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  • Aalto Creative Demo Day

    Aalto Creative Demo Day

    4.12.2024 | 13-17.30 (UTC +2 / EET)Online & Marsio Stage | Otakaari 2, Espoo Welcome to Aalto Creative Demo Day where this autumn’s creative industry pre-incubator participants take the stage to pitch their business concepts in front of an expert jury. The teams’ versatile startup ideas relate to fashion, extended reality, design, architecture, digital modeling,…

  • Call for applications: Aalto University’s creative industry pre-incubator programme is looking for participants

    Call for applications: Aalto University’s creative industry pre-incubator programme is looking for participants

    Aalto Digital Creatives pre-incubator programme aims to help creative industry students, researchers and practitioners on their path towards entrepreneurship. Over the course of 13 weeks, participants in the programme will acquire skills in business idea development and protection, gain networking opportunities, and practice delivering compelling pitches to diverse audiences. The programme seeks applicants from a…

  • EMIL Call-2 Allocates 4.6 Million Euros for XR Projects Across Europe

    EMIL Call-2 Allocates 4.6 Million Euros for XR Projects Across Europe

    European Media and Immersion Lab (EMIL) Funds Groundbreaking eXtended Reality Initiatives The European Media and Immersion Lab (EMIL) has announced the beneficiaries of its second call for proposals, awarding a staggering 4.7 million euros to spearhead 12 innovative XR (extended reality) projects across Europe. This substantial financial injection aims to propel the development of virtual,…

  • Call for applications: Aalto University’s creative industry pre-incubator programme is looking for participants

    Call for applications: Aalto University’s creative industry pre-incubator programme is looking for participants

    Aalto Digital Creatives pre-incubator programme aims to help creative industry students, researchers and practitioners on their path towards entrepreneurship. Over the course of 13 weeks, participants in the programme will acquire skills in business idea development and protection, gain networking opportunities, and practice delivering compelling pitches to diverse audiences. The programme seeks applicants from a…

  • Art & Tech Open Call ’23

    Art & Tech Open Call ’23

    Are you an artist, designer, game developer or creative professional with an innovative project that blends technology and art? We are excited to announce the Aalto Digital Creatives Art & Tech Open Call ’23, which is designed to support cutting-edge projects that harness the capabilities of digitalisation to fuel the creative industries.  The Aalto Digital…

  • Art & Tech Gala 2023

    Art & Tech Gala 2023

    Welcome to the Aalto Digital Creatives Art & Tech Gala. In this event, the Art & Tech Open Call winners from 2020-2022 showcase their projects in on-stage presentations and off-stage demos. The annual Art & Tech Open Call offers audiovisual, design, gaming and other cutting-edge projects an opportunity to apply for development funding and a chance to…

  • Creative industry pre-incubator program is calling for applications

    Creative industry pre-incubator program is calling for applications

    The program is looking for individuals or teams with a business idea where creativity meets digital technology. The deadline for applications is on 14.2.2023 and the program runs from March to June.   In March 2022 Aalto University launched the Aalto Digital Creatives pre-incubator program which aims to help creative industry students, researchers and practitioners on…

  • Apply for extended reality (XR) funding from the EMIL network

    Apply for extended reality (XR) funding from the EMIL network

    EMIL (European Media and Immersion Laboratory) is a pan-European eXtended Reality (XR) Lab network composed of four major European academic institutions, with a mission to accelerate development of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies, content, services and applications. UPF is one of the four nodes that structure EMIL. EMIL has been awarded 5.6 M€ by Horizon…

  • MAGICS Community Event 21.4.2022

    MAGICS Community Event 21.4.2022

    Time: Thursday 21.4.2022 | 16:00–18:00  Place: A Grid | Mordor  In October 2021, we launched a series of events for the MAGICS-Aalto community. The fifth monthly event takes place in the Mordor, A Grid, Otakaari 5, Espoo, on 21 April at 16:00–18:00.  Our purpose is to bring together people from different backgrounds and inspire new…

  • Aalto Digital Creatives Art & Tech Open Call 2022

    Aalto Digital Creatives Art & Tech Open Call 2022

    Aalto Digital Creatives Art & Tech Open Call 2022 seeks audiovisual, design, gaming and other cutting-edge projects utilizing digitalization to fuel the creative industries. Applications are encouraged from teams who are prepared to produce a prototype or a demo of their idea.  The projects should further the development of the creative industries (media, film, games, design, architecture…

  • MAGICS Community Meetings for Spring 2022

    MAGICS Community Meetings for Spring 2022

    In October, we launched a series of events for the MAGICS-Aalto community. Our purpose is to bring together people from different backgrounds and inspire new encounters and new ideas through high-level speakers and performers, as well as possibility for open and free discussion. This spring, we’ll continue with a series of events held on 4…

  • Researcher positions in the field of Creative technologies available in Aalto and VTT

    Researcher positions in the field of Creative technologies available in Aalto and VTT

    Are you interested in research on AI x Music and Creativity? The postdoctoral researcher in the Co-Creative Artificial Intelligence of Music project will be developing AI models for digital co-creation processes between humans and machines. The deadline for this application is 01 March 2022. See https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-positions/researcher-position-in-ai-x-music-and-creativity for more information Are you all about science and…

  • Multiscale Brain Communication opportunities in Italy ??

