INTERFACE – {TES}
The exhibition consists of an interactive installation in which we, as viewers and participants, are at the center of algorithmic forms and landscapes shaped by rules and randomness. The artwork guides the audience toward a state of epistemic uncertainty, highlighting the vast mass of digital information surrounding us. At the same time, it draws parallels between technological interaction and our relationship with our environment.
The bodily movement of the viewers plays a crucial role in the installation’s interaction. The piece materializes only through engagement with the audience, and it never repeats itself in exactly the same way.
“We want to explore how we perceive ourselves through technological interaction and, conversely, how our personal perspectives influence our interactions with both other people and our environment. In this work, presence affects perception, and perception, in turn, reflects back onto presence.”
The artwork emphasizes how we live surrounded by digital information and how, in our time, it is increasingly vital to find genuine insights and meanings amid an ever-growing flood of data—as our capacity to produce information has exceeded our ability to comprehend it.
{TES} – The Media Art Collective
{TES} is a media art collective formed by Tea Söderlund, Eetu Henttonen, and Sami Luusalo. Their interactive artworks create spaces and opportunities for viewers to explore the meanings of interaction. Combining sculptural elements, sound, moving images, and new technologies, their pieces take new forms with each viewer, establishing both concrete and metaphorical connections between the digital and physical realities.
Their works, dealing with universal human themes, emphasize perception, presence, and action, reflecting our interactions with the environment. Activity, events, and experience are at the heart of their art, as well as the complex interplay of rules and randomness.
Artists’ Backgrounds
Tea Söderlund
Tea Söderlund graduated as a painter from Pori Art School in 2001 and has actively worked as a visual artist and cultural professional. Her recent exhibitions have explored themes of individual identity, roles, and norms. Her conceptual works often emerge from recycled materials accumulated over time—such as newspapers, old toys, and candy wrappers. These material choices guide the conceptual interpretation, which frequently arises from feelings and thoughts that are difficult to articulate in words.
Eetu Henttonen
Eetu Henttonen holds a Master of Arts degree from Aalto University’s Visual Culture program (2015). As a coding graphic designer and a self-proclaimed mediocre Renaissance man of communication design, he is fascinated by how art can reveal the invisible and unconscious interactions between humans and our thoroughly technologized environment.
Sami Luusalo
Sami Luusalo earned his Master of Arts in English Philology, with a broad focus on digital culture and media art. He is particularly interested in open-source development environments as tools for creative expression and has followed the fields of digital culture, media art, and creative coding for years. Before joining the collective, he worked in the IT industry for nearly a decade as a technical communication specialist.
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