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Kari Tapani Yli-Annala(s.1965)

MFA,artist-researcher, lecturer,coordinator and curator of moving image address:Inkoonkatu 1 B 7,00520 Helsinki,Finland mo b ile:+358504318898e-mail:ka ri.ylia nna la@kuva.fi,ka ri.ylia nna la@fix c.fi

E du catio n

1996 MFA.Time and space-arts.FinnishAcademy ofFine Arts,Helsinki,Finland 1998 Vasari–postgraduate program.Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki

2005–01 Post-graduate doctoral school Elomedia,University of Art and Design,Helsinki,

Finland

Research

2007–05 Independent research work of the history of experimental film,video and media art in Electric Forest (Sähkömetsä) -project

Special projects

…–2009 Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts, founding member and coordinator Solo exhibitio ns

2010 Aphorisms on the Bare Wall.Harakka island,Helsinki

2009 Landscape Europe.Galleria Hippolyte Studio,Helsinki

2008 Wars During Lifetime.Gallery MUU,Helsinki

2008 Finitudes(installation version).Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma(Mediatheque),

He ls ink i

2008 A Life of Ones Own(installation version).Contemporary Art MuseumKiasma

(Mediatheque)

2007 A Form ofInteraction.Kluuvi Gallery of Helsinki City Art Museum

2006 A Finnish Ghost Story.Gallery Huuto,Helsinki

2005 Renée Sourange.Galleri Leena Kuumola,Helsinki

1992 The Skin Bearer and Other Works,Gallery of the Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki 1990 The Line That Holds,Finnish Academy of Fine Arts,Helsinki

Group exhibitions and gallery events

2010 Gallery Espoonsilta,Espoo,Finland

2010 Zone ofSilence.Sinebrychoff Museumof Art,Helsinki

2010 FixC+i Norrtälje Konsthall,Sweden

2010 D-Udvar,Budapest,Hungary

2008 Pop up II.Kunsthalle,Helsinki

2007 AV-arkki Hallelujah.Kaapeli gallery,Helsinki Finland

2007 Pop up I:Sputnik.Espoo cultural center gallery,Finland

2005 Helsinki Photography Festival,Muu Gallery,Helsinki

1992 Korpinkallio Moose and the Swimming Violin,Glims Museum,Espoo,Finland

1992 Artists space,New York

1989 Young artists.Kunsthalle Helsinki,Finland

Selected film and video works

2011 (in progress, fin.2012) Omega Point(The Last Word of the History)

2010 Inpiccoligruppi

2010 TheGarden

2010 Asteroid

2009 Moolok*

2009 Die Terraformierung*

2009 ThereisNoEnemy*

2009 TheDepthsofLoveandDespair*

2008 WarsDuringLifetime 1: ”Prisoner´scinema. . .”

2008 Wars DuringLifetime 2: “Resources,buildings,duties”

2008 WarsDuringLifetime 3: “Reveries andrealities”

2008 Omaelämä(ALifeofOne´sOwn)

2008 Easter

2007 A KindofCommunication

2007 TheSlicer

2007 1for2,2for 1

2007 Inbetweening

2007 re:gained

2005 Guardian Creatures

2004 ´75 Mainstream Catastrophe

2004 Unplugged

2003 Finitudes

1998–90 Journey to the Moon;Well of Virtues;Trans;The Surface of the Earth,The Horizon,

The Food,The Shelter and the Light;The Chalkboardvideo;The House;Image of a

Disease

*=Aphorism Video Project

Selected screenings

CirculationsCentralen,Malmö,Sweden 2011;The Space of Artists Initiative CUCOSA,Rotterdam 2011 :La Fábrica,Barcelona 2010;Cro sstalk Video Art Festival,Budapest,Hungary 2010,2009;Video Art Festival Miden,Greece 2010;Surpas Festival,Portbou,Spain 2010;Directors Lounge F ilm Festival,Berlin 2010;O ffpoint(Docpoint-festivaali),Helsinki 2010;LOOP-fe stivaali,Barcelona 2010;Cartes F lux,Espoo 2010;Alternative

Festival,China 2007;EMAF European Media Art Festival,Osnabrück 2006;F innight-event.List 1,Berlin 2002; Tampere Film Festival 2009(nomination),2005, 1998;

MuuM ediaFestival,Hels inki 1993

Prizes

2008 1.prize in the category of experimental films.Kettupäivät (Fox Days),Short Film Festival organized by Elokuvakontakti, the distributor o f F innish short films