    Multiscale Brain Communication opportunities in Italy ??

    Our MAGICS initiative is collaborating with Luciano Fadiga at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Ferrara on multidisciplinary research on interaction, involving neuroscientist, psychologists, engineers, scientists, etc. IIT has opened an interesting 2-year position for a postdoc: https://iit.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2100007H From their posting: “Art has an astonishing ability to tap on a vast array of feelings and emotions…

  • Creative Technologies Recruitment

    Creative Technologies Recruitment

    Assistant or Associate Professor in Creative Technologies (all areas) at Aalto University, Finland Aalto, one of the most forward-looking universities in the world, is looking for an assistant/associate professor at the intersection of computational sciences and arts or design. Excellent candidates apply novel computational methods to augment human creativity and imagination in a variety of…

  • Digital literature project now at workshopping stage

    Digital literature project now at workshopping stage

    The Digital Literature Project di.ki, organized by Nuoren Voiman Liitto, aims to increase knowledge of digital literature in Finland and internationally during the year 2021. It also offers a platform for professionals in the fields of literature, arts, and programming to meet and find new ways to collaborate. Aalto Studios collaborates in the project as…

  • MAGICS – Making telepresence almost authentic

    MAGICS – Making telepresence almost authentic

    Aalto Studios hosting MAGICS tech infrastructure in Aalto University Photo: Sami Perttilä Aalto University, the University of the Arts Helsinki, and Tampere University have received a research infrastructure grant of €2.4 million from the Academy of Finland for the MAGICS project. The universities are forming an infrastructure network to support research into motion recording and…

  • The Digital Literature Project di.ki starts – the virtual events introduce digital literature to audience and enhance new digital works

    The Digital Literature Project di.ki starts – the virtual events introduce digital literature to audience and enhance new digital works

    Nuoren Voiman Liitto, a Finnish literary society, in partnership with ELKE, Aalto Studios, The Master’s Programme in Writing at University of Arts and Nokturno has received funding for a large scale digital literature project. The project is supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation’s Uusimaa Regional Fund as a Spearhead Project. The Digital Literature Project di.ki offers events such as an open…

  • Virtual production in the Mandalorian style

    Virtual production in the Mandalorian style

    How to visit locations and sets that don’t actually exist? How to operate the camera in a greenscreen studio when all you can see is just green? How to understand what the framed composition will finally look like?  ELO Film School Helsinki, Virtual Cinema Lab and Aalto Studios arranged a virtual production workshop in the…

  • Aalto Fablab selected in FURNISH Open Call

    Aalto Fablab selected in FURNISH Open Call

    Aalto Fablab’s NOT-19 is one of the four teams selected to participate in the FURNISH (Fast Urban Responses for New Inclusive Spaces & Habitat) project. The goal of the project is to digitally fabricate and deploy urban elements to adapt temporary public spaces to meet the new challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 crisis. …

  • Aalto Studios Open Call grants funding and resources to three projects

    Aalto Studios Open Call grants funding and resources to three projects

    Panorama depicting the Tom of Finland room in The Tom House. Photo: Márton Jelinkó The Aalto Studios Open Call in co-operation with AVEK, The Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture, has granted funding and resourcing for three extended reality themed projects. ”The House of Tom” produced by the studio Donkey Hotel receives 6000 € of AVEK…

  • Workshop: Arri Amira

    Workshop: Arri Amira

    If you would like to learn about the ins and outs of the Arri Amira -camera, Aalto Studios is holding a two-day workshop on 30-31.1.2020. You’ll be learning about the Amira and the supporting camera equipment from a pro, and after the workshop you will be able to book Arri Amira -equipment from Aalto Studios Takeout. The…

  • Master your local Makerspace – Join Fab Academy 2020 at the Aalto Fablab

    Master your local Makerspace – Join Fab Academy 2020 at the Aalto Fablab

    Have you seen them? They are growing in numbers all around the world; spaces for making (almost) anything using computer aided design, digital fabrication, electronics and programming. There might be one in your neighborhood, or in your organization. Whether you’re a user or a manager of a makerspace, there’s always so much to learn. What…

