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Media Lab Events 2001
................ Season's Greetings
An animated Christmas greeting awaits you at Merry Christmas! ................ Media Lab demos on Sub-TV The SUB workshop / Media Lab demos on Sub-TV channel 25.12. at 16.45 (Muisto and Etukeno) and 26.12. at 17.50 (Käpylehmä)................. Media Lab graduates 14.12.2001
Our new MAs in New Media: Roses & congrats! Photo © Jon Nykänen ................ Media Lab Christmas Demos 13.12.2001 ................ Mlab web server getting updated There might be something missing from our web pages for some more days. The web server is getting updated; sorry for the inconvenience. ................ DUMAS project started This is to inform you all that the EU-project DUMAS (IST-2000-29452) has started from the beginning of October. The three-year DUMAS project (Dynamic Universal Mobility for Adaptive Speech Interfaces) develops multi-lingual speech-based applications. It focuses on intelligent and ambient interaction management, with a special emphasis on naturalness that takes into account the user's personalised needs. There are eight partners in the consortium: SICS (SE), UTA (FIN), UIAH (FI), UMIST (UK), Conexor (FI), ETeX-Sprachsynthese (GER), Timehouse (FI), KTH (SE). UIAH will act as the Scientific Coordinator of the project, while the administrative coordination is on the responsibility of SICS. The Media Lab group consists of Jyrki Rissanen (teamleader), Kari Kanto (researcher) and Kristiina Jokinen (project manager). The UIAH representative in the project's supervisor board is Philip Dean. You can reach the group by mail. You can find more information about DUMAS at http://www.sics.se/dumas/ On behalf of the DUMAS team here at UIAH I would like to express my thanks to all of you for your support so far, and I look forward to a fruitful and successfull collaboration in the future. Sincerely,
Kristiina Jokinen ................ Application procedure updated
Application time 1.2.- 15.3.2002 ................ Open lecture 26.10. GREG ROACH At 10-14 in Lume Centre's Sampo Hall. "Beyond Games: Interactive and Multi-dimensional Narrative, Storytelling and Film" an in-depth examination of the theory, structure, syntax, methods, tools and techniques for creating immersive, participatory dramatic and literary experiences for delivery on digital platforms. Greg Roach is the founder and CEO of HyperBole Studios http://www.hyperbole.com/, a cutting-edge interactive studio focused oninteractive film, video and storytelling. For ten years he has been recognized as a worldwide leader in this burgeoning field. His unique vision and abilities have made him a highly sought after teacher, designer and speaker. His products have won many multiple awards and sold millions of units worldwide. In addition to his creative work, he is also recognized as a visionary inventor: holding a number of patents in the field of interactive film and video. More info in Finnish. ................ Master Class in interaction design
interactionmasters.uiah.fi Interaction design is rapidly becoming a central consideration in new media design and development. Expanding the notions and practices of usability and interface design, interaction design addresses and emphasises the qualities of user experience. The field of interaction design involves the development of dynamic, dramatic and rich media interfaces by using a variety of approaches from the arts and programming - but also a deeper understanding of the contexts and cultures of media use. In Winter 2001-02, the UIAH Center of Expertise for New Media organizes a master class in interaction design. The master class aims at developing professional agendas for interaction design and at opening up challenging views to the potentials of experience design. The master class combines lectures and demos with a peer-to-peer workshop mode. The tutors are international and Finnish experts of the field, and their topics cover dynamic/generative, audio/visual as well as emotional/contextual aspects of interaction design, while addressing a variety of platforms, tools and skills.
