Periphery

Jakub Pišek (SK)

Jakub Pišek, a graduate of the New Media department in Košice, studied under the supervision of a German artist Anna Tretter. He was on internship at Ecole des Beaux arts in Bordeaux, France and at residence in Dortmund in RUHR European capital of culture 2011. After ping pong workshop he begun to write his own software for interactive installations. In his production, he uses technology both as a medium and as a goal of his interests. Instead of presenting old pieces repetitively, he rather demonstrates creation of a piece on-the-spot.

He lets the genius loci be visible, works with site specifics and flexibly reacts to the emerged situation. He is devoted to video, computer graphics, interactivity and music. Now he works as media artist in various fields, like interactivity, performance, audio and video and real time graphics. His background is interdisciplinary, holding degrees in visual and performing arts, software prototyping and computer sience. He is user of open source hardware and software and working in intentions of DIY. Jakub is the man behind famous performance Hallogenerator, Turbosampler and Barcode djs.

​Anni Kinnunen (FI)

Anni Kinnunen (1978) is a visual artist whose most important instrument is photograph, but she also works with video art and installations.
Anni is settled in a strong line of Finnish artists that use performing art in pictures, but her photographs are not self-portraits, and they are not related to the mock-documentary self-portrait often seen in contemporary photographic art. During the past two decades, Anni’s works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Japan, China, Russia, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Iceland, Denmark, Luxembourg, USA and Canada. In Finland, she has participated in events such as the Young Artists exhibition of Kunsthalle Helsinki (2009), the Snowball Effect Northern Finland Biennale (2012, 2014, 2016) and Mänttä Art Festival (2013, 2018). Her works are included in the collections of the Oulu Museum of Art, the Finnish State Art collection.