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This spring's publications bring together art and science.
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Art as We Don’t Know It

Erich Berger, Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka, Kira O’Reilly, Helena Sederholm (Editors)

What worlds are revealed when we listen to alpacas, make photographs with yeast or use biosignals to generate autonomous virtual organisms? Bioart invites us to explore artistic practices at the intersection of art, science and society. This rapidly evolving field utilises the tools of life sciences to examine the materiality of life; the collision of human and nonhuman. Microbiology, virtual reality and robotics cross disciplinary boundaries to engage with arts as artists and scientists work together to challenge the ways in which we understand and observe the world.

This book offers a stimulating and provocative exploration into worlds emerging, seen through art as we don’t know it – yet.

Published 2020
ISBN 978-952-60-8821-8

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Immortal

The Lost Memoirs of Cornelia Dulac Concerning the Freshwater Polyp Hydra

Maija Tammi and Ville Tietäväinen

Biologist Cornelia Dulac has been missing since 2014. Her audiotapes, notes and drawings were discovered at a remote cabin in Eastern Finland together with a fully-equipped research laboratory and a year’s supply of food. It is more than probable that something had deviated from Dulac’s plans. She had been researching hydra, a biologically immortal freshwater polyp that keeps regrowing back into a full animal.

This artbook combines scientific research, art and storytelling. The authors pull the readers into the world of forever-young hydra – under the surface of Dulac’s mind.

About the Authors: Maija Tammi is an artist and Doctor of Arts and Ville Tietäväinen is a visual storyteller.

March 2020

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The CHEMARTS Cookbook

Pirjo Kääriäinen, Liisa Tervinen, Tapani Vuorinen & Nina Riutta (Editors)

How can we make flexible and transparent wood-based materials? What kinds of materials can we derive from trees, while still respecting the preciousness of nature? Could the innovative use of renewable cellulosic materials change our material world? 

The CHEMARTS Cookbook gives both simple and more advanced ideas and recipes for hands-on experiments with wood-based materials. The book showcases the most interesting explorations focusing on raw materials that are processed either chemically or mechanically from trees or other plants: cellulose fibres, micro- or nano-structured fibrils, cellulose derivatives, lignin, bark and wood extractives.

Get inspired, test our recipes either at workshops or chemistry labs, and develop your own experiments!

Spring  2020
ISBN: 978-952-60-8802-0

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Interwoven 

Exploring Materials and Structures

Maarit Salolainen

Interwoven: Exploring Materials and Structures offers an introduction to the core of constructed textile design. This is done by encouraging exploration into woven structures and their interplay with different materials, and inspiring to tell textural, tactile stories through textiles. It illustrates a new pedagogical method for woven textile design studies; from basic weave structures to multi-layered constructions and digital jacquard design, from experimenting and exploring to industrial manufacturing, and from conceptual to professionally coordinated fabric collections.

Spring 2020
ISBN 978-952-60-8828-0

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