Meet the artists
Are you curious about the artistic whirlwind of a journey that takes you through various worlds and spaces at our spring festivities? Do you want to get to know the artists behind the production? Here is the entire team behind Linking the (un)known – an Intercultural Art Experience.
Flux Cultural Association, with the creative forces Hamidreza Keshvarpajuh and Jens Heinström at the forefront, leads the intercultural team behind the art experience. Here you can read more about them.
Set design
Tina Čerpnjak is a computational designer holding a Master’s degree in architecture from Aalto University in Finland. Her expertise lies in generative design, digital fabrication, and exhibition design. Presently, she is engaged in research projects exploring data-driven design methods for dynamic urban landscapes, particularly within immersive design environments, leveraging Virtual and Mixed Reality technologies.
Her work, both individual and collaborative, has been showcased at prestigious venues such as the Venice Biennale, the National Design Centre Singapore, the Museum of Modern Art – EMMA, and the Helsinki Design Week. She is a member of Nasha Studio, a multidisciplinary art collective based in Helsinki, focused on audiovisual storytelling, design, and entertainment. Alongside her creative endeavours, she also serves as a lecturer and research assistant at Aalto University, focusing on Computational Methodologies in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism.
Light design
Julia Jäntti is Helsinki based visual designer and artist. She holds a degree of Master of Arts (Theatre and Drama) in lighting design from the University of the Arts Helsinki. The final academic year Jäntti studied production design in Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola, Master’s Programme for Film and Media. Jäntti has worked as a lighting-, set- and costume designer e.g. at Kom-theatre, Helsinki city theatre, Finnish National theatre, Oulu city theatre, Lappeenranta city theatre, Vaba Lava Tallinn and Kiasma.
Audio-visual installations
Monika Hauck is a Canadian/Polish new media artist, musician and VJ based in Helsinki. Her work includes digital manipulation of images to create surreal virtual landscapes related to memory and unreality. She creates immersive environs for live performances, festivals and installations. She is currently focused on developing techniques for optimizing immersive and interactive environments for installation and video based work.
She is also the co-founder of an audio-visual project, Static Channel, where she creates atmospheric soundscapes on synth and responsive live visuals. Hauck has exhibited work in Canada, Mexico and Finland. She is also the former Chairperson of DADA (Digital Art and Design Association) and Vice-Chair of TOKYO (Aalto ARTS Student Association). She is currently completing her MA in New Media Design and Production at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.
Otso Kauniskangas is a musician, composer and new media artist currently studying music technology at Sibelius Academy. His main interests at the moment include generative audiovisual design.
Jonatan Snapir is a composer, instrumentalist and audiovisual artist from Helsinki, Finland. Currently studying music technology at Sibelius Academy, his work focuses on experimental electronic music and generative art.
Saku Liimatainen is a musical decathlete focused on electronic composition, music production and piano pedagogy.
Liimatainens roots in the field of art rely heavily on classical piano training, musical improvisation and curiosity to discover unconventional sources of sound. Besides his work as a solo artist and musician, he has taken part of many different projects and music groups with various artistic interests, ranging from classical music to experimental noise.
Currently he is studying Music Technology at Sibelius Academy and Piano Pedagogy at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences.
Host
Walter Öhman is a Helsinki based actor and scholar. He can paint, sing, act and dream . With an ambition to create and write new and progressive pieces he manages to keep his passion for acting as strong. Some would claim Walter is one of the few who has mastered the art of hosting. His talent to keep the consideration of his audience yet understand the context of the current allows for his comedic timing to be just. That. Precise.
The rest of the artists will be presented shortly.
Take me back to the main page of the event.