23-24.1 LIVE CINEMA. REGGIO EMILIA
Mia will give Real-time Narratives Workshop + remix Almodovar movies at a special event dedicated to remixing cinematographic works at Servizio Istituzioni Culturali


10-13.12 PAF. OLOMOUC
Mia will show a performance, give a lecture and form part of the jury for the 8th Festival of Film Animation in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

6.11 PAYSAGES ELECTRONIQUES.LILLE
SOLU&ARBOL present Kaamos Trilogy at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Lille.

11.10 PERFORMANCE.USC.LA
9-10.10 WORKSHOP@ USC.LA
Mia will give a 2-day workshop on real-time visuals at the University of Southern California. Organized by Holly Willis.

8.10 CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE
BLOG featured Mia Makelas work.

6.10 KONZERTHAUS.VIENNA
The upcoming project GEHEIMNISSE EINER SEELE is an intermedial performance work based on G.W. Pabst's eponymous psychoanalythic film, in collaboration with the Austrian musician Mia Zabelka and One.Night.Band.

4.10 EXPERIMENTACLUB.MADRID
SOLU&ARBOL present Kaamos Trilogy at Experimenta+Kaamos video in the screening program: RESONANCIAS MAGNETICAS.

24-27.9 FUTURE NOW. TENERIFE
SOLU&ARBOL: Kaamos Trilogy at Future Now symposium at TEA.

22-27.9 25 FPS.ZAGREB
International Experimental Film and Video Festival 25 FPS has published a booklet on live, expanded cinema featuring avant-garde authors like Valie EXPORT, Peter Weibel, Guy Sherwin. Includes also THE PRACTICE OF LIVE CINEMA by Mia Makela. (Croatian translation)

15.-20.9 NEW FORMS FESTIVAL. VANCOUVER
Mia Makela works with young Vancouver media artists learning to remix video for site-specific projections at W2 Center in Vancouver.

2.9 OUT OF CONTEXT. BERLIN
The screening event and exhibition "Out of Context” at General Public brings together wide variety of audiovisual works made by Finnish FixC members: Rita Jokiranta, Kari Yli-Annala, Seppo Renvall, Maria Duncker, Juha van Ingen and Erkka Nissinen + guests from Berlin: Laura Horelli, Gun Holmström and Mia Makela.

1.9 AFTERIMAGE
The latest issue of AFTERIMAGE- The Journal for Media Arts and Cultural Criticism features REAL TIME LIVE: CINEMA AS PERFORMANCE, an article by Holly Willis including mention of SOLUs work.

1.9 ELNIUTON MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
Gabriel Vanega from Bogota-based ELNIUTON online magazine interviewed Mia on Skype about live cinema and other activities for their latest issue on Ecotecnologia. Includes an article written by Natalie Manrique in Spanish.
(starts from page 153)

10.-15.8 INTERACTIVE SCREEN. BANFF
Mia will give a keynote speech, presentations and performance at Banff centers yearly Interactive Screen meeting, this year titled as THE MAKERS.

24.7 SIGNALS THROUGH THE FLAMES - International Art Exhibition and Electronic Music Event. PHB.Berlin
SOLUs Kaamos Trilogy Excerpt part of the screening program curated by Juan Arata.

8.7 AVion.BUCHAREST
Mia Makela will give a presentation on Live Cinema and her work as part of AVion - the AVmotional series of events for professionals and AV addicts at the National Centre of Contemporary Dance in Bucharest.


1.6 LIVE CINEMA DVD COLLECTION
is available for viewing at Mediateca of Caixaforum in Barcelona. The website presenting the collection of works by LIVE CINEMA artists including LIA, Light Surgeons, Takagi Masakatsu, Transforma + O.S.T, Rechenzentrum, Ryoji Ikeda, Olga Mink, Telcosystems, etc is now online. Curated by Mia Makela.

29.4-3.5 REC09. TARRAGONA
SOLU & ARBOL will close the REC festival with Kaamos Trilogy performance. SOLU will also form part of the jury for the live cinema selection.

25.4 SONIC VISIONS. REITLINGEN
SOLU will join forces with Philippe Geist, Fried Dähn and Thomas Maos. They will show 2 AVSets and one improvisation titled 15 HERTZ - The beginning of time at SONIC VISIONS at Franz K in Reitlingen, Germany.

23-24.4 MOVES. MANCHESTER
SOLU & ARBOL will open the MOVES-festival with Kaamos Trilogy performance. The next day SOLU talks about NARRATIVE TACTICS FOR LIVE CINEMA at the M09 FORUM (REACT).

17.4 HABLAR EN ARTE.ALICANTE
An event that mixes spoken word with visuals at Camon, Alicante. Solu will be performing live while Ray Loriga recites extractions from his latest book under a very suggestive leitmotiv: love.

28.3 BREDA FILM FESTIVAL.BREDA
SOLU&ARBOL performed KAAMOS TRILOGY at the cathedral of Breda together with Olga Mink and Scanner.

5-6.3 TRICKY WOMEN.VIENNA
SOLU opened the festival with a short version of Kaamos Trilogy and gave a lecture together with Sandra Naumann, connecting Mary Ellen Bute´s visual music to contemporary Live Cinema artists.

SOLU edited a special issue on LIVE CINEMA for a:minima magazine in 2008.

She participated in 2007 to VJAM THEORYS online discussion series as one of the moderators. Now available as a book.

download here her latest text:
THE PRACTICE OF LIVE CINEMA
Published in :
1. ARTECH08 catalogue (2008)
2. Media Space Journal, Issue 1 (2008)
3. 25FPS Catalogue (2009)
A limited edition reader on the history of expanded cinema, published by 25FPS in their Square Seconds edition. The book features essays by Peter Weibel, Valie Export, Mia Makela — Solu, Randy Jones, Jonathan Walley, Chris Welsby and Guy Sherwin. The dust jacket folds out into a family tree tracing the evolution of this art form. (in croatian)

LIVE CINEMA DVD-COLLECTION

SOLU has curated LIVE CINEMA DVD-collection for MEDIATECA of CAIXAFORUM in Barcelona. The works can be viewed in Mediateca. Short clips, images and texts available also on the website. Includes around 30 artists such as SUE C., RECHENZENTRUM, Klaus Obermaier, Transforma, Pink Twins, DYAD, LIA, H.C.Gilje, etc.