My artistic background is in painting. I love painting. I am skilled inmany painting techniques including: watercolor, oil color, acrylic and tempera. For the last years I have used watercolors and dyes in my own artistic work: I like the immediacy and almost Zen like attitude of watercolor: Whatever is, is.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
- Jackson Pollock

I have teached information and communication technologies for schools and administrations. My main focus has been in new technologies, including tablets and smartphones. I have good skills on iOS and Mac OS -operating systems, deploying them and supporting them. My main focus is in pedagogical use of ICT together with social media, free software theories and media literacy.

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone.  That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
- Bjarne Stroustrup

I have specialized in creative programming, which I have taught for wide variety of audiences ranging from children to adults. Creative programming focuses on gaining control of digital technologies by doing. Wth different experiments we learn how digital technologies work and why they work that way. With just a little skill it is possible to create wide variety of functional works, from interactive art installations to intelligent robots. The most important aspect is  in the gaining control of digital media, which might otherwise appear strange to us. I work with tools including: Arduino, Processing, Open frameworks, Objective-Cocoa, Javascript, Raspberry Pi.

I have teached new media in various places. I am profient with many software tools including:

I am interested in different art theories and philosophies and have studied art history specializing in minimalism, chinese landscape paintings, Zen painting and in the history of  new media in art. I am very interested in color theories and composition theories. Everything from Goethe to Albers and law of golden mean to Klee and Kandinsky. I have found out that many of these theories are also useful in programming: It is as fun to utilize color theories in code art and it is as fun to break compostional rules in code as it is in painting.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Francis Bacon

I have taught painting, drawing, making own colors and art installations for children in summer camps at Salitun Ääni & Maisema in Karjalohja.

I have teached creative programming both for children and adults in various places. From 2007 to 2011 I taught interactive art, electronics and programming for artists in artist association’s Muu’s Mediabase. Creative programmings courses I have taught range from making robots to interactive sound installations.

I am the Co-founder togeher with Roi Ruuskanen of Käsityökoulu Robotti. Robotti is an art and craft school focused on integrating science, tech and art together. Our aim is to empower children and give them skills to make their own world.

Wearable electronics course was a course held in Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture. Course was first course offered on this subject in the University. Me and Jukka Hautamäki were the main teachers and we were responsible of  both the content and teaching of the course. Course was a joint operation with artist’s association Muu and Aalto University’s Media Factory.