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Parsons Exhibitions
the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, 66 Fifth Avenue and Gallery at 2 West 13th Street,
New York, NY 10011
October 2 - November 15, 2002
Monday - Friday 9 am - 9 pm
Saturday - Sunday 10 am - 6 pm
October 2, 6 pm
October 5, 4 pm

New media artists from Finland exhibit in New York City

F2F New Media Art from Finland exhibition takes us to the unexplored worlds of contemporary art. It combines traditional elements of art with the latest solutions of new technologies evoking innovative interaction between the artwork and the audience. Within F2F the audience becomes a significant part of the artwork.

The featured artists and their works are HAME by Laura Beloff and Maex Decker; The Battle over Indifferent Minds by Hanna Haaslahti; mirror++ by Juha Huuskonen; SOB by Marita Liulia; Aquarium by Teijo Pellinen; hit2Morrow by Kristian Simolin; Need by Tuomo Tammenpää; and Mother, Child by Heidi Tikka.

The interactive installations of F2F take you face to face with the possibilities of the human - machine dialogue. Many of the works are "physical computing" related. In them, the interaction between the audience and the work takes place via devices other than the traditional mouse and keyboard. Using cutting edge solutions of the new technologies, such as custom made computer software and movement sensors, the works represent modern Finland, a pioneer country of wired and wireless communications.

The F2F Catalogue contains commentaries by North American and Finnish scholars and critics. The writers reflect on the challenges and potentials of the contemporary information society, and ponder the role of new media art in it.

The exhibition has been curated by Marko Tandefelt in collaboration with Bryn Jayes; the production was coordinated by Juulia Kauste. The exhibition design and visual image is by Finnish designer Ilkka Suppanen, the Design Director of Snowcrash Design Group. The F2F exhibition has been previously presented in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Toronto and Montreal.

The F2F exhibition and tour has been produced and organized by the Finnish Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York in partnership with the Embassy of Finland, Washington DC. The exhibition in New York has been realized in collaboration with the Parsons School of Design and the Finnish Consulate General in New York.

F2F has been generously supported by Sonera, Unisys, and William and Gloria Jackson. Additional funding has been provided by the Ministry of Education in Finland, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Finland, the Art Council of Finland, DPS Inc., Apple Finland and AVEK.

For more information about the exhibition in New York, please contact Juulia Kauste, Executive Director, Finnish Foundation for the Visual Arts at (212) 674-5570 or Clinton Kuopus, Director of Exhibitions at Parsons School of Design at (212) 229-8987.