Hanna Pajala-Assefa

I'm a cross-media choreographer (MA ArtsUni) working around contemporary dance in forms of media art, film, live performance and XR, particularly with the mediated body in sonic environments. My experience spreads over choreography, concept design, curation as well as event and project production. Public speaking Teaching and...

Annika Kluge

PhD student of Neuroscience, background in IT and biomedical engineering. Interested in reducing bias and developing empathy in people. Public speaking I do have some occasional public speaking experience regarding my own research and projects. I have taught 4th-5th graders Python for a year Researcher I am researching intergroup...

Rūta Kazlauskaitė

Postdoctoral researcher at Aalto ARTS, Department of Media. PhD in Political science (University of Helsinki). An interdisciplinary researcher interested in history education, virtual reality, memory politics and storytelling. Public speaking I have organized and contributed to courses at the University of Helsinki on digital media and society,...

Samir Bhowmik

Samir is an artist, architect and post-doctoral researcher at the Aalto Media Lab. He is currently working on his artistic research project "IMAGINARY NATURES: Extractive Media & the Cultural Memory of Environmental Change" funded by the Kone Foundation (2019-22). Public speaking Teaching in Department of Media. Courses:...

Victoria Korshunova

I explore the design of realistic VR simulations and investigate multimodal audio-visual human perception in immersive VE at Eindhoven University. Cooperate with Facebook Reality Labs within VRACE EU project. Public speaking Over two year of experience in lecturing, teaching and supervising students. Researcher More than 3 years of experience...

Maarit Kalmakurki

Currently a doctoral student at Aalto university in costume design. MA in costume design, BA in Fashion design. I'm interested in research across disciplines as I believe that when people from different fields work together, it leads to better results Public speaking I have taught costume design...

Juho Rissanen

Emerging Media & Futurology studies. M.Sc. (Economics), M.A. (East Asian Studies), plus other studies online and offline around the world. Public speaking A fair share of public speaking at various conferences and events over the years. Recently started hosting online workshops. Researcher Been with Tampere University Unit for Computer-Human...

Petri Juntunen

BA & MA at Aalto University Department of Photography Researcher Doing my research at Aalto ARTS Department of Photography about 'Photography's Transformation Within VR'. 3D/VFX artist Rudimentary skills with various 3D- (Maya, Mudbox,Blender) and Photogrammetry- (RealityCapture, Metashape) programs. Director/Screenwriter Worked in the field of advertisement for 2 decades...

Kari Yli-Annala

Visual artist (graduated from Fine Arts Academy), doctoral student in Aalto (Film) Public speaking I am a lecturer on the history of moving images Consultant of written texts on the history of moving images Researcher Researcher of experiments in moving images Project manager I organise/coordinate/produce projects in my Nomadic academy of experimental arts Director/Screenwriter Video...

Sebastian J. Schlecht

Professor of Practice for Sound in VR, Ph.D. Acoustic Signal Processing, MSc in Applied Mathmatics, MSc Digital Music Processing Public speaking Vice-Head for Minor Studies Building Virtual Worlds Consultant R&D Consultant for Real-Time Audio Plugin Development (VSTs/AAX) Researcher Virtual Acoustics, 6-Degrees-of-Freedom VR, Psychoacoustics Coder Unity, Matlab, C++, MaxMSP Sound designer Mainly performer (keys, violin), sometimes...