Student Award finalists announced

The Live 2011 Grand Prix Student Award is over and the finalists have been selected.

Participant works came from all over Finland and differed from games and animations to interactive sonic installations.

The Live 2011 Grand Prix Student Award jury has hand picked 7 works as the category finalists, and the finalist works can be seen at our Youtube channel

And the finalists are:

Brainwave Music Lab: Performative Experiments on Human Test Subjects /Marko Alastalo et al. (Teatterikorkeakoulu)

Dancer as a Painter/ Aku Meriläinen (Lapin Yliopisto)

Digital Captures / Johannes Neumeier (Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu)

Empty Kitchen / Sampo Siren (Lahden Ammattikorkeakoulu)

Product Placement / Matti Niinimäki ( Lapin Yliopisto)

The Third Eye / Niklas Gustafsson (Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu)

Xmasheat / Jussi Karnijoki, Miika Pylkkö and Antti Rantanen (Metropolia)

The jury will select three winners to be awarded, and the results will be announced in January 2010.

Event Awards given in FutureEverything 2010

Turku – European Capital of Culture in 2011 gives out an extra prize of 1500 euro (total) in co-operation with FutureEverything festival (12-15 May, Manchester England).

Prize will be dealt out to 3 works selected by The FutureEverything Awards jury in co-operation with Turku 2011. One work will go directly the Live2011.com Grand Prix media art & new media competitions final round in a category which the work best fits. Total prizemoney in the Grand Prix is over 140 000 euro and submission deadline is 30th of June 2010. You can take part with innovative online games, social media applications, -sites and -services, audiovisual digital artworks, interactive art etc. Live2011.com Grand Prix categories and submission info can be found at www.live2011.com/grandprix. The deadline for The FutureEverything Awards is 15th January 2010, info can be found at www.futureeverything.org/awards.

Live2011.com Event Award @TEKS-Kosmorama's New Submission Date 15.1.2010

Organisers have decided to lengthen submission date for entries for Integrated Art - Nova Facade Competition in order to respond the requests from the artistic communities. New deadline for submissions is 15.1.2010.

New information:
- Submission date is changed to the 15th January 2010 at 12:00 PM (Norwegian time)
- Sumissions from now on must be delivered only via e-mail to teks@teks.no
- Format PDF and/or JPG, max size 10 MB (bigger than this, your mail does not come through to the competition)
- Submissions are to be sent to teks@teks.no. Attention: Espen Gangvik.

Competition information in English (PDF, this information is under editing and can still have the old submission date, also information about postage stamps is no longer valid)

Received: Creative and Joyful Xmas Card

The Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland delivered us a great Seasonal Greetings in form of a dance show telling a story of a Christmas tree thief. A different, sustainable and hilarious card which created many happy faces, laughter and stormy applauses. The best was that we could send the joy further in the city with providing them the next place to visit. What a great idea!

Live team expresses its thanks to the Regional Dance Center: Sometimes digital experience cannot just reach the effect of the physical participation!

External link: The Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland

Culture 2.0 : Also websites and services can take part

Hi,
We have received a lot of contacts from people interested in Culture 2.0 category. Due to big demand we´ve decided to open Culture 2.0 category from applications to include also websites and web services that reinvent social media through artistic and/or innovative ways. Same rules still apply for social media applications.
Check out the additions from the category specific rules.

Greetings,
Live2011.com -team

Digital artwork filling the façade of a six storey building to be awarded in Norway

Turku, the European Capital of Culture in 2011, is organizing an art competition in Norway in co-operation with the Trondheim Electronic Arts Center and the Trondheim International Filmfestival Kosmorama. The objective is to fill a façade of the six storey building of AØF with digital art.

A two-stage competition

The competition will be realized as a two-stage process.

In the first stage the artists will send their drafts and proposals to the international competition committee, which will then pick two to three works to be processed further. The deadline for submissions is 15th of December 2009. In the second stage 60 000 NOK ( some 7200 euro) is handed out by the Norwegian organizers for further preparation of the selected works. The deadline for the second stage is 2nd of March 2010.

The winning work will be awarded in the Trondheim International Filmfestival in March 2010 with a 2000 euro Live2011.com Grand Prix Event Award. The chosen work will continue to one of the finals of the massive media-art & new media competition with prizes ranging from 20000-40000 euro per category. Live2011.com Grand Prix is organized by Turku, European Capital of Culture 2011.

