KOLO
︎Artists: Oscar Dempsey, Harold Hejazi, June Horton-White, Johanna Sulalampi, Mirva Mietala, Elina Ström, Riikka Mäntymaa, Riina Nieminen, Csilla Szlovák, Liisi Soroush, Vilma Vantola, Jenni Nylander, Kalle Rasinkangas, Atte Kantonen
︎Curator: Sampo Pyhälä
︎Curator team: Kimmo Karjunen, Riikka Kytönen, Jokke Heikkilä, Jyri Lahelma, Pasi Pakula, Johanna Ilmarinen
︎@ Prague Quadrennial 2019 Space and Set Design
︎2019
︎1st Prize for Best Student Exhibition Experience
︎Explore the ways in which the self senses and how sensation is shaped through interaction and space. Kolo invites the audience to be in conflict between a private moment and a busy environment. We invite you to notice.
Do we need a renewed sense of intimacy and connection? This work ponders peaceful zones while engaging the senses in a multimodal environment. In a seemingly hectic place, how can you feel peace and solitude? We all started in a state of vulnerability but it may not be remembered. Can you remain open when others are influencing your environment?
How does communication between two worlds take place? Nod your head to show that you understand. Look confused if you don't. Has communication taken place or was it merely an illusion? Increased awareness requires greater responsibility.
︎Curator: Sampo Pyhälä
︎Curator team: Kimmo Karjunen, Riikka Kytönen, Jokke Heikkilä, Jyri Lahelma, Pasi Pakula, Johanna Ilmarinen
︎@ Prague Quadrennial 2019 Space and Set Design
︎2019
︎1st Prize for Best Student Exhibition Experience
︎Explore the ways in which the self senses and how sensation is shaped through interaction and space. Kolo invites the audience to be in conflict between a private moment and a busy environment. We invite you to notice.
Do we need a renewed sense of intimacy and connection? This work ponders peaceful zones while engaging the senses in a multimodal environment. In a seemingly hectic place, how can you feel peace and solitude? We all started in a state of vulnerability but it may not be remembered. Can you remain open when others are influencing your environment?
How does communication between two worlds take place? Nod your head to show that you understand. Look confused if you don't. Has communication taken place or was it merely an illusion? Increased awareness requires greater responsibility.
https://act.aalto.fi/en/news/aalto-student-exhibition-was-awarded-in-the-scenography-event-in-prague#&gid=1&pid=1.
MY ROLE / REFLECTIONS ON PROCESS:“Once the physicals forms of organic sculpture like shape and dimensions started to develop…The experience design and narrative started to follow /grow/develop (?) along / intertwined with the organic arbitrary shape rough texture yet with soft arbitrary shapes and patterns inviting audience /human/people to explore its surface in an intuitive manner ..We used sensors to estimate the proximity of the audience and followed an embodied interaction approach to facilitate an intuitive and non-guided interplay between them and Kolo.Our goal/aim/vision/wish /idea was to represent/replicate the subconscious and non-verbal means and methods of communication by allowing playful explorations and encounters with the Kolo-being which then communicated in real-time to audiences/people inside transforming their touch and presence into interactive and engaging audiovisual narrative creating an atmosphere of illusion. So basically instead of designing obvious gamification functions that would trigger the logical mindset of the user/audience / human/indivudal we embraced explorative and subconscious ways of being and existing in Kolo space/place. Yet as the overall aesthetics of it ...resembling an amusement park and delicious colorworld … we celebrated the playfulness of the interaction and communication all the way. "