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Aalto Media Lab

Demo Day

Winter Demo Day 2025
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
13:00–20:00
Marsio Stage and Digital Studio (1st floor) Otakaari 2, Espoo

Recent Projects

10 Years of DADA
Students of Media Lab
DADA
Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Media Lab student association, the Digital Art and Design Association DADA!
A Long Lost Friend
Kettu Kautto
3D Animation
A Long Lost Friend is a short animation story about reminiscing and nostalgia.
Aether-07
Prabhav Bhatnagar
Game
Aether-07 is a sci-fi themed 3D physics puzzle game, inspired by the likes of Portal, The Talos Principle and Antichamber.
Aevum
Tuomo
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Lia
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Roosis
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Mikko
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Dodo
Game Project
A handmade video game about loss; for PC, playable with Keyboard and Controller support.
Against All Skies
Satu Malmberg
Game
A party-based deckbuilder video game with roguelite storytelling. The setting is a fantasy world of treacherous sky islands where a crew of unlikely heroes navigate to the center of a mysterious storm.
Anomalia
Maisa Immonen
, 
Markku Laskujärvi
, 
Lê Hoài Nghĩa
Embodied Interaction
Anomalia is an immersive VR experience with a fairytalelike story about restoring the sun.
asemic writing robot (mary magdalene)
Veronika Valtonen
Physical Computing
It’s 2090, and intelligent technologies have advanced to a point where the practice of reading has become obsolete. Writing itself has become a forgotten memory of the past, while the only texts produced in the world remain illegible, mechanical scribblings made by machines.
Bling Bling Bubble Girl
Natalija Šapurova
, 
Clara Kelly
3D Animation
A short 3d animation about a little girl who loves watching cartoons about magical girls.
Caffè Latte
Elvira Rak
, 
Patricija Šapokaitė
3D Animation
A splendid morning, an old man, and a cup of coffee.
Checkmate
Yuchen Hu
3D Animation
Checkmate is a satirical concept animation that challenges the “perfect doll” trope in games.
Codename: Milkman
Markku Laskujärvi
, 
Maksim Vorontsov
, 
Igor Takac
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Tran Bao Ngoc
, 
Yukiko Wada
, 
Lê Hoài Nghĩa
Game
3D first person video game about mysterious male milk duct bioweapons project, now debuting!
Cowboy in Chrome
Jami Liang
3D Animation
An animated short of around a minute, featuring three characters in a futuristic but dystopian setting that has themes of bullying and heroism.
Dear Mr. Pigeon
Tereza Palmonová
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Patricija Šapokaitė
3D Animation
“Dear Mr. Pigeon” tells a story about a girl who decides to trust her instincts over her parents and writes a rambling, half-brave, half-strange letter to a pigeon lurking in the metro.
Digital Rituals
Zoe Yanko (Irina Valeeva)
Master's Thesis
How do you feel about your phone? Do you notice what happens between you during the day? The project explores that relationship through the lens of digital rituals. Trivial or deeply felt, a representation of our bond with devices.
Foghorns Drown
Eelis Koivusaari
, 
Axel Kulomaa
, 
Umut Soydan
Game
Foghorns Drown is a narrative-driven psychological horror game set in a foggy, isolated town - drenched in mystery and strange folklore. You are a ferryman, who takes passengers across a gloomy lake.
Girl Design
Alina Qureshi
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Diandra Kathyusha Herli
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Janne Denesse Nedamo
Game
Girl Design is a game where you play as Jada, a freelance Graphic Artist trying to fulfill her client’s endless requests.
Grid Guider
C14
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Winderbear
Game
Grid Guider is a deceptively “simple” 2D grid-based puzzle game. Just follow the highlighted arrows — complete them to beat the levels!
Hidden Under
Kuu Alatalo
Physical Computing
Hidden Under is an interactive art installation prototype that explores how a simple instrument, a rainstick can serve as an interaction point. The installation uses transparent acrylic sheets as a type of interactive “storytelling” device.
How to bring the pony to life?
Maija Järviniemi
Game
A long time ago, I found an inflatable pink pony from New York. One unexpected day, it lost its air for good. I became sad, fixated. How to bring the pony to life? This woven series narrates the inner voice of the pink pony through three short scenes set in an otherworldly storyworld. These scenes are translated into a series of sketches, using a mix of creative coding, drawing, and finally, jacquard weaving.
Draft
Junkbox
Oskars Vitolins
Physical Computing
Knitted Memories
Klara Norup
, 
Lila Monin
Physical Computing Computational Art and Design
Knitted Memories
Ludus Doloris
Rama Hannula
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Filippo Grosso
, 
Emil Backlund
, 
Aura Köykkä
, 
Peter Gyugos
Game Project
Lute Never Lose
Zhehao Fang
, 
Haiqi Gong
, 
Satu Malmberg
, 
Tung Nguyen
, 
Adolam Cohen
, 
Aaro Koiso-Kanttila
, 
Zhaohan Wang
, 
Oona Blomberg
Game Project
Lute Never Lose is a role-playing game that blends TTRPG-style adventure narrative with rhythm-based combat.
Memories of the Mountain
Filippa Sandberg
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Tuyen Nguyen
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Yuhan Shi
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Fiona Keil
, 
Gege Fei
Game Project
