Research productions
Crucible provides a collaborative network for universities and companies through practice-based research cases wherein co-operation between engineers and artists is realized through actual research productions.
To achieve convincing expression, design, and technology, production must be a holistic entity, even though produced by a multi-disciplinary team. Technology and content are developed jointly in order to create new multiple media and ubiquitous computing platforms that truly enable engaging interactive experiences and high-quality content. Constant process of exchanging viewpoints creates multi-faceted but focused products with less trial and error and better integration of the content and the technology.
To renovate digital expression and to create first-rate narrative content Crucible strives to discover narrative logics, expressions and rhetoric informed by the practices that would be transferable to a scope of other interactive paradigms. All productions are grounded to the in-depth understanding of both traditional and emerging narrative and dramatic practices, and in inclusion of professional production quality in all phases of the productions.
Crucible Studio is currently involved in several collaborative research projects addressing research themes through the holistic understanding of technologies and content as organic whole, which is needed in order to create pleasurable and significant interaction experiences.
For more information about Crucible Studio’s productions, please go to the productions’ links to the right. Videos can also be viewed on Youtube.
Enactive Avatar
A shared drama entangles you and Enactive Avatar into non-verbal experience of co-presence in life and death. On-going…
Video scenarios in medical education
The project analyses video scenarios used in medical education, and develops new scenarios for medical schools. On-going…
Life as an Image
An art & science project explores cultural phenomenas of alienation by means of image making and 3d sensing. On-going…
Play Me
An interactive roleplay with smartphones, where one minute is one year and every spectator plays the life of another one. On-going…
NeuroCine
Research on intersubjectively shared, embodied underpinnings of the human mind engaged with drama.
On-going…
Enactive Cinema
Interactive cinema format based on viewers’ unconscious psychophysiological responses (enaction).
On-going…
Antikythera
Digital poetry application for iPad based on the Antikythera mechanism and Saila Susiluoto’s poems.
City Noises
The EU Culture artistic research project experiments with different creative practices to explore local and global urban identities.
The installation explores coincidence in figurative narrative that consists of orientalist G. A. Wallin’s (1811–1852) portraits made during his journeys in the Middle East.
An experimental installation and tools investigation inspired by Ooppera Skaala’s Great Conspiracy – The Opera.
A new breed of audiovisual performance best described by the term multimedia opera.
A research, education and media art project exploring visual & multimodal urban identities, as well as spatial, multilinear and associative narratives in cities.
A concept development project dealing with interface design, data narration and visualization using semantic ontologies in the context of cultural information.
At Hand
At Hand is an interactive piece designed for touch screens in public space. The project is about urban gestures, micro spaces of the street and the possibility of encountering otherness.
The interactive video installation in public space investigates (online) prejudice towards minorities.
DIMEKE Narrative Product Development
DIMEKE – Content Development for Digital Media 2009–2011 is a Finnish national initiative, supported by the European Social Fund.
Alan01
The second edition of Alan01 engages the user in a dialogue with a fictional Alan, as if his consciousness had been coded into a machine at the time of his death.
The Turing Machine Cross Media Experimental Production investigates associational storytelling and interaction structures, demonstrating human-machine communication.
New Media for a New Millenium – NM2
Want a romantic version of Star Wars? Or your own cut of Big Brother? A new EU project aims to personalise our viewing and create a new media genre.
Hybrid of mobile phone messaging chat and black comedy series for television and broadband media
Lecture presentations introducing industry case histories, providing contextual, historical and cultural background for deeper understanding in game design.
SALERO aims at making cross media-production for games, movies and broadcast faster, better and cheaper.
INiCS
Interactive Narratives in Cross-media Systems explores interactive narrative concepts for digital media, including computer games, cinema, internet, digital TV and soundscapes.
Artistic research production and study project in the Crucible Studio and Media Lab.
RuneDance / RuneDrum is conceived as a chance-based multimedia work based on Finnish mythology and the traditional Singing of Tales.
Cross-media programme consisting of a TV-show, Internet and mobile media site that all utilize a common database.
As part of the IntelCities research and technological development project, the Crucible has developed the “Arkkikone” web application in collaboration with the City of Tampere.
Dance on Demand / Myths for the Day
Dance on Demand features a new content format and genre for interactive television and mobile devices.
IntelCities was a research and development project to pool knowledge of electronic government, planning systems and citizen participation from across Europe.
I became a lion wearing a crown! – IN THE HOOD researches city planning by the means of storytelling.
Bot Alchemy is Douwe-Sjoerd Boschman’s experiment to see what semi-random generated speech can do for interactive database narratives.