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MUU NEWSLETTER [removed] In this newsletter: MUU’s exhibitions will open again! MUU Galleria at web-based art fair until [removed] Open call for artists MEDIA CUBE 2020 MUU’s artists members: online events MUU’S EXHIBITIONS WILL CONTINUE IN JUNE! JUKKA HAUTAMÄKI – Restituo Media artist Jukka Hautamäki is dealing with thematics related to the future of visual arts: what kind of art there will be in year 2050? Who is making it, to whom and how it will be presented? Restituo (latin.) means restoring, reinstating, reinvesting, re-edifying. The synthesis of images, based on neural networks and artificial intelligence, is a seamless evolutionary process. Hautamäki uses for example selfies and synthetic faces of people who do not exist, as training images for the AI. The exhibition has been supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland. Artist Jukka Hautamäki at present in galleria Sunday [removed] and Saturday [removed] at 12-4pm. MUU GALLERIA I Lönnrotinkatu 33, 00180 Helsinki I Open tue-fri 12-5pm, sat–sun 12–4pm
HANNU TÖYRYLÄ – Faces, memories In the past decade or two, our originally private sphere of contacts and memories has become mixed within a public sphere. Private matters are now entangled with and even dominated by news, real and fake, advertisements, as well as often aggressive opinions of strangers. In the exhibition, artist Hannu Töyrylä looks back, in the form of an AI based installation, to when he was a student of technology. People used to communicate by a landline telephone, and even letters and postcards, as well as collect personal memories in photo albums. It was expected that technology would develop so as to enrich this private sphere. A videophone, not unlike the one in this exhibition, would allow us to see each other while talking. Artist Hannu Töyrylä at present in MUU Saturday [removed] and Sunday [removed] at 12-4pm. MUU STUDIO I Lönnrotinkatu 33, 00180 Helsinki I Open tue-fri 12-5pm, sat–sun 12–4pm Welcome to visit MUU. MUU Galleria @ PLATFORMS PROJECT NET 2020 image: Saara Ekström, Amplifier, 2017 MUU Galleria participates in Platforms Project, a web-based art fair. Platforms Project Net 2020 will be open for audience until 31 May 2020. Now in its eighth consecutive year, Platforms Project is the international show that indicatively charts the art currently produced through collective initiatives by artists on the international scene as they join forces to seek answers to contemporary artistic questions. This year Platforms Project has established a new approach to art viewing via Platforms Project Net, a web-based art fair. MUU Galleria presents video works of seven Finnish artists: Hanna Arvela, Saara Ekström, Panu Johansson, Rita Leppiniemi, Sara Pathirane, Antti Tolvi and Johanna Väisänen. The theme of the collection is Space, Environment, Architecture. The works explore issues relating to space and place and to the built environment and architecture. Open Call for artists! Art Vehicles bus tour Oulu–Piteå–Luleå–Oulu – will you join us? The last date for submissions is Friday 29 May 2020! OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS – The Art Vehicles project is looking for performances, sound art, interactive and community artworks, literary art, installations, video art, photographs, interdisciplinary artworks – all kinds of contemporary art! Starting from Oulu, crossing the border to visit Piteå and Luleå in Sweden and then returning to Oulu, the Art Vehicles bus tour 2020 is an interactive and experiential journey and a community art event that brings artists in contact with various audiences. The project is now looking artworks to be presented on the trip, at the stops and on sound art tours to be held in Piteå and Luleå. The Art Vehicles tour will take place 23–25 October 2020 and travel Oulu–Kemi–Piteå–Luleå–Oulu. Application
MEDIA CUBE 2020 image: Joonas Hyvönen, God’s Flat Earth is Drowning MEDIA CUBE is a collaborative project by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Central Library Oodi, Artists’ Association MUU, and University of the Arts Helsinki. Doors of immersive art will open at Oodi Library. The project explores new frontiers of visual art in the age of digital technology and culture. Media Cube at Central Library Oodi challenges artists to invent immersive artworks that explore new ways to create a holistic art experience. The technical facilities of the Kuutio space at Oodi library are unique, allowing the creation of artworks that could never have been presented before anywhere in Finland. How does a work of art in Kuutio manifest itself to viewers? What sensations and thoughts does it provoke? Media Cube will present two new works specially produced for the space: God’s Flat Earth is Drowning by Joonas Hyvönen, and Oodin Äidit by Ami Lindholm. Trailer of God’s Flat Earth is Drowning by Joonas Hyvönen. Interview: Ami Lindholm on HELSINKI channel (in Finnish). Article: Anna-Kaisa Vuorinen (University of the Arts Helsinki) Uppoaako litteä maailmamme? Kuka auttaa äitiä? (in Finnish) image: Ami Lindholm, Oodin Äidit
MEMBER ARTISTS’ ONLINE PROJECTS Image: Hanna Järvenpää
Hanna Järvenpää Video of an installation in Art Center Ahjo [removed] Pekka Kantonen Three Times a Decade is a documentary video epic that develops during the 2020s. The story is told in three parallel timelines beginning from the recession time of the 1990 ending in the unknown future. The final chapter is planned to be in 2030. The mainstage is a detached house in southern Finland, whose construction with loan money is starting in the beginning of the story. Three artist families are building their own houses, sharing the everyday tasks, realising their dreams, and suffering drawbacks. Narration is focusing on the author´s personal experience. Ainu Palmu What do you wish for? Can you see it through this window? Tell me and in time it will overlap reality. Ilkka Sariola Eija Temisevä And suddenly-all changes is to be seen WOW retro online -webpage. The first corona festival Corona! Shutdown! Eija’s video number is 34. Jani Petteri Virta The final performance of the show was at the beginning of May as part of the Danish Køkkenetin QuAR(T)antine video performance 2020 -ensemble. image: Jani Petteri Virta Liisa Hilasvuori Liisa Hilasvuori’s solo exhibition at the Mältinranta studio in [removed]; image: Liisa Hilasvuori Quarantäne 13 MUU artists involved are Vaneva Leda and Jarkko Räsänen. Quarantäne 13 was designed as an online exhibition on the MineTest platform – an open source platform for a Sandbox game. The Project will continue longer than three months and will include more than 30 international artists. Each participating artist will get a certain area to build their own gallery / museum / installation / and upload images, sounds and 3D objects of their real [removed]; The game is freely open for viewers at any time of the development. Visitors and artists can connect with each other despite the isolation restrictions and closed borders. This online exhibition deals with reality, virtual space and the contemporary art world.
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