Professor Jussi Ängeslevä is a designer, an artist and an educator. Having taught at the Berlin University of the Arts and Royal College of Arts in London, but lecturing around the planet, he is actively involved in the ever expanding field of new media, working with digital materiality and interaction design. In parallel to the academic work, he has served as Creative Director at ART+COM Studios, where his work in public art commissions, exhibitions and installations are consistently yielding international recognition.
His independent works have been awarded by institutions such as Royal Society of Arts, NESTA, BAFTA, Art Directors Club of Europe, D&AD, Ars Electronica and ZKM. Over the years he has served in numerous international art and design juries, academic chairs and boards. Throughout his career his focus has always been intentionally in between fields: combining understanding of visual, physical and interaction design with algorithmic, electronic and mechatronic knowledge to create innovative and elegant experiences.
His design ethos is leveraging hardware, software, physical and visual design in the search for elegance in spatial communication, where the meaning is inseparable from the medium communicating it.
EMPLOYMENT
Creative Director / ART+COM , Berlin, Germany, 2020 - 2023
Vice Creative Director / ART+COM , Berlin, Germany, 2004 - 2020
Honorary Professor / University of Arts (UdK) , Berlin, Germany, 2011 -
Visiting Professor at IED programme / Royal College of Art (RCA), London, UK, 2011 - 2018
Lecturer at IDE programme / Royal College of Art (RCA), London, UK, 2011 -
Visiting Professor / China Academy of Arts , Hangzhou, China, 2007
Visiting Professor / University of Arts (UdK) , Berlin, Germany, 2007 - 2011
Assistant Professor / University of Arts (UdK) , Berlin, 2005 - 2007
Research Fellow / Media Lab Europe , Dublin, Ireland, 2002 - 2004
Research assistant and designer / New Media Research Center, University of Lapland , Rovaniemi, Finland, 1999 - 2000
Art Director / Prosopon Ltd. , Rovaniemi, Finland, 1999 -
EDUCATION
MA in Audio visual Media Culture / University of Lapland , Rovaniemi, Finland, 2004-05-04
MA(RCA) Interaction Design / Royal College of Art , London, UK, 2000 - 2002
AWARDS
Gold A'Design Award, Milano, Italy, 2024
Pohjavirta Stipendium with Jaakko Mattila, Finnish Cultural Fund, 2014
ZKM AppArtAward, Artistic innovation Prize, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2014
iF communication design award, 2011
Annual Multimedia Award 2011 (Kategorie Event/Game/Installation), 2011
Gold / Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2010
red dot design award 2010
Good Design Award Chicago, 2010
Gold / IF Communication Design Award , Hannover, Germany, 2009-08-28
Gold / Cannes Lions , Cannes, France, 2009-06-25
D&AD Black Pencil / Design And Art Direction , London, UK, 2009-06-11
50th Annual Clio Awards / The Nielsen Company , Las Vegas, US, 2009-05-14
Grand Prix / red dot , Germany, 2008-12-02
ADC NY Silver Award / Art Directors Club , New York, 2008-05-02
2 Bronze Awards / ADC Deutschland , Berlin, Germany, 2008-04-14
Residency / V2_lab , Rotterdam, Holland, 2005-11-25
Artist Grant / Arts Council England , London, UK, 2005-05-00
Artist Grant / The Finnish Cultural Foundation , Rovaniemi, Finland, 2005
Fusedspace / Stroom / Skor / Premsela / The InformationWorkPlace , Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004
Top Talent Thesis Award / EUROPRIX , Vienna, Austria, 2004
BAFTA Interactive Arts Nomination / The British Academy of Film and Television Arts , London, UK, 2004
Prix Ars Electronica / Ars Electronica , Linz, Austria, 2003