Wo rks in collectio ns

Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma,Helsinki

Performance art and live art works

2009 Botanical Garden,Sveaborg,Helsinki;General Public,Berlin

2007 Reflesch,Kluuvi gallery,Helsinki

2006 The DeadDrive Lightly,Gallery Huuto,Helsinki

2005 Figures of(Lost)Communication,Galleri Leena Kuumola,Helsinki

2003 Someone is Hiding Behind This Work,Disturbances,Symposium of sound, space and movement.A presentation in a workshop with the composer Bernhard Lang and the coreo grapher Xavier le Roy,Copenhagen

1998 Nests of the Wind,Amorph-festivaali,Helsinki

1997 276 verses,Ateneum-sali,He ls inki

1996 The Gabbage Head, telematic performance, in Energy Station,Gallery Vapauden aukio,He ls ink i

As an invited artist

2011 Sixty Seconds ofLoneliness,concept and invitation by artists VeikoÕunpuu and Taavi Eelmaa.60 one-minute vanishing films by 60 invited filmmakers in one single 35 mm print.Part o f the Cap ital o f C ulture p ro gram,Tallinn,Esto nia

2009 Detached Retina X,concept and director Yar Habnegnal (Ray Langenbach),Theatre Now! -festival.Kiasma Theatre:Kiasma the Museum of Contemporary Art,Helsinki

MeMoRe,director, choreo grapher Tomi Paasonen

2005 Zodiak,Cable Factory,Helsinki Festival program

2004 Dock11and Unkuhl/Alte Weberei,Berlin and Norske Theater,Oslo,Norway Selected teaching

2011 From Archaic cinema to hybrid cinema and galleryfilm.Lecture series in the Future Cinema–program in Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media,Finland.

2010 Instant Installation.A course on moving image installation.Exhibition of students´works and screening o f the documentation in Berlin.Aalto University Department o f Art&Media,Pori,Finland

2010 Corrugated Screen.2-day seminar on cognition and thought in cinema.Coordinator and lecturer.Together with Aalto University School o f Art and Design:Department o f Motion Picture,Television&Production Design and multidisciplinary cognitive science research project aivoAALTO

… – 2000

Guidelines to the History ofAvant-Garde Film,Video Art and Media Art.Lecture series in Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media,Finland.

2010 Audio and Vision.Series of lectures and a seminar on sound.Co-coordinator Elina Saloranta.Department o f General Studies.F innish Academy o f F ine Arts,Helsinki

2010 Lost and rediscovered images.Lectures, teaching,exhibition and catalogue of students works.Together with the lecturer o f drawing and perception Stig Baumgartner.Department of General Studies.Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki

2010 Choreographiesfor the camera.From Lois Fuller to Maya Deren to Liz Agglis.LAPS–Live Art and Performance Studies,Theatre Academy,Helsinki,Finland

… –2000

Passages and Stoppings.Lecture series on moving image.Department o f General Studies.Finnish Academy o f F ine Arts,Helsinki

2010–2004

(Non)Chronologies:artists´moving image(experimental film,video art,media art)Dep artment o f Time and Space:program for time and space arts.Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki

2009–2001

Events.Moving image installation“from the scratch”to the final work,building up an individual artwork for a group exhibition and its documentation+catalogue.History of moving image in installation.Lectures in the Department of Time and Space:program for time and space arts.Finnish Academy of Fine Arts,Helsinki Exhibitions of students´works.Co-teacher visual artist, lecturer Pia Euro.Department of Time and Space:program for time and space arts.Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki

2010,2009

Contemporary art,video art&media art.Lecture series and practical course.Screenings o f the students works.European Humanities University EHU.Vilnius,Lithuania

2009 Contemporariness.Lecturer and coordinator of Finnish Academy ofFine Arts 150 years–lecture series together with Irmeli Kokko.Finnish Academy of Fine Arts,Helsinki 2008 Framing,de-framing and re-framing.Masterclass course in

Ees ti K unstiakadee mia,Es to nia.

2008 "Humans and electrons"&"Roads and Drives" -programs in Electric Forest:Rare Key Works ofFinnish Experimental Film and Video Art.Co-curated with Mika Taanila,Alternative Kunstverein,ACUD Kino,Berlin;Kino S vetozor,Prague; Institut F inlandais,Paris;MOCA-Shanghai Museum o f Contemporary Art

2008 Performativity andperformance in media art.Lecture series together with Finnish Academy of Fine Arts,Helsinki the department of Time and Space:program for site-specific arts and LAPS–Live Art and Performance Studies (Theatre Academy).

