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Tora
Mapsion 2022 Projection Mapping Competition shows projection mapping artworks, AV-live performances and new media installations from 12 different countries.
From 18 shortlisted works my piece “Tora” came second in the competition. Thanks to Niko Tiainen for organising Mapsion and congratulations to Capital Creavite for the first place.
Traveler
“Inspired by the recent successes of spaceflight companies, the Oulu Cathedral is being transformed into a launch platform. The work projects the traveler into a dreamlike state, where the vision of truth has changed, and the destination is no longer a given.
The piece explores the intertwined features of space travel and the exploration of one’s own mind. As one moves through flowing layers, the sense of time and space gets distorted: the journey has changed the reality around us, or perhaps just our ability to perceive the world around us.”
Sound design and composition: Tommi Toivonen.
Traveler was part of Lumo Light art festival 2021
Dissolving Patterns
Dissolving Patterns at Projio Media Art Festival, 2021.
“The synthetic world of sound and laconic contemporary poetry accompanies the alternation between the two- and three-dimensional worlds inspired by the industrial history of the Finlayson Art Area”
Sound design: Janne Ahola
Poem: Astu sisään, Arianna Consuelo Marcon
Maiden´s story
Maiden’s story was a comissions work for Savonlinna Illumination and was premiered at Valentine´s day 2019.
By far the most famous story of Olavinlinna is the tragic love story of the Finnish maiden:
“The daughter of the castle’s Lord was in love with a Russian soldier and one night she opened the castle gate to let him in. But she was betrayed by her lover when he brought more soldiers with him.
The Russian forces were fought off and the traitorous lover was killed in the attack. The maiden was sentenced to death for treason and buried alive in the wall of the courtyard. Shortly afterwards a rowan tree grew on the burial spot and the white flowers which bloomed on the tree were said to be symbolic of the girl’s innocence”.
Inspired by this chilling tale and the historic building in the heart of Savonlinna, together with composer Tommi Toivonen we visualized this story using projection mapping and motion captured animations.
The Lure
The Lure is an interpretation of the discarded and the castoff.
An abandoned cabin at Kivinokka, Helsinki is turned into an enchanted space where supernatural elements take over a deserted place.
Projection mapping motivated by the witch’s house from the story ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Grimm Brothers invites the viewer to create their own mythical fairy-tales of Kivinokka.
Music and sound design by Aki Päivärinne.
Production: Reflektor
Formula
Formula is an artwork that explores the moiré effect through a pixel-perfect LED screen study.
This piece was first exhibited at the Polar Night Light Festival in 2019.
Levottomuus
single-channel video projection
1:30 min, Stereo
2018
Every place, like each of us, has memories that we strive to forget. No matter how hard we try to bury them, these memories and fears live just beneath the surface.
Levottomuus (restlesness) was a site-specific video installation projected onto the vault of the Alexander Battery in 2018 part of Flash Vallisaari group exhibition.
Installations was heavily inspired by the location and the tale of Colonel who was hanged from a large linden tree along the artillery road leading to Alexander Battery, where the projection was displayed. This story has circulated among the island’s residents for a hundred years and many genuinely believed in it, and perhaps the tale was also an effective way to keep children away from the forbidden ammunition storage area.
In reality, it seems that a stone was tied around the colonel’s neck and he was drowned from a bridge into deep water. After the rebellion ended, Colonel Notara’s body was transported to St. Petersburg and from there to Odessa for burial.