[ISEA2015] Poster: Saila Susiluoto, Mika Tuomola, Shakti Dash, Antti Nykyri & Rasmus Vuori – Antikythera: Tactile audiovisual poetry app for tablets

Abstract (Poster)

Keywords: Generative art, Disruption, Tactile interfaces, Audiovisual poetry, Digital narrative, Tablet computers, European cultural history.

Antikythera is a tactile, generative and interactive audiovisual poetry artwork for iPad and other tablet devices. It is based on the Antikythera mechanism, the ancient analog computer from c. 100 BC Greece, found in the Aegean Sea in 1900. It links together poetry, new technology, visual and sound art, and researches and explores new forms and possibilities of digital narratives from broken chronology and randomness to determined paths of reading/viewing and lines which change their meanings by the reader’s touch.

  • Saila Susiluoto is Helsinki-based, awarded Finnish poet, who has investigated generative poetry since her Huoneiden kirja (A Book of Rooms, Otava 2003) collection. She’s  published eight collections of poems and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2012. Her poems have been translated in 14 languages.
  • Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola [1971-2016] is internationally awarded writer, dramaturge and director for New Media since “Daisy’s Amazing Discoveries” (Coronet Interactive 1996), one of the first interactive audiovisual narrative productions online, and the co-founder and director of Crucible Studio, the New Media Storytelling research group at Media Lab Helsinki in the Department of Media at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland. September 2015 he will start as professor of narrativity in Scuola del Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
  • Shakti Dash is a multidisciplinary visual designer (UIUX-typography) with specialist  concentration on New Media Storytelling and experimental sound and music. Currently, he’s lead designer at Tellyo Ltd and visual designer at Nordkapp Ltd.
  • Antti Nykyri, Helsinki-based Finnish artist, has worked with sounds and music in several contexts such as installation art, contemporary dance, sound art, application design,
    interface research, theatre, electronic music and artistic research. During 2015 his works will be on display at the Venice Biennale, Prague Quadrennial and Gwangju Design Biennale. Nykyri is preparing his doctoral work for University of the Arts Helsinki, Theatre Academy.
  • Rasmus Vuori is an internationally awarded systems architect and programmer for New Media productions that have included e.g. the Prix Möbius Nordica 2006 winner
    Obsession (dir. Pia Tikka). He’s currently the head of studies (MA in New Media at Media Lab Helsinki) and lecturer at the Department of Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland.

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