Play as the Maiden, a woman from the historical Scandinavian folklore ballad ‘Den Bergtagna’ who was seduced and spirited away by the mountain king as a girl!
Metaphor
Xinyi Peng
Physical Computing
Metaphor
Morrowe
Xueyun Zhang (Connor)
, 
Yuchen Hu
, 
Yushan Han
, 
Yiqun Zhang
, 
Apurv Rayate
Game
Mr. Momo is Dead
Heya Kwon
, 
Antti Kokkonen
Game
Mr. Momo lies lifeless on his apartment floor. Who is he? What happened to him? Come in and see for yourself. There is no one to blame.
Mushroom Collector
Jinda Li
Game
Mushroom Collector"
My relationship with Dani
Zsuzsa Oláh
3D Animation
Dani is the older brother of Hannah, whom Vera was best friends with during university years, but then lost contact many years ago. Vera now meets Dani again in an unexpected way.
Participatory Telerobotic Puppetry
Avner Peled
Doctoral Dissertation
I will talk about my recently published PhD thesis “Intergroup contact with participatory telerobotic puppetry”, where I created a cross-border telerobotic puppet theater with Israeli and Palestinian participants.
Section Six Requiem
Booom Gingerbread Studio
Game
In the vast universe, there exists a legend… Those who can witness the shadows of the stars will awaken mysterious and powerful abilities.
Sonic Memory Decomposer
Heya Kwon
Composing with New Musical Instruments
Sonic Memory Decomposer is an experimental instrument composed of three ceramic-electronic vessels that collectively record and “decompose” sound.
Sounds of the Weather Turning
Alejandro De Leon
Computational Art and Design
A max4live audio effect that uses weather data (from the WAQI API) to adjust different effects like delay, reverb, echo and distortion.
Study Project: The Advent of Mobile Phones
Markku Reunanen
, 
Adela Lujza Lučenič
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Petra Noppari
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Lu Chen
Study Project
In this research project we examined the development of mobile phone personalization from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, focusing on three key categories: external, integrated and digital personalization.
Tears for a Butterfly
Fabian Fontanot
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Clara Kelly
3D Animation
Even soulless cyborgs under the night sky sometimes shed a tear - a tear for a butterfly.
THAUMATROPE
Joakim Jaulimo
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Kanhong Zhong
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Mikael "Gusse" Gustafsson
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Sabrina Wong
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Michelle Lauriste
, 
Siwei Gao
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Okeke Chimezie
, 
Maja Milas
Game
A painting without paint, living without life. Unlike us, photographs do not bow to time.
The Actions of My Consequences
Karoliina (Oka) Kökkö
Physical Computing
My project is an experimental interactive sound installation that invites people to explore movement in conjunction to collision. A row of small wooden planks hang in a row, while a unit beneath them follows a single person at a time, colliding with the planks and creating waves and noise.
The Cone of Light
Julia Lohmann
, 
Gloria Lauterbach
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İdil Gaziulusoy
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Matti Niinimäki
, 
Ana Todosijević
Master's Thesis
The Cone of Light is an immersive installation created within NorDark, a multidisciplinary research project investigating how artificial light shapes Nordic after-dark environments and the lives of humans and non-humans.
The Hyper-Algal Neural Exchange Infusor
Leopold Maria Tomaschek
, 
Jason Selvarajan
The 21st Century Art & Science Lab
A kinetic sculpture and installation that combines functional electronic waste, liquid computing with a living medium (blue/green algae) and a unique, hypnotic yet relaxing interaction by which the viewer experiences movement, sound and kinetic impulses from the algae, creating a shared space in which an entanglement and de-tanglement of machine with human may happen, guided by another living system (the algae). The piece is mixing analog technology with retro-futuristic looks, light and sonification.
The Show Must Glow On
Yuchen Hu
, 
Shurong Han
, 
Yu-Jung Liu
Game
A sparkly little world where busy sprites put on the cutest show ever.
the strainer v2
Patricija Šapokaitė
Composing with New Musical Instruments
A metal upside down bowl that records sounds and instantly plays them back.
Vjseq
Elias Ruokanen
Physical Computing
First prototype of a pixel art vj sequencing/performance tool.
Weather Loom
Suthasinee Naktnasukanjn
Physical Computing
A weaving loom that shows weather condition in each city.
What is your time there?
Yilei Xue
Computational Art and Design
As a young international student, I live across time zones. Family, friends and people I care about are scattered across the world. The world’s time zones are standardized, but behind that is the fact that actually everyone carries a private time zone—unaligned, unaccelerated and unshareable.’
When Language Warps
Zhen Ren
Physical Computing Computational Art and Design
When Language Warps is an interactive installation that reveals how environments reshape what we say. The system shifts its persona according to ambient light and sound, responding to the user’s input with intentional malice and bias.
where it takes me to...
Mu Yuxin Ysaline
, 
Wu Chengyu Xavier
Visual Programming Workshop
This project transforms a seamless 80-minute ambient album into an interactive audio-visual journey.