Filmmaker-researcher Pia Tikka, PhD, starts now as the deputy director and senior researcher in Crucible Studio, where she’s earlier been an associated artist in. She’ll be leading the NeuroCine research project and is also affiliated in the brain research project aivoAALTO (2009-2014) and is a founding member of the research project Enactive Media (2009-2011), also in Aalto University, Finland. Currently, she combines her filmmaking practice with the methods of neuroimaging in order to study neural basis of storytelling.

Tikka has directed the long feature films ”Daughters of Yemanjá“ (Brazil-Finland 1996) and ”Sand Bride“ (Finland 1998), and worked in a range of other feature film productions.  Her Enactive Cinema project Obsession (2005) has been awarded with Möbius Prix Nordic prize of interactive storytelling and exhibited for example in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki) and ISEA 2006 & Zero One (San Jose, CA). She is co-author of interactive film-game Third Woman, which has been recently shown in Thessaloniki Biennale (2009), Digital Art Weeks in the Great Hall Xian Academy of Fine Arts (2010), and Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY (2011). She is the author of  Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisenteinense (2008). See Curriculum vitae and more about cinema.