Competition organizers are looking after works, that can, based on their content, take part to the categories of Live2011.com Grand Prix´s categories


More info at

English competition guide: www.ifolketshus.no/konk/konkurranse-eng.pdf
Building drawings: www.ifolketshus.no/
Live2011.com Grand Prix info: www.live2011.com
TEKS - Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre: http://teks.no
Kosmorama – Trondheim International Filmfestival: http://kosmorama.no/2010/en/
Turku 2011 – European Capital of Culture: www.turku2011.fi

European Media Art Festival call deadline 15.12.2009

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK
21 - 25 April 2010
21 April - 23 May 2010

www.emaf.de

// CALL FOR ENTRIES

// WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE EMAF BY 15 DECEMBER 2009

// INFOS AND APPLICATION DOCUMENTS FOR YOUR PROJECT CAN BE FOUND AT
WWW.EMAF.DE

The motto of the 2010 festival is MASH UP, reflected in film
programmes, lectures and specials.

Event Award @ Alternative Party

Another Event Award was granted at Alternative Party in Helsinki 24-25.10.2009. Alternative party is a festival devoted to digital culture, that brings art, technology, science and business together in a unique way.

The winning piece is a demo called Bold, makers of which are Dvik, Joyrex & Moran (Daniel Vik, Vincent van Dam and Roman Skvortsov).

Bold was voted by audience as the winner of the main demo series of Alternative Party. The fact that makes Bold special is its realization with an MSX computer standard from the 80's. Since the format of the work is a demo, it is run real time on a prehistoric computer. It must be seen in the context and the performance level of the computers of its time. From a technical point of view the work is quite dazzling. It has required high levels of programming skills, creativity and optimization from it's makers. The main memory of the MSX-1 computers varied mostly between 32 and 64 kilobytes. A modern desktop computer typically has a 4 096 000 kB internal memory.

Live 2011 Event Award @ Mindtrek

Live 2011 Grand Prix Event Award at Mindtrek has been awarded to Donkeypedia.

Donkeypedia is a cross media project with a donkey that travels through European nations, a quest for the identity of children and youngsters. The donkey is very modern, he will carry various devices (laptop, GPS, camera etc). All this equipment is being charged by solar power. The Donkey will be digitally directed by local children, from village to city, from province to province, from nation to nation. Children will collect stories, art expressions, movies and objects that represent something essential about their place and its residents, resulting in a kaleidoscopic platform that reveals the European identity bit by bit, step by step. A donkey has big ears for listening to stories, and he can carry stuff. In this way he can collected and learn about the countries he’s visiting.

Children at home can follow his track live on the website. The pictures and the movies that are being taken, are uploaded and automatically positioned on the route. Also descriptions of images and tags are created by the children online. The website contains spirals where you can uncluster every single event. Every picture has got to be tagged to be traced on a different level. With words like: scary, pretty, challenging or dreamy. This way images and videos are poetically related to each other.

Donkeypedia is a production of 4xM - www.4xM.nl
The Donkeypedia walk is originated by Cristian Bettini

Visit Donkeypedia at www.donkeypedia.nl

Deadline on Sunday for National Student Award and Creative Idea for Mobile City Guide

We want to remind that the deadline for National Student Award and Creative Idea for Mobile City Guide -categories is on Sunday 15th of November. You can take part in the National Student Award category if you are a student and your educational institute is in Finland. We accept works that have been published after 1.1.2009. Remember to read general and category specific rules before submitting your work.

- Live2011.com Team

Noby Noby Boy

A friend of mine suggested that i should blog about this game for PlayStation3 called Noby Noby Boy.

Thinking about our Artistic Game category, it might be inspirational to check out the game, as it is done in a very original way in terms of its looks and gameplay.

Ok, to be frank, it can be seen also as very confusing, stupid and weird, but it has certainly delivered some good laughs because of it's wackyness.

Noby Noby Boy is a kinda physics-sandbox-like toy world universum, where you move this weird wormlike dude. You can eat things in the world and stretch the character and fly to space. Apparently the point of the game is to collectively stretch the character and unlock new levels to the game. So no one can advance in the game alone, but the worldwide community of players progress together.

