This project considers the distance between the viewer and what is being viewed. How does technology alter our perceptions of distance, scale, and structure? Technologies for viewing continue to evolve, from the Camera Obscura to the telescope to the atomic force microscope; each new technology raises questions about what is real versus what is an artifact of the viewing process. For example, how does the framed vision of the microscope differ from the framing induced by the World Wide Web? Discontinuities induced by these media can undermine what Husserl calls the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ horizons of experience. These horizons are vital to architecture and to what we might call ‘telepistemology’: the study of how distance influences belief, truth, and perception.

Chromakey Dollhouse – this unusual dollhouse hosts an installation with a media workshop where participants from all ages can tackle the current massmediascapes and create one of their own.

MARKUS RENVALL (FI): KROMAKEY-NUKKEKOTI [2008]
Chromakey Dollhouse is an installation and a media workshop that conveys the strategies of tackling media to participants of all ages. Using […]

How the Bear lost its tail – a merry interpretation of a folk tale about a Bear and a Fox.

During a dérive in the Eternal City the Artist finds a scenery which always remains the same, while still being tinted by perpetual change.

LAURI ASTALA (FI): ROME DÉRIVE II [2006]

Generally, urban space is a place for arrivals and departures, a flow of non-returnable moments. The notion of the Eternal City all too easily creates […]

Eis is a pair of hands holding onto melting time - a time-piece.

ANTOANETTA MARINOV (IT/DE): EIS [2007]

“Eis”, the melting distance is turned into an ongoing beating of time.
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ANTOANETTA MARINOV (b. 1971, Latina, Italy) has studied Modern Literature and Languages in Italy (Rome), UK (Reading) and Germany (Freiburg). She has also studied Fine Arts within […]

Sound and music - always in motion. By the end of this Festival we will know how we perceive such diuturnal tonal changes.

MARKO TIMLIN (DE): A PROJECT: A ROOM: 13 DAYS [2008]

“A Project: A Room: 13 Days” is both a sound installation and composition for 4 individual loud-speakers. The loudspeakers are constructed by Timlin […]

Tourists and cameras – this frenzied cavalcade of snapshots questions if taking pictures has taken precedence over seeing by Alli Savolainen.

ALLI SAVOLAINEN (FI): EXCUSE ME COULD YOU MAKE ME PHOTO [2007]

May 2007, Berlin. One day a woman – another tourist – asked me to take a photo of her. After I came home from the […]

Through the eyes of Aarno Salosmaa Metro studies the rhythmical variations of the cityspace.

AARNO SALOSMAA (FI): METRO [2007]
A painting-like vision about metro trains, in the mechanical heart of the city.
PREMIERE: MUU studio, Helsinki, Finland, 2007
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AARNO SALOSMAA (1941 – 2008), lived and worked in Espoo, Finland. Although he only started to work […]

AVOL is an energetic and nostalgic interactive installation that allows anybody to become a DJ/VJ.

VIDEO JACK (PT): AVOL [2007]
AVOL (Audio-Visual OnLine) is an audio-visual project that allows the combination of virtual objects to create an integrated sound and image experience. It also aims to explore new ways to access and interact with music.
The user can […]

During the warmth of a Californian night, mesmerized by the patterns of electric light sketching on the leaves of a tree.

GARETH SPOR (US): TREE [2006]
Tree is a silent video loop. The loop cycles through 4 shots of a single event, the illumination of a tree by a set of massive spot lights. The tree […]