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2024

Announcing an official collaboration between Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology: Sam Reiter’s Computational Neuroethology Unit, 2024-ongoing. The Computational Neuroethology Unit seeks to uncover the principles governing animal behavior and its neural basis. To achieve this goal, the unit combines novel methods for high-resolution behavioral recording with systems neuroscience and computational approaches. The unit currently focuses on coleoid cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus, and squid), a group of marine invertebrates that evolved uniquely large brains and complex behaviors.

In collaboration with PALO art productions.


~Kai Art Center duo show with Kristina Öllek 26.1.2024-4.8.2024 (LINK)

~Official selection: IFFR Rotterdam  2024 (LINK)


2023

~RADIUS CCA, Delft, The Netherlands, 10 December 2022 – 12 February 2023, Underland Chapter 4

CALM BEFORE THE STORM


2022

 ~ Ars Fennica 2023 candidates:  Henni Alftan, Tuomas A. Laitinen, Lap-See Lam, Emilija Škarnulyte, Camille Norment

 ~ 27th ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art Barcelona 10-16 June 2022

 ~ Solo exhibition: Tuomas A. Laitinen: Solvent, Helsinki Contemporary 3.6.-3.7.2022


2021

 ~ AVEK award recipient 2021

~ Solo exhibition, Yeh Art Gallery, New York, curated by Owen Duffy, 12.9.-11.1. 2021

~ Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova/Sonica festival, solo presentation, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2021

~ Helsinki Biennial, Jun.-Sep. 2021

~ Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2021 , curated by Qiu Zhijie, Macau, China, Jul-Oct, 2021

~ Queer Ecology screening, Bremen, curated by Christine Rüffert, Jun. 2021

~Doctoral reseach on ecology and the arts at the University of Arts, Helsinki. My research is titled Symbiotic Processes.

~ Group exhibition, Helsinki Contemporary, Jul 2021

~ We parley with the possible, screening, The Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, May 2021

~ Screening, Gallery Nova, Curated by Vanina Saracino Zagreb, Apr. 2021


2020

~EXPO CHICAGO presents Alternate Assembly: Environmental Impact in the Era of Pandemic

~Kunst.tv artist website (November-December 2020)

~Ocean archive, TBA21-academy

~Protean Sap, 2020, project website

~Vdrome screening of the video work Haemocyanin, 17-31.3.2020, Introduced by Filipa Ramos, 

https://www.vdrome.org


2019

~ Honorary Vertebrate Club, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, curated by Julia Geerlings and Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, http://a-tub.org/onsite/honorary-vertebrate-club/

~Screen City Biennale, Oct 2019, Stavanger, Norway. Curated by Daniela Arriado and Vanina Saracino, 

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/244329/screen-city-biennial-2019ecology-lost-found-and-continued/

~Fiskars Village Biennale, May 2019, curated by Jenni Nurmenniemi,  https://fiskarsvillagebiennale.com/

~EMAF, European Media Art Festival,  Wild Grammar, Osnabrück

~Library´s Other Intelligences, Jan-March 2019, a project in the central library in Helsinki, 

curated by Shannon Mattern and Jussi Parikka

~FCINY residency, New York, Fall 2019 

~Hélène och Walter Grönqvists Stiftelse stipendium


2018

~Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018

~21st Biennale of Sydney, March­­–June 2018,

Curated by Mami Kataoka, https://www.biennaleofsydney.art (catalogue of the 21st edition)

~Solo exhibition @ Amado Art Space, May, Seoul, South Korea, curated by Kim Sung woo

~Pendoran Vinci @ NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, curated by Tina Sauerlaender and Peggy Schoenegge

~OLHO III, Tentacular, CINEMATECA DO MAM (MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA DO RIO DE JANEIRO)

Curated by Vanina Saracino and Alessandra Bergamaschi, http://www.olho.ooo/tentacular/


2017

~Chart Art Fair Film Program, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. 

 http://chartartfair.com/chart-art-fair-film/

~Carte Blanche at Le Cyclop, Milly-la-Forêt, France, curated by Julia Geerlings, Featuring the films of Feiko Beckers, Joseph Beuys, Francesa Grilli, Roderick Hietbrink, Tuomas A. Laitinen.

~Fiber & Liquids, an online exhibition curated by Jens Geiger, Jennifer Smailes, Viktoria Tiedeke. Link: http://www.fiberandliquids.tv

~Frontiers in Retreat group exhibition, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea,

curated by Jenni Nurmenniemi

Info: http://www.frontiersinretreat.org/edge-effects/exhibitions

~Gallery Sinne, solo exhibition, Helsinki

~Group exhibition ARS17, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art

~Hybrid Art Fair + Espacio Naranjo + Proyecto SeAlquila, Madrid

~Extension,  group show, Triumph Gallery, Moscow

~Extension, group show, NCCA, Novgorod

~Screening, Southbank Centre, London

~Thermocene, Solo show, Finnish Institute in Berlin w/ Raumlabor Berlin

~A Porous Share, Solo exhibition at Helsinki Contemporary

~No Vacancy II, group exhibition, Alt Esc, Brooklyn, New York


2016

~Residency, ISCP, New York, July 2016 – December 2016

~CHART | ART FAIR 2016, Copenhagen, Aug 26th – 28th

~ 7th Bucharest Biennale, Curated by Niels Van Tomme http://www.bucharestbiennale.org

~ New Horizons IFF, European short films competition, July 2016, Poland

~S.O.S. Save Our Souls, Art for a Time of Urgencies, Seoul, Korea 24–29 May, Curated by Pontus Kyander

~Kiasma–Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Collection exhibition, April 2016 – January 2017

~ LÀ-BAS performance festival ABYSS: Splinters in the Depth, Helsinki http://www.la-bas.fi/

~32nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2016, AV-Arkki distribution

~29th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, 2016, AV-Arkki distribution

~62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, 5.-10.5. 2016, AV-Arkki Distribution

~Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, April, via AV-Arkki distribution

~Material Art Fair 2016, Mexico City, with SADE LA gallery

~International Film Festival Rotterdam, AV-ARKKI distribution


2015

~The Earthbound @ Cannonball, Miami, hosted by Dwelling Projects. A group exhibition curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

~Sensory Adaptation Devices, Solo show @ SADE LA, Los Angeles

~Deep Time Séance @ Kiasma Theatre, curated by Jenni Nurmenniemi

~Mildura Palimpsest Biennale w/Kristian Haggblom, Mildura, Australia

~Moderate Hardness, Solo show @ Helsinki Contemporary

~Moving Image Fair, New York

~Deep Time Seance @ Residency Unlimited, New York, Curated by Jenni Nurmenniemi

~Frontiers in Retreat - Excavations @ HIAP, Helsinki, curated by Jenni Nurmenniemi

~Fundamental Matter, solo exhibition at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art