New Media Graduation Show
New Media is a major in the Master's Programme in Art and Media and part of the Aalto Media Lab.
Artists
Symbiotic Voxels is a 3D voxel sandbox where a human player and an embodied AI agent, Loom, build and reshape the world together. The system turns AI interaction into a spatial, game-like collaboration: the agent observes, proposes a plan, and acts only after the player’s approval.
The prototype runs on Unity with an LLM-driven Python backend. It shows how shared environments and immersive interaction can create more transparent, symmetric human-AI co-creation.
Jiayi Li is a creative technologist working across game engines, XR, AI-native interaction, and technical art. Her practice explores how intelligent systems can co-create with people inside realtime, playable worlds. She builds games, experimental tools and spatial experiences that blend design, code, and art.
静寂 (romanized: seijaku, meaning: silence/stillness) is a "book of silence" composed during half-year exchange studies in Japan.
Throughout his daily life, the author collected recordings and stories of silence. The resulting book takes the reader from mountain lakes to trains and the crowded streets of Tokyo, asking what silence really is — and how it makes us feel.
静寂 is the first part of an ongoing two-part Master's thesis work on silent protests: In a time where we are constantly bombarded with stimuli, sitting still and observing silence can be a protest in itself.
Janne Pusa is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans books, interactive media, and machine learning. He loves telling stories of animals, nature and disappearing places. His works often use satire and the absurd to highlight societal and environmental issues.
jannepusa.com
@japu_art
The animation project represents the effects of social media addiction, drawing on personal experiences to depict its isolating and overstimulating consequences. Featuring a cyclops protagonist, the narrative critiques the pseudo-scientific claims prevalent in online content and the compulsive behaviors they inspire. The visual style integrates 2D and 3D techniques to contrast the chaotic reality of the protagonist's life with the polished allure of social media.
Agata Rudnicka graduated from Aalto University in 2025 with a degree in New Media. Based in Warsaw, she works as a graphic designer and tattoo artist. She is particularly interested in motion design.
How do you feel about your phone? Do you notice what happens between you during the day? The project explores that relationship through the lens of digital rituals. Trivial or deeply felt, a representation of our bond with devices. The work draws from a Cultural Probe study in which twelve participants kept a diary, recording the small things they do with their phones and how those moments make them feel. This work shares findings of the Master’s thesis Digital Rituals: A Cultural Probe Study of Human–Smartphone Relationships, inviting visitors to reflect on their own patterns.
Zoe Yanko (Irina Valeeva) is an interdisciplinary designer, media artist, and researcher working at the intersection of digital culture, new media, and technology. Their practice spans game design, media art, and visual communication, often exploring the relationship between humans and technology through creative and research-driven projects.
This project began as a one-month internship with an AI system, where roles, authority, and responsibility kept shifting in unexpected ways. As the exchange continued, the relationship formed its own rhythm, somewhere between collaboration, dependency, and confusion. The final installation traces this unstable loop without trying to resolve it.
Yu-Hsuan Yao is a Finland-based Taiwanese visual artist. She works primarily with moving images and photography, and new media. Her art explores merging cultural differences.
When Lights Listen is an interactive light installation that explores how everyday emotional moments can quietly return to us as light. The installation combines a wooden panel, programmable LEDs, and gentle mechanical movement to create a small “window” where emotion, data, and ambience meet.
Inspired by the tree hole, the main lamp simulates sunlight as a general natural background, and visitors are invited to interact and record the moods of the day.
Rui Zeng is a MA student in New Media at Aalto University. Her practice sits between interactive art, emotional design, and light-based objects, often combining DIY electronics, laser-cut materials and narrative thinking.