The funness tough, doesn't come from the goal itself, but from the fun and weird gameplay and world.

Noby Noby Boy is available through PSN and costs about 5€.

Alternative Party, Helsinki 23-25.10.09

Turku 2011 deals out its 3rd Event Award, 3000 euros this weekend in Alternative Party, Helsinki. The prize is given to highlight the importance of demoart and the work of Alternative Party. Alternative Party is a Digital culture festival and demoparty that was first held in 1998 in Turku. The cyberpunk theme this year is called: "Man Meets Machine"

Three days filled with digital art, technology, business and science: developer of ARM Sophie Wilson, the crazy Commodore girl Jeri Ellsworth, cyberpunk rock by Dope Stars Inc, the amazing Super computer demo and other competitions, digital art and technology at the exhibition, mind-blowing visual effects and more.

The winner of Event Award (in this case Alternative Party Demo Competition winner) will automatically participate into one of competition category finals in the Live2011.com Grand prix.

Grand Prix: National Student Award jury members are

SONJA KANGAS



Sonja is specialised in digital games and youth media culture. She has studied computer science (from business perspective) and digital media (technology and design).

Currently she works as Head of GameLab at Paf, is an independent researcher at the Finnish Youth Research Network as well as independent game developer at Souplala. She is the Lead Chapter coordinator of IGDA Finland and in the advisory boards of Nordic Game Program and IGDA Women in Games Special Interest Group.


ANDY BEST



Andy Best was born in the South of England in 1963. He studied Fine Art (Sculpture) in Cardiff, Wales, before coming to Finland with a study scholarship in 1988. He studied sculpture at Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki, for two years. His first one person exhibition was also the first exhibition to be held at the now defunct Vapauden Aukio gallery in the centre of Helsinki, which was on the site of the new Music House.

Andy has participated in numerous group and one person exhibitions in Finland and internationally. Andy is currently senior lecturer in Digital Arts at Turku University of Applied Sciences, and he has recently commenced his own PhD research at Goldsmiths, University of London, in Arts & Computational Technologies.



JARI JAANTO



The career of Jari Jaanto (born in 1978) is very colourful. Having learned programming at the age of eight, life carried him from the IT department of university to the digitalTV business during the IT bubble. Meanwhile, in the year 2000, Jari was one of the founders of Finlands most popular web community, IRC-Gallery. He has been active in the field of marketing and advertising.

Jari created the community marketing concepts in IRC-Gallery while working as the Business Development Manager of Sulake Dynamoid and as the marketing director of Alternative Party media-art festival. He has had the time to be the technological director of Relevant Point Oy and is currently working as a producer of IRC-Gallery.

Disturb Me Installation

I stubled upon this very nice piece of interactive media art.

A good example of something I personally would like to see in the Open or Participative Media categories in the Turku 2011 Grand Prix.

Artworks containing projections which interact some ways with the environment and the projection surface are not a new idea, but they are something that I think have a lot of unused potential within them .

“Disturb Me” is an interactive installation between human and his environment. It is to make perceptible the reciprocal links and often forgotten contact, that we maintain with our environment. The projection depends on the sound emitted by the spectators and creates consequently, a transitory and colored environment. The projected forms are revealed when in contact with surfaces of the room.

Kseniya Simonova - A Performance which Stunned Live2011 team

From a tip by our co-worker we spent a moment with an amazing Youtube video presenting a sand animation by an Ukrainian artist Kseniya Simonova. Simonova want her local Talent show with this stunning live sand animation on Ukrainian tragedy during the WWII. Although video is long (08:33), its worth of seeing.



Some viewers migh recognize Finnish heavy band Apocalyptica in a music line behind the animation.
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Turku is the European Capital of Culture 2011 together with Tallinn, Estonia. The Turku 2011 Foundation has been commissioned by the City of Turku to oversee the implementation of the Capital of Culture year.

Guests can follow the process of putting together the 2011 programme with its around 150 productions online at www.turku2011.fi – Programme and Projects.

The final programme is scheduled to be announced during the summer of 2010.
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The writings and stuff in this blog are personal notes of the Live2011 team at Turku2011 Foundation and do not represent an official view of the Foundation. We wish to bring up interesting things we have popped into in the interesting field of digital media, social media and media technology.