Marita Liulia is a Finnish media artist.

Her production includes media art

New media art

New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...

 works, photography, painting and stage performances.

Liulia studied literature and political history

Political history

Political history is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders. It is distinct from, but related to, other fields of history such as Diplomatic history, social history, economic history, and military history, as well as constitutional history and public...

 at Helsinki University

University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...

 (B.A. 1986) and visual arts at the University of Art and Design

University of Art and Design Helsinki

Aalto University School of Art and Design , known commonly as TaiK, is the largest art university in the Nordic countries, and was founded in 1871. Media Centre Lume – the National Research and Development Center of audiovisual media – is also located in the university...

 in Helsinki. Her artistic career started in the theatre and she worked with various visual art forms in the 1980s.

She extended her work to include digital and interactive media

Interactive media

Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user’s actions by presenting content such as text, graphics, animation, video, audio, etc.-Terminology:...

 in 1991 with Jackpot, a CD-ROM

CD-ROM

A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....

 on the world of advertisements. Maire, a study of modernism

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

 released in 1994, was one of the first artworks to be published in CD-ROM format. Ambitious Bitch, a CD-ROM about femininity (1996), marked her international breakthrough. SOB (Son of a Bitch), a CD-ROM about men and masculinity, followed in 1999. Marita Liulia Tarot was published in six different formats and ten languages in 2000-2004. Marita Liulia's recent project, Choosing My Religion about the major religions of the world, had premiere in 2009 in Kiasma

Kiasma

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...

, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.

Marita Liulia founded publishing company Medeia in 1997 and Prix Möbius Nordica in 2000.

Key works

• Self Portraits 1980-90, from Schjerfbeck to video grate, exhibition, multiple formats, 1990
• Religion and Prostitution, exhibition, paintings, 1991
• Jackpot, an interactive installation, 1991
• Maire, an interactive CD ROM and an installation, 1994
• Ambitious Bitch, an interactive CD ROM, 1996
• SOB, an interactive CD ROM, 1999
• Marita Liulia Tarot, a touring museum exhibition, a book, a cards deck, a website, 2000-2004
• Choosing My Religion, a touring museum exhibition, a book, a website, 2009

Recent collaborations

• Manipulator, with musician/composer Kimmo Pohjonen
  Kimmo Pohjonen
  Kimmo Pohjonen is a Finnish accordionist who is involved in a number of projects.- Uniko :Kluster meets Kronos Quartet in the Uniko project featuring music composed by Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, commissioned by Kronos. Concerts in Helsinki, Moscow and Molde Jazz Festival were major successes...
  
  , 2001
• Hunt, with dancer/choreographer Tero Saarinen, 2002
• Animator, with Kimmo Pohjonen, 2004
• Time Perspective, with Valérie Gabail (soprano), Mikko Perkola (viola da gamba), 2008
• The Accordion Man, an animation film with Kimmo Pohjonen, 2009

Publications

• Tarot, (In Finnish, English translation available) Marita Liulia and Tiina Porthan, The publishing house Teos, 2004, 2. edition 2009
• Choosing My Religion - uskontoja jäljittämässä, (in English and in Finnish) Marita Liulia, 2009, Maahenki, 2009

Awards

• Stina Krook Foundation, 2008
• Erik Enroth Prize, 2002
• Prix Möbius International, 1996, 1999
• Prix Ars Electronica
  Prix Ars Electronica
  The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...
  
  , 1996
• Finland Prize, 1996
• The Finnish Cultural Fund Prize, 1996

External links

• Marita Liulia homepage http://www.maritaliulia.com
• Marita Liulia CV http://www.maritaliulia.com/en/maritaliulia/artistcv/index.php
• Choosing My Religion http://www.maritaliulia.com/cmr
• Marita Liulia Tarot http://www.maritaliuliatarot.com
• Medeia http://www.medeia.com