Sopeutujat is an episode of short animation series Luonnonlaki. I prepared a soundtrack for it. Everything else was done by animator/director Reetta Neittaanmäki. Animation premiered on YLE (Finnish national broadcasting company) in 2008.

Gimme Sugar is a gesture controlled sugar dispencer I made together with Anna Keune in 2007. The idea was - if I remember correctly - to sweeten a beverage or represent how much attention in form of sugar one gives to a significant other. By electronical means it is possible to separate the act of pouring the sugar from act of receiving it. At the other end user is pouring a sugar dispencer that has bunch of sensors (light sensors and an accelerometer). The values from the sensors are sent to the other end where sugar jar is dispencing sugar to the cup.

Super Ball is a large scale balloon installation I was working on together with Jenna Sutela and Martti Kalliala based on their concept. Their initial idea was to animate a super sized balloon taking three giant leaps in the night sky. Installation was made for Coachella festival 2008. However, hostile wind conditions at the location made the implementation of the original concept impossible and Jenna and Martti cleverly refactored the installation into Super Cluster. I´m hoping that in the future the installation can be displayed in the Super Ball form, which it was designed for.

Super Ball comprises of an Arduino powered Animator Unit that is controlling a network of 49 1-Wire LED-units, each attached to a balloon. Each balloon corresponds to a one frame of the whole 49 frame animation. I was responsible of building and programming The Animator Unit.

Video and images © 2008 Jenna Sutela