Joonas Siren: Liminal Objects
solo exhibition/game installation, Sculptor Studio, Helsinki, Finland 2.2-25.2.2024
computer, game programming, game design, 3D modelling, 3D photogrammetry, computer, speakers, garbage collected from the wastelands of Kalasatama (concrete blocks, ropes, metal chain, plastic bottles, hubcap), soil, test tubes, dandelions preserved in epoxy resin, projection
Joonas Siren: Yhteispeli
in collaboration with Jari Lehtinen, Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen
public video game installation, Valkeala school/library/municipality house, January 2024
8 raspberry pi’s, 16 touch-sensitive small micro screen, 8 round lcd screen
Forces – Chimæras
music album
released 10.8.2023 on mappa label
Bandcamp link
Joonas Siren: Kadonnut aika
sound installation part of a group exhibition “Two Million Seconds” with Juuso Noronkoski and Tuomo Rainio at Forum Box gallery gallery, Helsinki April 2023
computer, 16-speaker multichannel generative audio, programming: custom supercollider program
Forces – Inertia
music album
released 1.7.2022 on Infinite Machine label
Bandcamp link
Joonas Siren: Chaosmosis
generative website project / music video, July 2022
https://chaosmos.is
3D modelling, Three.js programming, Javascript programming
Joonas Siren: Kesken kaikista paikoista
collaboration with Milka Luhtaniemi
online algorithmic kinetic poetry work
published in nokturno – a platform for digital and experimental poetry, december 2021
https://nokturno.fi/en/poem/kesken-kaikista-paikoista/
Joonas Siren: Toinen laji/Different Species
joint exhibition with Milka Luhtaniemi
Forum Box gallery, Helsinki July-August 2021
poem publication, custom programs in unreal engine 4, processing and supercollider, computer, raspberry pi, two lcd screens
all photographs courtesy of anna autio
Joonas Siren: Juha The Unemployed
video game, released digitally 2021
https://forces.itch.io/juha-the-unemployed
Joonas Siren: Clear Blue Water (remix)
installation
Hello Dust‘s Consultation #1 series of events at Outo Olo gallery, Helsinki October 2020
Joonas’ event at 17-18.10.2020
computer, 6-speaker multichannel generative audio, programming: custom Processing program & custom Supercollider program
Video documentation by Mikko Kuorinki
Joonas Siren: Anti-Blashemia
sound installation
Nastola’s Summer group exhibition / Nastolan Kesänäyttely: “Vastahankaan”, Old community house of Nastola municipality, July – August 2020
speaker, amplifier, a generative SuperCollider program, customed made “band” logo & stickers
Review by Helsingin Sanomat: https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000006580992.html
Joonas Siren: Untitled
joint sound and light installation together with Helmi Kajaste
Presented in Helmi Kajaste’s exhibition “BUILD, SUFFER AND FORGET” -exhibition at Oksasenkatu 11 gallery June 2020
5-channel site-spesific generative audio & light work with one studio monitor + four transducer speakers and a green flood light.
Sound example:
Forces – Epoch
music album
released 22.3.2020 on Gin & Platonic label
Bandcamp link
Joonas Siren: Softbed
solo exhibition/Twitch stream performance
Kosminen (Pursimiehenkatu 13), Helsinki 7.12.-22.12.2019
fluffy toy, wooden board, bed, pillows, live music streaming, live visuals streaming, algorithmic sound, Raspberry Pi, speaker, Processing programming, Android Tablet
Documentation photos by Lotta Blomberg
Screen captures from the Twitch performance:
Joonas Siren: Feissari
site-spesific sound installation part of an outside group exhibition ‘Freedom to Roam’. Abandoned villas of Kruunuvuori, Helsinki 8.9.2019
speaker, sound work, cassette player
Forces – Climate Denial Machine
music album
released 20.12.2018 on Bio Future Laboratory label
Bandcamp link
Forces – Dynamics
music album
released 19.9.2018 on Conditional label
Bandcamp link
WildCat music video:
Joonas Siren: Off
a durational performance / installation with Milka Luhtaniemi, Nicolina Stylianou, Elena Rekola
Tiivistämö, Helsinki 7.4.2018
led lights, storm lights, RC cars, radios, radio transmitters, sound design, poems
Forces – Plastisphere
music album
released on Genot Centre label 11.03.2018
Bandcamp link
Joonas Siren: 4e6f6d6164
joint exhibition with Hermanni Keko
Third Space gallery Helsinki, January 2018
UV lights, DMX controlled lights, tent, Open Frameworks video programming/video work, algoritmic sound programming, protein drink containers
Joonas Siren: Sleep Paralysis
joint exhibition with Jukka Hautamäki & Tuukka Haapakorpi
Myymälä2-gallery, Helsinki, October-November 2017
light installations, algorithmic sound programming, synthesizers, strobe light
Joonas Siren: Neo-Walden
LAPSody festival 2017, Theater Academy, University of Arts Helsinki
installation; video sreen on the floor, pillows, UV-lights & 4-channel sound
Joonas Siren: Pyhäinjäännös – Residue of Sacred
joint exhibition with Hermanni Keko
Oksasenkatu11 Gallery 17.3.-24.3.2016
slide projector, slide photos of space + cells, algorithmic sound works, human figure in soil,
Pyhäinjäännös
Residue of Sacred (in engl.)
joint exhibition with Hermanni Keko
Betesda Art Chapel, Siipyy (Kristiinankaupunki) 3.-5.7.2015
slide projector, video work, algorithmic sound work, paintings
Joonas Siren: Sustained Magic
sound installation
Free Art Space, Helsinki 15.2.2015
Joonas Siren: Time Fractures
installation
BS Projects 2013-2014 -exhibition, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany (22.10.-7.11.2014)
clock, metronome, wooden table, algorithmic sound
Joonas Siren: I’m Virtual
installation
Imaginarium-exhibition, Ailan Taidegalleria, Helsinki 30.4.-22.5.2016 & Foursome -exhibition (Heini Vanhanen, Tatu Gustafsson, Ida Lehtonen, Joonas Siren) Kutomo, Turku 4.7.-13.7.2014
algorithmic sound work, table, chairs, speakers
Joonas Siren: Can You Hear the Grasshoppers Sing?
sound installation
Galleria Harmaa, Turku 21.4.-22.5.2016, Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Kiasma theater, Helsinki 20.2.2016, Free Art Space 12.4.2015 Helsinki & Avatar co-op, Quebec City, Canada, 5.12.-20.12.2013
multi-channel algorithmic sound
Joonas Siren: Fall/Rapture
installation
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Kuvan kevät – MFA exhibition, 8.5.-2.6.2013
speakers, speaker cables, metal wire, algorithmic sound work
Joonas Siren: Ether Vortex and Other Fantasies About Infinity
solo exhibition
Gallery of Finnish Fine Art Academy, 22.3.-7.4.2013.
algorithmic sound works, algorithmic video work, plastic tube
Joonas Siren: Glossolalia
installation
Soundings 2 – Nordic Sound Art graduate show 28.4. – 3.6.2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde Denmark
wires, sound cables, plastic pipe, speakers, algorithmic sound work
