☉ useLessOS (2025) ( en ), with Pedro Cardoso. Pseudocode poetics for subverting smartphone usage patterns. Read the article here.
☉ Beach philosophies (2025) ( en ), a circular literary experience that explores repetition as change. Exhibited July 7 - 9 at DIS'25 in Funchal, Madeira. Read the pictorial here. Images of zine coming soon.
☉ Being water (2024) ( en ), a collaboration between Rafaela Nunes, Terhi Marttila, Andrés Isaza-Giraldo and Paulo Bala for ICIDS 2024 art exhibition: STREAMS ~ CORRIENTES, December 2024. Read the article here.
☉ Pedra, pena pássaro (2024) ( pt ), Invited artwork for group exhibition for the research project Ver a Árvore da floresta - Ler a Poesia de António Ramos Rosa à Distância (PI Bruno Ministro), Instituto Pernambuco, Porto, Portugal, October. Article coming soon.
☉ Time, diffracted (2024) ( en ) - click to begin, sounds on, move mouse to "look" around, wasd or arrow keys to move. Aural experience, no visuals. Exhibited at ISEA 2024 and ELO 2024. Watch video traversal here. Watch artist talk (ISEA2024) here. Watch talk (ELO2024) here. Read article here.
☉ How to make a Website (2024) ( en ), performance and pedagogical tool created for The New Media Writing Prize - Unconference (theme: inclusivity) in May of 2024.
☉ zzz (2024) ( - ), published in Revista SACA - Revista literária independente in March of 2024. Read the editorial here.
☉ Infinite scroll (2023) ( en ), published in taper#11 in December of 2023.
☉ Gray hairs (2023) ( en - view in Chrome), published in The New River Journal in May of 2023. Read editor's note here. Read article here. Exhibited at ELO2023. Performed at ELO 2023, Videojogos 2023, at Greta livraria feminista in 023. Mentioned in press. Want a performance? See technical rider.
☉ Transplanted (2021 - 2022) ( fi / [en subtitles] - view in Chrome), published on nokturno.fi (view in Chrome) in April of 2022. Original version (view in Chrome) exhibited at Galleria Hämärä 9. - 25.11.2021, Lapin yliopisto, Rovaniemi, Finland.
☉ Speak out (2020 - 2022) ( en, fi, pt, de - view in Chrome) revamped for ELO2022, and the beta version Speak out (2020) ( pt / en - view in Chrome) completed during residency curated by Patrícia Gouveia on raum.pt with graphic design contributions by João Sousa / v-a.studio
☉ kakkakukka / cocó flor / poo flower (2021) social sculpture / nonviolent / neighborhood intervention
☉ We cannot take them all (2019) ( en - view in Chrome), and the text by Professor Joseph Carens which inspired it, page 193
☉ Give Me a Reason (2016) ( de / [translate widget] ), generates reasons for helping (and welcoming) refugees and migrants. Included in the Electronic Literature Collection 4, a "collection of exemplary works of Electronic Literature from 2016-2021" (see About ELC4) edited by Kathi Inman Berens, John T. Murray, R. Lyle Skains, Rui Torres and Mia Zamora.
[ ☉ Work completed in Montreal (2015) ]
[ ☉ Work completed in Rovaniemi (2014) ]
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# Marttila, Terhi (2024) Performative writing through permutations and the switching of subjectivities in Time, diffracted. At ELO2024 conference, 15.7.2024 online. Slides pdf / watch online.
# Marttila, Terhi (2024) Speaking in loops that change - writing for the wandering listener in Time, diffracted (artist talk). At ISEA 2024, 24.6.2024 online. Slides pdf / watch online.
# Marttila, Terhi (2024) Digital games and art - what are artists up to? Invited talk at eGames lab - mega level up, 20.02.2024 Funchal, Portugal. Slides online / video online.
