Tomi Knuutila

Tomi Knuutila (Doctor of Arts) is a media artist and university lecturer based in Rovaniemi, working at the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland. I have worked in the fields of new media and media art for over 25 years, focusing particularly on the intersections of technology, art, and interaction design. My artistic and research-based practice spans digital imagery, sound, programming, interaction design, virtual studio technologies, and spatial and physical computing.

I have co-founded several national and international interdisciplinary networks, including DAMA (Dance and Media Arts) and the Digital Media and Media Arts Thematic Network under the University of the Arctic. I have collaborated with numerous Finnish media artists and participated in a wide range of research and development projects that explore the relationship between art, technology, and society. My works have been exhibited both in Finland and internationally. In my teaching I emphasise research-based experimentation, technological literacy, and creative problem-solving.

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Samples of my works

Imagining Finnish Media Art

An ongoing project in collaboration with several ai tools in order to create an alternative history for Finnish Media Art. Notfake news but fake art?

100 Video art works (2017-)

100 Video Art Works (2017-) is an ongoing video art catalogue of my recent works. I have tried to find many unique ways for video creation ranging from camera based works to animation, ai-collaborations and programming based moving image. Out of the shelf!

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My 9 Lives

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A video work of my 9 incarnations: 4 before, the current one, 4 after. The story, translations, the voiceovers, the music, and the animations have been created in collaboration with various ai tools. The choreography is by me, as some of you might recognise. The movie is spoken in Chinese, Arabic, Bengali, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish and Japanese, subtitles are provided in Finnish and English.

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Plastissi

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50’s beautytips (in Finnish) meet statues, which are shattering to abstract shapes. The video is done with the software Primitive, with some additional programming to bring in the randomness. 60th video in the 100 video art work series.

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Face Off (demo)

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A screen capture demo of an interactive installation, which combines hand drawn animation and facial recognition. Each time a new face is detected / a face is detected anew, a face collage is created (also sound).

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Psychoanalysis

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A 1 hour psychoanalysis: ai computer vision system analysing what it sees in still frames taken from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). These features are turned in to psychoanalytic questions: Has there been trouble with the man in a brown jacket?

Qualities of Simplicity in Designing Interactive Art

My PhD thesis focused on usability of Interactive media art, though the lens of simplicity.