Re: [NetBehaviour] Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola 1971-2016

[John Hopkins]

On 11/Aug/16 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote:

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.


Ah, sorry to hear this -- Mika and I first met when I was guest teaching at the 
Media (CAP) Lab in Helsinki in 1994, then again later renewed our acquaintance 
in 2000-1 as colleagues at the Lab on the occasion of an informal breakfast with 
some of his and my students and Howard Rheingold who was in Helsinki giving his 
forward-looking presentations (to a packed house in the Laasipalatsi Rex 
Theater)... Mika held several alternative workshops in the context of his 
"Crucible" program at the Lab, one memorable one was with butoh artist, Aki 
Suzuki, who taught a group of us the basics of butoh performance. Flamboyant, 
sharp, quick-witted, personable, and ever active in his physical presence, Mika 
was a great counter-point within the Helsinki techie scene.


JH


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[NetBehaviour] Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola 1971-2016

[helen varley jamieson]

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/

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