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Further info uusmedia@uiah.fi ................ Giant Steps on TV Kai Lappalainen's final thesis film Giant Steps will be shown in YLE1 Uusi Kino on Thursday 1.11. at 23.45................. The Crucible research studio seeks... The Crucible research studio seeks a Production Director to join the 3-person management team. Crucible's first production is planned for Autumn 2002. Applicants are expected to have IT business and/or cultural production management experience, a good networking ability in the European/international IT industry and social skills for a multidisciplinary environment. Read more: http://crucible.uiah.fi/ ................ The latest appointment: Philip Dean Philip Dean has been appointed professor of New Media (new media design and production managemant), starting 15.8.2001. The appointment was confirmed by UIAH governing board at their meeting of 14.8.2001. Philip Dean has been Director of the Media Lab UIAH since it was formed in 1993. As director he has been a pioneer in the development of both multi-disciplinary education and applied research in the area of interactive digital media, its design, content production and production management. Dean has led the Media Lab's activities in many national and international projects, especially within EU Media and framework R&D programmes. He is a member of several Finnish expert groups and is a board member of the Nordic Interactive (NI) network. Philip Dean came to Finland from UK in 1982 after graduating in Photography, Film and Television at the London College of Printing, London Institute. After a post-graduate scholarship period at UIAH Dean worked as a photographer and journalist in the 1980's and was active as an artist and teacher in the development of Finnish Photographic Art and photographic education. As technical editor of Valokuvalehti and a lecturer of the department of Photographic Art at UIAH he was involved in research and integration of rapidly evolving digital imaging techniques into photographic practice through his teaching and writing in the early 1990s. In recent years Dean has been increasingly involved in development of international research and development activities related to the application of interactive media technology and the production of innovative media content. These projects are characterized by the interdisciplinary nature of the research teams and the emphasis on collaborative design methods. Amongst other current responsibilities Philip Dean is manager of a large EU Education and Training project, ITCOLE, within the EU's Information Society Technologies Programme (IST) which aims to design, test and implement an open-source web-based collaborative learning environment for the European School system. ................ Elokuvantaju - CinemaSense awarded The web-based teaching resource CinemaSense (Elokuvantaju), developed by Media Lab UIAH, has been awarded the second prize in the Media & Message competition, recently held in Turku. The project has been the brain child of Antti Raike, a researcher and doctoral researcher at the Media Lab. The production has involved a large team of collaborators including Media Lab's MA students Karri Laitinen and Timo Viikari. CinemaSense allows the study of film production techniques, theory and film language through the web. The site, still undergoing development, currently has versions in Finnish, English, Japanese (limited) and Finnish Sign Language. The Media & Message event and competition is the annual gathering of members of the Association of Independent Producers in Finland, Satu ry. Find CinemaSense in English at http://mlab.uiah.fi/elokuvantaju/2001/english/english.jsp See the pic: Antti Raike, Timo Viikari, Karri Laitinen ................ Our new MA students, MA01
Anttila Timo ................ MA curriculum 01-02 and minor subject studies updated
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Minor subject studies, requirements and application procedure here: ................ Application time: New Media Programme for Professionals See Helsingin Sanomat 10.6.2001 page C12 and http://mlab.uiah.fi/2studies/muuntohaku.html. New Media Programme for Professionals (Muuntokoulutusohjelma, was: New Media Professional Transfer Programme), application time 11.6.-31.8.2001. More info: Pipsa Asiala, Marjo Mäenpää,................. New MAs in New Media 18.5.2001 The official photo © Jon Nykänen.
Hanna Haaslahti Congrats and lots of roses! @----->----- ................ Media Lab Demo Day 16.5.01 INVITATION We warmly welcome you to join us on our Spring Demo Day on Wednesday, May 16th, in the afternoon beginning at 13.00. The place: Sampo Hall (was: Leonia), Media Center Lume Taideteollinen korkeakoulu, UIAH Hämeentie 135 C, 00560 Helsinki This event is our way of showing each other, as well as a few friends and media, what we've been up to during the study year. The presentation will be held mainly in English and will be interpreted into Finnish sign language. RSVP by Monday 14.5. at 12.00 to Anna Arsniva. Thanks in advance & welcome!
