Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: c64, commodore, commodore64, computergraphics, demoscene, pixelart, pixelgraphics, pixels, thefinnishmuseumofgames, zoo2022, zooparty
Welcome to the opening of PIXELED YEARS -exhibition this Friday 5–8 PM at The Finnish Museum of Games (Vapriikki, Tampere).
This is something Ari ‘Duce’ Seppä and I have worked along the museum for the past 1.5 years – a comprehensive look on Finnish Commodore 64 demoscene pixel art, featuring hundreds of works from ca. 100 artists. Thanks to Outi and Niklas for letting us do this.
The opening comes with spoken programme, SID music, drinks and some food. Entering is free and open so you may bring your friends and family as well. Welcome!
The exhibition is part of ZOO’22 event and will be open for public until Spring 2023.
Image © Duce
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Here it is! The other half of the Portuguese project I’ve been working with the past year.
KUTI#65 presents sixteen contemporary artists and comes with an article by Pedro Moura, 64 pages in all. Thanks to Pedro and Marcos (Farrajota) for editorial help, to Antero for the translations, Kutikuti for all the work and as well thanks to DGLAB, Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia and The Finnish Illustration Association for their support in getting this to project to the goal.
Featured artists: Amanda Baeza, Ana Biscaia, Sara Boiça, Pedro Burgos, Ema Gaspar, Hetamoé, Daniel Lima, Ana Maçã, Tiago Manuel, Rudolfo Mariano, Rui Moura, Ricardo Paião Oliveira, Rudolfo, André Ruivo, Alexandra Saldanha and Cátia Serrão.
You can grab the paper copy from your usual dealers or at The Helsinki Comics Festival that’s the upcoming weekend The festival includes as well Hetamoé and Rudolfo as festival guests – it’s a good idea to get some fresh Portuguese publications from their booth at the festival.
Subscribe to the paper version of KUTI (we need you!)
Cover © André Ruivo
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: comicexhibition, culturecenterstoa, kulttuurikeskusstoa, kutikuti, passiflora, portuguesecomics, stoa
PASSIFLORA – KÄRSIMYSKUKKA is an exhibition of contemporary Portuguese comics that I’ve been working with for the past months. The exhibition will take place in Culture Centre Stoa in Helsinki, as part of The Helsinki Comics Festival that’s held the upcoming weekend. We will release the exhibition together with the new same-themed issue of KUTI magazine that is the other half of the project. More about that soonish.
Featured artistis in the exhibition: Amanda Baeza, Ana Biscaia, Ana Maçã, André Ruivo, Cátia Serrão, Daniel Lima, Hetamoé, Pedro Burgos, Rudolfo, Rui Moura, Sara Boiça, Rudolfo Mariano and Tiago Manuel.
The show will open this Friday (9.9.2022), with a free opening held 4.30–6.00 PM. Portuguese festival guests will be present and some food and drinks provided – welcome!
The wholesome is curated together with Marcos Farrajota and Pedro Moura. The exhibition is supported by Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia and The Finnish Illustration Association.
Poster image © Amanda Baeza
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anthologoyofmind, books, comicreview, comics, contemporarycomics, livingtheline
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: comics, contemporarycomic, contemporarycomics, finnishcomics, future, futurecomic, kutikuti, sciencefiction, scifi, tommimusturi
Some samples on the new Future#9 magazine. This 2nd last issue of the series presents ‘The Exhibition’ of the bohemian bunch that the reader has seen building something through the back issues. Features horrible nightmare, our magician making his final decision, evening in Centra and a very smiley future. The wholesome is getting to its end, or does it?
One issue to go and my aim is that it’ll be out in January ’23. If you’re interested in ordering this or the past issues (just reprinted #4 so it’s all available again) these cost 6€ per mag inclduing shipping. 60€ for the whole 10 magazine series. Just mail me.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: comicmagazine, comics, contemporarycomics, future, futurecomic, kutikuti, sciencefiction, tommimusturi
Just out: Future#9. That means one issue to go. Being lazy I uploaded this crappy video. Images later…
If you need a copy MSG me. That’s 6€ per issue, sixty for the whole 10-issue serie.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: contemporarycomic, graphicnovel, livingtheline, samuel, silentcomic, simplysamuel
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: contemporarycomics, contemprarycomic, finnishcomics, kutikuti, podcast, sarjakuvailmiö, sarjakuvailmio
Harri Filppa from Sarjakuvailmiö -podcast visited my studio and we had a chat on contemporary comics in Finland (all in Finnish).
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: finnishmuseumofgames, gameboy, memorylimits, pixelart, pixelgraphics, vapriikki
MEMORY LIMITS is an art exhibition on the Game Boy in The Finnish Museum of Games (Vapriikki, Tampere) 7.5.–5.6.2022.
Nine artists – nine Game Boys. Art in size of 160 x 144 px and 5760 bytes made by 6VCR, Benjamin Bergman, Niina Huovinen, Nalle Mielonen, Ossi Pirkkonen, Prowler, Maria Stereo, Daniel Stolle & me.
Did sixteen totally unsexy semiabstract pixel works on nature for this.
Curation & images by Daniel Stolle. Thanks to Aleksi for help with the code!
Welcome!
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Cracking exhibition tour in Portugal continues to Casa da Cultura in Beja. The show is open from 23rd of April until 18 th of May. Thanks to Bedeteca de Beja and Tinta nos nervos for all the work!
Tommi Musturi 