New Media End of Semester Presentations — Estonian Academy of Arts

Location:
EKA foyer

Start Date:
09.12.2024

Start Time:
18:00

End Date:
15.12.2024

The New Media Department is proud to present a selection of ongoing and in-process experiments from this semester. The works on display include materials from international workshops, courses, and various collaborations.

In the EKA Lobby, you’ll find a diverse range of written, programmed, recorded, interactive, and non-interactive materials. These pieces offer a glimpse into the research and experimentation that typically remain accessible only to our students and collaborators during the busy semester.

We invite you to explore these works and engage with the ideas and processes behind them.
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“Patchwork” is an exhibition by students of the New Media course “Video Installation: Experiments With Moving Image in Spatial Context” at the EKA Gallery. Here, every fragment of light and every shifting image merges into a unified, dynamic lightscape. Like observing a quilt, the exhibition explores the interplay of many visual elements as they are merging into a multidimensional canvas, saturated with dynamics and layered meanings. Thanks to the omnipresence and constant motion of textures, words, and interpretations, the exhibition envelops viewers, encouraging them to become an integral part of this interactive experience.Artists: Paulina Gilsbach, Kristjan Glück, Marta Huimerind, ELIAS KLMNN, Olev Kuma, Theresa Roth, Kristin Silm, Kroplya, Dennis Vugts, лäбипõленуд коллектiiв, Temake
Supervisor: Sten Saarits
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EVA LAB and UNESCO

Over the past two years, the Department of New Media has developed the Experimental Videogames in Arts Laboratory (EVA Lab) – a contemporary art programme where students can explore the concept of experimental videogames as a medium for art, using a range of tools from game engines, sound art and digital media creation to support their creative practise.
This year, we are proud to have our students working onvirtual exhibition and game project focused on Estonian wooden meadows, in collaboration with the EKA Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation, Estonian Environmental Board and UNESCO Heritage List initiative.

Using AR-based solutions, the students create an interactive virtual exhibition on the Unity game engine for mobile platforms. Once completed, the project will be available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, offering visitors/players the opportunity to experience artistic interpretations of Wooden Meadows and interventions while immersing themselves in this unique natural environment.

Students: Ken Säde, Yiyang Sun, Joel Väli, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Marie (Müü) Kanger and Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Anett Maiste, Caitlyn Kesa, Mihhail Grigorjuk, Ako Allik, Lene Lekse, Riin Alatalu, Taavi Hallimäe.

Supervisors: Taavi Varm, Camille Laurelli, Sten Saarits, Andrus Laansalu, Jaagup Irve.

Paratexts by students of the Contemporary Art Questions course: Ako Allik, Daniil Musesovs, Danila Ded, Merilin Eks and Olesja Prants.

Supervisor: Camille Laurelli
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UNITY workshop

The projects created by students of the Unity Intensive Course are on display this week for everyone to explore. These experimental games are the result of learning a new interactive tool that has virtually limitless possibilities for artists to explore. Exploring game engines and related tools is the core initiative of the Video Games in Arts Laboratory (VIA Lab) at the New Media Department.

Students: Yuko Kinouch, Aleksandra Zolotova, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Rin Togo, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Aries Puusepp, Erik Lond, Helen Hausdorf, Jacqueline Rosenthal, Ezgi Okka, Annaliisa Lepik, Freia Antonia.

Supervisor: Barış Can Soy
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Papertronics – Erasmus + workshop

This Autumn New Media ran a workshop to explore video games as a contemporary art medium through practical experimentation from very first electronic game design. Participants worked on setting up the Micro Game Factory that can produce interactive games based on drawings in real time. The project was established in collaboration with multiple partners, including LVLup! Video Game Museum, National Library of Estonia, The Estonian French Institute and ERASMUS+ program.

A special interactive version of the project “The Game Station” will remain on display for the entire week at EKA Lobby for visitors to replay the students’ drawings produced during the workshop.

Students: Alisa Butenko, Chia-Ling Chiang, Robert Idvani , Clara Jantson-Köstner, Anastasiia Krapivina, Annleen Leesma, Lene Lekše, Ezgi Okka, Karl Erik Pajo, Kaspar Pulk, Byza Yilmaz.

Supervisors: Jeremy Cordial and Roman Miletitch

The New Media exhibition is open from the 9th of December to 15th of December in the EKA lobby, Põhja pst 7, Tallinn.
Link to event: https://fb.me/e/6LddNc49l

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