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Mika Taanila’s artistic production extends broadly through the fields of visual art, documentary filmmaking, and music video. After studying cultural anthropology at Helsinki University and graduating from the Institute of Design at Lahti Polytechnic in 1992, Taanila has worked as an editor, producer, screenwriter, director, and video teacher. He currently instructs in video at the […]

Born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1967, Montes de Oca studied Art History at the University of Havana. As a researcher, curator and art critic based in Havana, she has curated numerous exhibitions and has published widely on Cuban, Latin American and Spanish art. She has won several prizes, including Curaduría del 1er Salón de Arte […]

Based in Havana, Lopez is an art critic and co-coordinator of the Batiscafo Project (http://www.batiscafo.org/)—a residency program launched in 2002 which seeks to facilitate dialogue and exchange between Cuban and international artists. International artists work alongside Cuban artists in paired residencies that can result in working partnerships or separate outcomes. Interview with Dalila Lopez The […]

Victor Fowler Calzada was born in Havana in 1960. In 1987 he graduated in Pedagogy (Spanish Language and Literature specialty) in the Instituto Superior Pedagógico “Enrique José Varona”, Havana. For several years he practised teaching in the secondary level. Between 1989 and 1992 he worked in the Biblioteca Nacional (National Archive) as a specialist for […]

Erkki Soininen works as a visual artist and curator, as well as one of the artistic directors of the ANTI-Contemporary Art Festival. The festival is a yearly international live-art event held in Kuopio, Finland, which utilizes the contemporary cityscape as both the stage and conceptual framework for its performances and installations. - Robin McCullough Interview […]

Perttu Rastas is the Senior Curator of media art at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. In addition to his curatorial labour, Rastas works as an art critic, producer, and editor; his co-edited book Get Real: Real-time + Art + Theory + Practice + History was published in 2005 and focuses on the […]

An acclaimed director of documentary films—including the internationally lauded Yo Soy, del Son a la Salsa (1996 Havana Film Festival first prize winner; 1997 Gramado Film Festival Special Jury Award)—Lopez successfully realized his first fiction film in 2002 with Roble de Olor (Scent of Oak), recipient of both the Vigia Award and the Educational Cinematography […]

Until the mid 1980s, Jan Kaila worked largely within the domains of photojournalism and documentary photography. Towards the end of that decade, he reconsidered his position as an ‘impartial’ observer and began to stage his photos and to incorporate texts, moving images, and objects into his exhibitions. After being awarded a doctorate in Fine Arts […]

A great-grandson of Robert Flaherty, Van Ingen spent his childhood in both India and Finland. After studying anthropology in London, he returned to Helsinki to co-found, in 1990, the Helsinki Filmmakers Co-op. Co-run by Van Ingen for the next ten years, the Filmmakers Co-op converted the former Nokia Cable Factory into a working space for […]