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CURRICULUM VITAE
Juha Huuskonen
Born 1974, Helsinki, Finland
me@juhuu.nu
www.juhuu.nu
STUDIES
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2000 |
MSc in Interactive
Digital Media, Helsinki University of Technology, Faculty
of Computer Science, Finland |
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1996 - 2000 |
Minor subject studies
at the Media Lab, University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki,
Finland |
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1996 |
Course on Speech
Processing, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium |
1998 |
Course on Internet
Applications and Multimedia Technologies, University of Patras,
Patras, Greece |
EXPERIENCE
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2001 -
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Director, Olento Productions Ltd., Helsinki,
Finland |
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1997 - 1999
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Software Design and Project Management, Mindworks
Ltd., Helsinki, Finland |
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1998
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Software Design and implementation for the
on-line launch of the MTV2 Channel. MTV Europe, London, UK |
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1997
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Developing visualization tools and a prototype
of a new user interface for TUOVI Project, CERN – European
Organisation for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland |
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1995-1996
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Software and User Interface Design, Remtec Systems,
Espoo, Finland
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CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS AND EVENTS
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2003 |
Piknik Frequency, founding member and chairman of nonprofit
media art organization Piknik Frequency. www.piknik.org
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2002 |
Amfibio, founding member of audiovisual collective
Amfibio. www.amfibio.org |
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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 |
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2002 |
pikseliÄHKY – pixelache.ac, director
of the pikseliÄHKY // pixelACHE diy electronic art festival.
www.pixelache.ac |
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Avanto – Helsinki Media Art Festival,
one of the curators and organizers of the first Avanto Festival.
www.avantofestival.com |
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1998 - |
katastro.fi, founding member and chairman (1998-2002)
of katastro.fi media art collective. www.katastro.fi |
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1994 - 1996 |
Usva, member of Usva, a group organizing underground
techno parties. |
ART
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2003 |
The Unbearable Lightness
of Being a Pixel (Aug
2003), Interactive software project for proce55ing gallery.
www.proce55ing.net |
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2002
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Roosa, Interactive ghost commissioned by private
collector Antti Piippo, concept design in collaboration with
architect Kivi Sotamaa. |
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2002 |
Bob and Barbara, Game featuring two minimalistic
creatures. doublecell.org |
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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. |
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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 |
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2000-2002 |
mirror++, Interactive mirror which turns the
image of the viewer into an abstract visual structure and
sound. www.juhuu.nu/mirror |
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2001 |
Art of Organizing, Software art for an internet
art project, organized by The Association for Contemporary
Art, Stockholm. www.art.a.se/organising |
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2000
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Netochka Nezvanova encoder/decoder, a program
to decode and encode the language of the imaginary entity
Netochka Nezvanova. www.olento.fi/juhuu/nn.html |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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1999
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TimeTable, software design and interface design
assistance for the Perry Hoberman’s TimeTable interactive
installation piece. www.hoberman.com/perry |
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1999
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2000.katastro.fi, member of the 2000.katastro.fi
project team. 2000.katastro.fi |
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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 |
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SOFTWARE AND MEDIA PROJECTS
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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 |
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2000 - 2001 |
F2F – New Media Art from Finland, Producer
of the F2F exhibition website. www.f2fmedia.net |
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2001 |
ninahyvarinen.com, Producer of the ninahyvärinen.com
website. www.ninahyvarinen.com |
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2000 |
katumuisti.net, Programming of the katumuisti.net
website together with Juhana Kokkonen. www.katumuisti.net |
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1998 - 1999 |
Finnish National Museum, Software design and
implementation together with Petri Kola and Timo Lukumaa
for the Finnish National Museum exhibition multimedia pieces. |
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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 |
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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
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2002
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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 |
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2002
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Center for Contemporary
Art, Glasgow, Interactive
graphics programming workshop and tutoring for local new
media artists. www.juhuu.nu/cca |
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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 |
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2001
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School of Visual Arts, New York, Lectures on
Macromedia Flash technology. |
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2001
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Tampere Polytechic, Interactive multimedia
courses. |
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2001 |
Finnish Virtual University / TIEVIE Program,
Macromedia Flash course. |
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1998 - 2001 |
University of Art and
Design Helsinki, Media
Lab, Graphics programming workshops. |
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1998 - 2001 |
Helsinki Polytechnic
Stadia, Various multimedia
courses (web, CD-Rom). |
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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 |
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2000 |
South Carelia Polytechnic, Interactive multimedia
course. |
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
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2003 |
Prototypes for performative design’ seminar,
Stockholm. www.akad.se |
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2003 |
proce55ing programming tool presentation in
Ars Electronica, Linz. www.proce55ing.net |
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2002 |
Lecture at Parsons School of Design, New York,
New York. www.juhuu.nu/2002/parsons |
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2002 |
Lecture at Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow,
Glasgow. www.juhuu.nu/cca |
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2002 |
‘Life of a Chameleon’, Lecture
at Interaction Design Institute IVREA, Ivrea. www.juhuu.nu/ivrea |
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2001 |
’d –FUSION, Productive trans/mutation
of contemporary urban cultures’ -seminar, Helsinki.
www.ocean-net.org/d-fusion |
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2001 |
’New Media: Academic Education and Future
Perspectives’ –seminar, Riga. www.rixc.lv/01/nodalas/seminar.html |
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2001 |
’TECH_2’ workshop, Bristol. tech2.southspace.net |
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2001 |
‘Escaping the vacuum: New Means & New
Tools, for a new breed of Video Artists’ symposium,
Toronto. www.tranztech.ca |
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2001 |
’The Art of Organizing’ -conference,
Stockholm. www.art.a.se/organising |
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2001 |
Training program on new media and cultural
management, Riga. www.rixc.lv/training |
AWARD, GRANTS AND RECIDENCIES
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2002
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Network
North,
Nifca, CCA Residency, Glasgow, UK |
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2000
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Mindtrek’00 First Prize for katumuisti.net project |
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1999
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First Prize for
TimeTable interactive artwork, ICC Biennale’99 |
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1999
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Mindtrek’99
Honorary Mention for katastro.fi media art collective |
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1998
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Young
Art in Finland Award for katastro.fi media art collective |