09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Workshop – Storytelling with Augmented Reality: Turn Imagination into Experience
Artivive is a no-code augmented reality platform that lets creatives bring their work to life in just a few simple steps. From fine art to prints, exhibitions to installations, and even street art — it makes it easy to create, share, and scale immersive experiences. Trusted by a community of over 600,000 creatives, institutions, and museums worldwide, including universities and cultural spaces, Artivive brings artwork and creative projects to life in new dimensions.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Workshop – Dream Machines : Experimental Cinema in the Age of AI
Experimental cinema has always been a laboratory of perception—challenging conventions of narrative, image, and technology. From the French avant-garde of the 1920s, through structuralist film of the 1960s, to the immersive video installations of the 1990s and 2000s, artists have continually bent the medium to reveal new dimensions of thought and experience.
This keynote and workshop trace the historical lineage of experimental cinema while asking how AI may alter its trajectory.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Workshop – Shaping the Future of Culture: ARTE’s Digital and Gaming Strategy
ARTE has become a pioneer in reimagining cultural broadcasting for the digital age. This presentation explores ARTE’s strategy to embrace innovation across interactive media, focusing particularly on video games and playful storytelling. From award-winning narrative games to VR experiences and new digital platforms, ARTE demonstrates how a cultural broadcaster can expand its mission by experimenting with formats that engage audiences in participatory and immersive ways.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Workshop – EIT Culture and Creativity: Funding Clinic
EIT Culture & Creativity is the institutional partnership dedicated to helping European cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) to become more sustainable, resilient, and competitive.
EIT Culture & Creativity offers funding for the creative and cultural sector, for example for companies’ innovation projects, as well as through incubation and acceleration programs. In the funding clinic, we will explore different funding opportunities by EIT Culture & Creativity and take a closer look at one specific call, applying it in practice through various exercises.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Creative Europe: EU funding for cultural and audiovisual sectors
Creative Europe (2020-2027) is EU’s funding programme supporting the cultural and audiovisual sectors. The programme offers support for European cooperation and mobility in all cultural fields. In the audiovisual sector Creative Europe supports developing, distributing and promoting European works.
In this workshop, organized by Creative Europe Desk Finland (Culture and Media), you will get a short introduction into the funding possibilities for both sectors. You also have the opportunity to discuss your project ideas together with other participants and get feedback from the Creative Europe Desk representatives.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
VISIO: Pitching sessions
VISIO, the forthcoming immersive space in Tiima Museum and Science Centre opens in October 2026, and is looking for ideas for works that are suitable for the space and will organize presentation sessions where project ideas and works can be presented to the VISIO team.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Aalto University: Sound in New Media Programme Showcase
This session is built on collaboration of students from Aalto University’s Sound in New Media major programme with participants from Oamk and Oulu Sound Hack, focusing on the performative potential of digital musical instruments. These instruments, developed during the Composing with New Musical Instruments course at Aalto University, will serve as a platform for collective exploration and creative exchange. Throughout the workshop, each group will experiment with new compositional ideas, exploring the performative possibilities that emerge from these instruments.
The workshop will conclude with a series of short stage presentations, where each group will showcase and perform their original compositions developed during this workshop.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Workshop – EXPERIENCE AIKA: Designing with Time, Presence, and Nature
This workshop introduces participants to the foundations of immersive and experience design, focusing on how space, multisensory storytelling, and audience interaction shape the user journey. Through hands-on activities, attendees will experiment with Experience Aika’s approach, using tools such as ritual, time, and play to transform spectators into participants.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Workshop – Why The-“AI»-ter? Cross-Sector Collaboration Between Arts and Technology
Do theatre institutions risk becoming outdated in the age of artificial intelligence? Or can they reclaim—and even expand—their role as civic spaces by engaging critically with the technologies that are reshaping our societies and our minds?
In this workshop, director Peer Perez Øian and dramaturg Anders Hasmo share insights from The Trial Against Humanity—a performance where the digital prosecutor Omnitron judged humanity’s fate. Together, we will examine the creative process behind the production and reflect on what happens when theatre is developed in dialogue with technologists, philosophers, lawyers, and scientists.
09:15 -
11:30 (EET)
Workshop – Coding Sound – Live Algorithms as Musical Instruments
In this session, Alexandra Cárdenaswill present her live coding practice, in which music is written and transformed in real time using code. She will demonstrate how programming languages such as TidalCycles and SuperCollider can be used as musical instruments to create complex rhythms, evolving textures and improvised structures.
