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2020 | Winter Demo Day

Aalto Media Lab
Wed, December 16, 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

Join the Discussion
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Join the Aalto Media Lab Demo Day Discord server to meet the students, faculty members, alumni, and other friends of the Aalto Media Lab.

Livestream
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Projects
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2020

+Andscape — AR sandbox and zones of participation

Niklas Pöllönen

Jason Selvarajan

+Andscape is an AR sandbox designed for young children. Children can shape the surface that is then colored with a projected image.

Alumni Speech: Moi From San Fransisco!

Janne Kaasalainen

Winter Demo Day Alumni Speech: Janne Kaasalainen, Media Lab alumni, grad 2008. Interaction Designer. Design Lead at Google, San Francisco USA.

Associate – Generative Poetry Artwork for Untitled

Master's Thesis

Associate is a generative and poetic text-based artwork and an experimental documentation of collective discourse.

Beats N’ Stuff

A mix of hip-hop beats and unreleased songs that are the reason my laptop is always low on storage.

Ivar Kerajärvi

Petter Nissinen

A battle royale split-screen multiplayer game, where players ride beetles into an epic miniature-sized battle and eliminate others, all for fame and glory in the Beetle-Knight Hall of Fame!

Chronicles of an Art and Science Collaboration

Lily Díaz-Kommonen

Juan Duarte Regino

Gautam Vishwanath

Andrea Mancianti

Janika Lehtonen

This audiovisual hybrid artwork brings together the self-reflections of three scientists who participated in an art and science collaboration dealing with the use of bio-cellulose for art and design purposes.

Francesca Bogani Amadori

Introduction to Workshops and Studio Facilities

This MIDI sought autonomy and got it all wrong. In a world full of bad examples, the little dude grew up surrounded by distorted ideas of what is acceptable and got totally intoxicated. Now it’s too late. He cannot change, but you can. Don’t be this dude!

Dgtl-Shows / Objt-Hides

Francesca Bogani Amadori

Electronics for Artists

Digital media grants fast consumption and overexposure of intimate and private affairs. But what happens when digital becomes tangible and that that is normally temporary lingers?

Eero Johannes Remote Live

Helsinki-based Eero Johannes (Planet Mu, Harmönia, Sound Pellegrino) has performed his hyper-melodic slow-fast synth funk since 2007, but has now reached a near-stasis state with his music in the past few years.

Electronics for Artists

Matti Niinimäki

Francesca Bogani Amadori

Simon Fankhauser

Aurora Frestadius

Eerika Jalasaho

Konsta Polkutie

Electronics for Artists

The course introduces the use of electronics and physical computing as a creative medium in the field of new media art.

Escape the Night

Elina Eskelinen

Emeline Jouvencel

Prabhav Bhatnagar

The game puts you in the shoes of a Runner tasked with trapping shadow monsters inside a set of ever more complex puzzle ruins.

Feeling Lazy Today?

Creative Computation for Visual Communication

Feeling lazy today?” is a website, an artificial intelligence-aided poster generator. It makes posters for you simply just by inputting text.

Flung Out of Space

Wearable Technology and Functional Wear

Flung Out of Space is a paired set of wearables, designed to foster an intimate bond between the paired wearers across a given space and distance by remotely transferring heartbeats between the partners.

Game Research 2020 Highlights

Perttu Hämäläinen

Game Research 2020 Highlights

Games Now! Community

Annakaisa Kultima

Ville Kankainen

Prabhav Bhatnagar

Abhishek Jaiswal

Emeline Jouvencel

Leonidas Karavanas Papadimos

Juhana 'Keksi' Kekoni

Virpi Väinölä

Games Now! is an open lecture series on the dominant topics and emerging trends in games. Since 2016, the lecture series have covered most trending topics around the video game industry, research, and education – and what will happen in the near future.

Huggable LEDigrade

Aurora Frestadius

Electronics for Artists

The Huggable LEDigrade is a soft sculpture with capacitive sensors and LEDs that change from fading in and out to a nice magenta hue when touched.

Inner Voice: Wireless Interactive Wearable Technology

Wearable Technology and Functional Wear

With “Inner Voice”, we can express self-conscious emotions in a more polite way without ruining others’ moods whether in a party or a public space simply by using different kinds of hand gestures to light up various patterns remotely.

Intergroup Contact via Telepresence Robots

Béatrice Hasler

My doctoral research, which started in the beginning of this year, investigates how robots could facilitate contact between groups in conflict.

Introduction to Workshops and Studio Facilities

Matti Niinimäki

Francesca Bogani Amadori

Simon Fankhauser

Aurora Frestadius

Eerika Jalasaho

Konsta Polkutie

Introduction to Workshops and Studio Facilities

Introduction to Workshops and Studio Facilities introduces the students to the possibilities that the Aalto ARTS workshops and studios offer to the field of New Media.

Listen, It’s Helsinki

Electronics for Artists

When you leave a city, what remains in your mind?

Electronics for Artists

In this project, I built a looping system inside a 3D-printed box and used it to record and playback the chopping sound on a cutting board in real-time.

Mario Bros for Two

Konsta Polkutie

Electronics for Artists

In this project and in the electronic for the artists course I wanted to discover ways to transform something familiar to unfamiliar.

MIDI Controller for VJs

Introduction to Workshops and Studio Facilities

All genders friendly and stylish midi controller designed for VJs, it can easily connect to the VJ program, like Resolume.

music for being spied on by tech companies that participate in PRISM

Miranda Kastemaa

it’s a hell world and i’m tired and haven’t completed any courses this year. but let’s enjoy some cybertunes together. tidalcycles + supercollider + gameboy.

Carl Victor Nyman

Donkey______________

‘Post club’ is a term used to group genre-blurring dance music. 2020 is literally post-club. We made a post-club for our post-club at postclub.club (enter the URL to play the composition/game in your browser).

Bailey Polkinghorne

Harsh noise, fuzz, and lofi to keep you nice and toasty during the winter.

THE ANTHROBSCENE – Media and the Environment Course Exhibition

Qianyu (Sienna) Fang

Lassi Häkkinen

Mirya Nezvitskaya

Dominik Fleischmann

Media and the Environment

The Fall 2020 ‘The Anthrobscene’* Exhibition features critical artworks by masters students as final outcomes of the Media and Environment Course

Noora Heiskanen

Tatu Heinämäki

Matias Koskimies

In The Healer you embody the titular healer character and cure a collection of patients from ailments that plague them.

The Pillow Project

Electronics for Artists

Look at it, touch it, listen to it, close your eyes, and have a good sleep.

The Shiest Pearl on Earth

Electronics for Artists

The shiest pearl on Earth is so shy that it shuts itself if you approach it. It was discovered by Ania Bernal at the shore of Eläintarhanlahti in November, 2020.

VR in Childbirth Education

Marjaana Siivola

VR in Childbirth Education is an online VR experience about childbirth. The educational project is funded by A!Ole, aimed at offering Aalto teachers and alumni information on how to utilize VR content in their courses and annotating online VR content.

Walking a Virtual Tightrope

Simon Fankhauser

Ambient/Experimental DJ set, accompanied by some live improvisations.

Words Left Unsaid

Antti Mäkipää

Jesse Nukarinen

Virpi Väinölä

A noir mystery game about a detective, an author, and a haunted hotel.