Helsinki - Manchester
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About:
Tapio Makela

Researcher & Media Artist

From June onwards Tapio Mäkelä will be an AHRC Research Fellow at the Creative Technology department, University of Salford, Manchester, UK, with several project partners. His current research interests are social and cultural uses of location based media, critical interaction design, media and art policy, and history of cultural cybernetics and information theory. Mäkelä was the programme chair of ISEA2004, and co-founder of its main organiser m-cult, centre for new media culture. When working as the director of Artist Association Muu, he constructed the first Finnish artist run medialab MuuMediaBase (1994), and co-founded performance art festival Amorph, and media art workshop series titled Polar Circuit. Mäkelä is also founder of mbar, an active electronic music venue in Helsinki. Both in his artistic work and event production, Mäkelä has explored social interaction and uses of public and remote locations.

Futuresonic Conference Steering Committee

Interests Media art and design, electronic music, sustainability & ecology, food and social aesthetics.

What topics are on your radar Cultural and social uses of location based media.

What topics are you an expert in Media art and theory, critical HCI, event design, sashimi, below level networking.

Most social moment By accident sending a message to address book group that contained several mailing lists, in 1996.

Your organisation June 2008-> Creative Technology, University of Salford, http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/