New Media Art From Finland

Minna Långström

Minna Långström's computer aided installations reconstruct social or political situations in which the visitor participation is conceptually integrated.

In her latest installation, Kupla (the Bubble), she draws a parallel between the western society and a nursery, where bright colored toys produce sounds and images of death, war and other people's suffering. The installation is a meditation on Western media and entertainment and its effects on us consumers. The piece is discussing our motives regarding news, entertainment and the aestheticization of violence during times of war.  

Her earlier work includes “the Chinese Room” installation, a surveillance room where the viewer intimately can follow the lives of a man and a woman, living in the same house. Instead of communicating with each other in person, the couple looks for information about each other through video and  data surveillance. The viewer momentarily appears on the video monitors of the fictive characters and is thus being watched by them in return.

Minna Långström (1974) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. She has an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and was studying and working at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1998-2000.