Storytelling with Augmented Reality: Turn Imagination into Experience
Facilitator: Sergiu Ardelean, Artivive

Artivive is a no-code augmented reality platform that lets creatives bring their work to life in just a few simple steps. From fine art to prints, exhibitions to installations, and even street art — it makes it easy to create, share, and scale immersive experiences. Trusted by a community of over 600,000 creatives, institutions, and museums worldwide, including universities and cultural spaces, Artivive brings artwork and creative projects to life in new dimensions.

Shaping the Future of Culture: ARTE’s Digital and Gaming Strategy
Facilitator: Gilles Freissinier, Arte

ARTE has become a pioneer in reimagining cultural broadcasting for the digital age. This presentation explores ARTE’s strategy to embrace innovation across interactive media, focusing particularly on video games and playful storytelling. From award-winning narrative games to VR experiences and new digital platforms, ARTE demonstrates how a cultural broadcaster can expand its mission by experimenting with formats that engage audiences in participatory and immersive ways.

Dream Machines - Experimental Cinema in the Age of AI
Facilitator: Akshay Jirage

Experimental cinema has always been a laboratory of perception—challenging conventions of narrative, image, and technology. From the French avant-garde of the 1920s, through structuralist film of the 1960s, to the immersive video installations of the 1990s and 2000s, artists have continually bent the medium to reveal new dimensions of thought and experience.

Today, we are on the verge of another major shift. Artificial Intelligence—through generative models, algorithmic editing, and machine learning—is not just a new tool but a collaborator, one that expands the grammar of image making and cinema beyond human limitation. With AI, the moving image gains access to an “infinite cinema,” where montage, narrative, and form can be recomposed in real-time, where the dream logic of machines meets the human imagination.

This keynote and workshop trace the historical lineage of experimental cinema while asking how AI may alter its trajectory. Can machines extend the avant-garde tradition of breaking frames? How does authorship shift when the artist works with an intelligent system? And what new aesthetics, ethics, and politics of cinema arise when images are no longer scarce but unlimited?

EXPERIENCE AIKA: Designing with Time, Presence, and Nature
Facilitators: Mika Johnson, Jukka Karhula

This workshop introduces participants to the foundations of immersive and experience design, focusing on how space, multisensory storytelling, and audience interaction shape the user journey. Through hands-on activities, attendees will experiment with Experience Aika’s approach, using tools such as ritual, time, and play to transform spectators into participants. The emphasis is not on technology for its own sake, but on storytelling as a lived experience that unfolds through sound, scent, texture, movement, and more. Discussions will also address the limitations of screen-based culture, inviting participants to consider how nature, materiality, and environment can serve as co-authors in the creation of meaningful, memorable experiences.

Why The-"AI»-ter? Cross-Sector Collaboration Between Arts and Technology
Facilitators: Anders Hasmo& Peer Perez Øian, Det Norske Teatret  (NOR) 

Do theatre institutions risk becoming outdated in the age of artificial intelligence? Or can they reclaim—and even expand—their role as civic spaces by engaging critically with the technologies that are reshaping our societies and our minds?

In this workshop, director Peer Perez Øian and dramaturg Anders Hasmo share insights from The Trial Against Humanity—a performance where the digital prosecutor Omnitron judged humanity’s fate. Together, we will examine the creative process behind the production and reflect on what happens when theatre is developed in dialogue with technologists, philosophers, lawyers, and scientists.

The session invites both critical reflection and hands-on experimentation: How can cross-sector collaboration enrich artistic practice, and what role might the theatre play in times of technological upheaval? 

Participants will also meet and interact live with Omnitron, the AI-character developed in collaboration with NetNordic. They will also get to go under the hood and get familiar with the software used both in developing and running the performance.

EIT Culture and Creativity Funding Clinic: Boosting innovation projects
Facilitators: Kati Uusi-Rauva, Katja Reinikka

EIT Culture & Creativity is the institutional partnership dedicated to helping European cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) to become more sustainable, resilient, and competitive. 

Launched in 2023 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an EU body, we provide access to funding, knowledge, and tailored support. As part of the largest European innovation network, we build lasting connections between research, industry, academia, and cultural institutions.

EIT Culture & Creativity offers funding for the creative and cultural sector, for example for companies’ innovation projects, as well as through incubation and acceleration programs. In the funding clinic, we will explore different funding opportunities by EIT Culture & Creativity and take a closer look at one specific call, applying it in practice through various exercises.

Creative Europe: EU funding for cultural and audiovisual sectors
Facilitators: Hanna Hietaluoma-Hanin, Riikka Koivula, Liisa Sauri 

Creative Europe (2020-2027) is EU’s funding programme supporting the cultural and audiovisual sectors. The programme offers support for European cooperation and mobility in all cultural fields. In the audiovisual sector Creative Europe supports developing, distributing and promoting European works. 

In this workshop, organized by Creative Europe Desk Finland (Culture and Media), you will get a short introduction into the funding possibilities for both sectors. You also have the opportunity to discuss your project ideas together with other participants and get feedback from the Creative Europe Desk representatives. 

The workshop provides a platform for sharing ideas and connecting with potential project partners. You don’t need to have an established project to discuss. Just bring your ideas, and we’ll help you create a framework to apply for a grant.

Experience Space VISIO: Pitching sessions
Facilitator: Maria Gullsten

VISIO, the forthcoming immersive space in Tiima Museum and Science Centre opens in October 2026, and is looking for ideas for works that are suitable for the space and will organize presentation sessions where project ideas and works can be presented to the VISIO team. 

Aalto University: Sound in New Media Programme Showcase
Facilitator: Koray Tahiroglu

This session is built on collaboration of students from Aalto University’s Sound in New Media major programme with participants from Oamk and Oulu Sound Hack, focusing on the performative potential of digital musical instruments. These instruments, developed during the Composing with New Musical Instruments course at Aalto University, will serve as a platform for collective exploration and creative exchange. Throughout the workshop, each group will experiment with new compositional ideas, exploring the performative possibilities that emerge from these instruments.
The workshop will conclude with a series of short stage presentations, where each group will showcase and perform their original compositions developed during this workshop.

Coding Sound - Live algorithms as musical instruments

In this session, Alexandra Cárdenaswill present her live coding practice, in which music is written and transformed in real time using code. She will demonstrate how programming languages such as TidalCycles and SuperCollider can be used as musical instruments to create complex rhythms, evolving textures and improvised structures. The session will include excerpts from previous performances, a live demonstration of algorithmic sound generation and an insight into how code can become a creative and expressive tool. If the group is open to it, Alexandra will also lead a short practical exercise using a browser-based platform for generative pattern creation.

This session is aimed at programmers and musicians and anyone who is curious about the possibilities of algorithmic music and the role of code in contemporary sound art.
The workshop is part of the series ART MEETS TECH by the Goethe-Institut and is support by the CCI Contact Desk.