Selected Texts, Publications & Conference Papers

Ars Memorativa in the Interactive City: Private Layers in Public Spaces. ISEA2006 Proceedings, San Jose, (August 2006).

Digital fever: An Art of Memory: Interface, Metaphors, and New Genres of Reprsentation. In Sarah Cook, Sara Diamond and Susan Kennard, eds. Utopia/Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues 1995 - 2005. Banff, Canada: The Banff Centre for the Arts, 2006.

Wireless Creative Fringe and Popular Mobile Cultures. Future Wireless: practical.disourse.creative conference publication. The Science Museum's Dana Centre, London, UK, Oct 4th 2005. http://publication.nodel.org/Wireless-Creative-Fringe

ISEA2004 Conference Proceedings. Tapio Mäkelä ed. http://www.isea2004.net Helsinki: mediakulttuuriyhdistys m-cult ry, 2005.

Tapio Mäkelä, Tuulikki Koskinen & Hannu Saha, eds., New Media Arts and Culture: Policy and Practice in Dialogue. Arsis 3/04. Helsinki: Arts Council of Finland, 2003. Download PDF.

Tapio Mäkelä, ed. Open Source Software as Culture, mediumi 1:5. Helsinki: mediakulttuuriyhdistys m-cult ry, 2003.

Tapio Mäkelä and Minna Tarkka, Mediataide. Kotimaiset toimijat ja kansainväliset mallit. (Media Art: Finnish Actors and International Models. Opetusministeriö. Kulttuuri-, liikunta- ja   nuorisopolitiikan osaston julkaisusarja nro 8 /2002. Helsinki 2002. http://www.minedu.fi/julkaisut/pdf/mediataide.pdf

Minna Tarkka and Tapio Mäkelä, eds.. Uusi mediakulttuuri innovaatioympäristönä. Kotimainen ja kansainvälinen tutkimus . (New Media Culture as an Environment for Innovation. A Finnish and International Study.)Opetusministeriö: Sisältötuotanto-työryhmän väliraportti 7. Helsinki: mediakulttuuriyhdistys m-cult ry, 2002. http://www.minedu.fi/opm/hankkeet/sisu/uusi_mediakulttuuri.pdf

Virtuaalitodellisuus uuden median populaarikulttuurina (Virtual Reality as a New Media Popular Culture). In Anu Koivunen et. al. eds., Populaarin lumo - mediat ja arki . Turun yliopisto, Mediatutkimus. Turun yliopiston taiteiden tutkimuksen laitoksen julkaisuja, sarja A, no 46, 2000.

White New Media Mythologies: On Interacivity and Orientalism. Proceedings, ISEA2002 , Nagoya, Japan, 2002.

Interdiscplinary Trouble: Performing Science in Media Arts. Proceedings, ISEA2002 , Nagoya, Japan, 2002.

Media art and the construction of public spaces. In Koivunen, Anu and Söderbergh Widding, Astrid (eds.), Cinema Studies Into Visual Theory? D-Vision yearbook vol. 1/1998.

"Re-reading Digitality through Scientific Discourses of Cybernetics: Fantasies of Disembodied Users and Embodied Computers". Conference Proceedings for affective encounters: rethinking embodiment in feminist media studies. Anu Koivunen and Susanna Paasonen eds. University of Turku, School of Art, Literature and Music, Media Studies, Series A, N:o 49, 2001. Download PDF.

Tapio Mäkelä and Minna Väisänen, eds., Virtual Zone (First Finnish book on VR and interactive art). Turku: Turun yliopiston ylioppilaskunta, 1992.

Selected presentations (2000->)

Resisting System Subjectification: Paranoia as a Culturally Specific Affect of Network Use. Sensor-Census-
Censor: International Colloquium at Sarai-CSDS on Information, Society, History, Politics Delhi, India (December 2006).

Systematic Mistakes: Materiality of Networks and Technological Metaphors Not to Live By. AOIR 2006, Brisbane, Australia (September 2006).

Ars Memorativa in the Interactive City: Private Layers in Public Spaces. ISEA2006, San Jose (August 2006).

Infographics and interface as media art. 7th Spring School on Aesthetic in Electronic Media. University of Jyväskylä (April 2006).

Transparency and noise in user experience . 7th Spring School on Aesthetic in Electronic Media. University of Jyväskylä (April 2006).

Fascination with Wireless, Cybernetics Revisited. Future Wireless, Dana Centre, Science Museum, London (October 2005).

The USED Project: Urban Spaces and Experience Design . Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN) Workshop, ICA, London (February 2005).

Art and new technology in Europe. Second Asia-Europe Art Camp, Tokyo, Japan (October 2004).

Notes for mobile archions. Panel presentation. Art+communication: Trans Cultural Mapping. The 7th International Festival For new Media Culture. Riga, Latvia, (September 2004).

There is no Translocal without the local: New media centres, networks and sustainability. International Expert Meeting on Media Art and New Media Culture Policy. Media Centre Lume (August 2004).

Using Metadata & Ontologies in Authoring and Designing Public Space. Futuresonic conference, Manchester (April 2004).

Beyond techno formalisms and ESCatologies: media art as social and cultural practice. ArcArt conference, Tromsoe (January 2004).