D&AD Awards / Design And Art Direction , London, UK, 2003
ADCE 2003 / The Art Directors Club of Europe , London, UK, 2003
7th Japan Media Arts Awards / Japan Media Arts , Tokyo, Japan, 2003
The Lattice Group Awards 2002: Building on Inheritance / The Lattice Group & Royal College of Art , London, UK, 2002
NESTA Future Product Award / NESTA & Science Museum , London, UK, 2002
Open Doors Design Grand Prix / Doors of Perception , Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2002
RSA Student Design Awards / Royal Society of Arts , London, UK, 2001 - 2002
EXHIBITIONS
Traktorinrengas - Pylväsvuo, FLOW Festival, Helsinki, Finland 2022-08-11
Caustic Ice, Arctic Design Week, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2019-02-19
Poetics / Structures of Light and Motion, ICC, Tokyo, 2017-01-14 – 2017-03-20
Outrelumiere, Caustic Light, EPFL, Lausanne, Swizerland, 2016-09-01
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2015, Cité, Saint-Étienne, France, 2015–03-12
AV@AR 3.0—“Fictional Reality” Sino-French Digital Art Exhibition, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China, 2014-06-01
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008 / Moravian Gallery , Brno, Czech Republic, 2008-06-17
Digital Art & Technology / Singapore Science Center , Singapore, 2007-11-09
Urban Interface | Berlin / UIB , Berlin, Germany, 2007-04-15
German Pavillion / Achitecture Biennial , Venice, Italy, 2006-09-10
NODE.London / Networked, Open, Distributed, Events , SPACE Media Arts @ The Triangle, London, UK, 2006-03-22
ARCO'06 / MediaLabMadrid , Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain, 2006-02-08
ExtraOrdinary / Kulturhuset , Stockholm, Sweden, 2005-27-08
World Without End / Australian Centre for the Moving Image , Melbourne, Australia, 2005-14-04
History Unwired Mobile Experimenters / University of Architecture Venice & the MIT Dept. of Urban Studies , Venice, Italy, 2005-09-01
YOU ARE HERE - The design of information / Design Museum , London, UK, 2005-02-15
Navigator / National Museum of Fine Art , Taiwan, 2004-07-03
Future Product Exhibition / Science Museum , London, UK, 2004
Emerging Technologies - Last clock / Siggraph , Los Angeles, 2004
PixelAche 2003 / PixelAche / Kiasma Museum of Modern Art , Helsinki, Finland / Montreal, Canada, 2003
Transmediale 03 / Transmediale , Berlin, Germany, 2003
Dream Anatomy / National Library of Health , Maryland, USA, 2002 - 2003
Unpacked RCA 2002 Design Highlights / Gifu Prefecture Takumi Studio , Gifu, Japan, 2002
Finnish pavillion at Hannover Expo / Expo 2000 , Hannover, Germany, 2000
Adventure land of snow and Ice -European tour / University of Lapland , 12 European cities, 2000
KOTI / Siggraph '99 , Los Angeles, USA, 1999
AFFILIATIONS
Board Member Hybrid Plattform, Berlin, Germany, 2013 -
Jury Member / Unpainted Media Art Festival, Munich, Germany, 2013
Design Challenge Chair / TEI'12 , Madeira, Portugal, 2012
GSC Chair / TEI'11 , Madeira, Portugal, 2010
Friends of Fritzing board member, Berlin, Germany, 2010 -
Jury Member / D&AD , London, 2010 - 2011
Jury Member / Ars Electronica , Linz, Austria, 2009 - 2010
Board Member / Piknik Frequency , Helsinki, Finland, 2009 - 2011
Jury Member / Siggraph , Los Angeles, 2008
D&AD Member / D&AD , London, 2003
PUBLICATIONS
Interview with Ängeslevä in Filimowicz, M., Tzankova, V. "Teaching Computational Creativity" (2017), Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom.
Ängeslevä, J., Nicenboim, J. Wunderling, J. Lindlbauer, D. “Beyond Prototyping” in Gengnagel, C. Nagy, E. Stark, R. Eds. “Rethink! Prototyping” (2015), Springer, Switzerland.
