Register now to the Minna Tarkka Lectures and Workshops

Minna Tarkka Lectures and Workshops at Kiasma and Aalto University

Registration to Minna Tarkka Lectures 2025 Workshops & Lectures is now open. Join this get-together focused on discussing and debating the potential of art, media, and technology reshaping current and future democratic societies.

Registrations to the workshops at Aalto:

eeefff: Algosomatic Session

Ruth Catlow: Finding Our Role in the World Wild Web – Solidarity Practices in Our More-than-Human Society

Harold Hejazi: Reprogramming Public Spaces through Multiplayer Gameplay

Registration to the Lectures at Kiasma:

Register here

Minna Tarkka Lectures Live Stream from Kiasma Theatre:

Watch live-stream here

Collective Imagination in the Era of Optimisation 

December 1–4, 2025

Speakers: Artist, researcher, curator, and organiser Ruth Catlow, artist collective eeefff, artist and game designer Harold Hejazi
Respondents: Artist-organiser Andrew Gryf Patterson, PhD Marleena Huuhka, artist, educator, and co-founder of Station of Commons Grégoire Rousseau 
Food pairings for the lectures by artists: Alejandra Alarcón, Joona Sorsa and Emma Vilppula, and Caroline Suinner

Produced by Media Culture and Art Agency M-Cult
Partners: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Aalto University, Aalto Media Lab
Funded by: Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation

Workshop venue:
Aalto University Marsio Building, Experimental Studio 1 (Room 3430), Otakaari 2, Espoo. 
Registration for workshops closes: 23 November 2025.

Lecture venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Kiasma Theatre, Mannerheiminaukio 2, 00100 Helsinki. Lectures will also be live-streamed on M-Cult’s YouTube channel

Programme Schedule 

MON, December 1
10:00 – 12:00  & 13:00 – 16:00
WORKSHOP – Aalto University, Marsio-building
eeefff: Algosomatic Session

TUE, December 2 
14:00 – 19:30
LECTURES – Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Kiasma Theatre 
Ruth Catlow: Life and Death in the World Wild Web
Harold Hejazi: Reprogramming Public Spaces
eeefff: Scenes of Algosomatics, Educational Fiction, Partisan Technologies

Lectures are paired with respondents Andrew Gryf Paterson, Marleena Huuhka, and Grégoire Rousseau, and edible artworks by Alejandra Alarcón, Joona Sorsa and Emma Vilppula, and Caroline Suinner. 

WED, December 3
10:00 – 12:00  & 13:00 – 16:00
WORKSHOP – Aalto University, Marsio-building
Ruth Catlow: Finding Our Role in the World Wild Web – Solidarity Practices in Our More-than-Human Society

THU, December 4 10:00 – 12:00  & 13:00 – 16:00
WORKSHOP – Aalto University, Marsio-building
Harold Hejazi: Reprogramming Public Spaces through Multiplayer Gameplay