Tapio Makela

Selected Curriculum Vitae

Tapio Mäkelä (Helke Tapio Mäkelä)

Address: - available on request - Helsinki, Finland

Phone and fax: - available on request -

e-mail: tapio@translocal.net

Date of Birth: April 24th, 1965

Researcher, Media Studies Department, University of Turku, Finland.

• 1986-1987 Chemistry and computer science at the Åbo Akademi (Kemisk Tekniska fakultetet), Turku, Finland
• 1990 Studies in cultural theory and media at the University of California at Berkeley, USA
• 1993 B.A., Cultural history and comparative literature at the University of Turku, Finland
• 1998 M.f.A, Media Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
• 2000 - PHD Student, Media Studies, University of Turku, Finland

• Reporter for daily Turun Sanomat, summer 1984
• Teaching part time high school level, Turku 1986-1989
• Free lance graphic design, journalism and translations, 1990-
• Reporter for weekly magazine, Turun ylioppilaslehti, 1991
• Editor in chief for Turun ylioppilaslehti, 1993-1994
• Managing director of MUU, Finnish artist organization for media and interdisclipinary arts, 1994 - 1997
• Managing director of Meteori Books Inc., 1998-2000
• Head of development, (part time) Meteori Books Inc. 2000-2001
  http://www.meteori.com
• Researcher, Media Studies, University of Turku, 2000-2003
  http://www.utu.fi/hum/mediatutkimus/
• 2003-2004 Programme chair, ISEA2004 hosted by m-cult
  http://www.isea2004.net
• 2005- Researcher, USED project with HIIT & m-cult

• Co-organizer for international conferences held at the University of Turku: Ethnicity and Gender 1991, VIRTUAL ZONE 1992
• Main organizer for the conference Narratives of Colonialization 1993
• Organizer of Arts and New Technology conference, Helsinki 1995
• Organizer of Copenhagen '96 meets Helsinki 2000" -conference
• Organizer of Media and Ethics Symposium, Helsinki 1996
• Organizer of Connected - Networked Media Culture in a Changing Europe, Helsinki 1999
• Programme Chair of ISEA2004, Helsinki, Tallinn

• Men, Women and the Banal, paper, Jyväskylä, Finland 1990
• Cultural Study of Reception, paper, Jyväskylä, Finland 1991
• 10th Symposium of the Finnish Society for Semiotics, Imatra, Finland 1991
• Ethnicity and Gender, paper, University of Turku, Finland 1991
• Narratives and Narrated Subjects of Colonialism, paper, University of Turku 1993
• International Symposium of Electronic Arts, ISEA94, paper, Helsinki 1994
• Tidsvåg noll Conference, paper, Gothenburg, Sweden 1995
• Virtual Bodies, Embodied Knowledge. paper, Goldsmith´s College, London -95
• International Symposium of Electronic Arts, ISEA95, paper, Montréal 1995
• Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, panel presentation, Rotterdam 1996
• Cyber Body Soirée, paper, Titanic Gallery, Turku 1996
• Wiretap, paper, V2 Organisation, Rotterdam 1996
• Crossing Over 1, paper, Sofia 1997
• Reality Bites, paper, Stockholm 1997
• Aesthetique Feminine, paper, Institute Finlandais, Paris 1997
• New Expertise in Cultural Work, paper, Jyväskylä 1997
• Skövde University, Visiting Lecturer, Computer Arts Dept., Sweden, 1997
• Open Society, Translocal Cultures. paper, Finnish Institute, London, 1997
• Liverpool Electronic Art Festival, paper, Liverpool, 1997
• History and Memory Conference, paper, University of Turku, Finland, 1997
• Film+arc, paper, Graz, Austria, 1997
• International Symposium of Electronic Arts, ISEA97, paper, Chicago 1997
• Chicago Arts Institute, visiting lecturer, 1997
• University of Maryland, visiting lecturer, 1997
• University of Colorado at Bolder, Arizona, visiting lecturer, 1997
• From Practice to Policy: Towards a European Media Culture. Paper in a panel, Rotterdam/Amsterdam, 1997
• Digital Art, Youth art event, paper, Hyvinkää, Finland, 1997
• International Symposium of Electronic Arts, keynote, ISEA98, Manchester, 1998
• Crossroads in Cultural Studies, paper, Tampere, Finland, 1998
• Momentum conference: The Transformations of Art in the Age of Information, paper, Norway 1998
• Cached: Electronic Media Lecture Series, paper, ICA, London, 1998
• ROOT 1998, paper, Hull, UK, 1998
• Museum, Media, Markets. Paper in a panel, Finnish Museum for Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, 1998
• Multimedia education in Europe, panel, Tampere, 1999
• Summer School for Media Art Curation, Series of Papers, Hobart, Australia, 1999
• Superconductor, Banff Centre, Canada, 2000
• Art and Communication, Riga, Latvia, 2000
• A(o)IR, The 1st Confernece of Association of Internet Researchers: Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline. University of Kansas, USA, 2000
• Artist presentation. Nomads, Washington DC, USA, 2000
• Doing Things with Images. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA, 2000
• Net Art In Context. School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA, 2000
• Electrohype, Malmoe, Sweden, 2000
• Mediaterra, Athens, Greece, 2000
• Pro Arte, St.Petersburg, Russia, 2001
• Bridges, Annenberg School of Communication, Los Angeles, USA, 2001
• Unforgiving Memory, Banff Centre for the Arts NMI, Banff, Canada, 2001
• Human Generosity, Banff Centre for the Arts NMI, Banff, Canada, 2001
• Affective Encounters, University of Turku, Finland, 2001
• Sustainable Information Society, Kouvola, Finland, 2001
• Solar Circuit, Hobart, Australia, 2002

