Host Kari-Hans Kommonen, with Jari Ahola (VTT), Fredrik Husberg (TVkaista) and Ken Rimey (HIIT)
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Session 2: Video Republic - Intertwining Audiences and Makers
Host Tommi Laitio, with Johnny Durham (johnnydurham19), Nikki Timmermans (Kennisland), Rosa Kettumäki and Jalmari Sarla (Nuorten Ääni)
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Open Space: Present your own project in 5 minutes!
Hosted by Sanna Marttila and Jenna Sutela
Open stage, we welcome all to speak about their projects (big or small)!
Speakers:
Anttu Harlin: The Guys
Petri Kola: Open Research Swarm – Openness - Practice what you preach!
Juha Kronqvist: Porkkanamafia
Andrew Gryf Paterson: Clip Kino
Kaisa Simola & Diana de Sousa: Digitytöt
Abhigyan Singh: We use GNU-Linux, a documentary movie project
Diana de Sousa: Esa ja Esineet
Jukka Ylitalo: DialogHead
You: Your project
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Session 3: When the Audience Talks Back
Host Paula Le Dieu, with Seija Aunila (YLE), Zsófia Deme (NAVA), Johan Oomen (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) and Arto Tamminen (Kopiosto)
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Session 4: Designing for Emerging Practices
Host Sanna Marttila, with Eszter Babarczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Herkko Hietanen (HIIT), Hannu Nieminen (Nokia) and Lauri Kainulainen (TAIK)
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Kari-Hans Kommonen
Kari-Hans Kommonen is the director of the Arki research group in the Media Lab TAIK. He will host the first session that discusses various aspects of the evolution of the media environment. He believes that media is where society thinks, and therefore the changes in the design of the media, that are in effect also changes in the nervous system of the society, can have a very large effect in changing the way society thinks in the future.
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Jari Ahola
Jari Ahola is the technology manager of Mobile and Embedded Solutions knowledge center at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. In addition to his R&D management activities, he is currently coordinating P2P-Next, a FP7 Integrated Project creating the next generation content delivery platform based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology.
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Fredrik Husberg
Fredrik Husberg is the CEO of TVkaista Oy. TVkaista is an online personal recorder service for digital television channels that lets its users to view or download any of the programs of the major Finnish digital tv channels for a period of 2 weeks after their broadcast.
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Ken Rimey
Ken Rimey is a Senior Research Scientist at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, where he enjoys building engineering prototypes of innovative networked systems. His main focus recently has been on developing the Peerscape peer-to-peer social network, one of the results of the P2P-Fusion project.
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Tommi Laitio
Tommi Laitio is a researcher and writer on identity politics and media based in Helsinki. He splits his week between acting as a curator for a European video initiative StrangerFestival which he co-founded, the Finnish independent think tank Demos Helsinki and journalistic work. Tommi will talk about StrangerFestival, video as an empowerment tool and a research project carried out by Demos on the democratic and cultural potential of video.
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Johnny Durham
Johnny Durham is a popular British video blogger. He started making videos in 2006 and has since co-founded the YouTube collective fiveawesomeguys. Johnny’s most popular video ARE YOU STRAIGHT? has gathered over 125 000 viewers and over 2 000 comments without any advertising or featuring on YouTube front page. Johnny will talk about the way he interacts with other people on YouTube, how friendships start online and what does video blogging mean to him.
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Nikki Timmermans
Nikki Timmermans works at the Dutch think tank Kennisland with and on innovative concepts of digital content and services for Images for the Future. Her approach involves gathering feedback from audiences to create services that are of actual value to the public. Nikki will talk about her experience and the knowledge she has gained on the possibilities and challenges in opening archives to the public and encouraging the public to produce and consume audiovisual content in a more innovative way.
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Rosa Kettumäki and Jalmari Sarla
Rosa Kettumäki and Jalmari Sarla are part of the Youth Voice Journalistic Group Nuorten Ääni established by the City of Helsinki. Nuorten Ääni gives young people the possibility to produce content for mass media such as the national broadcaster YLE, the social platform IRC-Galleria and the main daily Helsingin Sanomat. Rosa and Jalmari will talk about the way they learn skills and perspectives through Nuorten Ääni and how their work has been received by the mainstream professional media.
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Andrew Gryf Paterson
Andrew Gryf Paterson is a Scottish artist-organiser, cultural producer and independent researcher, based in Helsinki, Finland. His work involves variable roles of initiator, participant, author and curator, according to different collaborative and cross-disciplinary processes. Andrew works across the fields of media/network/environmental activism, pursuing a participatory arts practice through workshops, performative events, and storytelling. How these processes are sustained or not, and what is left behind as digital, material and ephemeral residue of ‘being t/here’, are consistent concerns. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Medialab TaiK.
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Paula Le Dieu
Paula Le Dieu is a new media executive and advisor. Paula has worked with the BBC, Guardian, Fairfax, Ofcom and Creative Commons as well as online content and activism communities such as iCommons and the international documentary community. Her experience spans advising on the future of public service media, open culture theory and practice, the role of archives in the digital age, leading international communities of volunteers, building e-commerce solutions and sitting on the executive board of the leading European Documentary Festival - Sheffield Doc/Fest…amongst other things.
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Seija Aunila
Seija Aunila is a producer at Living Archive in YLE. Her professional background is mainly journaIistic (TV, Radio, newspaper) but she has also worked as a trainer and program developer.
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Zsófia Deme
Zsófia Deme comes from the Hungarian National Audiovisual Archive where she has been responsible for their European and other international relations and projects for 2 years.
In Helsinki she will give a presentation about the challenges NAVA has been facing recently with special focus on users’ changing attitudes, requirements and the responsibilites of a cultural institution.
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Johan Oomen
Johan Oomen is head R&D at the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en
Geluid (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) He is mainly
working on externally funded research projects. Since June 2007, he
joined the Images for the Future project team. He is part of the
research groups of national and international research projects. He
holds a BA in Information Science and an MA in Media Studies. He is
member of the Webstroom expert group funded by the SURF Foundation, on the use of streaming media in higher education and general secretary of the DIVERSE network. Johan Oomen has also worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council and the Holland Media Group. He has given papers at leading conferences and published several articles in journals, including Ariadne, Innovate and Informatie Professional. His book Internet en het Nieuwe Leren: de toepassing van streaming media was published recently.
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Arto Tamminen
Arto Tamminen is the Director of the Audiovisual Department in Kopiosto. Kopiosto is the common copyright organization of authors, publishers and performing artists. A non-profit organization, Kopiosto administers the licensing of copyrighted works and delivers the levies collected to the authors of the works or their representatives. Kopiosto also provides information on copyright issues and advice to users of the works. Founded in 1978, Kopiosto comprises 44 member organizations covering every walk of culture and communications. Through its member organizations, Kopiosto represents by proxy some 50,000 Finnish copyright owners.
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Herkko Hietanen
Herkko Hietanen is a researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. His research has concentrated on community created content and location based services. He is also leader of the Finnish Creative Commons and responsible for translating official Finnish Creative Commons licenses.
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Hannu Nieminen
Hannu Nieminen works in Nokia Research Center in the area of mobile user interface design, concepting and prototyping. He has held several positions in Nokia, including Principal Scientist in mobile media, heading the Visual Communications Laboratory in Nokia Research Center and running design and concepting projects in Nokia Design. Hannu has also worked in the area of consumer insights and consumer research. Before joining Nokia he conducted research in the area of biomedical engineering. Hannu is also active media tinkerer and hobbyist and has created a considerable pile of music videos and experimental films. Recently he has also started performing as a VJ.
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