yesterday i learned of the death of mika "lumi" tuomola, a finnish new media artist. maybe some of you on this list have known him.
i only met mika once in person, but he was a close friend of my Avatar Body Collision colleague leena saarinen, & was quite often in the background of our rehearsals so he was very present in my life during those years. i remember him as a funny and smart guy who was enthusiastic about experimenting & trying out different ways of using new technologies in creative ways. he often gave us feedback or other support for our work. mika made a significant contribution to the development of interactive media arts. in the 90s he wrote & directed one of the first online interactive dramas, & in 2006 in collaboration with leena saarinen he developed "accidental lovers", an interactive TV series where viewers could influence the plot by sending text messages from their mobile phones. he became a professor at Politecnico di Milano in 2015. http://arts.aalto.fi/en/current/news/2016-06-09-002/ h : ( -- helen varley jamieson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.upstage.org.nz
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