The City Sets education, research and urban media art project has officially been selected as a part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme. The project started as a multidisciplinary education and research development project of the Aalto University Schools of Art and Design and Technology, the Departments of Media and Architecture, in 2010. In [...]
October 13th, 2011 - Fred Fuchs visits on Thu 3 NovemberThe “internationally renowned” executive producer Fred Fuchs visits the Crucible Studio and Departments of Media, Television and Film on Thu 3 November. He gives a presentation of his production work with Francis Ford Coppola in the American Zoetrope Studios and today, and consults the departments’ on-going experimental productions for cinema, television and cross/new media, while we look [...]
October 10th, 2011 - Call for Papers: Collaboration and CommunitySpecial Digital Creativity Journal Issue (Vol 23, No 2) in honour of Colin Beardon Submissions deadlines: 10 Nov 2011 (abstracts), 1 Jan 2012 (full articles) Please circulate this CfP - particularly among Colin Beardon’s colleagues, collaborators and friends. Colin Beardon, the founder of the Digital Creativity journal, has a long and celebrated career particularly in multidisciplinary, collaborative and community-based HCI design for [...]
May 16th, 2011 - Media Lab Helsinki Demo Day 26 May 2011It’s the time of the year, when we put up the demo floor to show some results of the Media Lab Helsinki teaching, student projects and research. This year the demos consist of, for example, physical interfaces, games, experimental narratives and design/artistic research on dreams and cancer patient therapy. Crucible Studio performs the Unperformed. The [...]
May 4th, 2011 - Welcome to the Masters of Arts festival 2011!The festival shows the public a wide array of works by our Masters students: everything from distinguished theses, individual statements, concepts and products arising from commercial collaboration to works of art. All this in perfect harmony! Masters of Arts 2011 is open to the public 12.-29.5.2011 from 12 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and [...]
For the Art of Storytelling in New Media
Crucible Studio, a research group within Media Centre Lume and the Department of Media of the Aalto University School of Art and Design, studies and develops narration of the digital, non-linear and interactive media. Our goal is to achieve deeper emotional experiences in the interactive media and to create production methods to develop content and technology simultaneously in the multi-talented teams of artists, designers, scientists and technology experts.
Modes of Action
Our activities are divided into three sectors:
1. Practise Based Research productions combine state-of-the-art expertise of design, drama, and technology. Productions are developed as applied research cases with industrial partners.
2. Education that combines expertise and resources of the different departments within the Aalto University, as well as other universities and research institutions.
3. Coordinating and Networking maps the development of the research, education and production of the interactive drama on an international scale and brings together professionals of the multidisciplinary fields in collaborations and joint events.
