Axel Thesleff Vivid
Directed and animated this visual music animation for Axel Thesleff's new song called "Vivid".
Axel Thesleff Visuals
Concert visuals for Axel Thesleff's live performance. Created in 2020 and recorded in Helsinki July 2020, as a concert video because of the pandemic cancellations...
"Cocoon"
Cocoon is an aesthetic exploration in underwater movement. The short film was originally a part of a commissioned work for the Casino Helsinki for their large scale...
"Cocoon" Still Works
Cocoon Still Works
Crew
Director, Producer, Editor, Colorist, Compositor: Petri Ruikka
Performers: Anni Alitalo and Heidi Karjalainen
Choreography:...
"MMST"
Visual music / dance film "MMST".
Part of the Arch of Neo (AoN) project. AoN is originally a live collaborative audiovisual project. After its initiation and...
"New Under the Sun"
Visual music / dance film "New Under the Sun". Part of the Arch of Neo (AoN) project. AoN is originally a live collaborative audiovisual project. After its...
Pori City Orchestra: Wagner Gala Concert
Directed a visualization of a Wagner Gala-concert for Pori Sinfonietta. The concert was produced by Aalto University Department of Art's Pori unit and the Satakunta...
Tchaikovsky "Nutcracker"
Commissioned work visualizing two parts Tchaikovsky's ballet Nutcracker.
First part "Waltz of the Flowers"
Second part "Pas de Deux"
"Arch of Neo" Live AV
"Arch of Neo" audiovisual performance created in collaboration with Niclas Kristiansson, Matti Pentikäinen and Heikki Ryynänen. Premiere in Kiasma Theatre in P...
Untitled Festival
For most of 2020 I worked on the fantastic Untitled Festival project at Demos Helsinki with talented, hardworking and diverse team.
The pandemic put us through...
Interfaces for Empathy – the festival
The fifteenth annual Pixelache Festival, ‘Interfaces for Empathy’, took place from September 22nd to 25th 2016 in Helsinki and explored possibilities of the shift to...
Pixelache Coordinator
I worked as the coordinator for Pixelache from late 2014 to early 2017. I also curated several Pixelache events in 2016. More info in separate projects and general...
Camp Pixelache 2014
I produced the Pixelache 2014 Festival/Camp "Commoners unite!".
The event was an un-conference/festival concentrating on the theme of commons, and took place an...
Nordic VJ Meeting 2007
I curated the Nordic VJ Meeting, which was the main programme part of the Pixelache Festival in 2007. The Nordic VJ Meeting remains on of the largest gathering of...
Pixelache AudioVisual 2006-2010
I organized and curated the audiovisual program part of Pixelache Festival of electronic art subcultures during 2006-2010.
The festival was organized in...
Selected Published Texts 2006-2019
Below is a selected list of my various edited publications, articles, curatorial statements and a few notable interviews.
2019
I co-edited the second...
Mapped Video Installation "Awake"
2D Mapped video installation, "Awake", for Stockmann department store's and Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture's common "Young Designers...
Underwater Casino Installation
"Underwater Casino" was originally commissioned as an installation to Casino Helsinki, but further on led also to the reslease of widely distributed standalone...
TTT-Theater: Lento
Video design for Sirkku Peltola's new play Lento at Tampereen Työväen Teatteri (link to the play where you can find playing times also).
Writer/director: Sirkku P...
Very short bio
I am a coordinator&curator, educator, artist and designer who works on the intersections of technology, perception, ecology and empathy. My work...
Email: pete.ruikka at gmail.com
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