The Mental Alchemy series culminates in its final part

Artist Jaana Partanen’s Mental Alchemy trilogy is getting its final touches in the artist’s hands. The first part of the series, Harry Potter layer, saw the light of day in 2011. Its 3D photographic artworks transported the spectator’s to the secrets of the mind and consciousness through portraits of people versed in them. The middle […]

STAR GUEST Laura Lampinen: Science and art playing in consort at the Oulu Art Museum from 24 January to 15 March, 2015

The Checkpoint Leonardo exhibition examining the interaction between science and art will open at the Oulu Art Museum in January. The multifaceted and multisensory artworks examine phenomena of physics, chemistry and biology, mechanics, the sonic environment and man’s relationship with his environment. The group exhibition of 16 artists includes artworks realised with organic materials and […]

Electroencephalograms and other movements of the mind on display at the Voipaala Art Centre and still for a moment at the Kuopio Art Museum

At the same time with the Backlight’14 photography festival, the Voipaala Art Centre presents artist Jaana Partanen’s Mental Alchemy – Harry Potter layer exhibition. Both present interesting perspectives to photography. Harry Potter layer includes mobile 3D photographic works whose contents change according to the viewpoint. An artwork in which electroencephalograms fly in the air changing […]

STAR GUEST Anne Vepsä: Dancing at the Art Museum

Jaana Partanen’s exhibition Mental Alchemy – Matrix Layer has brought to the visitors to the Kuopio Art Museum not only a breeze from the 3D world, but also a chance to participate in the artwork. Sensors that recognise a person entering the showroom and capture him or her along to the fractal world reflected on […]

MATRIX PART 6: Sleep researchers’ insights and innovations of the gaming world in Kuopio

Jaana Partanen’s Matrix layer (2014) will come to its home turf, when the exhibition opens at the Kuopio Art Museum on 12th June. Every exhibition project is one of a kind, but a little something extra to this brings the fact that this is the art museum of our own town ─ familiar building, familiar […]

From Dream’s Gift to Matrix layer, inspiration and perspectives to sleep

Artist Jaana Partanen’s book Dream’s Gift will be published at the Salo Art Museum on the 8th of May at 10 a.m. The book project dating from years ago is suddenly topical again, if only because this is the first time it meets the printing press. It also indicates the continuum of thoughts and exciting convergences […]

MATRIX PART 5: From the cocktail of transmitter substance to mixed reality and virtual glasses

From scheduling to visions. From wholes to details. From sleepless nights to the joys of success.  From doubt to certainty. That is what artistic processing is. The work of years is nearing its goal! Researchers, musicians, software experts, professional designers, furniture manufacturer, loudspeaker and projector companies, dancers and circus performers – all have worked together […]

MATRIX PART 4: Protective screen divan Matrix

Jaana Partanen’s Matrix exhibition is a wholly new kind of art experience. Art delves into the wonder world of dreams with new, unprecedented means. It is also an unprecedented spatial world of experience that requires new kinds of furniture to be developed. What was needed were a safe ”nest” for using 3D Mixed Reality glasses […]

MATRIX, PART 3: Z Vector – real-time sound reactive graphics

The over two-year journey of the Z Vector visualisation program, based on real-time graphics and created by Janne Karhu and myself, began from a spontaneous music video project. Through the music, it moved to the stages of the world and from there to the Matrix layer exhibition. People in the industry know how difficult the […]

MATRIX, PART 2: The sound environment of dreams, Genelec, 5.1. Surround

The sound environment of dreams? That is the question that I have actively pondered when designing the music work for the Mental Alchemy – Matrix layer exhibition. The question is really difficult. Neither I nor anyone else has been able to give clear answers to the dream sound question. As a tool for designing the […]