CURRICULUM VITAE

Juha Huuskonen
Born 1974, Helsinki, Finland
me@juhuu.nu
www.juhuu.nu



STUDIES

2000

MSc in Interactive Digital Media, Helsinki University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, Finland

1996 - 2000

Minor subject studies at the Media Lab, University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

1996

Course on Speech Processing, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

1998  

Course on Internet Applications and Multimedia Technologies, University of Patras, Patras, Greece


EXPERIENCE

2001 -

Director, Olento Productions Ltd., Helsinki, Finland

1997 - 1999

Software Design and Project Management, Mindworks Ltd., Helsinki, Finland

1998

Software Design and implementation for the on-line launch of the MTV2 Channel. MTV Europe, London, UK

1997

Developing visualization tools and a prototype of a new user interface for TUOVI Project, CERN – European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland

1995-1996

Software and User Interface Design, Remtec Systems, Espoo, Finland


CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS AND EVENTS

2003

Piknik Frequency, founding member and chairman of nonprofit media art organization Piknik Frequency. www.piknik.org

2002

Amfibio, founding member of audiovisual collective Amfibio. www.amfibio.org

2002 - 2004

New Media AiR, responsible for designing New Media AiR, an international new media artist residency program for Nifca, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art. The resulting program involved 10 collaborating organizations from 9 different countries. www.nifca.org/new-media-air

2002

pikseliÄHKY – pixelache.ac, director of the pikseliÄHKY // pixelACHE diy electronic art festival. www.pixelache.ac

2000

Avanto – Helsinki Media Art Festival, one of the curators and organizers of the first Avanto Festival. www.avantofestival.com

1998 -

katastro.fi, founding member and chairman (1998-2002) of katastro.fi media art collective. www.katastro.fi

1994 - 1996

Usva, member of Usva, a group organizing underground techno parties.


ART

2003

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Pixel (Aug 2003), Interactive software project for proce55ing gallery. www.proce55ing.net

2002

Roosa, Interactive ghost commissioned by private collector Antti Piippo, concept design in collaboration with architect Kivi Sotamaa.

2002

Bob and Barbara, Game featuring two minimalistic creatures. doublecell.org

2002

Rhubarb, Audiovisual dance performance at the Technology in Government Conference Distinction Awards 10 Years Celebration Gala in Ottawa, Canada. Juha Huuskonen in collaboration with dancers from Le Groupe Dance Lab, Ottawa.

2002

The Moment of Long Now, ’The worlds slowest news channel on TV’, Online video stream generated by a custom piece of software, showing the news of the day in an extremely slow speed. www.juhuu.nu/tmln

2000-2002

mirror++, Interactive mirror which turns the image of the viewer into an abstract visual structure and sound. www.juhuu.nu/mirror

2001

Art of Organizing, Software art for an internet art project, organized by The Association for Contemporary Art, Stockholm. www.art.a.se/organising

2000

Netochka Nezvanova encoder/decoder, a program to decode and encode the language of the imaginary entity Netochka Nezvanova. www.olento.fi/juhuu/nn.html

2000 - 2001

Koneisto Festival visuals, live visuals for the main venue of the Koneisto Electronic Music Festival (as a member of a group of artists from katastro.fi). www.koneisto.com

2000

ARTGENDA’00, one of the artists participating in the Helsinki project for ARTGENDA’00, the Biennale of Young Artists Around the Baltic Sea. www.saunalahti.fi/~oceanuv

2000

RinneRadio visual mix, an art installation consisting of 14 televisions, visualizing sound in realtime. The work was part of the RinneRadio visual mix concert in Helsinki.