Research and innovation in new media culture and media art . Understanding Media Art & Research conference, Rotterdam (January 2004).

Vuorovaikutteinen media, metadata ja elämyksellisyys - metodologiset ja poikkitieteelliset haasteet. Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivät, Helsinki (Joulukuu 2003).

New Media Cultural Policy: ISEA2004 as a Case Example. 2nd World Summit on the Arts and Culture. Creating Connections: Trends in Government Support for Artistic Creativity, Singapore, (November 2003).

New media culture and innovation. E-culture conference: Investing in Innovation, Amsterdam (October 2003).

Conceptual games, software toys and software art. ReadMe Software Art Festival Conference, Helsinki (May 2003).

Emergent designs: new media culture and innovation. Design - Opportunity For Estonian Economy? Tallinn Technical University (May 2003).

Tila(nne)kohtainen käyttäjyys ja interaktiivisuuden kokemus. Seminar on Interactivity, University of Jyväskykä, (May 2003).

White New Media Mythologies On Interactivity and Orientalism. ISEA2004, Nagoya, Japan (October 2002).

Interdisciplinary Trouble: Performing Science in Media Arts . ISEA2002, Nagoya, Japan (October 2002).

New media culture as an environment for innovation. Bridges, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada (October 2002).

Flicks and Clicks: Interactivity, Cinema Theory and Human Computer Interface Research. Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere (June 2002).

Re-reading digitality through scientific discourses of cybernetics: Fantasies of disembodied users and embodied computers. Affective Encounters: rethinking embodiment in feminist media studies conference, University of Turku (September 2001).

Emperor´s New Interfaces: Old Economy, Old Media and the Rhetoric of the New. Sustainable Information Society - Values And Everyday Life . Kouvola (September 2001).

Digitality, Memory, and Every Day Life Experience. Unforgiving Memory. Banff New Media Institute, Canada (August 2001).

Emperor´s New Interfaces: Old Economy, Old Media and the Rhetoric of the New. Human Generosity. Banff New Media Institute, Canada (August 2001).

Emperor's New Interfaces: Old Economy, Old Media and the Rhetoric of the New. Pengar -conference, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (June 2001).

Experience, play, and interpretation - discontents of usability. The Cultural Usability Seminar. Uiah, Helsinki (April 2001).

Interaktiivisuus median, tekstin ja käyttäjyyksien näkökulmista. Tietotekniikan yhteiskunnallinen ja kulttuurinen tutkimus. Turun yliopisto (January 2001).

From Information Society to Content Production: Policy, Rhetoric and Every Day Life. Tietotekniikka kulttuurina -seminaari, Joensuun yliopisto (December 2000).

Illusions of Mobility. Mediaterra, Athens, Greece (November 2000)

Medusa's look: Viewing and Interactivity. Media Usage and the Transformations of Everyday Experience seminar, University of Turku (Nov.-Dec.2000).

Breaking Through the Interface: Impact of Visual Metaphors in the Popularization of the Internet . A(o)IR, The 1st Confernece of Association of Internet Researchers: Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline. University of Kansas, USA (September 2000).

Content on Content? Between Media Art Workshops and Content Industries . Super Conductor. Banff Institute for New Media, Banff, Kanada (August 2000).

New media policy and networks . Art + Communication 4. Riika (August 2000).

Uusmedian urbaanit rajapinnat . Studia Cultura -seminaari: Innovaatiot ja kaupunkikulttuuri. Järvenpää, (August 2000).

Digital fever: An Art of Memory. Interface Metaphors as media genres . Image, body and technology, NorFa workshop, University of Copenhagen (March 2000).

Guest lectures

ISEA2004 to 2006: New Media Events in Transition   (University of California, San Diego (February 2005).'

ISEA2004 to 2006: New Media Events in Transition   (University of California, Irvine (February 2005).

New Media Art Moderation & Curation. California College of the Arts, San Francisco (February 2005).

Translocality and cosmopolitanism in new media cultures (University of Art and Design, Helsinki (February 2005).

Art & New Technologies in Deep Europe a networked media culture. Asia Europe Foundation Art Camp, Tokyo (November 2004).

New media culture as an environment for innovation. Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University (March 2003).

Situated User Experience . CRCA, UC San Diego (January 2003).

Media art as a strategy, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz (January
2003).'

New media culture as an environment for innovation. Department for Visual Art, Rensellair Polytechnic, Troy, New York (January 2003).

Games, toys, and software art. Department for Critical Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (January 2003).

New media culture as an environment for innovation. Department for Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence (January 2003).

The Cultural and Social Information Society. Helsinki University (November 2002).

Towards New Media (Art) Strategies. Pro Arte, St. Petersburg (April 2001).

New Media Culture. E-media Center, Estonian Art Academy, (October/ November 2000, yhdessä Susanna Paasosen kanssa).

Artist presentation . Nomads, Washington DC, USA (syyskuu 2000, yhdessä Susanna Paasosen kanssa)

Doing Things with Images . Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA (syyskuu 2000, yhdessä Susanna Paasosen kanssa)

Net Art In Context . The School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA (syyskuu 2000, yhdessä Susanna Paasosen kanssa)