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Light is History Amsterdam 2016

Amsterdam_SystemDiagramLight is History is now tentatively scheduled for 2016 in Amsterdam in cooperation with a local Museum, Power company and a local public school. The project will be designed and formatted during 2014 -15 in consultation with local partners.

The Museum of Copenhagen beyond the "Wall" / Redefining the City Museum via Digital Technologies & Community Participation

A night view of The Museum of Copenhagen’s “Wall” Photo by Casper Miskin, Museum of Copenhagen

According to Director Jette Sandahl, the Museum of Copenhagen is attempting to play a larger role in creating urban identity in Copenhagen, to help residents identify firstly as Copenhageners irrespective of origin and help maintain and promote a beautiful historical and artistic city. For her, the city museum, being the custodian of the city’s past heritage and a continuing cultural present, is in a perfect place to become the mediator and cultivator of the city’s cultural life and projects. Here, the role of the city museum in the urban fabric has become a place for contact and creating outreach among citizens and the Museum of Copenhagen is thereby positioning itself both as a co-creator and as co-custodian on behalf of all Copenhageners.

A night view of The Museum of Copenhagen’s “Wall” Photo by Casper Miskin, Museum of Copenhagen

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Artifacts from Helsinki: Curated Energy Artifacts from the Light is History 2012 Installation

The energy artifacts from the Light is History 2012 Installation has been collected and displayed online: http://lightishistory.tumblr.com . This is a preliminary attempt at creating an online repository of objects related to energy and contemporary nordic material culture. All the artefacts displayed here with their narratives were donated by the 16 participating families from Kallio neighbourhood of Helsinki, during the “Light is History” installation, November 24th – December 1st. 2012.

Exhibiting Art Deco Works at the Amos Anderson Art Museum Helsinki

An exhibition of the Art Deco Movement: a selection of French and Finnish art produced between the years 1905 -1935 is on display at the Amos Anderson Art Musuem, the largest private art museum in Helsinki (8.3.-21.7.2013) Museum Link: http://www.amosanderson.fi These wonderful pieces of Art Deco sculpture, paintings, sculpture and furniture are currently on loan from various museums in France such as the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Musee des Beaux Arts, and from Finland such as Kiasma, Ateneum and the Turku City Art Collection.

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Light is History – Hakaniemi Market Square Helsinki 25.11 – 01.2012

The “Light is History” project in November 2012  involved a participatory Museum installation that served as a research object in a public square in the Nordic city of Helsinki. It investigated community participation, energy use, and new media approaches in the public display of energy artifacts from contemporary Nordic material culture. Participating families were requested to inform of their energy consumption and publish their daily energy use for one week onto the project web portal. This data was used to determine the brightness of the individual therapy lamps and to light the artifact displays of the installation for over one week. This research exercise demonstrated that community members were willing to anonymously display information of their personal artifacts and its use in the public place and share their energy use information for the common wellbeing. New media technologies and participatory action was able to bridge the private to the public spaces, the individual to the collective, and exhibit the community’s material culture and energy patterns. The project also established that a shared and collaborative installation space that mimics a museum can be created outside the museum walls that is open-sourced, sustainable, and participatory. The project received funding from Aalto Media Factory at Aalto University and was co-organized in the context of Pixelache / Pixelversity’s Talking (Trash) Lab Lecture Series.

The installation was on view at Hakaniementori from 25.1 to 1.12, from 17 to 19 daily.

See the process: http://designresearch.aalto.fi/projects/lih/

See the Artifacts: lightishistory.tumblr.com/

See Trashlab:  http://www.pixelache.ac/pixelversity/trashlab/

(Briefly in Finnish)

Kuusitoista Kalliolaista perhettä on julkistanut päivittäisen energiakulutuksensa nettiportaalissa Light is History-installaatiota varten. Päivittäisen energiankulutuksen erot määrittävät installaatiossa olevien valojen kirkkautta. Kirkkaat valot toimivat kuten kirkasvalolamput, joten ne piristävät ohikulkijoita pimeänä vuodenaikana. Valot on tehty kierrätetyistä, uusiin vaihdetuista sähkömittareista. Osana installaatiota toimii kuvasarja, joka kuvaa teoksen osallistujien päivittäin käyttämiään sähkölaitteita. Yhteisöllinen energiateos Hakaniementorilla visualisoi energian kulutusta avoimessa tilassa. Se elää kaupunkilaisten arjen mukana, jonka olennainen osa energian käyttö on.