Rough Schedule: 12.00 (Optional) Guided walking tour of our studies, research and spaces, starting outside the Sampo Auditorium ................ Candira running now! The Drama Between Real and Virtual study project http://mlab.uiah.fi/insideout/ production Candira http://mlab.uiah.fi/candira/ has been running since May 7, and is updated frequently until May 11, though the web site will remain up for the discussion board activity in Candira's "Mirror." Candira is a first year MA student research production on dramatic web structures and visualisation, participatory digital narrative, and new character-centered genres between fiction and documentary, short story and homepage, text and moving image. ................ CIRCUS 3.-6.5. CIRCUS working meeting in the Media Lab. Conference call! Registration to the CIRCUS Conference in September (Glasgow). "...The circus conference, the first of its kind internationlly, will bring together artists, designers, performers, theorists and computer scientists to debate the research issues posed by the next generation of advanced information technology for the creative and performing arts, media and the electronic publishing industry..." ................ Prix Möbius Finlande contest 27.4.01 From the Media Lab: Elokuvantaju - CinemaSense (Antti Raike & al) and Multimedia for the National Museum (coord. Marjo Mäenpää). Congrats so far! Presentations 13 - 21.30 on Friday in Kiasma theatre, the jury will make desicions on Friday evening................. Falling Through the Force of Gravity FINAL THESIS EXHIBITION Falling Through the Force of Gravity includes an interactive video installation (the exhibition part) and short film (seeing at final degree presentation at Thu 3th of May 9-10). The work combines dance and documentary to explore how personal history is constructed through physical memories and photographs. Using photographs to reconstruct corporeal memories, the dancers Pia Lindy and Fatou Traore seek physical approaches to their past. The work deals with the collisions between visual and corporeal memory and with the unpleasant feeling of not recognizing oneself in a photograph. Interactive video installation: By stepping on the footprints in front of the video screen, the audience can control the dancers' movements. The choreography changes in rhythm with the visitor's jumps. But the control cuts both ways; the visitor may think of the dancers as a marionettes to move about, but also the installation has control over the visitor's movements. ................ Cultural Usability seminar 24.4.01 Cultural Usability seminar LUME Center, Sampo auditorium April 24, 2001 10 am - 5 pmParticipation is free, but please register online by Monday, April 23 noon! The seminar language is English, with simultaneous translation into sign language. Cultural Usability is a preliminary research project funded by the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH and carried out at the university's Media Lab. The research looks for critical approaches to new media design by creating exchanges between cultural studies, sociology of technology, design research and technology development. 'Cultural usability' is a working hypothesis for a design practice that takes into account the larger socio-cultural context of use, reaching beyond the functional interests of contemporary usability research and interface development. The public seminar presents some of the approaches developed within the research, which is published on the web. The aim is to activate critical discussion of technology development and design, to which the seminar's invited speakers have significantly contributed. The seminar is targeted to researchers, students and practitioners of new media and technology. Admission free of charge. ................ CIATV 2001 meeting in the Media Lab European concept development for interactive multimedia - CIATV working meeting in the Media Lab UIAH 19.-24.4.01. CIATV is supported by the Media2 programme. Please go to see the info on previous meetings.
................ Pockets full of Memories 18.4. in Paris "Pockets full of Memories" is an online and museum installation in which the audience creates an archive by scanning an object in their possession at the time of the exhibition visit. These items and their descriptions are entered into a continuously growing database. The sum of the archive of objects, organized through a neural-net based self-organizing map algorithm, is to be projected on a large gallery wall and the audience will be able to interact, regroup, and reformulate relationships through terminals in the exhbition space. The exhibition/archive's aim is to explore digital data.structures as a site of collective memory, reflect the diversity and make-up of the audience: who they are, what they are interested in, how they describe themselves represented through the objects donated to the archive, and to make accessible and understandable how advanced datastructures function. The exhibition is realized in collaboration with medialab at the University of Arts and Design Helsinki (Kohonen self-organizing map algorithm - Timo Honkela, Timo Koskenniemi, Petri Saarikko; Media Lab) and c3 center for Culture and Communication, Budapest (touchscreen data collection, online and gallery interaction hardware and projection software). Design by projekttriangle, Stuttgart. Support by Langlois Foundation for Arts, Media and Technology, Montreal, Canada. Opening in the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, on 18.4.01 Pls go to see George Legrady's text and Projekttriangle's exhibition site................. ITCOLE project kick-off This is to inform you all that I have received the fully signed contract for our ITCOLE project (IST-2000-26249) from the European Commission. In his covering letter the head of the responsible unit, Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, expresses his appreciation of the successful completion of our negotiations and sends best wishes from his team for success in our research. According to my duties as manager of the project I will now formally confirm the immediate start of the project to the commission. On behalf of the ITCOLE team here at UIAH I would like to express my thanks to all collaborators for the work done so far. Sincerely
Philip Dean ................ More events this spring 2001 More info coming later: In the Media Lab CIATV working meeting 19.-24.4. See the info on previous meetings. ITK'01 Hämeenlinna 20.-21.4. Antti Raike, Timo Viikari: Elokuvantaju. In LUME, Sampo (was: Leonia) 24.4. Minna Tarkka, Heidi Tikka: Cultural usability seminar. In the Media Lab3.-6.5. CIRCUS working meeting. In LUME, Sampo (was: Leonia) 16.5. Media Lab Demo Day. In LUME, Sampo (was: Leonia) 17.-19.5. Dreaming for the future conference................. We're looking for teachers The text in Finnish(see also Helsingin Sanomat 24.2.01). ................ Julien Favre 5.3.01 Studia Generalia and demos by Julien Favre: INTERACTIVE FICTION, ITV-Drama Forum, Paris.UIAH, Leonia hall 10-16.30. "Why is itv-drama unavoidable? How narrative can be interactive? Basic rules to create killerup i-drama!" ................ Media Lab: Doctor of Arts Dissertation 22.2. at 12 Doctor of Arts Dissertation: WWW, multimedia and theories of screenwriting offer starting points for development of Interactive Television Programs. Also virtual communities and home shopping provide ideas. Kari Jääskeläinen's publication is the first doctoral dissertation from Scandinavia's leading Media Laboratory, The Media Lab of University of Art and Design, Helsinki. Press release in EnglishPress release in Finnish Jääskeläinen's publication in the web (.pdf) Invitation to Leonia 22.2. at 12, in Finnish ................ Application time 1.2. - 16.3.2001
More details and the application procedure: ................ NEW MEDIA ART FROM FINLAND IN WASHINGTON D.C.
