CURRICULUM VITAE

Heidi Tikka
Born 1959, Helsinki, Finland
htikka@uiah.fi

Heidi Tikka is a practicing media artist and researcher on interactive media. She is currently working on a series of experimental mobile messaging situations in collaboration with Radiolinja Finland Ltd.

EDUCATION
 

1999

1992

1989

Lic. of Arts in Fine Arts, University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki, Finland
MFA in Art & Technology, Film, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
MA in Textile Art, University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

2001 - 2002

Teaching
Professor, Multimedia and Communication,
Media Lab UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

2000 - 2001

Researcher at UIAH Media Lab, Adviser and Project Coordinator, Cultural Usability Program, Helsinki, Finland

1993 - 1998

Courses in Digital Image Processing, Department of Fine Arts, UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

1997                 

Adviser and Project Coordinator, Id-entities, Interactive Art project, Media Lab, UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

1996 - 1998

Lecture series in Media Art and Media Culture, Department of Art Education, UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

1996

Adviser, Gendered User Interfaces, Department of Media, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

2001

Other

Panelist, Escaping the Vacuum, Tranz - Tech Festival, Toronto, Canada

1998

Curator, Mobile Zones, MuuMedia Festival, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

1997

Screen Memories, Lecture in the lecture series Psychoanalysis in Art, Department of Art History, University of Turku, Finland

1996

International Program Committee, ISEA 96 Chicago, USA

1995-1998

Advisory Board Member, (valo)Kuva, Contemporary Imagery Review, Helsinki, Finland

2003

Imaginary Journey Net-based project Ideologia,
Biennale of Nordic Art, Röda Kors, Göteborg, Sweden

2003

Mother, Child Interactive video projection
F2F, Parsons Exhibitions, New York, USA

2002

Mother, Child interactive video projection
F2F, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada

2002

Screen Memories stereoscopic installation
Photography and Video,
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

2001

Remembering, Passing Through interactive video projection
Granice/ Borders, Baltic Sea Culture Centre, Gdansk, Poland

2001

Mother, Child interactive video projection
F2F, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

2001

Mother, Child interactive video projection
F2F, Embassy of Finland, Washington DC, USA

2000

Mother, Child interactive video projection
F2F, the New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

2000

Screen Memories stereoscopic installation
Valoa, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland

1999

Enclosed mixed media installation
What is Real? The Triennial of Finnish Photography, Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland

1998

Enclosed mixed media installation
What is Real? Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland

1998

Asylum Garments photographs
Permanent Collection, Tammiharju Mental Ward, Tammiharju, Finland

1998

Asylum Garments photographs
Knipnäs Mental Ward, Tammisaari, Finland

1998

Sovitus stereoscopic installation
Encoded Identities, Gallery Otso, Espoo, Finland

1998

Screen Memories stereoscopic installation
The Naked and Masked - Images of Women in Finnish Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

1996

Sovitus stereoscopic installation
Fotofinlandia, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland

1996

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
Pandemonium Film Festival, London, UK

1995

Sovitus solo exhibition
Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland

1995

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
London Film-makers Coop, London, UK

1995

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

1994

Screen Memories solo exhibition
tm Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

1994

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

1994

Dialogue with Hunger interactive installation
ISEA 94, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

1993

Dialogue with Hunger solo exhibition
Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, USA

1993

Dialogue with Hunger interactive installation
MuuMedia Festival, Gallery Vanha, Helsinki, Finland

1993

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA

1993

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
Athens International Film and Video Festival, USA

1993

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
Videopolis, TV1, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, Finland

1992

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
The 5th National Audiovisual Biennale of Lahti, Finland

1992

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, USA

1992

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
International MuuMedia Festival, Bio Illusion, Helsinki, Finland

1992

On the Threshold of Liberty 16 mm film
Feminist Film and Autograph, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, USA

1992

untitled photographs
A Matter of Delicacy, Gallery 2, Chicago, USA

1992

untitled photographs
At the Borders, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland

1992

untitled photographs
Ashkin, Fujiwara, Gouch, Levin, Tikka, Gallery 2, Chicago, USA

1992

untitled photographs
Fleshed Out, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, USA

