Petri Ruikka

Directed and animated this visual music animation for Axel Thesleff's new song called "Vivid".

Concert visuals for Axel Thesleff's live performance. Created in 2020 and recorded in Helsinki July 2020, as a concert video because of the pandemic cancellations...

"Cocoon"

Cocoon is an aesthetic exploration in underwater movement. The short film was originally a part of a commissioned work for the Casino Helsinki for their large scale...

"Cocoon" Still Works

Cocoon Still Works Crew Director, Producer, Editor, Colorist, Compositor: Petri Ruikka Performers: Anni Alitalo and Heidi Karjalainen Choreography:...

"MMST"

Visual music / dance film "MMST". Part of the Arch of Neo (AoN) project. AoN is originally a live collaborative audiovisual project. After its initiation and...

"New Under the Sun"

Visual music / dance film "New Under the Sun". Part of the Arch of Neo (AoN) project. AoN is originally a live collaborative audiovisual project. After its...

Pori City Orchestra: Wagner Gala Concert

Directed a visualization of a Wagner Gala-concert for Pori Sinfonietta. The concert was produced by Aalto University Department of Art's Pori unit and the Satakunta...

Tchaikovsky "Nutcracker"

Commissioned work visualizing two parts Tchaikovsky's ballet Nutcracker. First part "Waltz of the Flowers" Second part "Pas de Deux"

"Arch of Neo" Live AV

"Arch of Neo" audiovisual performance created in collaboration with Niclas Kristiansson, Matti Pentikäinen and Heikki Ryynänen. Premiere in Kiasma Theatre in P...

Helsinki Philharmonics: Gustav Holst "The Planets"

Visualization for the Helsinki Philharmonics concert "The Planets". The concert consisted of Gustav Holst's seven movement orchestral suite and of several new parts...

Untitled Festival

For most of 2020 I worked on the fantastic Untitled Festival project at Demos Helsinki with talented, hardworking and diverse team. The pandemic put us through...

Arts in the Environment - Nordic Symposium

Arts in the Environment - Nordic Symposium was a multidisciplinary, international and contemporary art event that focuses on the intersection between environmental...

Interfaces for Empathy – the festival

The fifteenth annual Pixelache Festival, ‘Interfaces for Empathy’, took place from September 22nd to 25th 2016 in Helsinki and explored possibilities of the shift to...

‘Interfaces for Empathy’ – the satellite events

‘Interfaces for Empathy’ explored empathy in between humans and other species. Both 2015 festival and 2016 festivals had satellite events in Jyväskylä and Rovaniemi ...

Pixelache Coordinator

I worked as the coordinator for Pixelache from late 2014 to early 2017. I also curated several Pixelache events in 2016. More info in separate projects and general...

Camp Pixelache 2014

I produced the Pixelache 2014 Festival/Camp "Commoners unite!". The event was an un-conference/festival concentrating on the theme of commons, and took place an...

Nordic VJ Meeting 2007

I curated the Nordic VJ Meeting, which was the main programme part of the Pixelache Festival in 2007. The Nordic VJ Meeting remains on of the largest gathering of...

Pixelache AudioVisual 2006-2010

I organized and curated the audiovisual program part of Pixelache Festival of electronic art subcultures during 2006-2010. The festival was organized in...

Selected Published Texts 2006-2019

Below is a selected list of my various edited publications, articles, curatorial statements and a few notable interviews. 2019 I co-edited the second...

Interfaces for Empathy (IfE): Research 2018

The wider Interfaces for Empathy project has spanned over four years of activity, and has organically evolved into different forms. The project originally started...

Interfaces for Empathy (IfE): Research 2017

The wider Interfaces for Empathy project has spanned over four years of activity, and has organically evolved into different forms. The project originally started...

Teaching: Aalto University "Occupy Earth" 2017-19

Between the 2017 and 2019 I ran a course in Aalto University called "Occupy Earth". This was a great collaboration between Aalto and Parson School of Design from...

Teaching: Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 2014-16

My teaching in the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki concentrated on exploring moving image in space. The first workshops were looking at various real-time tools...

Teaching: Aalto Pori Art and Media Department 2008-2012

I taught three long production courses at the (then still existing) Pori department of art and visual culture at the Aalto University between 2008 and 2012. The...

Multiplayer Body-Driven Game Installation: Mofun Circus Game Installation 2005-06

Mofun Circus Game installation was a combined design and research project. We created a body-driven multiplayer game installation with a collaborative movement...

Multiplayer Body-Driven Game Installation: Turku 2011 Game Installation

"Pelasta Hyppääjä" game installation was part of the "Fire Fire" exhibition in the culture center Logomo in Turku. The exhibition was part of the Turku 2011 Culture ...

A Case Study in Complexity vs Simplicity: Prototyping Multi User Installation 2014

I think it's good to acknowledge when projects have gone a bit off. This one had a lot of great prospects, but in my opinion eventually failed to create a...

Mapped Video Installation "Awake"

2D Mapped video installation, "Awake", for Stockmann department store's and Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture's common "Young Designers...

Underwater Casino Installation

"Underwater Casino" was originally commissioned as an installation to Casino Helsinki, but further on led also to the reslease of widely distributed standalone...

TTT-Theater: Lento

Video design for Sirkku Peltola's new play Lento at Tampereen Työväen Teatteri (link to the play where you can find playing times also). Writer/director: Sirkku P...

Dance Theatre MD: Klaffi

Video desing for contemporary dance piece called Klaffi at Tanssiteatteri MD.

Nokia/Club Lumia: Video Performance

Live video performance for Nokia Club Lumia at Flow Festival 2012 at Kuudes Linja. Produced within Woland with Henrik Axlund.

Very short bio I am a coordinator&curator, educator, artist and designer who works on the intersections of technology, perception, ecology and empathy. My work...

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