F2F: NEW MEDIA ART FROM FINLAND
CONTINUES ITS US TOUR IN WASHINGTON D.C. F2F: New Media Art from Finland exhibition started its US tour in Los Angeles last fall. From February 5 through March 3, the exhibition will be open in Washington D.C. at the Embassy of Finland, 3301 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.
The exhibition displays interactive installations from nine media
artists. The featured artists and their works are: Tuomo Tammenpää has a background in photography and graphic design. He holds a B.A. in Photography from the University of Arts and Design, Helsinki (UIAH), and an M.A. in Photography and Interactive Art from the UIAH Media Lab. During the 1990s he has participated in several exhibitions in Finland, Scandinavia and Central Europe with video and media installations. At the moment, Tuomo works as the Creative Director in the Mindworks Ltd., a Helsinki-based digital design production company.
ABOUT NEED The NEED project, presented in F2F exhibition, is an online project that can be experienced independently in the internet. Visiting the exhibition further enhances the participatory experience. NEED is a perfect brand, there is no product, just the image. Need is a test environment for exploring brand building and consumer culture in western societies. The Need project was inspired by the observation that marketing awakens artificial needs and desires in people. In the F2F exhibition, the installation is a showroom type "shop-in gallery". Need package design samples are promoted in a bright and clinical space. A computer panel with direct connection to the Needweb is mounted on the central cabin of the shop. This is the main interactive component for audience participation in the exhibition installation. NEED is produced by Mindworks Ltd. and supported by AVEK, The Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture in Finland, Grafia ry and Westlux Ltd. Finland.
For more information about F2F, please contact:
the Embassy of Finland, Anneli Halonen at (202)298 5823, e-mail
anneli.halonen@formin.fi or
For more information about Need, please contact: ................ Sinikka Alanko retires from Media Lab as of 1.2.2001 This is to inform you all that Sinikka Alanko has now officially retired from duty here in the Media Lab as of 1.2.2001. As most of you will know Sinikka has been Amanuenssi here since the lab was formed in the early 1990s. Prior to this she was employed in UIAH Koulutuskeskus. In 1999 Sinikka had a serious accident in the late Summer which resulted in some permanent damage to her arm. Her premature retirement is as a result of these injuries. I would like to thank Sinikka for all the work she has done within the lab during the 1990s. She was a great personal support for me, especially in the early years when my management expertise was often in need of improvement, as well as being a great believer in openness and democratic processes in the lab's day to day business. Sinikka helped me to unravel the mysteries of the UIAH financial reporting system and acted as my go-between on many occassions in dealings with 6th floor. She has also been a strong campaigner for the improvement of our physical environment here. Although it is sad to see Sinikka leave I think that we must also be very happy for her in her new life on the shores of Saimaa to where she moved in December with husband Kalle and her two cats. As we grit our teeth here in the stress of work and look out on slush-covered Hämeentie one can feel a little jealous of Sinikka's new environment in the peace and solitude of a real Finnish idyll. On behalf of all staff and students of the Media Lab I'd like to thank Sinikka for all her hard work here and wish her all the best of luck and happiness for the future.
Philip Dean ................ Maureen Thomas' lecture in the Leonia
Mon 29.1.2001 Open for everybody - an interesting public lecture as a part of the Thomas' workshop THE 2D TO 4D OF OZ in the Media Lab UIAH. More info:
Maureen Thomas, her work, interests & the workshop
Maureen Thomas & The Cambridge University Moving Image Studio Welcome!
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