Projektia on tukenut Aalto Media Factory ja Aalto Yliopisto. Installaatio on nähtävillä 1.12. asti 17-19 välillä päivittäin.
Lue lisää: http://designresearch.aalto.fi/projects/lih/ ; lightishistory.tumblr.com/

Light is History – WärkFest 2012 – Cable Factory Helsinki

Our Energy Art Community Installation ” Light is History” was on demo exhibition at the Helsinki’s first ever D.I.Y. festival: Wärkfest 2012, 20 – 21.10 in Cable Factory Helsinki. The first modular unit, consisting of a therapy lamp and a display case (recycled out of trash electrical meters discarded by the metering company Mitox) was installed on a mannequin borrowed from the Fashion Department for a temporary installation in the exhibition hall. There were a considerable amount of visitors and people from the DIY community visiting our temporary installation and provided us a lot of interesting feedback. Information about the installation, participation forms and recycled electrical meters were on display at our desk. Kids were especially interested in all the inside workings and parts of the electrical meters, one even(pictured above) took home a few pieces, and came back next morning to show his own gadget that he had created overnight. We were also able to sign up participants and distribute information to prospective communities. Most people that signed up were interested in the participatory aspect of donating energy for light therapy in public and also about the community interaction it could generate at the site of the installation. Among others were also visitors who cared about saving energy and reducing their carbon footprint. I also presented the project on the main stage of the festival on Saturday 17.45 using slides of our presentation and the demo modular unit. Now, we have almost reached the upper limit of participants, however still looking for a few more dedicated participants from the Kallio area. We had applied earlier for an art installation permit in Hakaniemi Square (Hakaniementori) which is a central public and community location in Kallio, and today 22.10 we have received permission to put up the installation there! We have also already agreed with Helsingin Energia to provide us with support with this project. The tentative dates of the installation are: 24.11 – 01.12.2012 Hakaniementori, Helsinki.

Join us in our effort to initiate a public discussion of energy consumption and community well being at: http://designresearch.aalto.fi/projects/lih/

SPORA BOREALIS Art Installation Helsinki 2012

A GPS based video animation installation that charts the tram movements of Helsinki in real time and generates color patterns using heat signatures in the surrounding air, a process similar to the aurora borealis seen in the north of Finland.spore4spore spore spore

 

P-WALL Installation at Ateneum Art Museum Helsinki 2011

My public art installation was on view for 2 hours at the Ateneum Art Museum as part of the 120 MUSE/UM Exhibition

Text Abstract of Installation /

Public urination, politics and political manipulation are the vices of our urban society. While politicians manipulate, the people urinate. Politics allows control over people, governance and the future our world, while public urination allows the desecration of our urban environment. Both, at some level permit the manipulation of our surroundings. The P-Wall brings together these two disparate phenomena in an effort to initiate a discussion about our civil society.

© Photos: Kia Evon

Exhibition Design for the Finnish Pavilion at the World Expo held in Shanghai 2010

This is an architectural and exhibition entry to a National competition call in 2008 for the design of a national pavilion for Finland in the World Expo 2010 at Shanghai.

Our design presented the pavilion as the bark of a Koivu (Birch) tree, rough on the exterior, smooth and sophisticated in the interior, somewhat representing the Finnish personality. It is reflected in the culture, the lifestyle and the architecture where truth, simplicity and beauty are held supreme. A self-contained world wherein self-realization and self-exploration create a new philosophy. The architecture of the Finnish pavilion represents this concept.

In the glitter and brightness of the world’s expo, the Finnish pavillion is a building turned outside in. Introverted in approach, it creates a separate and protected world in a foreign land. At a place where other pavilions are competing and clamouring for attention, the Finnish pavillion subtly attracts people who are willing and interested to delve and discover the finnish culture and traditions.