Calendar

2025
   
Exit Song (w/ Nick Dunn) in a group exhibition, “Nature 2025.”
CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea
Apr 2-20  
2024    
School of the Eclipse at No Bounds Festival, Sheffield Green Estates Oct 13  
Eco-Dharma talk: Bear Witness (part 2) at Dawn Mountain Tibetan Buddhist Research Institute, Houston TX Aug 4
Eco-Dharma talk: Bear Witness (part 1) at Dawn Mountain Tibetan Buddhist Research Institute, Houston TX July 7  
Poster (w/ Anne van Veen) Cut the meat, Eat the body: Cannibal Fiction in interrogating the Meat Paradox at “Meat in the Arts and Culture” Conference, University of Glasgow
July 3  
Exit Song in Kuusisto Art Manor Summer Group Show, Kaarina, Finland Jun 8-Jul 24
Conference paper at “Exploring Human-Animal & Multispecies Relations: Risk Taking in Research Methods”, Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, University of Brighton, UK June 6-7  
Conference paper with Nick Dunn at Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre (ShARC) May 16-17  
Citizen Surgery Research Kitchen at INTERNATIONAL İSTANBUL SHORT FILM & THE WRITER’S JOURNEY FESTIVAL, Atatürk Cultural Center, Turkey April 27  
Panelist and exhibitor at Festival of Futures, “Designing for net zero futures” panel. Lancaster University March 15  
Panelist at VAX-TRUST Conference, “Developing evidence-based vaccine hesitancy interventions for healthcare professionals.” Tampere University, Finland Feb 6-7  
2023
   
HANDHOLD at Chiayi International Three Minutes Video Competition, Taipei, Taiwan
Oct 27  
City Reindeer is a Finalist in the CLIMATE FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL. Providence, Rhode Island Oct 26  
Citizen Surgery Research Kitchen at Festival Cinéma et Cuisine, Locronan, France.
A film by the Citizen Surgery Collective
Sep 29-Oct 1  
Conference paper with Nick Dunn at Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT) in Valletta, Malta Sep
27-29
 
Introduction and a film screening of Permafrost Refreeze at the UK Arctic Science Conference, Cambridge, UK.
Sep 11-13
City Reindeer at Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival, Savonlinna, Finland.
Aug 17-20  
City Reindeer at SymbioFest, by Het Natuur-Mens Collectief. Tull en Het Waal, Netherlands Jun 24  
Eco-Dharma talk on Buddhism and Ecology with Lama Namgyal Dorje (part 2), Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism, Houston, TX Jun 4  
BoneCracker Workshop by the Citizen Surgery Collective in the Making Together: A festival celebrating creativity in healthcare professions education, Maastricht
May 10
BoneCracker as an Official Selection (Micro Short Category) at the XXXII edition of the Vesuvius International Film Festival, Italy
May 2  
Permafrost Refreeze at Academia Film Olomouc AFO58 Official Selection – Short Film Competition, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Apr
25-30
 
Permafrost Refreeze in the official selection of Cosmo Genetics Film Festival,
San Cristobal de las Chiapas, Mexico
Apr 4-7  
City Reindeer in the Official Selection of FAUNA Tepoztlán Animal Festival, Mexico
Mar 23-26
Podcast: Training the Senses – Operation Mango. Interview with Anna Harris, Kaisu Koski, and Bart Schier, by Valentijn Byvanck, Marres Maastricht.
Mar 21 PODCAST
Lunchtime Surgery Class at Bizarrya Short Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
March 15  
City Reindeer in the National Competition of the 53rd edition of Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland Mar 8-12  
Eco-Dharma talk on Buddhism and Ecology with Lama Namgyal Dorje (part 1), Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism, Houston TX Feb 5
2022
   
City Reindeer at Inheritance – The Environmental Film Festival, at Sheffield Live!, Northern Visions Belfast, KMTV Kent, and Latest TV in Brighton.
Dec 16
Lunchtime Surgery Class at Art Film Festival “Shorts 22”, White Box Gallery, Pietarsaari Finland Nov 22-23  
Lunchtime Surgery Class at Emerge 2022 Film Fest: Eating at the Edges. School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University.
Nov 19
Permafrost Refreeze at ART SPEAKS OUT on ikonotv, COP 27 – United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022, Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt. Nov 6-30
Group exhibition Some Bodies: Subject, Object and Identity in Nursing and Art, Opalka Gallery, Albany NY Nov 11-Jan 7
Group exhibition THE BODY ELECTRIC LE CORPS ÉLECTRIQUE, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, at the International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE), Montreal Oct 27-29      catalogue
Keynote Art+Science Reindeer Research at “Defrosting the Future of Reindeer Domestication Research” seminar, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi Oct 6-8  
Lunchtime Surgery Class; Semi-Finalist at BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao. With Noémie Soula, Anne van Veen, Anna Harris.
Oct 14-28
Group exhibition Caring Futures at Sølvberget Gallery, Stavanger, Norway. With Roland van Dierendonck.
Sep 17-Dec 15  

