Biography
Mikko Lipiäinen is an artist-activist who´s work is mainly socially engaged and multi-disciplinary varying from community
organizing to problematize gentrification, challenging art world and mainstream media to touch issues related to migrant labour through open source product design processes and reflect the discourses and roles adopted by media-activists through performance and participatory drama.
He has been working mainly in Finland, co-designing and facilitating many local and international activities in a Tampere
based DIY cultural center Hirvitalo together with its politically and culturally active public. Lately he´s been slowly developing informal learning and citizen science activities in rural Bahia, Brazil throught the experimentation of hackerspace form.
Mikko Lipiäinen is also part of the organizing body of Pixelache festival, one of the notable new media art events in Europe.
organizing to problematize gentrification, challenging art world and mainstream media to touch issues related to migrant labour through open source product design processes and reflect the discourses and roles adopted by media-activists through performance and participatory drama.
He has been working mainly in Finland, co-designing and facilitating many local and international activities in a Tampere
based DIY cultural center Hirvitalo together with its politically and culturally active public. Lately he´s been slowly developing informal learning and citizen science activities in rural Bahia, Brazil throught the experimentation of hackerspace form.
Mikko Lipiäinen is also part of the organizing body of Pixelache festival, one of the notable new media art events in Europe.