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  1. 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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  2. BOOK LAUNCH TODAY: ART AS WE DON'T KNOW IT

    Cover from the book. Detail from artwork Living Images, yeastograms by Johanna Rotko BOOK LAUNCH TODAY: ART AS WE DON'T KNOW IT Thursday, March 5, 14–19h, SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki Today is the launch day of a book I had the joy of being a part with. Together with Kristiina Ljokkoi , we wrote a short piece on the possibilities on the convergence on art, science and technology education. What we aim to show is that art is more than ”just” design or aesthetic questions. In times like ours, where we need to make anew our habits and cultures,…

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  3. 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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