"art projects"

Productions

systems opening 2

SYSTEMS Exhibition

Rethinking systems and art.

plantFutures_edited

Plant Futures - EMAP residence 2023

Visualising futures of local plants.

Potato Internet testing

Potato Internet - EMAP residence 2022

Caroline Sinders and Trammell Hudson envision a small-scale internet.

Song of Lead site

Song of Lead

Healing the soil with Pia Lindman.

Woad seeds held by a human palm

A Library of Seeds

Joss Allen celebrates the interrelationship of seeds and humans.

Map of Central Park waterways

Hydrofuturology

Imagining local water futures with Sophea Lerner.

Care as social investment, black text on background of lime green and beige

Institute of Care

Collaborative project to map out futures of care.

Algoffshore exhibition detail of model

The Great Offshore

Deciphering the logics of offshore finance with RYBN.org.

Central Park map

Central Park Archives

Co-archiving an urban forest.

MoneyLab 9 visual

Money Lab Helsinki

Laboratory of digital economy and organisation.

Care Project Administration 2020

Care Project Administration

Economies of care explored by the Forms of Ownership collective.

Maunula Staircase group talk

Maunula Staircase

Jeanne van Heeswijk and friends stir up discussion on local futures.

Network effects visual

Network Effects

Confonting the material, mental and political effects of today's online world.

The Hidden Life of an Amazon User

The Hidden Life of an Amazon User

Joana Moll makes visible the energy costs of an online purchase.

Mosaic Virus triptych of tulips

Mosaic Virus

Anna Ridler speculates with algorithmic tulips.

Smiley with tears on broken smart phone screen

The Web Politics Trilogy

Online activism project by artist collective Disnovation.org.

Public Faculty #13 on the rocks

Public Faculty

Jeanne van Heeswijk skecthes collective futures.

video icon with text war at a distance

Bottled Songs

Audiovisual exploration of terrorism in the age of social media by Chloé Galibert-Laîné & Kevin B. Lee.

Actors on the street demonstrating with signs.

Avatar Influence Game

Experimental game commission with artists Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen.

Audience looking at the models showing the Maunula Collection

Maunula Collection

Otto Karvonen and Justus Kantakoski claim clothes as public art.

Breakfast from the Past, Muhammad Saifi

Breakfast from the Past

Workshop of located memories led by Babak Arzani and Johanna Raekallio.

Printed picture of Dan, people playing Mölkky in the background

Maunula Looks

Street photography on local identity by Rogério Nuno Costa and Jaime Culebro.

A comic about mummy being lonely and sad, then finding the Saunabaari singing group and joining.

Partizaning Maunula

Local interventions in collaboration with the Partizaning collective.

Two boys looking at the screens in the exhibition of Recovered Utopias

Recovered Utopias

Project on past and present utopias with Axel Straschnoy.

Dance performance with self-made umbrellas

Reform 75/100

Feminist project on the gender pension gap by Bernadette Wolbring.

Martial Law at Patterimäki park hands up behind a fence

Martial Law

Anastasia Artemeva's site-specific project to re-imagine WW1 trenches.

Embassy of future at youth house, kids with cat masks

myfutures.trade

eeefff group speculates on futures economy with kids.

Sounds and Stories Live Performance with Knitting ladies

Sounds and Stories Live

Knitted soundscapes with composer Jobina Tinnemans and friends.

Details of work by Elena Mazzi, Valentina Karga and La Jetée

Karga/Mazzi/La Jetee

Local dialogues on global change - an exhibition at Maunula House.

Maunula-film premiere, audience

Maunula - film

Collaborative film realised in residency with Riikka Kuoppala and Thomas Martin.

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Our Coming Community

Valentina Karga's collective totem representing the future values of a community.

Man watching tv, making a gesture with his hands, looking unhappy

I'm Talking to You

Elena Mazzi encourages local responses to global media of crisis.

Shadows of three performers, an image of a sad girl projected on the wall

Candy Star

Choreographer Juli Reinartz explores media identities with teenagers.

