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Translucens
”Translucens” is Latin and means translucent, something that is perceptible but also nonexistent.
The artwork employs non-linear storytelling, blending the Kuleshov effect, where different images and video clips merge into one another, and the actual story is created in the viewer’s mind. This form somewhat resembles the structureof REM sleep.
Structure of the narrative in a classical sense could be compared to the ”impromptu” composition technique, where short improvised musical motifs are eventually mixed into a refined composition.
The artwork combines theoretical mathematical forms – such as the
tesseract – with concrete biological forms – such as water.
Soundscape create light dissonances that are never fully resolved. A low sound that remains in
one tone throughout holds the entirety together and doesn’t easily release the listener from the artwork.
Transluces has been part of several festivals in various countries:
EVI Lichtungen 2026 (Hildesheim, Germany (upcoming))
Lumen Rauma 2026 (Rauma, Finland (upcoming))
Luna Friesland (Leeuwarden, Netherlands), Nobel Week Lights 2024 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Lumiére 2024 (Vancouver, Canada), Alt Ljus Uppsala 2024 (Uppsala, Sweden)
Valon polku 2024 (Turku, Finland), City Of Light 2024 (Jyväskylä, Finland), LUZMADRID 2023 (Madrid, Spain)
Visualia 2023 (Pula, Croatia), LUMO 2022 (Oulu, Finland), Porvoon Valot 2022 (Porvoo, Finland)
Iridescence
is an interactive, generative site-specific video installation that explores the relationship between environment, perception, and digital transformation.
Utilizing locally collected photographic data, the installation continuously generates evolving visual compositions, shaped by algorithmic processes. These images shift, merge, and reconfigure in real time, creating a dynamic representation of the surrounding space.
Accompanying the visuals is an immersive multichannel audio environment, incorporating field recordings and digitally processed soundscapes. The audio responds to movement and interaction, enhancing the viewer’s engagement with the piece and reinforcing its fluid, ever-changing nature.
The installation takes its name from the natural phenomenon of iridescence, where microscopic surface structures manipulate light to produce colors that change based on the angle of observation. This effect, found in butterfly wings, peacock feathers, and certain minerals, serves as both a scientific reference and a conceptual foundation for the work. Just as iridescence challenges static perception, this installation continuously reshapes itself through site-specific data, interaction, and the passage of time.
By integrating local imagery, responsive visuals, and immersive sound, Iridescence transforms the exhibition space into a living, evolving environment—an experience unique to each visitor and moment.
Iridescence won “Best In Show” price in Digital Graffiti festival 2025 (Alys Beach, USA)
Constructed Memories
Constructed Memories studies how we re-construct our memories and how we re-narrate them based on our current beliefs and expectations, how much we actually remember and how much of our memories are mixed together and sometimes even a completely false.
Database is made from all pictures I’ve taken after I got my first digital camera 20 years ago and my own written algorithm is mixing pictures together. Outcome is eerie and dream like compositions, a bit like Man Ray’s surrealistic photographs.
Realtime AI is making its own interpretations from pictures and it’s controlled by randomly generated prompts that is based on my own memories.
These ”fake memories” are restored to the original photography database and they will be part of the algorithmic generated image feed. This represent the false memories.
I chose photographs as the primary background material for the artwork because photography has always been a close and passionate hobby for me, and it has played a significant role in the development of my artistic professional identity.