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Media Art History in the Future Seminar

Welcome to The MEHI – Media Art History in Finland Project’s Closing Seminar on Friday 26th January at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Center! The main speakers of the seminar are Jussi Parikka, Ph.D., Riikka Niemelä, Ph.D., and Media & Visual Artist Merja Puustinen. Media Art History in the Future Seminar gathers and conveys versatile information and practical tools accumulated… Continue reading Media Art History in the Future Seminar

Media Art History in the Future Seminar 2024

Metadata of Finnish Media artworks in Wikidata!

Metadata of nearly thousand Finnish media artworks in an international database! MEHI – History of Media Art in Finland has compiled a database of metadata on around 1,000 media artworks in 2021–2022. The database contains, among other things, the names of the works, the years in which they were created and information on the most… Continue reading Metadata of Finnish Media artworks in Wikidata!

OMA – Ontology for Media Art

OMA – Ontology for Media Art OMA, Ontology for Media Art has been published in June 2022 at the Finto.fi vocabulary service maintained by the National Library of Finland. With over 1500 concepts to describe the wide field of media arts, ranging from video, sound, light art, experimental film and music to new forms of digital literature… Continue reading OMA – Ontology for Media Art

Anthology on Finnish Media Art!

Thanks to a significant grant from the Kone foundation the MEHI – Media Art History in Finland Project will be culminating in an ambitious anthology publication. With the working title The First Century of Finnish Media Art, the anthology will be divided in 5 thematic sections and a timeline following the development of media art… Continue reading Anthology on Finnish Media Art!