Projects

The following concepts and projects were created during Hack4FI – Hack your heritage hackathon and the following six-week working period.

Aikaa
Infinipic
Interactive trip
Kerplink
Music Video
Photo montage of people in Helsinki
Runepeli
Sift.pics
Talking heads
TogaPix
The Triptych
Validate biography data in Wikipedia/Wikidata
Video poetry marathon

Wiki Loves Maps projects
Historiallinen Aleksanterinkatu
Historical street view
Mapillary Widget in Wikimedia Commons
Mapping the Swedish Public Art Database with Odyssey.js
OpenStreetMap – OpenHistoricalMap – (Wikimaps) Warper


Aikaa

An installation based on the Triptych. Aikaa is a clock, a symbolic prop to explore the interactive possibilities of time based archives, especially in the realm of sound.

Software: ChucK
Hardware: amplifier, potentiometer, input jack
Materials: open sound effects of Yle Archives

Team:
Tuomas Nolvi, @NoTuomas
Ranjit Menon


Infinipic

An infinite photograph zoom out movie maker inspired by Istvan Banyai’s Zoom. Infinipic uses photographs of the Swedish poet Edith Södergran from the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland. Images are processed in Python with OpenCV to find good transition regions and then animated using Processing.

Python code
Processing code

Team:
Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga, @mgiraldo


Interactive trip

A ‘Point and click’ adventure telling the story of a young woman named Kerttu. The game provides a platform for education and having fun.

Materials: Photographs from the Maritime Museum of Finland & Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle Archive.

Team:
Jason Brower, development, @skunkyjay
Suvi Parrilla, motion graphic design
Liisi Soroush, concept planner, story
Olga Venger, graphic design
Chris Pape-Mustonen, stor
Synes Elischka, story
Maija Hupli, maija.hupli[a]yle.fi
Heidi Sommar, heidi.sommar[a]yle.fi
Elina Pylsy-Komppa, elina.pylsy-komppa[a]nba.fi.


Kerplink – an artbased dating app

See the image. Decide if you berry it. Swipe right if you do. Swipe left if you don’t. Get matched with other people who share your berries. Chat with your matches about the image or about yourselves, keep it online or take it offline, and make some creative connections over common interests. It’s that easy!

Materials: The Finnish Museum of Photography, Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle Archives
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Aalto University Library and Archive, Sports Museum of Finland, Åbo Akademi University Library, The Maritime Museum of Finland, The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.

Team:
Jason Brower, development, @skunkyjay
Molly Schwartz, concept, @mollyfication
Samir Bhowmik, concept, design, @Samir_Bhowmik
Jacob Wang, concept, @jwangdk
Nina Saarikoski, concept
Lauri Elias, development


Music Video

A music video to a CC-licenced song “The Brookland Road” by Olivia Chaney. The video was made out of edited still photos and small animated sequences created from these photos. The idea was to tell a story through the combination of photography and music. The music video can be watched in Vimeo.

Materials: The Finnish National Gallery, The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland & The Finnish Museum of Photography.

Team:
Linda Vuorenvirta, linda.vuorenvirta[a]aalto.fi


Photo montage of people in Helsinki

Video highlighting the people captured in photographs that were intended to show general views of Helsinki.

Materials: The Finnish National Gallery, The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland & The Finnish Museum of Photography.

Watch the video here.

Team:
Kaisa Kyläkoski, @K_KM_K


Runepeli

Demystifying the national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg in a playful way. The game familiarises the player with the life and works of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the national poet of Finland. The game consists of three parts which represent the three different aspects of Runeberg’s character: an idealistic nationalist, a pie-loving lecher & a melancholic daydreamer.

Materials: Daniel Nyblin’s glass negative collection from the Finnish National Gallery, photographs from the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.

Team:
Leena Närekangas, leena.narekangas[a]aalto.fi
Anna Berg
Jyrki Väisänen
Tanja Bastamow
Meela Leino
Simo Rouhiainen


Sift.pics

An application that crowdsources the tagging of historical pictures. Users add basic classificatory tags by making choices whether e.g. the picture is an interior or exterior view, the picture has taken from the ground level or from a raised viewpoint etc. The application can be downloaded from Play Store.

Materials: Signe Brander’s photographs from the Helsinki City Museum’s collection

Team:
Vahur Puik, @puik
Lauri Elias
Janek Priikmann


Talking heads

A Transmedia project inspired by the content. Talking heads is a series of changing face images, with the eyes sutured together, to form a flashing film. In parallel, clips from musician interviews mixed with sound effects make up the soundtrack – the drama.