2006 Performativity and moving image.Lectures about the history of media arts.LAPS–Live Art and Performance Studies,Theatre Academy,Helsinki

1998 Gilles Deleuze´s Cinematic thinking. 8 Lectures in Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki.Department of Time and Space:program for time and space arts,Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki and a reading group in University of Art&Design,Helsinki

… –1998

Tutor,mentor and examiner of several students works in Finnish Academy ofFine Arts, (Aalto University)School ofArt&Design Helsinki,Tampere University ofApplied Sciences and Theatre Academy,Helsinki

Selected curating and coordinating

2011,2010

AA VE–Alternative Audio Visual Event.Artistic co-director.4-day festival with workshop,live cinema events and screenings.Cultural centre Malmitalo,Helsinki, F inland. In 2011lectures and discussion on distribution of experimental moving image works with the festival guests S ilke Schmickl (Lowave label)and Marcel Schwierin(Transmediale,Werkleitz Biennial) in Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki

2011,2010,2009

Ritornello-sound art festival.Coordinator and artistic director.Nomadic Academy o f Experime nta l Arts.Harakka I s land,He ls ink i

2010 “Unnatural Resources”,Screening in Director´s Lounge-festival,Berlin,Germany

2010 “Raisons d´ëtre”,Screening in Institut Finlandais in Paris,France

2009 “Helsinki Film Workshop 1989-1996”.Screening,Videoex Festival,Zürich,Switzerland

2008 “Guy Debord´s Shadow”,organizer and coordinator o f a seminar on Guy Debord´s films.Avanto-Helsinki Media Art Festival together with KAVA–National Audiovisual Archive,Film theatre Orion,He ls inki,F inland

2008 "Humans and electrons"&"Roads and Drives" -programs in Electric Forest:Rare Key Works ofFinnish Experimental Film and Video Art.Alternative Kunstverein,ACUD Kino,Berlin;Kino Svetozor,Prague; Institut Finlandais,Paris;MOCA-Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art

2008 Minorpost-industrialproduction now!Seminar on production andpost-production.Department o f General Studies.Finnish Academy ofFine Arts,Helsinki

2008 Demoscene seminar. Introduction to the digital avant-garde and the programmed image.International seminar.Co-coordinator and organizer with the students and demoscene activist Mikko Tuomela/Alternative Party.Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Cable Factory,He ls inki

2007 Focus Finland.2-day seminar&screenings on the historical and contemporary audiovisual works.Curator and lecturer.Kulczyk Foundation,Poznan,Poland 2003–2004

2007 “Reversed Gestures”.A compilation of the history of the performance videos in Finland for AV-Arkk i,He ls ink i

2007 Coordinator of international 50 years since Sputnik–day event in Finland.Lectures,screenings,evening event.Together with the Astronomical Society URS A and F ixC-cooperative o f moving image.F innish Academy o f F ine Arts,He lsinki

2006,2007

Words-in-Freedom and Mind Movements.Film,video art and sound art events co-curated with Elina Saloranta,Kunsthalle Helsinki and Museum of Contemporay Art Kiasma,He ls ink i

2006 “Sähkömetsä”(“Electric Forest”),The screenings ofthe history ofFinnish experimental film and video art.Co-curator Mika Taanila.Avanto–Helsinki Media Art Festival,Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and Finnish Film Archive,Helsinki

2005 Muu ry 18 years,main exhibition.Co-curators Riikka Ala-Harj a,Maria Duncker and Minna He ikinaho,Kunsthalle He ls inki

2004 “Avantoscope 1–4”.New contemporary works of media art.Avanto –Helsinki Media Art Festival,Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and Jumo Jazz Club,Helsinki

2003 Film curating for the exhibitionNight Train.Museum ofContemporary Art Kiasma,He ls ink i

Publis he d writings (fo rt hco ming):

2011 “Visions from the Felt Boots”, is going to be published in Vol.3 ofA CulturalHistory of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries,ed.and published by Nordic Avant-Garde Network Selecte d publis hed writings

2009 “Vieraana varjojen valtakunnassa”(“Visiting the Kingdom of Shadows”),an article on Juhana Moisander´s art.Turku Biennale Catalogue

2008 “Seppo Renvall”,Ars Fenn ica Catalo gue

2008 “There is something about demos”,Mustekala 6/08

2007 ”P ieni jälkiteo llinen tuotanto: taite ilij o iden liikkuva kuva S uo me ssa 1982-1998”(“M inor post-industrial production:Artists´moving image in Finland 1982-1998”). In Sähkömetsä-suomalaista kokeellista elokuvaaja videotaidetta 1933-1998(Electric Forest–Finnish experimentalfilms and video art 1933-1998), ed.by Kirsi Väkiparta.Helsinki:Kuvataiteen keskusarkisto(Central Art Archive s in F inland)

