A Film by Mika Taanila
(Screening suggested by Eyebeam resident Jamie Allen)
“Erkki Kurenniemi is one of the great unsung pioneers of the electronic age, a man whose career encompasses a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers and robotics, and explores the interrelationships between art, nature and technology.
A leading figure in the Sixties avant-garde in music and film in Finland, Kurenniemi built his legendary DIMI synthesizers in the late 60’s, and probably created the first digital synthesizer in the world. In 1973 he created the first commercially manufactured and marketed microcomputer – two years before the American MITS Altair 8800.
THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE shows many of Kurenniemi’s innovative creations, never-before-seen archival material from the early years of electronic art, and excerpts from his own unfinished experimental short films. But the core of the film is what Kurenniemi is doing today, the most significant of all his projects: the task of collecting everything.”
http://www.frif.com/new2004/fut.html
http://www.phinnweb.org/links/cinema/directors/taanila/
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