Authors:

 Hakola , Marikki.

Title:

 Hypermontage

Keywords:

 MULTIMEDIA ART, MONTAGE, HYPERMEDIA, SEMIOTICS OF THE MEDIA PHILOSOPHICAL PRAGMATISM
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Abstract:

 I´m working on my dissertation about hypermontage on a field of multimedia art and carrying on my post-graduate studies at The University of Art and Design, Helsinki since 1995. In my work I analyzing the interactive nature of the moving image and constructing aesthetic models on a context of multimedia.

My viewpoint is of the general philosophical and pragmatist framework. I´m
also applying a semiotic approach to my subject. I´m drawing a comparison between the semiotic, triadic concept by philosopher Charles S. Peirce and the theory of the perception and montage by film maker, theorist Sergei Eisenstein. I´m filtering the result though texts by John Dewey, Gilles Deleuze, Edmund Husserl, Richard Shusterman and Pentti Määttänen. The main goal is to construct the usable foundation for the theoretical models of the interactive moving image.

According to philosophical pragmatism human experience is basically
practical interaction with the environment. Cognition and perception are
related to doing, making and acting. The environment is multilayered, it
consists of natural objects, artifacts, other humans, linguistic signs and
other meaningful entities - like works of art. My aim is to do the research
of the semiotics of the interactivity specifying to the questions of the
film montage.

My dissertation has also an artistic part in several media art works and
exhibitions (production years 1998-2000). At this moment my work "TRIAD
HYPERDANCE" is available on the web site of the Electronic Journal CTHEORY at the url http://ctheory.concordia.ca. My next web art piece "NEONOMADS" will be published on January, 1999. I´d like to make a presentation of these works as a part of my contribution.
Hakola , Marikki. marikki@magnusborg.fi University of Art and Design, UIAH, Helsinki, Finland http://www.magnusborg.fi Multimedia artist, director Marikki HAKOLA was born in Finland in 1960. Shestudied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 1980-84. Hakola started working with video and performance in 1982, and from the year 1984 on she has been involved in audiovisual and media projects, independent productions and teaching. Her works include video tapes, installations, multimedia projects, performances and collaborative web projects. Marikki Hakola´s works have attended art museums, festivals, collections and exhibitions all over the world. Her video works have also been broadcast in Finland, Austria, Holland, Hungary, Spain, Germany and Great Britain. Hakola is working as a multimedia artist, director and researcher. She is studying on a fielf of media art aiming at the doctorat dissemination. Ms Hakola´s research topic is "Hypermontage - a Montage of the Moving Image in Multimedia". Marikki Hakola is also an executive producer of the audiovisual and media arts production company Kroma Productions Ltd located in Magnusborg.Studios, Porvoo, Finland.