Mika Taanila’s short film Optical Sound (2005) is screening at Cineteatro Sao Luiz in Brazil on 27 February 2018. The film is part of a program entitled “Enhanced Visions” as part of OLHO III / Tentacular. Curator: Vanina Saracino.

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Mika Taanila’s video piece Verbranntes Land (2002) is screening as part of a lecture and screening by curator  Amanda Schmitt (NYC) at Cinema Orion (Helsinki) on Saturday 3 March 2018 at 14:00. Free entry.

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The event is made possible by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York’s MOBIUS Fellowship Program and Helsinki Contemporary’s Guest Curator Program.The screenings are made possible with the courtesy of ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe) and AV-arkki, The Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art (Helsinki).

The World (2017) by Mika Taanila is selected for the National Competition for films under 30 minutes at Tampere Short Film Festival. The film screens twice, on Friday 9 March at 16:00h (Plevna 5) and Saturday 10 March at 13.30h (Plevna 2).

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Mika Taanila’s short film Optical Sound (2005) is screening at Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro on Friday 2 March 2018. The film is part of a program entitled “Enhanced Visions” as part of OLHO III / Tentacular. Curator: Vanina Saracino.

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Mika Taanila’s found footage film A Physical Ring (2002) is screened in OBORO, A centre dedicated to production and presentation of art, contemporary practices and new media, in Montréal from 3–23February 2018 , in the exhibition “Spectres, Waves and Modulations”.

Spectres, ondes et modulations is a collaboration between artist Martine H. Crispo and curator Nicole Gingras. The exhibition Fantaisie optophonique emerges from an exchange between the two women dating back to the artist’s first exploration with visualized sound. It features an original installation by Martine H. Crispo with a selection of films and videos in the adjacent gallery drawing on a range of optic and acoustic  phenomena by artists and filmmakers.

Mika Taanila’s short film Optical Sound is part of a short film program OLHO_Binaural at The 21st Mostra de cinema de Tiradentes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  The program is running from 19 to 27 January at SESC Cine Lounge.

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Tectonic Plate is screening on Friday 26 January 2018 as part of The 9th Bienal Arte Lanzarote in Spain. The screening takes place at CIC El Almacén’s cinema at 20:00h, followed by a Q&A with Mika Taanila.

Mika Taanila also participates in the project “El Bu Vecino” by the artist collective Las Conejeras, together with interdisciplinary artists Simone Rüssli (Luzern), Patrick Germanier (Bern), Nohemí González (Barcelona), Onofre Montenegro (Canarias) and Guaya Milán (Canarias). Their live performance is based on the theme of the mysterious figure of Bu, a conceptual entity created by Agustín Espinosa in his novel Lancelot 28º-7º.

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