[NetBehaviour] Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola 1971-2016
John Hopkins
chazhop at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 17:00:06 CEST 2016
On 11/Aug/16 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> yesterday i learned of the death of mika "lumi" tuomola, a finnish new
> media artist. maybe some of you on this list have known him.
Ah, sorry to hear this -- Mika and I first met when I was guest teaching at the
Media (CAP) Lab in Helsinki in 1994, then again later renewed our acquaintance
in 2000-1 as colleagues at the Lab on the occasion of an informal breakfast with
some of his and my students and Howard Rheingold who was in Helsinki giving his
forward-looking presentations (to a packed house in the Laasipalatsi Rex
Theater)... Mika held several alternative workshops in the context of his
"Crucible" program at the Lab, one memorable one was with butoh artist, Aki
Suzuki, who taught a group of us the basics of butoh performance. Flamboyant,
sharp, quick-witted, personable, and ever active in his physical presence, Mika
was a great counter-point within the Helsinki techie scene.
JH
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