Taide 08 - Boring Films

Mariken Kramer

Mariken Kramer lives and works in Oslo. Her work is to a large extent based on her observation of people interacting in the world around her. She is interested in the individual in conjunction with others. By staging certain situations she presents us with the vulnerability of the individual within the social group as well as the innate vulnerability in interpersonal relations.

Jay Needham

Jay Needham is a media artist and producer who embraces a multi-disciplinary approach to arts practice. Themes that often appear in his work include borders and boundaries and personal and family mythologies.

Judith Nothnagel

works on the themes: identity, time and  space. Her paintings, digital photografies and video art have been presented at numerous international museums, galleries and art festivals, for example:  Museum Kunst Palast Duesseldorf, Luigi Pecci Museum Florence-Prato and  Chungdam Art Festival in Seoul.

Egle Oddo

Born 1975 in Palermo, Italy. 2000 graduated from Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo, Italy. Since 1998 Oddo has been living and working in Germany, France, England, Spain, Cuba, and Nicaragua. In 2001 she became member of the Art Collective La Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain.

Lorenzo Oggiano

Lorenzo Oggiano (1964, Padova - Italy) works in photography, video, new media, installations, assemblages.
He graduated in visual arts (BA) at the University of Bologna (D.A.M.S.) with a final thesis on the
relationships between arts and new technologies: Contemporary arts and technological interaction: the
bodies of mutation.

Andy - Merja

Andy & Merja have lived and worked together for fifteen years. Their work has always dealt with the interface between the public, social political realm and the private subconscious world of the individual.

Nelly-Ève Rajotte

She explores a sensory investigation that aims to render an environment at once visual and aural.

Gareth Spor

GARETH SPOR (b. 1977, England) grew up in the United States. He holds a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied the neurophysiology of the retina.

Tjader-Knight inc.

Helsinki based, critical [Post] New Media digital art duo TJADER-KNIGHT inc. brings forward a marriage of visual imagery analysis and aural landscape creation.

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

Film is the central art form for film director and media artist Maarit Suomi-Väänänen. Her work also encompasses photography and installations, including the immaterial such as smoke and light. Praised as fascinating and open to a multitude of interpretations, Suomi-Väänänen’s works have toured from San Fransisco to Hanti-Mansisjk, appearing in exhibitions, at festivals and on television. Suomi-Väänänen has world-wide-sales agent Ouat Media Inc. in Toronto, Canada.

Oliver Whitehead

Whitehead is one of those versatile contemporary artists whose multidisciplinary production and many-sided approach to art is defies easy, reductive categorizations. When it comes to the choice of artistic means of expression, he has been frequently characterized as one of the very few ‘unpredictable’ in the Finnish art scene, where he has been active since the early ’70’s.