Preclinical Body in Labocine August Issue, #79, THE BODY FESTIVAL

Aug www.labocine.com
Group exhibition Significant Other at The Art Bypass Gallery, London June 8-19  
Training the Senses: Operation Mango, Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht. With Anna Harris and Bart Schrier. May 17  
DermaBread at Academia Film Olomouc, 57th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Czech Republic April 26-May 1
Film screening Permafrost Refreeze: The Reindeer Factor. TRANSGENERATIVES2030, UNESCO Art & Science for Sustainable Future, Nancy, France April 1  
Presentation about Snow Compacting, 10th National Snow Seminar, Finnish Meteorological Institute
April 1  
DermaBread at XPRMNTL the anti-film festival, London, UK
Feb 27  
Talk at the Arctic Centre, Global Change Research Group, University of Lapland Jan 31  
Ars BioArctica Residency, University of Helsinki Biological Station Kilpisjärvi, Finland
January
2021    
Group exhibition Kiertokulku, Gallery Ronga,
Tampere, Finland
Nov 25-Dec 16  
Group Exhibition PEMULIHAN (Recovery)
Publika, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nov 15- Dec 5

Clinical Dinner: A Virtual Citizen Surgery Training Session, 4S Annual Meeting, Toronto. Winner of the STS Making and Doing Award 2021. With Anna Harris, Noèmie Soula, and Anne van Veen.

Oct 7
Talk at Art Science & Cocktails, Nordic Edge Expo and Innoasis, Stavanger Norway Sept 21  
Group exhibition <Immune Nations>,
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON, Canada
Aug 28-Dec 11 video tour
Art Exhibition and Proceeding in the ACM Creativity&Cognition21 conference, Venice June 23 cc.acm.org/2021/
Video Interview for                                                                                                                    
THE BODY ELECTRIC LE CORPS ÉLECTRIQUE retrospective exhibition, Canada
May 12 INTERVIEW VIDEO
Invited speaker at Health Humanities and the Arts Spring Symposium, Center for Health Humanities at MCPHS University, Boston
May 15-16
Talking Biofiction: Co-hosting a panel discussion with Peter Lloyd Jones at the BioFiction Film Festival April 14 bioartsociety.fi
Conference presentation, Health Humanities Consortium International Conference: Crisis and Community:
The Role of Health Humanities
March 25-28  
Juried Group Show “Mirrored“ international photo performance exhibition, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre March 10-23  
Talk about vaccine-hesitancy at Science Forum, Tampere Finland [in Finnish] Link Jan 23
2020
   
Winner of the Best Short Documentary with Rehearsals for Empathy, Luleå International Film Festival, Sweden
Nov 8
Judges’ Award Special Mention for Rehearsals for Empathy. Science on Screen Film Festival, Galway, Ireland Nov 5-8
Presentation at the 9th International Health Humanities Conference, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan (ONLINE) Oct 23-26
Alternative Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.
Sept 28
Vienna Science Film Festival, Austria
Semifinalist with Standardized synchronized
Aug 1-30  

Scenes of Disclosure selected for Labocine/Imagine Science
May Issue (#46) THE UNIVERSE IS A SIMULATION

May 5-June 1 labocine.com
Ethnografilm, Paris
Official selection with Standardized synchronized
April 21-25
Solo exhibition Rehearsals for Empathy
Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX                                                                                                                                                           
Feb 9-Mar 29
2019
   