  • ERASMUS+ funding for FABLABs – New Technologies in Adult Education

    ERASMUS+ funding for FABLABs – New Technologies in Adult Education

    The Aalto Fablab here at Aalto Studios is a partner in a new project “FABLABs – New Technologies in Adult Education”, joining Fablab peers from Poland, France, Portugal and Iceland. Coordination is handled by Warsztaty Kultury W Lublinie in Poland, the two year effort starting in November 2019 supported by funding from the Erasmus+ programme.…

  • AI & Media Afternoon brought together media professionals from around Europe

    AI & Media Afternoon brought together media professionals from around Europe

    Aalto Studios hosted a mini seminar around the theme AI & Media in collaboration with ACE Producers. The afternoon session occurred prior to ACE Training Days that were held in Helsinki and Espoo 13-15th of October 2018. The venue for the event was Miltton’s seminar hall in Kaisaniemi, Helsinki. Juhani Tenhunen, the coordinator of international relations…

  • Final selections made for Hybrid Labs Symposium

    Final selections made for Hybrid Labs Symposium

    Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018, taking place at Aalto University at the end of May and beginning of June, announced its selections for participation in the event. The Local Organizing Committee has selected 25 full papers, 10 posters, and a number of performances and exhibitions to showcase hybrid ways of creating, the theme of the conference. Early bird…

  • “Weimar” premieres at Kallio Stage, Friday 6.4

    “Weimar” premieres at Kallio Stage, Friday 6.4

    Weimar, a performance by faculty and students at Uniarts Helsinki, as well as Aalto University, premieres at Aalto Studios’ Kallio Stage in Sörnäinen on Friday, 6.4. The striking trailer for the performance, above, was filmed at Kallio Stage and features performers’ surreal movements in the stark stage space. A couple of stills of the trailer follow…

  • Call for Proposals for Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018

    Call for Proposals for Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018

    Hybrid Labs is a new symposium focused on hybrid knowledge creation, hosted at Aalto University this year from 30 May to 1 June, and the call for proposals is now open, with full details available at the link. The third and latest in a series of Renewable Futures conferences, which began in 2015 in Riga and continued last year in…

  • ACE Producers hosts second training days in Finland

    ACE Producers hosts second training days in Finland

    This past weekend, Aalto Studios’ partner, ACE Producers, an organization focused on training and development for established film producers across Europe, hosted its second-ever “Training Days” workshop, aimed instead at up-and-coming producers. 20 aspiring producers from Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland were selected to join several consultants, mostly professional producers and members of ACE Producers’ network…

  • IMAGO Awarded International Cinematographers in Espoo

    IMAGO Awarded International Cinematographers in Espoo

    Aalto Studios congratulates all the winners of the first time ever organised IMAGO International Awards for Cinematography. IMAGO, the European Federation of Cinematographers, celebrated their 25th anniversary in the awards hosted by the Finnish Society of Cinematographers FSC. The gala was organised on 28th of October at Hanasaari Cultural Centre in Espoo and was also the celebration of the main sponsor ARRI’s 100th…

  • Aalto Studios Announces Collaboration with Arri Group

    Aalto Studios Announces Collaboration with Arri Group

    Aalto Studios is pleased to announce the next major upgrade to our production facilities; new digital Arri Amira film production cameras. We have also confirmed our collaboration with Arri Group, the German film equipment company. As sponsors of future film makers they are equipping Aalto University with Arri technology. This enables 4K productions with as much…

  • Audiovisual Finland Seminar about Contracting in International Co-Productions

    Audiovisual Finland Seminar about Contracting in International Co-Productions

    Thank you all the interesting guests for sharing knowledge and case examples at the ”Anatomy of Contracts and Deal Making – International Co-Productions” seminar at our Odeion Screening Auditorium 12th and 13th of September. Audiovisual Finland organised this seminar together with Aalto University. Thanks to the input of the speakers, Peter Nadermann (Nadcon), Max Rumney…

  • Mini Maker Faire Calling for Makers!

    Mini Maker Faire Calling for Makers!

    Our Aalto FabLab is organising Espoo Mini Maker Faire together with Wärk Ry and Iso Omena library 13.-14.10.2017. The event is open for everybody. If you want to showcase your work or just see what others have come up with this is the place. The Faire is still calling for makers! Submit your idea by…

  • Future Opportunities with Supercell!

    Future Opportunities with Supercell!

    Aalto University has received a grant of EUR 250,000 from Supercell, the gaming company. Game development is one of the core interests of Aalto Studios so we’re really looking forward to see what kind of future collaboration projects this might generate. The feeling is mutual as Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen is excited about the future as…