Maunula Atmospheres close up of sky with birds

Maunula Atmospheres

Artist duo La Jetée deciphers climate change in private archives of a neighbourhood.

YKON Dinner games - the vodka shot

YKON Dinner Games

Workshop with YKON to experiment on the social format of the dinner.

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Heavy Metal Detector

Steve Maher detects underground music subcultures.

Night Searchers bus station facade projection by Maija Saksman

Night Searchers

Nocturnal urban observations by Seppo Renvall, Maija Saksman and friends.

Spectre of People virtual demonstration

The Spectre of People

Virtual protest against austerity politics.

Tales from Frontiers Jone Takamäki playing music, projection on the background

Tales from Frontiers

Audiovisual facade projection at the Helsinki Observatory, Night of the Arts 2015.

Organic Cinema plants and screen

Organic Cinema

World Wilder Lab amplifies the whispers of plants.

Urban Alphabets workshop, participant looking at the letters on their phone

Urban Alphabets

Suse Miessner invites citizens to message with their city's own alphabets.

Fish-Go-Round! lit umbrellas and dark background

Fish-go-Round!

Live performance for electronic music, radiowaves, lights and dancers by Shinji Kanki and friends.

MFF2014 poster detail with bee

Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2014

Media art festival enrolling urban flora and fauna, as well as radio signals, networks and citizens as participants.

I, Cloud still from game, billboard in the desert

I, Cloud and Uncharted

Timo Bredenberg explores the desert of the net economy.

Dialogues Deconstructed City facade projection

Dialogue – Deconstructed City

VJ group Random Doctors explore the social, spatial and political structures of the city.

TransEurope Slow viewers looking at screen

TransEurope Slow

A virtual bike ride through changing European cities.

Binoculars to.. from, eyes on public screen

Binoculars to... from

An exchange of gazes between cities orchestrated by Mar Canet and Varvara Guljajeva.

MFF13 Poster detail

Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2013

Media art festival exploring the networked city.

Robin Hood monster made of big banks

Robin Hood

Public intervention by Robin Hood cooperative, investment bank for the precariat.

The Race Code pictures of participants

The Race Code

Public face recognition and profiling by Timo Wright and Matti Niinimäki.

Urban Takes Helsinki people looking at the picture wall

Urban Takes Helsinki

Michelle Teran reflects on YouTube videos as urban sense-making.

MFF2012 poster detail

Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2012

Media art and urban media for all - in the second Media Facades Festival edition in Helsinki.

NTA punch lines - boxers

News Transformation Agency

YKON transforms news to script different futures.

Reading Kamppi black and white detail with text

Reading Kamppi

A collaborative project reflecting on words and images in the cityscape.

Kallio Archive logo player icon with metro

Kallio Archive

Open-source video archive on the changing neighbourhood of Kallio.

Air Hunger projection at Mannerheim statue

Air Hunger

Breath-generated, site-specific landscapes by Hanna Haaslahti.

City Sleep Light Helsinki by Antoine Schmitt

City Sleep Light

Antoine Schmitt dreams with data and facades.

At Hand viewers touching the screen

At Hand

Heidi Tikka traces urban gestures and the possibility of encountering otherness.

Giants of the Hoods dancer on Kallio facade

Giants of the Hoods

Dance moves on public facades by the Giants of the Hoods group.

Tenantspin Kontula News screenshot

We are the people, this is the place

Neighbourhood film exchanges Helsinki-Liverpool with tenantspin.

Contexts

Smiley with tears on broken smart phone screen

Online Imaginaries

Artists at work for a new political imagination of the internet.

Maunula schoolkids at playing field

Maunula collaborations

Collaborative & media art programme in the Maunula neighbourhood.

Connecting Cities Network logo

Connecting Cities Network

International network to co-produce and present media art in public spaces.

 

 

Media Facades Festival detail of LED screen

Media Facades Helsinki

Festival of media art in public spaces.

Reflections

Public Faculty #13 on the rocks

Public Faculty

Jeanne van Heeswijk skecthes collective futures.