Tweet Pin It Just stumbled on a recently released book over at turbulence.org.The book is about mobile devices in new media and art. The book is called The Mobile Audience: Media Art and Mobile Technologies (Architecture Technology Culture) and has been edited by Martin Rieser. It is a compilation of a number of articles from a...
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Tweet Pin It I’ve been subscribed to an organisation called e-artnow.org for some time. Their site provides interesting information on all kinds of art events, mainly in Europe. I miss a lot of the information on the site, because it is one more site to visit. Now e-artnow announced that they will start an email service, whereby...
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Tweet Pin It One would think that if one messes with the image or video coding of something like a jpeg image or a mpeg video, one would get nothing. Well, Gun Holström (who is one of the exhibitors at our upcoming Jyväskylä exhibition) today opened her latest exhibition that proves that nothing could be further from the truth....
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Tweet Pin It HIAP (Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme) - wonderfully located on the Suomenlinna fortress island just outside the centre of Helsinki - is arranging a series of talks be internationally renowned curators this winter. On Thursday, November 25, Suomenlinna was visited by Nicolaus Schafhausen, director of the Witte de With art museum in Rotterdam. Schafhausen’s talk was mainly about the challenges...
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Tweet Pin It Today was the grand opening of Eeva and Simo Rista’s photo exhibition “Asphalt and sunflowers”. The exhibition shows Helsinki between 1969 and 1979 as seen by Eeva and Simo. The Ristas have donated their photo collection of some 60’000 shots to the Helsinki City Museum. Out of this massive collection, the exhibition brings you 150 shots...
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Tweet Pin It One of the most popular – if not the most popular – work at the 3 inch Canvas exhibition was Aapo Rista’s photoexhibition featuring his parents ‘- Eeva and Simo Rista – and his own photography. Eeva and Simo Rista will be exhibiting their photographs of Helsinki from the 1970′s at...
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Tweet Pin It The 3 Inch Canvas exhibition was for me a great learning experience in many ways. One fun experience was the photo shoot for my own 3IC work. The work itself was a short photographic narrative about the creative process of the artist Paula Rusokallio. Paula had created the script for the work, supplied...
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Tweet Pin It That was the mind boggling price paid for the most expensive artwork ever sold! To be exact, an anonymous collector paid 106,482,500 dollars at an auction at Cristie’sfor the painting “Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur” by Picasso. The painting dates from 1932 and shows Picasso’s (then) mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter (in case you...
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Tweet Pin It This seems to be miniature week! The most beautiful book published in Finland in 2009 was just chosen. The book is an art book and shows – miniature art! The name of the winning book was “Amour unit deux cours – Henry Lönnforsin miniatyyrikokoelma, Henry Lönnfors miniatyrsamling” and was published by the...
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Tweet Pin It Over the weekend I went to the opening night for an art exhibition by Mika Törönen and Timo Jakola over at Mika’s gallery, Galleria MT. Mika I have known for a long time, but Timo was a new acquaintance. And a very nice one at that. Timo works in pastels and had...
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