Finland

Avant-garde

Artists

• Alvar Aalto. [1]

Magazines

• Ultra: Tidskrift för ny konst och litteratur, 8 issues, 128 pages, 1922. Edited by Lauri Haarla, Haggar Olsson and Raoul af Hällström.
• Quosego: Tidskrift för ny generation, 4 issues, 209 pages, 1928-29. Edited by Cid Erik Tallqvist.

Literature

• Benedikt Hjartarson, Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Ørum (eds.), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950, Leiden: Brill, and Boston: Rodopi, 2019, 968 pp. [2]

Media art, Media culture

Cities

Helsinki, Oulu

Initiatives and groups

• Finnish Media Art Network, est. 2010
  • MEHI – Media Art History in Finland, research project, 2021-2023
• Database of Nordic media culture actors, m-cult, 2002-2009 (archived).

Publications

• Ritva Mitchell, "Gate-keeping and Constraints on Gender Equality in Classical Music and Media Arts", in Culture-Gates: Exposing Professional 'Gate-keeping' Processes in Music and New Media Arts, Bonn: ARCult Media, 2003, pp 146-218. [3]

• Björn Norberg, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, "The Nordic pioneers of New Media Art", Ars Hypermedia, 2009.

• Timeline of Finnish media art, Helsinki: Finnish Media Art Network, 2023. (Finnish)/(English)

• Suomalaisen mediataiteen ensimmäinen vuosisata [The First Century of Finnish Media Art], eds. Heidi Tikka, Petri Kuljuntausta, Tytti Rantanen, and Minna Tarkka, Helsinki: PARVS, 2023, 264 pp. Contributors: Hanna Maria Anttila, Annette Arlander, Taru Elfving, Veli Granö, Erkki Huhtamo, Otso Huopaniemi, Juha Huuskonen, Juri Joensuu, Pekka Kantonen, Mari Keski-Korsu, Kati Kivinen, Mia Kivinen, Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Raine Koskimaa, Petri Kuljuntausta, Leena Kuumola, Teemu Lehmusruusu, Sini Mononen, Asko Mäkelä, Teemu Mäki, Josefina Nelimarkka, Riikka Niemelä, Juuso Paaso, Jussi Parikka, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo, Merja Puustinen, Tytti Rantanen, Perttu Rastas, Helena Sederholm, Tanja Sihvonen, Riikka Stewen, Mika Taanila, Minna Tarkka, Heidi Tikka, Hannu Toivonen, Kari Yli-Annala. Research project. Publisher. (Finnish)

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