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2020 | Spring Demo Day

Aalto Media Lab, Online Livestream + Discord
Wed, May 27, 2020

Schedule
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14:00 | Welcome
14:10–16:30 | Presentations
16:30–17:00 | Explore the Projects and Join the Demo Day Discord
17:30–> | Live Performances

Original Site
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Archive of the original site from 2020

Projects
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2020

Alive Dead Media: Chip and Tracker Music

Lu Priace Michavila

Philippe La Grassa

Loan Le Thi Kim

Miranda Kastemaa

Markku Reunanen

Alive Dead Media

This year the topic of the Alive Dead Media workshop was chip and tracker music. During the week each student composed two tunes: one using the sample-based MilkyTracker and another for the Nintendo Game Boy handheld using Little Sound DJ.

Auto-auto-biographic VR

Gautam Vishwanath

A chronographic media archive for students to re-experience their studies and developing interests.

Generative Media Coding

The Chain Waves is a generative drawing inspired by Vera Molnar’s plotter drawing series “Interruptions”.

covid-19 showreel

This experimental music video is the result of my six-fanarts covid-19 lockdown side activity. I wanted to edit my fails and finished work together to make the worst + best showreel ever.

Deconstruction of the Body

Mirya Nezvitskaya

Dance performance on canvas, oil paints

Demoscene & Cultural Heritage

Markku Reunanen

The demoscene is an international community focused on the creation of demos, creative real-time audio-visual presentations that combine skillfully crafted software, graphics and audio. In April 2020 the Ministry of Education and Culture officially added the demoscene to the national inventory of living heritage.

3D animation about a girl who wonders if she has fulfilled her dream or not.

Exploration of Depth

Embodied Interaction

Installation prototype: back projected sheet and a Kinect which detects depth changes in the sheet. The depth data is used to create a portal visualization.

Fashion Police Squad

Tuisku Hiltunen

Philippe La Grassa

Fashion Police Squad is a retro first person shooter where you play as a stylish fashion cop whose task is to fight against fashion crime using attire enhancing weaponry.

Embodied Interaction

Gateway is an interactive sound installation utilizing computer vision and sound programming.

Generative Algorithm Knitting

Generative Media Coding

Coding and knitting share an interesting bond. This piece uses processing sketch as a textile surface, explores generative knitting with algorithms.

Im/Material Research

An overview of material & immaterial research/projects from spring 2020

Interactive Information Visualization of Finnish Genetic Data

An online dashboard visualising data about Finnish population genome

Embodied Interaction

Lucid Dreaming is a collaborative multimedia installation created during the Embodied Interaction course in spring 2019. The installation investigates the phenomena of awakening into the subconscious.

Alexey Nikolaev

Generative Media Coding

Magic Ivy is a generative and interactive 3D simulation of a non-existing spherical plant.

Noisy Narcissus – The Noise Behind the Mask

Lu Priace Michavila

Generative Media Coding

This is a prototype for a future live audiovisual performance combining electronic music and visuals that react to sound using facetracking and sound visualisation techniques.

Generative Media Coding

Use Kinect to draw detected subjects as shadows on screen, which creates watercolor painting effect.

Shuttlecock of Friendship

Alexey Nikolaev

Shuttlecock of Friendship is a short animation film created as a spring project in Kai Lappalainen’s 3D animation class.

Generative Media Coding

The blob is a concept work of an interactive piece. The blob in the piece lives its own life in the middle of the image, but when a viewer approaches the screen, the blob is attracted by the viewer.

Markus Laattala

Konsta Polkutie

Philippe La Grassa

Their Home is a tiny open-world game about kindness. You play as a bird, and try to help the villagers of a remote mountainside village to feel more connected.

Wakey-Wakey, Wonders!

Abhishek Jaiswal

Tuisku Hiltunen

Philippe La Grassa

Wakey-Wakey, Wonders! is a 2D-platformer game which takes you to the mystic mountains, with a creature named Aika! Her magic clock has the power of reviving nature, and her mission is to find the great sleepy wonders and wake them up!

Generative Media Coding

A small application that hosts a group of wandering Wanderers in two different organically evolving worlds. They can be interactively guided and gathered using mouse/touch input. Done in Generative Media Coding 2020.