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Utu Kärki is a front-end web developer / media artist trying to pivot into graphic / visual design.
My master's thesis exhibition, Garden of Thoughts is a collaborative social media site only accessible from the computer in the exhibition space.
Visitors get to view and tend a digital community garden, planting plants and leaving messages to each other.
The installation aims to inspire visitors to consider and explore alternative ways of forming communal experiences online, as well as to draw attention to increasingly diminishing third spaces both online and offline
Exhibited at Fog is a cloud that touches the ground, Doomscroll prints out a news headline every minute. These headlines are news articles from different sites, touching on different ongoing crises, some actual, some fake news.
With this work, I aimed to draw attention to the phenomenon of doomscrolling and physically visualizing the scale of information we consume when reading news online
On Distance uses a distance sensor to gauge the distance to the viewer, and based on the distance writes a poem. When the viewer is close, the machine chooses words reflecting warmth and closeness, and when the viewer is far away, words for distance and coldness.
The poems appear only for a brief moment, meaning no viewer gets the same experience as other.
Untitled is a video installation, playing back the same 5 second loop, each playthrough introducing more noise to the video data, until the original is barely recognisable through the pixelation and glitches.
The inspiration for this piece comes from my mother's struggle with memory loss and alzheimers. gradually my mothers memories would change and fade away, with fake memories replacing some of the real ones, changing the person in the process.
Seeing how the human mind can so easily fabricate false memories, and believe in them so thoroughly drove me to explore the ephemeral and ambivalent nature of memories.
What was once a memory, gradually fades away, with something else taking its place, be it noise or another memory.
