Media Lab, The Future

Join us for an inspiring showcase of the work of some of Aalto’s Media Lab alumni! Discover with us the practice of three important artists that have emerged from the Media Lab: Tytti Arola, Jaakko S. Kemppainen and Timo Wright. 

This event is as well your last chance to see the anniversary exhibition at Marsio – a journey through three decades of experimentation at Media Lab. 

But this final event won't be a "rosy retrospection". We will discuss the question of how the next chapter for the Media Lab could look like, in times of rapid political and technological changes. Rasmus Vuori, Antti Ikonen and Miikka Junnila among others will share their thoughts. 

In order to gather a wide variety of viewpoints to contribute to the discussion we kindly ask you to answer the three Media Lab related questions in our mini-survey. PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FILE YOUR RESPONSES:  https://forms.gle/VPNPiySypSjQMAm79 . Thank you!

Program

15:00 3 x Artist Talks by Media Lab Alumni
with Tytti Arola, Jaakko S. Kemppainen and Timo Wright

16:00 The Future of Media Lab - A Conversation

17:15 Video Work by Eduard Tampu ""There is not enough time"

17:30 Live concert by miranda "pulu" kastemaa

Artists

Tytti Arola is a Finnish sound artist, composer and performer living in Helsinki. She is a recent graduate from Media Lab (2019) from the Sound in New Media program. Arola is interested in multisensorial compositions and exploring spatial sound. Artworks often include electronics, live performances, and self-made instruments. Among the many notable works, "a s s e m b l e" is a piece for 2000 singers and the "Robottikuoro" (Robot Choir).

Jaakko Kemppainen was one of the first five students who started Game Design and Development studies in Media Lab in 2010. He has been working with games since 2002, mostly as a game designer, but also as a producer, teacher, entrepreneur, and author. In 2019 - 2023 he worked as the first regional artist of games at Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

Timo Wright is a media artist based in Helsinki, Finland, who graduated from Media Lab in 2014.  His works have been shown at over 80 festivals and exhibitions worldwide, including Nakanojo Biennale, Nikolaj Kunsthal, IDFA, Slamdance, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Japan Media Arts Festival. One of his latest works "Fukushima – The Home That Once Was" is a VR-documentary about the empty villages and the former residents of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Accident's no-go exclusion zone.

Eduard Tampu is an independent Sound Artist and researcher based in Helsinki. He is  currently studying in the MA Sound in New Media program at Media Lab. His focus is on Data Sonification and Interactive Art.

miranda "pulu" kastemaa is an award-winning algorithmic musician from Helsinki with two decades of background in electronic music and programming. In 2018, their life changed after experiencing music livecoding for the first time at the Media Lab. Ever since, they have been obsessively building a deeply integrated system for seamlessly performing with MIDI-manipulated patterns in TidalCycles, SuperCollider 2 and their own PHP livecoding tool; co-organizing workshops, meetups and concerts with Algorave Helsinki; as well as livestreaming on topics such as retrocomputing, headtracker interfacing, USB reverse engineering and keyboard firmware hacking — all eventually leading back to music.