Tapio Mäkelä
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

Tapio Mäkelä is a researcher and a media artist based in Helsinki, Finland. He is currently researcher at HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) and m-cult, Finnish Centre for New Media Culture

Mäkelä was the programme chair of ISEA2004, the 12th International Symposium of Electronic Art. He is working mostly on new media and cultural studies research as well as research driven media arts practice.

Over the last decade, Mäkelä has presented papers at several international forums and been a visiting lecturer. In the years 1994-1997 Mäkelä was director of artist association Muu, where he established a medialab for artists, the MuuMediaBase. Mäkelä has also realized several net based media cultural projects. He has also been involved in Finnish open source and IT development as well as the Helsinki electronic music scene. With m-cult he has also worked with new media arts and culture policy research resulting in three publications.

ISEA2004: http://www.isea2004.net
m-cult web site: http://www.m-cult.org
tapio.makela@translocal.net

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