Ängeslevä, J. (2014) “The Aura of the Digital” in Derix, C., Izaki, I. eds. “Empathic Space: The Computation of Human-Centric Architecture, Architectural Design”, Wiley & Sons, United Kingdom.
Ängeslevä, J. (2013) "Beyond prototyping. Design and Rapid Manufacturing" in Paul, D., Sick, A. eds. "Rauchwolken und Luftschlösser: Temporäre Räume", Textem Verlag, Hamburg, Germany.
Interview with Ängeslevä in J. in Barth J., Grasy R.,Lukas M., Schilling M., Jochen Leinberger J. (2013) "Prototyping Interfaces: Interaktives Skizzieren mit vvvv", Schmidt (Hermann), Mainz, Germany.
Swaminathan, Rahul, Michael Rohs, and Jussi Ängeslevä. "Mobile vision (MobiVis): vision-based applications and HCI." In Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services companion, pp. 249-250. ACM, 2012.
Cassinelli, Alvaro, Jussi Ängeslevä, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Gonzalo Frasca, and Masatoshi Ishikawa. "Skin games." In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces, pp. 323-326. ACM, 2012, Cambridge, MA.
Sauter, J. Jaschko, S. Ängeslevä, J. (2011) "ART+COM: Media Spaces and Installations". Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
Cassinelli, A., Zerroug, A., Watanabe, Y., Ishikawa, M., and Angesleva, J. (2010) "Camera-less Smart Laser Projector". In ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Emerging Technologies (Los Angeles, California, July 26 - 30, 2010). SIGGRAPH '10. ACM, New York, NY, 1-1.
Ängeslevä, J. (2008) "Bodies, Mnemonics and Machines" in Tangibility of the Digital. form+zweck , Berlin, Germany
Parkes, A., Ängeslevä, J. (2007) "Physical Interventions in a Location Based Cultural Narrative: A Case". In Tangible and Embedded Interaction '07 , Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Ängeslevä, J. (2005) "ART+COM and the art of communication". In Joining Forces / University of Art and Design Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland.
Hughes, Stephen, Ian Oakley, Jussi Angesleva, and Maure O'Modhrain. "Motion-activated control with haptic feedback." U.S. Patent Application 11/122,631, filed May 5, 2005.
Ängeslevä, J. (2005) "Body Mnemonics- interface design proposal for portable devices". In The Integrated Media Machine, Vol. 3-4. / University of Lapland , Rovaniemi, Finland.
Ängeslevä, J., Cooper, R. (2005) "Last Clock". In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Vol. 25, No. 1). IEEE Computer Society , Los Alamitos, USA.
Oakley, I., Angesleva, J., Hughes, S. & O'Modhrain, S., (2004) "Tilt and Feel: Scrolling with Vibrotactile Display" in the proceedings of the EuroHaptics'04, Munich, Germany
Ängeslevä, Jussi, Carson Reynolds, and Sile O'Modhrain. "Emotemail." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Posters, p. 9. ACM, 2004.
Strachan, S, Murray-Smith, R, Oakley, I and Angesleva, J. (2004) "Dynamic primitives for gestural interaction". In Mobile Human-computer Interaction - Mobilehci 2004, Proceedings, 3160 . pp. 325-330.
Jussi Ängeslevä and Ross Cooper. "The'Last'Clock." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies, p. 15. ACM, 2004.
Angesleva, J., Oakley, I., Hughes, S. & O'Modhrain, S. , (2003) "Body Mnemonics: Portable device interaction design concept" in proceedings of UIST'03, Vancouver, Canada
Ängeslevä, J., O’Modhrain, S., Oakley, I., & Hughes, S., (2003) "Body Mnemonics" in proceedings of Physical Interaction (PI03) - Workshop on Real World User Interfaces, a workshop at the Mobile HCI Conference 2003, Udine, Italy.
Ängeslevä, Jussi, “Evolutionary computation in creative design,” in Computer Related Design, Royal College of Art, UK, 2001.