
| Tiia Johannson is a media
artist, educator and researcher based in Tallinn, Estonia. Her background
is in fine arts and moving image, since1990 she has mostly been working
on numerous media art projects on video, multimedia and Information Society
technologies. In 1995 got addicted to Internet and since 1996 opened her
self.curated "Self. Museum" http://artun.ee/~tiia/netproject/.
She is also PhD student in University of Lapland in the department of Audiovisual
Media Culture majoring on Media Studies with theses "Marginal Status in
Digital Culture", where the main purpose is to analyse deeper the new informatical
society in the angle of it´s reflections to art world. Attention
is focused in finding out and clarifying the connections and concepts between
different relationships among art and technology, their values and meanings
including gender, ethics and social aspects. She is also Winner and participant
in many international media art festivals, such as ISEA , Art on
the Net, "INFOS2000", "CYNet Art", "Viper" , "JAVA artist of 2001" etc.
Her main interest as artist is to analyze Internet age and computerised communication, whether there is an everlasting dualism or complex interrelationship between nature/life and technology, literally she is trying to digitally draw out the blurred borderlines of our (virtual) presence and existence, how our identities are being mediated on the screen of the computer. |