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publicity (selection)

 

 

Enactive Cinema Obsession installations

 

 

• Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation in the South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland (April 15 – May 31, 2009)

• Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation. In the Ars Nova Museum, Digitally Yours -show, Turku, Finland, curator Andy Best (April 1 – May 13, 2007)

• Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation. In ISEA2006, the Thirteenth International Symposium on Electronic Arts held in San Jose, California, in conjunction with the inaugural biennial ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge (Aug 7 – 13, 2006)

• Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation. Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA Helsinki (June 9 – Aug 22, 2005)

• Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation. International Film Festival Espoo Ciné Espoo Cultural Centre, Finland, (Aug 23 – 28, 2005)

 

 

Awards and prizes

 

 

• Finalist PRIX MÖBIUS INTERNATIONAL, Montréal, Canada, with Enactive Cinema Installation Obsession (Oct 13 – 15, 2006)

• PRIX MÖBIUS NORDICA 2006: Award in Interactive Storytelling (Le Prix de la Scénarisation interactive) for Enactive Cinema Installation Obsession, dir. Pia Tikka, in Interactive Media Culture Competition Prix Möbius Nordica, Helsinki (April 28, 2006)

• Finalist for RISTO JARVA Prize in Tampere International Film Festival, Obsession short film in selection of New Finnish Films (March 6, 2004)

• ‘AUDIO-INTERFACE’ awarded the 2nd prize together with Iiro Reijonen (University of Art and Design, Helsinki), in a competition for innovative ”Dream in Audiovisual Communication” received from University Network for Communication Sciences, Finland (Oct 19, 2002)

 

 

Invited lectures abroad 

 

 

• Enactive Cinema. EYE Film Insitute Amsterdam (June 28, 2014)

• Enactive Cinema in dialogue with S.M.Eisenstein's systemic mind. Museum of Screen Culture MediaArtLab Central Manege, Moscow, Russia (June 22, 2014)

• Enactive cinema. CADRE University of Wolverhampton, UK (May 15, 2012)

• Enactive cinema. School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, US (Sept 2010)

• Enactive Cinema. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (Oct 22, 2008)

• Enactive Cinema. Södertörn University, Sweden (May 21, 2008).

• Enactive Cinema. Between Life–Mind–Art, Sussex University, UK (Oct 29, 2008).

• Enactive Cinema. Knowledge Through Practice Seminar Group, Brighton University, UK (Oct 27, 2008).

• Framing narrative spaces for enactive cinema. The Graduate School of Audiovisual Media –Elomedia, University of Art and Design, Helsinki (Nov 28 – 29,2005).

• Interactive cinema as a model of mind. In ”Digital Narratives” at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/N-Imagem, Brazil (Sep 21, 2002).

 

 

Academic publications involving enactive systemic ideas:

 

 

Monographs

 

 

  • Tikka P. (2008). Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense. PhD dissertation. Helsinki: University of Art and Design Publication Series. ISBN 978-951-558-272-0.

 

 

Chapters in anthologies

 

 

Chapters in anthologies (2010-)

  • Tikka P, Kaipainen M. Intersubjectivity, idiosyncrasy and narrative deixis a neurocinematic approach. In Narrative Complexity and Media: Experiential and Cognitive Interfaces, eds. Puolaki M. and Grishakova M. University of Nebraska Press, The Frontiers of Narrative Series (forthcoming).

  • Tikka P, Kaipainen M. (2016) Screendance as enactment in Maya Deren’s At Land: Enactive, embodied, and neurocinematic considerations. Ch. 15 in The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, ed. Douglas Rosenberg. Oxford University Press.

  • Tikka P, Kaipainen M. (2015). Phenomenological considerations on time consciousness under neurocinematic search light. In Cinéma & Cie. Neurofilmology. Audiovisual Studies and The Challenge of Neuroscience, eds. D’Aloia A and Eugeni R. Mimesis International, p. 91-102

  • Tikka P, Kaipainen M. (2015) Embodied Narratives Embedded in Contexts: A Neurocinematic Approach. Ch. 6, Neuroscience and Media: New Understandings and Representations. ed. M.J. Grabowski, 76–88. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies. ISBN 978-1-13-881150-8.

  • Kauttonen J, Kaipainen M, Tikka P. (2014). Model of Narrative Nowness for Neurocinematic Experiments. In 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, eds. Mark A. Finlayson, Jan Christoph Meister and Emile G. Bruneau .MIT, Cambridge, MA: OASICS. ISSN: 978-3-939897-71-2

  • Pugliese R, Tikka P, Kaipainen M. (2014). Navigating story ontospace: Perspective-relative drive and combinatory montage of cinematic content. Expanding Practices in Audiovisual Narrative, eds. R. Kelomees and Hales C., 105–127. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-6610-1

  • • Tikka P. (2010). Cinema author’s embodied simulatorium – systems intelligence approach. In Essays in Systems Intelligence, eds. Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Esa Saarinen, 207 – 218. Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology. ISBN 978-952-60-3112-5.

  • • Tikka P. (2009). Tracing Tectology in Sergei Eisenstein’s Holistic Thinking. In Alexander Bogdanov Revisited, Aleksanteri Series 1:2009, ed. V. Oittinen, 211 – 234. Helsinki: Gummerus Printing. ISBN 978-952-10-4101-3.

  • • Tikka P. (2009). Dynamic emotion ecologies in cinema: a multiple level model for describing authorship as simulation process”. In Transcinemas, ed. K. Maciel, 199 – 219. Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa Livraria. ISBN 978-85-7740-009-6.