1999

TimeTable, software design and interface design assistance for the Perry Hoberman’s TimeTable interactive installation piece. www.hoberman.com/perry

1999

2000.katastro.fi, member of the 2000.katastro.fi project team. 2000.katastro.fi

1998

IMAchannel, responsible for the concept and coordination for the IMAchannel performance, the opening event of the ROTATION’98 Music Video Festival. The festival was held in Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. www.katastro.fi/IMAreport



SOFTWARE AND MEDIA PROJECTS

 

2002

ionic.nifca.org, Software design (with Arto Chydenius) and conceptual design (with Kivi Sotamaa) for the on line media art exhibition for Nifca, Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art. The project was launched in February 2002. ionic.nifca.org

2000 - 2001

F2F – New Media Art from Finland, Producer of the F2F exhibition website. www.f2fmedia.net

2001

ninahyvarinen.com, Producer of the ninahyvärinen.com website. www.ninahyvarinen.com

2000

katumuisti.net, Programming of the katumuisti.net website together with Juhana Kokkonen. www.katumuisti.net

1998 - 1999

Finnish National Museum, Software design and implementation together with Petri Kola and Timo Lukumaa for the Finnish National Museum exhibition multimedia pieces.

1999

Heureka Science Centre, An educational game for the exhibition on mathematics at the Heureka Science Centre. www.heureka.fi

1999

TEMP – Temporary Media Lab, Graphic design of the TEMP – Temporary Media Lab web site. TEMP was a five weeks long artists workshop curated by Geert Lovink and was held in Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. temp.kiasma.fi

1998

Alvar Aalto Museum, Programming and user interface design together with Maari Fabritius for a multimedia presentation about the life of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. www.jkl.fi/aalto



TEACHING

2002

Sibelius Academy, Music visualization workshop, with a goal to create a new interpretation of the classic multimedia piece Poem Electronique by composer Edgard Varese and architect Le Corbusier) www.kastanja.org/poem_electronique

2002

Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Interactive graphics programming workshop and tutoring for local new media artists. www.juhuu.nu/cca

2001

interactionmasters, One of the invited tutors for the master class in interaction design, organized by the UIAH Center of Expertise for New Media. interactionmasters.uiah.fi

2001

School of Visual Arts, New York, Lectures on Macromedia Flash technology.

2001

Tampere Polytechic, Interactive multimedia courses.

2001

Finnish Virtual University / TIEVIE Program, Macromedia Flash course.

1998 - 2001

University of Art and Design Helsinki, Media Lab, Graphics programming workshops.

1998 - 2001

Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia, Various multimedia courses (web, CD-Rom).

2000

tabula.katastro.fi, A course designed and taught in collaboration with Anu Karjalainen and Juha Hytönen. 45 students from three different institutions (University of Art and Design, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki Polytechnic) learned to use an interactive multimedia tool (Macromedia Flash 4) and created online art projects. tabula.katastro.fi

2000

South Carelia Polytechnic, Interactive multimedia course.



LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

2003

Prototypes for performative design’ seminar, Stockholm. www.akad.se

2003

proce55ing programming tool presentation in Ars Electronica, Linz. www.proce55ing.net

2002

Lecture at Parsons School of Design, New York, New York. www.juhuu.nu/2002/parsons

2002

Lecture at Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Glasgow. www.juhuu.nu/cca

2002

‘Life of a Chameleon’, Lecture at Interaction Design Institute IVREA, Ivrea. www.juhuu.nu/ivrea

2001

’d –FUSION, Productive trans/mutation of contemporary urban cultures’ -seminar, Helsinki. www.ocean-net.org/d-fusion

2001

’New Media: Academic Education and Future Perspectives’ –seminar, Riga. www.rixc.lv/01/nodalas/seminar.html

2001

’TECH_2’ workshop, Bristol. tech2.southspace.net

2001

‘Escaping the vacuum: New Means & New Tools, for a new breed of Video Artists’ symposium, Toronto. www.tranztech.ca

2001

’The Art of Organizing’ -conference, Stockholm. www.art.a.se/organising

2001

Training program on new media and cultural management, Riga. www.rixc.lv/training



AWARD, GRANTS AND RECIDENCIES

2002

Network North, Nifca, CCA Residency, Glasgow, UK

2000

Mindtrek’00 First Prize for katumuisti.net project

1999

First Prize for TimeTable interactive artwork, ICC Biennale’99

1999

Mindtrek’99 Honorary Mention for katastro.fi media art collective

1998

Young Art in Finland Award for katastro.fi media art collective