2005 The Stage ofImagination:Shortfilms and Installations ofMoving images by Jari Haanperä.He ls inki:Lumenia Productio ns

2004 "Ajan avautuminen paikassa". In Vastarintaa nykyisyydelle:Näkökulmia Gilles Deleuzen ajatteluun(“Opening of Time in a Place”, in Resistancefor the Moment Now:Points of Views to the Thinking of Gilles Deleuze),ed.By Pasi Väliaho and Teemu Taira.Turku:Eeto s

2003 "A Present for Yourself" ("Regalo feito para un mesmo"/"Regalo hecho para uno mismo")in Oito Relatos Nordicos,ed. Isab el Méndez.Xunta de Galicia.

2002 "Talking selves" in Eija-Liisa Ahtila:Fantasizedpersons and taped conversations”ed.Maria Hirvi.He ls inki:K iasma/Crystal Eye.

2002 “The Enigma of a Physical Ring”.Text written to Mika Taanila´s exhibition The Physical Ring in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art

2001 "The Sublimity ofthe Everyday", in Seppo Renvall:Films and Videos 1991-2001,ed.by Paula Topp ila,He ls inki:F RAME

2000 "Light is faster than sound".Park(Catalogue for Momentum),ed.by Ina Blom,Jonas Ekeberg, Jacob Fabricius and Paula Toppila.Mos s:Momentum

2000 "Talven valoa".Taide 3(00) - "Winter light" ("Vinters ljus").Surface and Whirlpools,ed.by Elisabeth Haglund.Borås:Borås Konstmuseum.

2000 "From the Early Avatars to Human Dramas"("De la avaturile timpurii la drama umana"),Balkon 5(00)

Guest editor in:

2010 “Taideja talous”(“Art and Economy”),Mustekala 3/!0,Vol.39

2009 “Liikkuvia kuvia tiloissa&Manifesta 7”(“Moving images in spaces and Manifesta 7”),Mustekala 2/09,Vol.33

2008 “Demoscene&Paris Art Scene”,Mustekala 6/08,Vol.31

Seminars

2009 “Fre e univers ity o f experimental arts”,Regulated Liberties,Univers ity o f Turku

2009 Crosstalk–seminar on the distribution of media art,Budape st,Hungary

2008 “On un-contemporariness”,Avant-garde-seminar,Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Univer s ity o f H e ls ink i

2005 “F igurality in moving images”,Cinema and Technology,University o f Lanc aster,UK 2005 Moderator in“Chiasmatic Encounters”(IAP L conference),University of Helsinki 2005 Kunst som rörlig bild,University ofKarlstadt,Sweden

2004 Ontology ofLiterature and Moving Images.University of Oulu,Finland

2003 Collegium Phaenomenologicum,Umbria, Italy

2003 Literature and its others,University of Turku,Finland

2002 Politics and the Arts:Making Connections in Theory and Praxis,Finnish Institute,Berlin Catalogue essays and other texts about my works

2005 Elo,Mika:“Finitudes”in To be continued…Helsingfors:Helsinki Photography Festival c ata lo gue

2005 Valjakka,Timo.A critique bout my exhibition Renee Sourange in Helsingin Sanomat 2007 de Fresnes,Tulikukka.A critique about my exhibition Eräs kanssakäymisen muoto in Kansan Uutiset

2008 Tihinen,Juha-Heikki,Taide.A reference to my work Wars During Lifetime in Muu Gallery 2010 Valjakka,Timo: “Neljänäkökulmaa romantiikkaan”,HS 5.11.2010

Kuumo la,Le ena:“Zon av Tystnad”,Hufvudstadsb ladet

Artis t-in-re cide nce

2010 Coopérative Méduse,Quebec City,Canada

2009 Kone Foundation.Saari Manor.Mietoinen,Finland

Membe rships

Finnish media art distribution centre Av-arkki(member of the board 2004–2007)

FixC cooperative(founding member and member of the board)

Artists association Muu ry

Artists association Harakka ry(chairman ofboard 2011)

Finnish critics association SARV(chairman of Kritiikin kannukset–board 2008–2009)

International Critics association AICA

Nuoren Voiman liitto(member of the editorialboard ofNuori Voima magazine)

Mustekala online magazine(member o f the editorial b oard)