Over the past forty years; Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music; experimental filmmaker; computer animator; roboticist; inventor; and futurologist. Kurenniemi is a hybrid -- a scientist-humanist-artist. Relatively unknown outside Nordic countries until his 2012 Documenta 13 exhibition; "In 2048;" Kurenniemi may at last be achieving international recognition. This book offers an excavation; a critical mapping; and an elaboration of Kurenniemis multiplicities. The contributors describe Kurenniemis enthusiastic; and rather obsessive; recording of everyday life and how this archiving was part of his process; his exploratory artistic practice; with productive failure an inherent part of his method; his relationship to scientific and technological developments in media culture; and his work in electronic and digital music; including his development of automated composition systems and his "video-organ;" DIMI-O. A "Visual Archive;" a section of interviews with the artist; and a selection of his original writings (translated and published for the first time) further document Kurenniemis achievements. But the book is not just about one artist in his time; it is about emerging media arts; interfaces; and archival fever in creative practices; read through the lens of Kurenniemi.
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