Invitation

Art Node Stockholm (Sweden), artist organization MUU (Finland), The Nordic Arts Centre (Finland) have the pleasure to invite you to the Nordic-Baltic conference on Art and Information Technology, which is to be held on the island of Suomenlinna in Helsinki, Sat. October 21 - Sun. October 22, 1995, in connection to the MUU Media Festival (MMF95) in Helsinki.

The conference will focus on the following:

Could new information technology be used to promote cooperation and marketing of contemporary art from the Nordic-Baltic region in an international context? Is the Nordic-Baltic region prepared to be involved in the development of computer based networks presenting adequate information from the different fields of contemporary art?

The purpose of the Nordic-Baltic conference on art and information technology is to investigate different aspects of this multi-faceted question: how do artists and art organizations relate to new communication technologies?

The conference will focus on concrete examples of on-going projects and plans. Based on these presentations, various future plans can be envisioned on the Nordic-Baltic level. What should a digital art archive look like? Could the World Wide Web and CD-ROMS be an efficient platform for marketing, presenting, and making art work?

The Nordic-Baltic conference on art and information technology will present lectures, demonstrations, discussions and exhibitions by different participants from the fields of art, science, and technology.

The conference is sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

| top |

Participants List

FINLAND
Simo Alitalo, artist, teacher, curator
Tuula Arkio, Contemporary Art Museum
Andy Best, artist
Tiina Erkintalo, director/AV-arkki
Minna Heikinaho, artist, vice chair person at MUU
Marikki Hakola, artist, producer /Kroma Oy
Tuomo Karakorpi, director /comp.dept. City of Helsinki
Satu Kiljunen, artist, chair person of State Visual Arts Council
Matti Knaapi, designer, artist
Anders Kreuger, director /Nordic Arts Centre
Veikko Kunnas, advisor /Ministry of Education
Marjatta Levanto, Contemporary Art Museum, pedagogical unit
Marita Liulia, artist
Leila Luukka, artist /Arte ry
Tuija Makkonen, producer/Painatuskeskus Oy
Asko Mäkelä, assistant professor, media studies, Univ. of Lapland
Tapio Mäkelä, director of MUU
Marjatta Oja, artist
Kari Poutasuo, senior officer /Ministry of Education
Merja Puustinen, artist, Chair person of MUU
Perttu Rastas, critic, curator, producer
Sirkka Valanto, State Art Museum
Oliver Whitehead, Rector, Fine Art Academy

SWEDEN

Art Node
Erik van der Heeg, Art Critic
Mats Brodén, Chairm. Art Node
Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Philosopher
Mats Hjelm, Artist
Daniel Birnbaum, Art Critic
Helene Boström, Editor Source Magazine
Håkan Nilsson, Art Historian
Mikael Lindgren, Artist
Åsa Nacking, Curator/Rooseum
Mats Stiernstedt, Art Node Malmö
Eva Lotta Holm, Net Working Women
Gertrud Sandqvist, Konsthögskolan Forum
Kim Klein, OT-Foundation
Peter Szmulik, Digital Equipments Sweden
Hans Eriksson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Mats Brunell, KK Foundation, Sweden
Kai Åkerwall, Silicon Graphics

NORWAY

Kenneth Korstad Langås, Atelier Nord
Jeremy Welsh, School of Fine Arts Trondheim
Jörn Mårtsson, Chairman UKS
Morten Sørbye, Journalist, Morgenbladet
Jonas Ekeberg, Editor, Hyperfoto

DENMARK

Niels Bonde, Kim Borreby, Måns Jacobsen, Art Net Denmark /T
Michael Franch Neilsen, Electronic Café, Copenhagen
Morten Lerhardt, Art Historian
Kim Borreby, Art Net Denmark
Mogens Jacobsen, Art Net Denmark
Olafur Kvaran, Nordic Council of Ministers

ICELAND

Arnfinnur Einarsson, artist
John Hopkins, artist, lecturer, Icelandic Academy of Art

AUSTRIA
(by special invitation)

Mathias Fuchs and Sylvia Eckermann

| top |

Program of Presentations

Saturday Oct. 21, 1995
09.15-09.30 - Introduction by the organizer

09.30-10.00 - Presentation 1: Tapio Mäkelä, MUU ry (fi)

10.00-10.30 - Presentation 2: Mats Hjelm, Art Node Stockholm (se)

10.30-11.00 - Coffee

11.00-11.30 - Presentation 3: Niels Bonde, Art Net Denmark (dk)

11.30-12.00 - Presentation 4: Matthias Fuchs, The Thing Vienna (at)

12.00-14.00 - Lunch and showing of Suomenlinna facilities, Anders Kreuger

14.00-14.30 - Presentation 5: Kenneth Korstad Langås, Atelier Nord (no)

14.30-15.00 - Presentation 6: Marita Liulia and Tuija Makkonen (fi)

15.00-15.30 - Presentation 7: Michael Frank, Electronic Café (dk)

15.30-16.00 - Coffee

16.00-16.30 - Presentation 8: Eva-Lotta Holm, NetWorking Women, (se)

16.30-17.30 - Panel discussion, and Hearing with representatives from Digital Instruments, Silicon Graphics, Apple Finland. Moderators: Mats Hjelm Art Node Stockholm and Tapio Mäkelä, Muu ry.


Sunday Oct. 22, 1995
09.30-10.00 - Presentation 9: Morten Sørbye, Art Critic (no)

10.00-10.30 - Presentation 10: Asko Mäkelä, University of Lapland (fi)

10.30-10.45 - Demo 1: Merja Puustinen & Andy Best, Dad@ (fi)

10.45-11.00 - Demo 1: Mikko Maasalo & Juha van Ingen, Re-Evolution (fi)

11.00-11.15 - Presentation 11: Marjatta Levanto, State Art Museum (fi)

11.15.-11.30 - Presentation 12: Sirkka Valanto, State Art Archives (fi)

11.30-12.30 - Presentation 13: Jeremy Welsh, Professor (no)

12.00-12.45 - Lunch

12.45-13.15 - Presentation 14: Tiina Erkintalo, AV-Arkki (fi)

13.15-13.45 - Presentation 15: Helen Boström, Source (se)

13.45-14.00 - Coffee

14.00-15.00 - Concluding discussion

| top |