Johanna Kurpat

Tulip - Nallikari Snow Fest

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Snow sculpting at Nallikari Snow Fest in Oulu - Miia Mäkinen, Henna Timlin and I (Team Snow Drop) carved this Tulip out of a 3x3m cube. What a great experience!

• Client: NALLIKARI SNOW FEST
• Date: 2020-02-23
• Category: Snow sculpting

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Jellyfish room

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Snow sculpting at Snow Lounge Salla - Winter Art and Design course - University of Lapland

• Client: SNOW LOUNGE SALLA
• Date: 2020-02-12
• Category: Snow sculpting

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Bear theme

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Snow & Ice Sculpting at Arctic Snow Hotel in Lehtojärvi

In December 2019 I participated in a snow and ice sculpting training at the Arctic Snow Hotel in Lehtojärvi, Lapland. Here are some pictures of the results – it was a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to create more snow and ice sculptures.

• Client: LEHTOJÄRVI ARCTIC SNOWHOTEL
• Date: 2019-12-13
• Category: Snow Sculpting

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Exploring transformations

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When the sun is shining pine cones open up to set their seeds free. When it is raining they close themselves to protect their seeds.

Environmental Art Workshop - University of Lapland

• Client: University of Lapland
• Date: 2020-05-14
• Category: Time lapse video

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Iceolation

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Iceolation is a video I made for the Space, time, place workshop at the University of Lapland. For the video I used ice and made a time lapse of the melting process. Ice as artistic material is very meaningful because it is changing all the time and it has all kind of little details, like air bubbles or cracks. In the video I tried to visualize the feeling of isolation. At the moment the best people can do to slow down the spread of COVID-19 is to stay at home as much as possible. That is all we can do right now to protect the risk groups, like elderly people and people with underlying medical conditions. For me self-isolation can feel very cold. Like you are stuck in ice. Social life is frozen and you can barely breathe because of the storm of news about the Coronavirus crisis. I tried to visualize a message - that it is very important to stick together. Let us stay strong together even if we have to stay isolated, right now. We have to care about people in need! We are in this crisis together and we have to care about everyone.

• Client: University of Lapland
• Date: 2020-03-30
• Category: Time lapse video

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Music and emotions

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An animated movie explains what happens in the human body and especially in the brain when we listen to music. The subject is very complex, because the music perception is learned by listening experience in everyday life, is dependent on culture and individual musical preferences.

Headphones visualize the human reaction to music without showing the person directly. Music, explanation and reaction are in focus. Transparency gradient on a white background creates a mysterious, foggy atmosphere. The journey continues deep into the brain. The project has exciting contrasts - Schematic representations of the brain combined with emotional textures and snapshots. An emotional soundtrack interleaves with explanations by a narrator.

Narrator - Joris Schwarz, Music – Jan Andrees

Research – Stefan Koelsch und Erich Schröger „Neurowissenschaftliche Grundlagen der Musikverarbeitung“, Manfred Spitzer „Musik im Kopf“, Eckart Altenmüller - Zeitschrift für Audiologie „Starke Emotionen und Gänsehaut beim Musikhören“, Daniel J. Levitin „Der Musik-Instinkt“

• Client: Münster School of Design
• Date: 2015-07-15
• Category: Animation

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Human body structures

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Macro photography with prepared vegetables, fruits and plants

Microscopic enlargements are often necessary to study interesting structures of the human body. I created a fascinating comparison between human body structures and structures of plants, vegetables and fruits.

Photographs of plants, vegetables and fruits are used to explore similarities with human organ structures. I developed a technique in which plants, vegetables and fruits are placed on a glass plate and are illuminated from below with an extremely bright lamp. This technique creates unique images and emphasizes the beauty of the structures.

• Client: Münster School of Design
• Date: 2014-04-19
• Category: Photography

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Party Polaroid

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First prize German Youth Photography Award 2016 (Deutscher Jugendfotopreis 2016)

How to make the pub atmosphere visible? In a unique way these Polaroids are illustrating what was going on in the pub. The party evening is reflected in the pictures. The Polaroids were placed in different areas of the pub and were part of the evening. One Polaroid was placed on the dance floor, lying there for the rest of the night. Other pictures were placed in the ashtray or at the toilet door. I used a Polaroid 600 to take the pictures in the pub at the same evening and then placed them at different areas of the pub. After the placement I left the pictures alone for the rest of the evening. While I was celebrating with my friends, a lot of people interacted with the pictures. The pictures are snapshots, moments of a party and they are showing traces of a wild party evening at the pub.

I made a reproduction of the original polaroids which have all the traces of the party on it. So that it is possible to see these traces in large format and in detail.

Polaroid 600 camera, Reproduction NIKON D80, location “Bullenkopp” in Münster

• Client: Münster School of Design
• Date: 2013-12-01
• Category: Experimental analog photography

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Travel photography

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Travel photography – Hiking adventures and camping in the wilderness

Pictures of landscapes, animals and moments in the wild nature

Outdoor and wildlife photography

• Client: Portfolio Sample
• Date: 2015-09-30
• Category: Photography

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Enlichenment 2

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Light art experiment on snow

Kilpisjärvi, Lapland

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2021-01-29
• Category: Light art

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Embers

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Projection and sound interaction on snow

Nuorgam, Lapland

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2021-01-16
• Category: Projection mapping

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Enlichenment 1

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Light art experiment on snow

Video is coming soon

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2021-01-29
• Category: Light art

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Glow

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Projection and sound interaction on snow

Nuorgam, Lapland

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2021-01-14
• Category: Projection mapping

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Aurora and Moonlight

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Interaction with aurora borealis, moonlight shadow and orange LED light on snow and tree

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2021-01-25
• Category: Light art

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Shadow

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Playing with shadows on snow

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2021-01-29
• Category: Shadow projection

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Moon

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Light art experiment - illuminating snow from inside

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2021-01-25
• Category: Light art

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Sun

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Light art experiment - illuminating snow from inside

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2021-01-29
• Category: Light art

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Sound interaction

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Experiment of live sound interaction on snowballs

• Client: Master Arctic Art and Design
• Date: 2020-12-06
• Category: Projection mapping

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