1991

untitled photographs
Luz Elastica, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1990

untitled photographs
Digital Image - Digital Cinema, Siggraph'90, Dallas, USA

2001

Missing the Point - Situated User Experience and the Materiality of Interaction
Conference Paper, Published in Affective Encounters: Rethinking Embodiment in Feminist Media Studies, Conference Proceedings, University of Turku, School of Art, Literature and Music Series A, No. 49 Turku, Finland, 2001

2001

Configuring Affective User?
Paper, International Cultural Usability Seminar, UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

2000

The Space of Gallery Haunted Spaces, UIAH Working Papers F12, ed. Eeva Kurki, UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

1998

Mobility as Strategy
Design Research: Consuming Media, Arttu Magazine 5-6/1998, Helsinki, Finland

1998

MuuMedia Festival Catalogue 1998
edited with Pekka Kantonen, Helsinki, Finland, 1998

1998

Mobile Zones - Cityspace in Globalized Culture
Article, published in MuuMedia Festival Catalogue, Helsinki, Finland 1998

1997

Girls and Interface Design,
Mediaevoluutioita, (Media Evolutions) ed. Kuivakari, Hintikka, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

1996

Interface Technologies and Gender,
Johdatus uuteen mediaan (Introduction to New Media), Edita, Helsinki, Finland

1996

On Watching a Stereographic Image,
(valo)Kuva, Contemporary Imagery Review 4/96, Helsinki, Finland

1995

The Surface of a Hysterical Body as an Interface, Conference Proceedings, ISEA 95, Montreal, Canada

1995

The Changing Identity of an Artist in the Age of Media Technology
Sivuvalo 5. ARS Special Issue, The Finnish National Gallery, Department of Museum Pedagogy

1995

Cyberspace - A Feminist Point of View
Paper, MuuMedia Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

1994

Vision and Dominance - A Critique of Interactive Systems,
Conference Proceedings, ISEA 94, Helsinki, Finland

2002

Vulnerable Spectator,
Riikka Pelo, Mediumi, 3/2002 (on-line)

1999

Symptom på Arkivfeber,
Minna Tarkka, Finska Olikheter , Leena-Maija Rossi, Hjärnstorm Magazine No. 65, Sweden

1999

Deep in the Dark,
Elina Heikka, Frames - Viewing Finnish Contemporary Photography, Frame 1999

1998

Encoded Identities,
Erkki Huhtamo, MuuMedia Festival'98 Catalogue

1998

Changing and Varied Images,
- Images of Women in Finnish Art of the 1990's, Leena-Maija Rossi, Helsinki City Art Museum Publication, 1998, Helsinki, Finland

1996

Forum,
Camera Austria 54/1996, Graz, Austria

1996

The Third Meaning of the Word Sovitus
by Elina Heikka, Finnish Photography Magazine Valokuva 2/96

1995

The Grotesque Moment: Corpo/real Anxieties
by Arja Elovirta in Magazyn Sztuki 4/95, Gdansk, Poland
1995 Interview with Malgorzata Lisiewicz, Magazyn Sztuki 4/95, Gdansk, Poland

2001 - 2003

Arts Council of Finland 3-year Artist Grant

2000

Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant

1999

Arts Council of Finland Grant

1999

Arts Council of Finland Grant

1998

Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant

1998

Arts Council of Finland Grant

1997

Arts Council of Finland Grant

1995

Arts Council of Finland Grant

1995

Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant

1994

AVEK, The Promotional Center for Audio Visual Culture Grant, Finland

1994

The Province of Southern Finland Grant

1993

Isabella Liddell Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA

1991

Arts Council of Finland Grant

1998

Fulbright Scholarship, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Film Collection, Helsinki, Finland
University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

Artists' Association of Finland

Projects online:

Imaginary Journey
imaginaryjourney.uiah.fi/

The imaginary journey website is a documentation of a fictional trip through Europe performed by a mother with her 4 year old son. The audience is invited to participate and send images from the places mother dreams of with her son.

Papers online:

Missing the point - Situated user experience and the materiality of interaction Affective Encounters
International conference, University of Turku, Finland, September 13th-15th, 2001
www.utu.fi/hum/mediatutkimus/affective/

Affective environments: configuring the affective user? Cultural Usability seminar, UIAH, Finland, April 24th, 2001
http://mlab.uiah.fi/culturalusability/