Media Lab Student Portfolio: Petri Kuittinen

I am a Master of Arts in New Media student in Media Lab. I have also studied computer engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) from year 1991. Along with my studies I work part time at the research & design department of Raha-automaattiyhdistys as a game programmer. Previously I used to work at HUT as a course assistant and UNIX system administrator of Niksula.

My areas of expertise include: programming (C, Assembler, Python...), game design, audio & video technology, DJ work, UNIX/Linux, fitness (nutrition, training)
My interests include: fitness, music (almost any kind, especially euro dance, classical, rock and computer music and movie soundtracks), reading (non-fiction and fiction, especially fantasy, SciFi & comics), writing, role-playing games, Internet, CPU architectures, programming languages, photography, data compression, computer demos, cooking and baking.

Here are links to WWW documents related to my studies at UIAH.

• Link to my home page at HUT
• Contact Information
• Pictures of me training at the gym

Studies - Spring 1999

• Media Culture (1 cr.)
  • Noise in Man-Generated Images and Sound
• Genres in Design (1 cr.)
  • Computer Demos - The Story So Far
• Advanced Digital Audio (1 cr.)
  • Music and sound effects for a short animation film.
• Game Design Workshop (1 cr.)
• Game Design Study Project (6 cr.)
  • Multi-Player Video Poker (short presentation)
• EMMA course forum (1 cr.)
• Media Management (1 cr.)
• Electronic Publishing-Workshop (1 cr.)
  • Student portfolio (This WWW page is the example)
• Advanced Web Techniques (1 cr.)
  • World's Slowest Mandelbrot Fractal (My first Javascript-program made in just few minutes :-))
• Information Management (1 cr.)
• Database Programming (0.5 cr.)
  • klooni.net - Yet Another Internet Dating Service (I cannot make this service publicly available, because Medialab WWW server would probably be flooded)
• Scriptwriting Workshop (1 cr.)
• Storyboarding Workshop (1 cr.)

Studies - Autumn 1998

• Collaborative and Problem Based Learning (1 cr.)
• Media Design Essentials (1 cr.)
  • My Case (DJ) (in Finnish)
  • Analysis - Interactive Design (in Finnish)
• Basic Image Editing (0.5 cr.)
  • Ropecon'98 photo gallery
• Advanced Image Editing (0.5 cr.)
• Digital Audio Basics (1 cr.)
  • 2 MIDI compositions made in Media Lab's Audio Edit
• Digital Video Production I (0.5 cr.)
• Digital Video Production II (0.5 cr.)
  • Self-portrait video
• Introduction to 3D Environments (0.5 cr.)
• 3D Modelling (1 cr.)
  • Tower of Babel
• WWW Design Essentials (0.5 cr.)
• Web Project Management (0.5 cr.)
• Introduction to Multimedia Scriptwriting (0.5 cr)
  • CDROM review (in Finnish)
• Game Seminar (1 cr.)
  • Roguelike Games
• Design for Interaction (1 cr.)
• Study Project 1: Media Architecture (3 cr.) (in Finnish)

Other Interesting Work

• History of Video Games