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  1. Dialogues/What Passes Between -exhibition opening at Viimsi

    Today, the exhibition we have done together with Matti Vainio opens at the Viimsi Kunstikool gallery in Estonia. The exhibition continues our collaborative work and focuses on drawing at a very existential level, examining how a line forms and when it becomes part of something that might then affect the way the line forms. When does something become something else? In particular, when does a drawn line start to represent something figurative, emotional or logical? Is there a way for the line not do that? If yes, what happens then? These old (modernist?) questions intrigue us. For me, it shows…

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  2. With the Thing

    Bioart Society’s SOLU Space will host the premiere of "With the Thing" on Friday, August 28, 2024, from 18:00 to 20:00. The screening, a 5-minute video by me and Henrika Ylirisku, delves into human interactions with a curious, device with a pulse. The event continues on Saturday, August 29, featuring a reading group discussion and a second screening. With the Thing aims to challenge our perceptions of digital and non-human entities. The event takes place at SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1, Helsinki. Click for more info!

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  3. Biber, Alus, Kalya and Beor - Beer as material and landscape.

    I am thrilled to announce my forthcoming artistic project, made possible by a lovely grant from Svenska Kulturfonden (Thank you!). In the project, I will focus on beer, beer’s agency and materiality. This will be done through brewing and painting with beer! I like beer. And I'm not alone, as an estimated 177.5 million kiloliters of beer are consumed worldwide each year. In Finland, beer consumption is estimated at 72 litres per year per person, which is a lot, but still less than in the Czech Republic, where beer is consumed the most (161 litres per person). A rose by…

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  4. NO! My data can not be used to train AI models!

    There has been rapid development in machine learning models recently. The scientific achievements are in many ways impressive and valuable (Gupta et al., 2022; Ardila et al., 2019). However, some of the development has been more focused on commerce, i.e. selling different products based on these trained models. Lensa AI , for instance, is a smartphone app that creates AI images based on your selfie. They sell ”magic avatar packs ” for 5€ and also require membership. Other similar image-alteration or text-to-image products ask for equal payments, and some stock image banks have started selling AI-generated images. Even though a…

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  5. The Death of AI art

    From: Tomi Slotte Dufva Subject: The Death of AI Art Format: A̶S̶C̶I̶I̶ HTML+js+god nows what the webpages use these days Average Reading Time:Time will tell. Signal to Noise Ratio: Only known by algorithms Rating: adult Genre: provocation (copycat) The recent trend with technology is to bet heavily on Artificial Intelligence. From automating tiresome factory jobs, AI is now moving into more cognition demanding jobs. Not only truck or taxi drivers are threatened, but doctors, nurses, and many others as well. Similarly, art and design worlds are preparing for the new intelligent era. Behind these near-future visions lies a plethora of…

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  6. Postman Episode 4: Jari Suominen

    Jari Suominen is a Finnish media artist, musician, instrument builder, teacher, and researcher. He has recently been involved in researching and repairing Erkki Kurenniemi's, - a Finnish pioneer of electronic music, synthesizers. We discuss electronics, synthesisers, digital and analogue and much more. Jaris website: http://www.tasankokaiku.com/jarisuominen/ Dimi is reborn-Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dimiisreborn/

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  7. Postman episode 2: Jukka Hautamäki

    podcast RSS In the second episode of Postman I interview Helsinki-based visual artist Jukka Hautamäki who specialises in new media and live electronics sound performances. We discuss his most recent exhibition at Forum Box-gallery in Helsinki , Finland and expand from there to general topics on using electronics and code in art. You can see more of Jukka's work from his website: jukkahautamaki.com

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  8. Postman- a new podcast on art and postdigital culture!

    I have liked podcast for a long time; I have some podcast which I have been following for years and some, where an episode has given me new approaches or challenged my thoughts. All in all, I enjoy podcasts. For a while now I have been toying with an idea of starting a podcast of my own, a podcast that discusses art, culture, and society from a post-digital perspective. The reason to start such podcast is naturally that these topics interest me, both as an artist and as a researcher. But also, because I have not been able to find…

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  9. Postman episode 1: Tuomo Rainio

    podcast RSS Postman is a podcast focusing on the issues around culture, art and society in the postdigital era. Postman interviews and discusses with artists using code, electronics or digitality in interesting way. Furthermore, postman interviews researchers and other people focusing on the research of digital culture and society. In the first episode I interview Tuomo Rainio, Finnish artist and lecturer. Links: Tuomo Rainio's website Ars 17 Artists spotlight: Tuomo Rainio Gravitational Waves in Kiasma Ars 17+

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  10. Creative Coding at the art & craft school Robotti

    I am currently working on an article concerning creative coding at the Käsityökoulu Robotti (art&craft school Robotti). Robotti is a non-profit organization that offers teaching on art&tech for children. Creative coding could be described as a programming that is more interested in expression than function, but in Robotti it is also used as a teaching method to empower children to take control of the surrounding digital world. As such it is a critical pedagogical tool as well as an artistic medium. The article is based on the authors own ethnographic study in Robotti as well as interviews and questionnaires of…

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  11. Grasping the digital

    A Recent article (not yet published) I wrote with my brother examines some of the difficult questions raising from the increased use of digital technologies. For example, digitalization can be seen to act as an almost mythological buzzword for progress. But, what does digitalization mean? How do we live in the digital world? In our article we argue for a more embodied understanding of digital technologies is needed to participate in the discussion of the digital world; without experiental, embodied understanding, it can be difficult to comprehend what digital is and how it affects as well as appears in one's…

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  12. Discussions with the machine

    I am having an exhibition together with Matti Vainio at TM-gallery in Helsinki, Finland. The theme of the exhibition is the discourse between human and technology. We want to examine and question that relationship between through drawing. Patient little Malevich at work in exhibition with @matti_vainio_artist at @tmliitto gallery in Helsinki. #art #exihibition #robot #arduino #trinket #arttech #gallery #helsinki French philosopher Bernard Stiegler has called technology as a pharmacon: a drug that at the same times saves and destroys (by addiction, misuses, overuse, etc.). As technology, especially digital technology becomes ubiquitous the importance of how we live with the technology…

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  13. What's that? creative code? and some upcoming things in the US.

    During this upcoming week, I am honored to visit universities in the US. First, during Monday to Wednesday, I will be visiting Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The University has a fascinating art education department, and I am grateful to be meeting Dr. Robert Sweeny along many others there. I will also be visiting Digital Humanities department and Dr. Kenneth Sherwood to talk about creative coding. On Tuesday I will be giving two public talks -So if you can’t bare to watch the thriller that is the elections you can come and discuss how code can be used in art education…

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  14. Fractalnoia -11 eleven datasets you don’t believe just happened.

    FRACTALNOIA - 11 datasets you cannot believe just happened. The collection of data is increasing exponentially and it is more and more available to the general public as private databases are opened up. This Big Data holds promises of new insights, unparalleled innovation, even articifical intelligence. However, the ubiquity and availability of data connected to our human desire to see patterns where none exist means that humans have to deal with increasing amounts of meaningless data analysis, "fact-based" conspiracy theories and click-bait infographics. As the data is all digital, it morphs easily into whatever we want, releases itself from the…

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