Heidi Tikka
Heidi Tikka is a practicing media artist and researcher at UIAH Media Lab.
In the context of feminist analysis she has inquired into spatialities, distance and representation. Her installations explore visual technologies in the production of embodied and immersive experiences.
Currently her research elaborates on the notion of affectivity in interface design and media art, approaching it as a series of boundary breakdowns in intersubjective as well as subject-object relationships.
Recent activities by year
2002
Professor, multimedia and communication, Media Lab UIAH (until 30.6.02)
Exhibitions:
"Mother, Child" in F2F, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada, 2002
"Screen Memories" in "Valokuva ja video", Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland, 2002
2001
Professor, multimedia and communication, Media Lab UIAH
"Remembering, passing through"
Interactive video projection, 2001 in conjunction with "granice/borders", curated by Malgorzata Liciewicz, Baltic Sea Culture Centre, Gdansk, Poland, 2001, incl. catalogue
"Affective environments: configuring the affective user?"
Article, Cultural Usability project, Media Lab UIAH, Finland, 2001
"Missing the point - situated user experience and the materiality of interaction"
Conference paper, "Affective encounters: rethinking embodiment in feminist media studies", conference proceedings, University of Turku, School of Art, Literature and Music Series A, N:o 49, E-book at
http://www.utu.fi/hum/mediatutkimus/
affective/proceedings.pdf
Exhibitions:
"Mother, Child" in F2F, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada, 2001
"Mother, Child" in F2F, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 2001
"Mother, Child" in F2F, The Embassy of Finland, Washington DC, USA, 2001
2000
Researcher, Media Lab UIAH
"Mother, Child"
Interactive video projection, 2000, in conjunction with F2F
New Wight Gallery at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 2000
"The Space of Gallery"
Summary of the licentiate thesis work in Haunted Spaces, ed. Eeva Kurki, Working Papers F12, UIAH, Helsinki
Exhibitions:
"Screen memories" in "Valoa", The Finnish Photography Museum, Helsinki
