Mika "Lumi" Tuomola

Mika "Lumi" Tuomola is a dramaturge, director and actor for interactive digital media. His productions include the web drama Daisy’s Amazing Discoveries (Coronet Interactive 1996), philosophical strategy game Socrates (WSOY 1998), movie installation Myths for One (Crucible 2002), avatar world designs for WorldsAway (Fujitsu 2000) and the on-going television series Accidental Lovers (Crucible 2003), the concept of which won the New Media pitch of the Banff2003 television festival. The productions’ other awards include the 1st prizes in Knowledge and Discovery of EuroPrix 1998 and New Media of Grafia's Top of the Year 1996, as well as the 2nd prize in the Beijing International Computer Art Competition 1997. In 1998, Lumi was chosen Finland's Young artist of the year. He publishes frequently articles and gives teaching in leading new media schools and universities, including Cambridge University Moving Image Studio, Interactive Institute and Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, based on the learning in productions. Lumi is currently the artistic director of Crucible Studio, the joint research faculty on interactive storytelling between Media Centre Lume and Media Lab at University of Art and Design Helsinki, where he teaches regularly. He’s in the editorial advisory board of Digital Creativity Journal, in the steering group of the Games and Storytelling education programme and a founding member of m-cult, the Finnish Association of Media Culture.

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