Materials: Photographs from the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, the Gallen-Kallela Museum & the Finnish Museum of Photography, musician interviews from the Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive & radio show sound effects from the YLE Archives.

Team:
Soile Mottisenkangas, filmmaker/video artist, @soippa
Maaret Storgårds, maaret[a]jazzpoparkisto.net
Mariana Salgado, Aalto University,
Paul Villavicencio, programmer,
Tove Ørsted, @toveorsted
Satu Rantala, satu.rantala[a]gallen-kallela.fi


TogaPix

TogaPIX is a new concept where the aim is to create an engaging, interactive experience for visitors of local galleries and museums and also provide a means to connect with the local artist.

The application enables customers to see more information on an artist or piece of art on their smart phone screens by using NFC technology. Audiences can this way read interesting information on artists and the creation of artworks that is usually hidden for example on books.

There will also be a possibility to comment on a piece of art thus giving maybe also feedback to the actual artist.

Materials: Photographs from the Gallen-Kallela Museum

Team:
Habib Ahmed, ihaabi[a]gmail.com
John Caesar
Santtu Puhakka


The Triptych

The Triptych is a Video Jockey demo that uses mainly photographs from Flickr Commons and the Gallen-Kallela museum. The thematic starting point was the trips that Akseli Gallen-Kallela made to Africa with his family in the early 20th century.

Software: Ableton Live was used to run music and Livid Cell to run the pictures. The performance was controlled with a MIDI controller. Time-map animations were done with Odyssey.js.

Team:
Tuomas Nolvi, @NoTuomas
Ranjit Menon


Validate biography data in Wikipedia/Wikidata

Finnish National Gallery has an API (http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/api/v2support/docs/#/overview) where one can query basic information of artworks and artist. This data was used to validate existing data in Wikipedia/Wikidata and to populate lists and infoboxes.

Envisioned users/audience: Wikidata users, Wikipedia editors

Materials: Finnish National Gallery API

Team:
Kimmo Virtanen, kimmo.virtanen[a]gmail.com


Video poetry marathon

8 poems from different poets were combined with video and audio material from open archival resources. As a result 8 video poems were produced.

Participants:
Mariana Salgado, mariana.salgado[a]aalto.fi
Roxana Crisólogo, roxanacrisologo[a]gmail.com
Zoila Forss
Guy Dowsett
Sara Rönnqvist
Tanya Tynjälä
Eva durall
Ye Tint
Borislav Borisov
Daniel Malpica
Arttu Liimatta


WIKI LOVES MAPS PROJECTS:

Historiallinen Aleksanterinkatu

Wikipedia articles Kluuvinlahden fossiilit (taideteos) and Aleksanteri II (patsas, Helsinki) were edited inspired by the Saturday morning walk in the Senate square and Aleksi.

Team:
Heikki Kastemaa, heikki.kastemaa[a]saunalahti.fi

Historical street view

Historical images of city views are made available in Ajapaik.ee, which is a crowdsourced environment for playfully giving the photographs coordinates and direction.

The images are then uploaded to Mapillary, where they are made part of a street view that combines the images based on their location. The images are then further reflected in Wikimedia Commons.

Team:
Vahur Puik, @puik
Lauri Elias
Peter Neubauer, @peterneubauer
Susanna Ånäs, @susannaanas

Ajapaik-Mapillary

Connecting two projects: Ajapaik for using people’s help in locating places of old images and Mapillary for seamlessly stitching those images into a street view. Signe Brander’s Helsinki images are in Ajapaik already and more will follow! The first test transfers from Ajapaik to Mapillary are being made.

Team:
Peter Neubauer, @peternebauer
Vahur Puik, @puik

Mapillary Widget in Wikimedia Commons

Mapillary images can now also be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and displayed there as a street view. Add this script to your common.js in your Wikimedia Commons settings.

Team:
André Costa, @Lokal_Profil
Peter Neubauer, @peternebauer

Mapping the Swedish Public Art Database with Odyssey.js

Programatically generating and presenting text, widgets and data from different sources to http://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/. Programmatic access to the library used to transform art collection content from offentligkonst.se into Markdown and finally into nice rendered stories programmatically.

Website

Team:
André Costa, @lokal_profil

OpenStreetMap – OpenHistoricalMap – (Wikimaps) Warper

See shapes of buildings and monuments that have Wikipedia articles on a map.

If the background map needs adjusting, go to Wikimaps Warper to fix it! If the link to a Wikipedia article is missing, add Wikidata/Wikipedia tags to objects in OpenStreetMap. If a Wikipedia article is missing, you should write one! (And translate it to several languages.)

Team:
Tuukka Hastrup @tuukkah