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Mika Tuomola
Artistic Director, Crucible Studio/Media Centre Lume and Medialab,
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
Games and Storytelling
Mika "Lumi" Tuomola is a dramaturge and director for interactive digital
media. His productions include the web drama Daisy's Amazing Discoveries
(Coronet Interactive 1996), philosophical strategy game Socrates
(WSOY 1998), movie installation Myths for One (Crucible 2002), avatar
world designs for WorldsAway (Fujitsu 2000) and the on-going television
series Accidental Lovers (Crucible 2003), the concept of which won the New
Media pitch of the Banff2003 television festival. The productions' other
awards include the 1st prizes in Knowledge and Discovery of EuroPrix 1998
and New Media of Grafia's Top of the Year 1996, as well as the 2nd prize
in the Beijing International Computer Art Competition 1997. In 1998, Lumi
was chosen Finland's Young artist of the year. He publishes frequently
articles and gives teaching in leading new media schools and universities,
including Cambridge University Moving Image Studio, Interactive Institute
and Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, based on the learning in
productions. Lumi is currently the artistic director of Crucible Studio,
the joint research group on interactive storytelling between Media Centre
Lume and Media Lab at University of Art and Design Helsinki, where he
teaches regularly. He's in the editorial advisory board of Digital
Creativity Journal and a founding member of m-cult, the Finnish Association
of Media Culture.
Lumi's articles
More information: http://crucible.uiah.fi/crunet.nsf/cru_bios/tuomola
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