Artworks, Tuomo Tammenpää


	WORKS Tuomo Tammenpää
	media artist / creative director Master of Arts, photography(UIAH, 1997)
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	ABOUT THE ARTIST:
(click for hi-res pic)	Tammenpää works as an active media artist and designer in Finland, just outside Helsinki. During the last ten years he has participated in several exhibitions in Scandinavia, Central Europe, Asia and North America presenting video and media installations, of which his long dedication on the awarded NEED project, a multi-platform "marketing and consumerism laboratory", has been most significant. Besides his career as a media artist, Tammenpää works as the Creative Director of Mindworks Ltd., a Helsinki-based digital design and engineering company, where he has been a leading designer and concept developer for several international digital media productions from screen based to spatial media design. Tammenpää is a member of katastro.fi art collective, grafia -professional graphic designers association and m-cult media culture association. -> resume
	ARTWORKS:
	FLOAT (2004) Tuomo Tammenpää(FI) & Tamas Szakal(HU)
	FLOAT is a locative GPS sound installation for the ISEA2004 ferry. In FLOAT, the ship is the play-head and the route is the track. Depth, direction, speed and surrounding islands build the score of the sound installation. The ship plays the track as it moves across the Baltic Sea. -> presentation -> isea2004 website

	BRANDBODY v2 (2003)
	Brandbody is an interactive media installation pondering the relationship between the individual and branded products. In the Brandbody experience, continuous stream of images is projected onto the users´ own body. The user becomes aware of his relationship to brands as he is seen and evaluated by himself and the other visitors. Sit on the workout bench facing the mirror, grab the bar hanging above you and begin your exercise. -> presentation -> web flyer -> F2F Brussels

	BRANDBODY v1 (2002)
	Brands, these externally simple symbols has grown from product identifyers to independent value containers, with sometimes very secondary connections to the actual product left. We, the consumers, broadcast our values and preferences with the brands we select, consume and wear. We have an ongoing dialogue with ourselves and brands by developing our identities around them. Still, in the ever accelrating battle for developing something brand new, the marketing world has confused the consumer with their crossfire of empty promises. This point of saturation is the playground for the Brandbody installation. -> presentation (v1.0) -> symptomania exhibition cd (v1.0) -> installation video (symptomania / brugge, v1.0) -> installation video (ideologia II / gothenburg, v1.1)

	NEED PROJECT (1997-2002)
	Need is a self-declared, artificial brand, made to explore the idea of a brand without any product. Need deald with issues like consumerism, ethics of marketing, user control, surveillance and design. The project consists of marketing campaign, installation and a website. It has had several different phases over the five years and it has been exhibited in: Helsinki, Stockholm, Brussels, Brugge, Geneva, Barcelona, New York, Washington DC, Montréal, Toronto, Los Angeles and Tokyo. -> texts -> slides -> The needweb -> Shop installation (F2F / montréal) -> Kiosk installation (Artgenda98 / Stockholm) -> fake tv commercial

	NOTE:
	New portfolio & project site: www.misusage.org Bookmark and move to the new site. This page will not be updated anymore.

	DESIGN WORK: Creative Director at Mindworks since 1997 -> demo.mindworks.fi Media architecture concept (Mindworks) -> www.tilamedia.com
	CONTACT: Tuomo Tammenpää email: tuomo@mindworks.fi