WHAT IS ÄÄNIAALTO ?
ÄÄNIAALTO is an annual sound oriented new media festival. It spans multiple days presenting striking sonic oddities in the form of performances, installations, workshops and open lectures. The aim of ÄÄNIAALTO is to create a fluent network in the sonic new media scene of Helsinki and an open culture accessible to days anybody interested in learning and engaging with the new media's practices.
THEME
The theme for this year is “ECHO-systems”, to be understood as reflection of energies and pulses in an environment. How can we create ECHO-systems that highlight communication? How can different ECHO-systems function together enhancing sustainability? The theme could be freely shaped according to the participant’s own vision, inviting audiences to individually explore and create their own narrative hidden in these ECHO-systems.
WHAT IS FLUX ISLAND?
Flux Island is an annual exhibition produced by Department of Art and Media students at Aalto University. A direct translation of the word 'Vuosaari', Flux Island combines the figurative and literal. Flux as in flow of people, ideas, electricity, water, etc. and flux as in the substance used when soldering.
MY APPROACH
I combined the ideas of eco and echo systems as a yearn for communication and connection between artists (here represented as different units of ecosystem). The echo system is represented as little dotted lines that stand for the need for interaction between each of these parts.
The whole collage shows how different eco and echo systems can function together. The color palette sustains mainly from the colors used by DADA Media Lab Helsinki of Aalto University (pink, orange, and yellow) but also a little bit of green for that sustainability motif.
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