• Finnish Network for Cultural Studies 1989-
• Finnish Association for Semiotics 1989-1991
• Association for Cinema Studies 1990-1993
• Forum for Audiovisual Studies, 1992
• Finnish Journalist Union 1993-1999
• MUU association 1993-1999
• Inter Society for Electronic Arts, 1995-
• European Cultural Backbone, 1998-
• M-cult, Finnish Association for Media Culture, 2000-

• Faculty of Arts Studies, University of Turku,
• board member 1989-1993
• Turku Cultural City Organization, board member 1993
• Photography association at the Univ. of Turku, vice chairman 1993-1994
• Turku Cable Television, board deputy member 1994-1995
• Member of editorial board at the Taide (Art) magazine
• Media Art Committee member, Ministry of Education, Finland 1996
• International assessor for the Arts Council for England 1999
• Expert member in the Board for media art, Arts Council of Finland 2001
• Board and founding member, m-cult Finnish Association of Media Culture 2000-

• Turku Transaction, a interdisclipinary event for arts and science (program co-ordinator, press manager, and a hologram exhibition) 1992
• Virtual Zone, one of the organizers, press materials and posters, main organizer for the conference on interactive art, 1992
• 1993 Turku Transgression, an arts event (co-production)
• Street Talk -project, participating artist, 1994
• Sound Calendar, Finnish Broadcast Company, MUU; 2 minute sound piece, concept, production, and curation of 24 sound artists for national radio and 7 railway stations, Helsinki, 1994
• Founder of Muu Media Base, media lab for artists, Helsinki 1995
• Curation and concept development, founder of AMORPH performance and media art festival, Muu, 1995
• Sound Site, web sound project, Tornio, 1995
• Subsmile, video installation in Tampere Theatre Festival, 1995
• Breaking Eyes, Nordic Media Art Exhibition, Stockholm/Helsinki, concept, curation and co-production, 1996
• Net Academy, education series at Muu Media Base 1997
• Net project Puppet Love, directing, Tornio 1997
• Net project Monopoly, Helsinki 1997
• Polar Circuit 1 & 2, Intenational Media Art and Theory Workshop, concept & production, Tornio-Rovaniemi 1997, 1998
• Net Sauna, net project and installation, concept, participating artist, Ars Electronica, Linz, 1997
• Metropolitan Dreams, installation and web project with Susanna Paasonen, Mental Metro exhibition, Helsinki 1997
• Digital Drive in, net art project 1997
• Grand Arena, Web art and Critique on Board. Concept, production and curation, Smart Show, Silja Line Ferry, Helsinki-Stockholm, 1997
• Ostranenie Media Art Festival, participant, Cyber Knitting project, 1997
• Parasite, temporary media lab and installation in Helsinki, co-production with Attila, Rotterdam, 1997
• Finnish video screening, curator, Images Festival, Toronto
• Hygeia Revisited, Interactive installation and web project with Susanna Paasonen, ISEA 1999, Liverpool
• http://www.channel.org.uk/hygeia
• Ground net zine, ISEA emerging highlights, w/ Susanna Paasonen, 1999
• http://www.translocal.net/ground
• Pakattu/Packed, CD-ROM exhibit, co-production with Lasipalatsi media centre, Helsinki 1999
• Universal Tourist Project with Susanna Paasonen and Steve Bradley, Communication Front, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2000
• Polar Circuit 3, co-production, Rovaniemi, 2000
• Project Internet Wild Life Foundation, Solar Circuit, The Wild Exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia, 2002

• Etnospektri (1991), writings on cultural identity, co-editing and an article.
• Virtual Zone (1992), the first book to published on interactive art and virtual reality in Finland, co-editing, lay-out.
• 5 published scientific articles, two of them in international anthologies.
• Hundreds of newspaper articles (book reviews, reviews of audiovisual culture, news, columns etc.)

• 1990 Finnish Ministry of Education
• 1990 Finnish Cultural Foundation
• 1992 Turun suomalainen yliopistoseura
• 1994 Arts Council of Finland, media art workstation
• 1995 Ministry of Education, travel grant
• 1995 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
• 1996 Audio Visual Foundation, research grant
• 1996 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
• 1997 Channel Project, Arts Council of England
• 1998 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland, travel grant
• 1998 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
• 2000 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
2000 Ministry of Education, travel grant 2001 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant 2002 Audio Visual Foundation, script writing grant



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Updated February 20th, 2002