Invited talk Arts-based research in medical education,
Ethics and Knowledge about Health and Illness, University of Turku
Nov 15  
Film screening and talk, Health Psychology Days, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki Oct 29  
Research fellowship, University of Copenhagen,
Section of General Practice
Sept 29-Oct 25
Solo exhibition Simulated Patient, Kunsthalle Turku, Finland August 2-25
Scenes of Disclosure in Official Selection of the Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase, Fort Worth TX July 25-27
Standardized Synchronized in Official Selection of the 23rd AVANCA – International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia, Portugal July 24-28
Presentation in a Workshop Art & Medicine: Skilling the Senses,
Utrecht University, University Medical Center Utrecht
June 3-6
Invited lecture Art&Medicine, Open Ethics Forum
North Karelia Central Hospital, Joensuu Finland
April 15
McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics Faculty Meeting
UTHealth, Houston TX, Project Presentation
Feb 20  
Official selection with Scenes of Disclosure,
Raw Science Film Festival, Los Angeles
Jan 25-27
2018    
Group exhibition Passio, Galleria Ronga, Tampere Finland Nov 10-29  
Official selection with Scenes of Disclosure,
Amsterdam Lift-Off Film Festival Online
Oct 1-7
Guest lecture, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Rice University Sept 26  
Paper presentation, Narrative Matters Conference, University of Twente July 2-5  NarrativeMatters
Group exhibition Dark Days, White Nights, InSEA Congress,
Aalto University, Finland
June 18-21  InSEA
Paper presentation, SLSAeu Conference GREEN,  University of Copenhagen June 13-16  
Group exhibition Luftlinie, Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
Mar 17-Apr 29  
Invited film screening and talk, Narrative Medicine program,
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX
Feb 21  
Group exhibition Objectified, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea Jan 26-Feb 11  
Official Selection with Conversations with vaccine-critical parents
Raw Science Film Festival, Santa Barbara
Jan 5-7  
2017    
Invited talk, Ecological Learning Center Ponderosa, Zutphen Nov 13 ponderosa.life
Official Selection and Kudos Endeavor Award
Docs Without Borders Film Festival, Nassau DE
Oct 16
Poster presentation, Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Conference, Helsinki Aug 28-30  
Film screening Conversations with Vaccine-Critical Parents,
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training,
Swedish Public Health Agency, Stockholm
June 15  
Group exhibition Immune Nations, UNAIDS/WHO Geneva                                                                                                                                                           Reviews: Lancet, Curious Arts, Gazette Bulletin May 24-Jun 30  Vaccine-CriticalParents
Group exhibition Immune Nations, KiT Gallery,
Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
Mar 14-23 Immune Nations
Invited film premiere Scenes of Disclosure and discussion,
International Health Humanities Consortium, Houston TX
HealthHuman
March 9-11
2016    
Semi-finalist with Conversations with vaccine-critical parents,
CineFest Los Angeles
Dec semifinalistlogo
Official selection with Not to scale at all, Raw Science Film Festival
Zanuck Theater, Los Angeles RawScience
Dec 10
Technarte International Conference on Art and Technology Bilbao,
Enactive patient simulator, co-authored with Pia Tikka
May 19-20  
Group exhibition I Breathe With You, Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst MA
Mar 22-May 6  
Visiting research fellow, Medical Futures Lab, Rice University Houston January-March RICE_brc
2015    
Podcast at Finnish Institute of Bioethics [in Finnish] December 21 Bioetiikka.fi
Presentation & film screening,
Theorizing the Body in Health and Medicine
workshop, Maastricht University
Nov 26-27 Mindthebody
Group exhibition The Body Electric,
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Vancouver
Oct 22-24  
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg Sept 23-27  
Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, AFF winners Sept 17-29 HIFF/AFF
Artova Film Festival, competition series, Kino Sheryl, Helsinki Sept 5-6  
Transdisciplinary Vaccine-project workshop #1,
University of Ottawa
Aug 18-21 vaccine project
Kallio Block Party, Helsinki (Future Shorts Finland) Aug 1  
Group exhibition ArtVenture, in collaboration with Daan Colijn
Over Het Ij Festival, NDSM Amsterdam
July 2-12  
Provinssi Festival, Seinäjoki (Future Shorts Finland) June 24-27  
Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä  (Future Shorts Finland) June 10-14  
The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Culture and Society
Academy Research Fellow funding (2015-2020)
April 24 Abstract
ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community
online exhibition Enhanced Vision Digital Video
April  
Athens Animation Festival Mar 26-Apr 1  
Group exhibition Olohuonenäyttely, Future Shorts Finland, Helsinki Mar 21-22  
Group exhibition Anatomica, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax Jan 15-Mar 8  
Solo exhibition Living Anatomy, Art Centre Mältinranta Studio, Tampere Jan 3-20 Gallery
2014    
Film screening Not to scale at all, NVMO conference
Netherlands Association for Medical Education, Egmond aan Zee
Nov 6  
Group exhibition The Body Electric
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Toronto
Oct 23-25  
Modern Body Festival, group exhibition, Old Europol building, The Hague Oct 18  
Group exhibition Science, Linus Art Gallery, CA
Oct  
Teaching demonstration Arts-based research: ethical considerations
Title of Docent (arts-based research), University of Tampere
Sept 26 20140926_105637
Group exhibition Art of Women, ArtisTTable Online Art Gallery Sept 9-Oct 31  
MEDinART screening in the Vesalius Continuum, Zakynthos, Greece Sept 4-8  
Group exhibition Rhizope, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn May 29-Aug 24  
Group exhibition Research & Art
Megaron Athens International Conference Hall, Athens
April 2-4  
2013    
Invited speaker: Colloquium Health, Ethics and Society, Maastricht University
Dec 11  
Group exhibition Portrait, Union of Finnish Art Associations
Lahti City Museum
Oct 18-Jan 19  
Screening Four lessons in anatomy, Medical History Museum, Gothenburg May 28  
Group exhibition InSight2 – Engaging the Health Humanities
FAB Gallery, Edmonton
May 14-June 8  
Solo exhibition Living Anatomy
Descartes Centrum Utrecht
April 17-June 1 descartes-expo
Screening in TEDMEDLive
Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
April 21 tedmed
Interview in Finnish Medical Journal 6/2013    laakarilehti
Special Recognition, Faces Juried Exhibition
Upstream People Gallery
February