free to one's interpretation: soft and quiet waters, refreshing streaming waters and tempest waters.
- As a motion driven audio system, the technical realisation of the installation uses David Rokebyís soft VNS for bodily motion tracking and Max Msp for ruling the interaction between motions and sounds.
CONTEXT:
MA Final Thesis Demo
WORKING GROUP:
Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, Media Lab
Supervisors Heidi Tikka and Petri Kuljuntausta
Tutors Jukka Ylitalo and Antti Ikonen
Media Center Lume (lightning)
PRESENTERS:
Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski
CONTACT INFORMATION:
mdecoste@uiah.fi

17.00 Demo space closes

ON DEMO FLOOR

FROM ME TO US

From Me to Us is a computer generated music installation for participants of all kinds of musical backgrounds. It is an improvisation process, interacting with MIDI instruments by using electric guitar as an interface. During the moment of playing, there is a contact between the sound created by the participant and the sound generated by the computer.
The improvisation turns into a continuous composition as long as a participant takes an active role in the installation. An important goal of the From Me to Us installation is to provide a situation where a participant can experience a musical collective improvisation.
PRESENTER: Koray Tahiroglu
CONTACT INFORMATION:
ktahirog@uiah.fi, http://mlab.uiah.fi/~korayt

LÄPPÄGAMES

WORKING GROUP:
Wesa Aapro
CONTACT INFORMATION:
waapro@uiah.fi

TUULETIN

Tuuletin is three old computer fans controlled with MAX/MSP. Fans are attached between two plastic plates and switched on/off randomly with MAX's ICube system. The piece is recorded with two piezo mics. The fans are rather old and their bearings are partly broken and end result sounds therefore tiny clicks and pops instead of humming. Practically this makes Tuuletin to produce very unique and constantly changing drumtrack.
CONTEXT:
Local Motion Sound Workshop
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTERS:
Timo Anttila
Roope Ritvos
Ville Tikkanen
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Timo Anttila, tanttil@uiah.fi
Roope Ritvos, rritvos@uiah.fi
Ville Tikkanen, tatikkan@uiah.fi

AWARE

CONTEXT:
John Evans (MA thesis)
Andrew Paterson (Doctoral studies)
WORKING GROUP:
Aki-Ville Pöykiö (MA)
John Evans (MA)
Markus Ort (exchange student to the Media Lab from KISD, Köln now left)
Andrew Paterson (Doctorate of Arts candidate).
PRESENTERS:
Aki-Ville Pöykiö (MA)
John Evans (MA)
Andrew Paterson (Doctorate of Arts candidate)
CONTACT INFORMATION:
http://aware.uiah.fi

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS and LEEKO
Two tiny realtime demonstrations from Assembly'03.
CONTEXT:
A personal project that has connections to Mlab studies.
The sound software was first presented in the "Advanced audio" course.
WORKING GROUP:
Markku Reunanen (Mlab), Antti Silvast (Univ. of Helsinki), Jarkko Rotstén
PRESENTERS:
Markku Reunanen
CONTACT INFORMATION:
marq@iki.fi

TAIVAANRANNAN MAALARI -The Interactive painting
CONTEXT:
Project of Experimental Interaction course, by Mr. Jukka Ylitalo
WORKING GROUP and PRESENTERS:
Kalle Jarva
Helena Hyvärinen
Minna Piirainen
CONTACT INFORMATION:
helena.hyvarinen@uiah.fi, 044-587 2077
kjarva@uiah.fi

"UNTITLED"
Oil Painting 75 x 55
CONTEXT:
Extracurricular.
CONTACT INFORMATION
roope.ritvos@uiah.fi, 050-5027720

Ladybug
Ville Eerikäinen, veerikai@hotmail.com

UNESCO Young Digital Creator programme
Kligyte Giedre, gkligyte@uiah.fi

IDIS group presents: DUMAS and AthosMail
Jyrki Rissanen, jyrki@uiah.fi

Love Thy Neighbour
Miikka Junnila, miikka.junnila@helsinki.fi

Snowman in hell - Vol. I
Miikka Junnila, miikka.junnila@helsinki.fi

Dead Superstar Croquet
Joakim Achren, joakim.achren@uiah.fi

Exploring Carta Marina Cultural Heritage Forum
Jazmin Aviles, Janne Pietarila, jazmin.avilez@uiah.fi, jpietari@uiah.fi

{ JOURNEYS IN DESIGN }
Simona Schimanovich, sschiman@uiah.fi

Mistake Boy and January Sunday Church Service
Wesa Aapro, waapro@uiah.f

SolarEclipse
Koray Tahiroglu, ktahirog@uiah.fi
Joni Lyytikäinen, jlyytika@uiah.fi

Sanelma - chat-bot from 30s
Marjo Mäenpää, mmaenpaa@uiah.fi, Leena Saarinen, lsaarine@uiah.fi

Interactive Music Video
Jürgen Scheible, info@leninsgodson.com

Immediate Impressions
Andrea Botero, abotero@uiah.fi, Pekka Salonen pms@uiah.fi

Aquatic
Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, mdecoste@uiah.fi

The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant
Teriina Lindblom, tlindblo@uiah.fi

More information:
Anna Arsniva, (09) 756 30 404

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