  • • Tikka P. (2006.) Cinema as externalization of consciousness. In Screen Consciousness:Mind, Cinema and World, eds. M. Punt and Pepperell, R., 139 – 162. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi Press. ISBN 90-420-2016-4.

  • • Tikka, P. (2005). Dynamic emotion ecology in cinema”. In Integrated Media

  • Machine, ed. M. Ylä-Kotola and Inkinen, S., 103 – 126. Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press. ISBN 951-634-966-8.

 

 

Peer-reviewed articles 

 

 

  • Tikka P, Kaipainen M. (2014). From naturalistic neuroscience to modeling radical embodiment with narrative enactive systems. Frontiers Research Topic, ad. Andrew Wilson, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (accepted Sept 18, 2014).

  • Tikka P, Väljamäe A, de Borst AW, Pugliese R, Ravaja N, Kaipainen M, Takala T. (2012). Enactive cinema paves way for understanding complex real-time social interaction in neuroimaging experiments. Front Hum Neurosci. 2012;6:298. Epub 2012 Nov 1. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00298.

  • de Borst A, Tikka P. A glance into the future: neurofeedback controlled cinema. SCSMI2012, Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2012 Conference, Sarah Lawrence College & New York University, NY, USA (June 13-16, 2012).

  • Tikka P. (2011). Enactive Media – Generalizing from Enactive Cinema. Digital Creativity Journal 21 (4): 205–214. doi:10.1080/14626268.2011.550028.

  • Kaipainen M, Ravaja N, Tikka P, Vuori R, Pugliese R, Rapino M, Takala T. (2010). Enactive Systems and Enactive Media. Embodied human – machine coupling beyond interfaces. Leonardo Journal 44 (5): 433–438.

  • Tikka P, Vuori R, Kaipainen M. (2006). Narrative logic of Enactive Cinema: Obsession. Digital Creativity Journal 17 (4): 234 – 238. doi:10.1080/14626260601074078

  • Tikka P. (2004). (Interactive) Cinema as a Model of Mind. In connection with the presentation ”Cooking in the Crucible” by Crucible Studio, University of Art and Design, Helsinki. In Digital Creativity Journal (ed. Maureen Thomas, CUMIS), 15 (1), March 01, (2004).

  • Tikka P. (2004). Biological basis of cinema. Extraordinary Connections, ed. M.Punt, Leonardo Electronic Almanac 12 (12), Dec (2004).

  • Tikka P. (2002). Sergei Eisensteinin kuvakieli dynaamisen mielen näkökulmasta [The Visual Language of Sergei Eisenstein from the point of view of an Embodied Mind]. Lähikuva film journal 2(2): 26 – 41.

  • Tikka, P. (2008). Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense. PhD dissertation. Helsinki: University of Art and Design Publication Series. ISBN 978-951-558-272-0.

 

Research-related media-art articles in online journals

 

  • Dumitriu A, Holder J, Tikka P, Withby, B. (2010). Enactive Dialectics, a collaborative project in eMobiLArt. Leonardo Transactions online journal (submitted Jan 12). www.leonardo-transactions.com

 

 

Oral presentations in conferences

 

 

  • de Borst A, Tikka P. A glance into the future: neurofeedback controlled cinema. SCSMI2012, Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2012 Conference, Sarah Lawrence College & New York University, NY, USA (June 13-16, 2012).

  • Dumitriu A, Holder J, Tikka P. Enactive Dialectics. Presenter John Holder. The International Symposium on Electronic Arts ISEA, Belfast, Ireland (Aug 29, 2009).

  • Tikka P. Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense. SCSMI2009, Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2009 Conference, University of Copenhagen (June 24 – 27, 2009).

  • Tikka P, Vuori R, Juutilainen J. (2006). Enactive Cinema Obsession. Artist Presentation (Aug 09, 2006) in ISEA2006, the Thirteenth International Symposium on Electronic Arts (in San Jose, California, in conjunction with the inaugural biennial ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge (Aug 7 – 13, 2006).

  • Tikka P. Narrative logic of Enactive Cinema: Obsession. Presentation in the Symposium Computational Narrativity at Media Centre LUME, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland. Organizers; the Media Centre Lume/ INiCS -research group, Graduate School for Audiovisual media Elomedia, and Digital Studio, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK (April 27 – 29, 2006).

 

 

Presentations in media-art competitions

 

 

  • Tikka P, Vuori R, Juutilainen J. (2006). Enactive Cinema Obsession. 12 min pitch in Prix Möbius International competition, Montreal (Oct 13 – 15, 2006).

  • Tikka P, Vuori R, Juutilainen J. (2006). Enactive Cinema Obsession. The Interactive narration -prize winning 12 min pitch in Prix Möbius Nordica 2006 competition, the Media Centre LUME, Helsinki (April 28, 2006).

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Conference proceedings 

 

 

  • Rieser M, Tikka P. (2009). The Third Woman. In Interactive Storytelling: Second Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2009, Guimarães, Portugal, December 9-11, 2009, Proceedings, Volume 5915. Ido A. Iurgel, eds., 340- 343. Springer. ISBN 3642106420, 9783642106422.

  • Tikka, P. (2003). Cinema (interativo) como modelo para a mente. In Redes sensoriais: arte, ciência, tecnologia. ed. Katia Maciel & André Parente, 45-50. Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa Livraria. ISBN 85-86011-74-6.

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