# Marttila, Terhi (2023) These gray hairs really scream out at me - the confessional I and autofiction as feminist writing in Gray hairs. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, vol. 15, n. 2, pp. 18-44. https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2023.15685
# Pedro, Celeste and Marttila, Terhi (2023). Hacking the good life - João de Barros and the game of moral virtues. The Digital Review 3. https://doi.org/10.7273/zyyq-xs17
# Marttila, Terhi and Lima, Luciana (2023) Feminist poiesis - multidisciplinary creation and collaborative research in transmedia arts and gaming in Portugal At Assembly 2023 summer, 5.8.2023 Helsinki, Finland. Slides pdf.
# Lima, Luciana, Pinto, Camila, Marttila, Terhi and Gouveia, Patrícia (2023) Home computing and digital gaming piracy in the 1980s in Portugal. At DiGRA, 20.6.2023 Sevilla, Spain. Slides pdf.
# Marttila, Terhi (2022) Playful voice/interaction for ecosystems living. At Music Tech Fest (MTF) Labs, 12.10.2022 Aveiro, Portugal. Slides online / video online.
# Marttila, Terhi (2022) Migration as movement. At LARSyS Annual meeting, 14.-15.7.2022 Lisbon, Portugal. Slides online / pdf
# Marttila, Terhi (2022) Migration as movement - repurposing the voice / interface to explore aspects of human migratory movement through artistic research ( PhD thesis ), Supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Patrícia Gouveia (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon) and Associate Professor Dr. Diamantino Freitas (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto), University of Porto, defended on 27.6.2022. website / pdf.
# Marttila, Terhi (2022) Speak out – an artists’ game about life in a world of shifting border rules. At Artists’ Games: Critical and Creative Approaches in New Media Art, moderated by Victoria Szabo & Joyce Rudinsky, SPARKS (Short Presentations of Artworks & Research for the Kindred Spirit) sponsored by the ACMSIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee, 25.3.2022 @ 20:00 GMT (online). Slides online / pdf / video online.
# Marttila, Terhi (2020) Dimensions of authorship in the (co-)creation of interactive art: some examples. At Art of Research 2020 - Authorship and responsibility, 3. - 4.12.2020, Helsinki, Finland (online). Slides online / pdf.
# Marttila, Terhi (2019) Linguistic accents and xenophobia in we-cannot-take-them-all - Preliminary findings in the design of a voice interface. At ENIAD 2019, Encontro de Investigação - Arte e Design, 1. - 3.10.2019, Lisbon, Portugal. Slides online / pdf.
# Marttila, Terhi (2019) "Tell me a story, Siri." The voice as an emerging medium for interaction in digital art, case studies of selected artworks. At ELO 2019, Electronic Literature Organisation Conference, 15. - 17.7.2019. Cork, Ireland. Slides online / pdf and book of abstracts.
# Marttila, Terhi (2019) From osmosis to diffusion - migration as movement, digital art for dismantling membranes. At Consciousness Reframed 2019, 6. - 8.6.2019. Porto, Portugal. Slides online / pdf.
# Marttila, Terhi (2018) Chatting as interface in gaming - case example: Bury me, my love. At Videojogos 2018, Portuguese national conference on videogames 21.11.2018, Porto, Portugal. Presentation pdf and paper pdf and full proceedings.
# Marttila, Terhi (2018) Playful readings and deeper meanings. At ICLI 2018, International Conference on Live Interfaces, Doctoral Symposium, 14. - 16.6.2018, Porto, Portugal. Presentation pdf and paper pdf and full proceedings.
# Marttila, Terhi (2017) Give me a reason - Encouraging dialogue through interactive media, Proceedings of InSEA 2017, International Society for Education in the Arts, (Unable to present in person), 7. - 11.8.2017, Daegu, South Korea. Paper pdf and full proceedings.
# Marttila, Terhi (2016) Give me a reason - Three Cycles of Dialogical Art-based Action Research to Support a Community of Volunteers Who Work With Migrants, ( MA Thesis ), Supervised by Professor Dr. Mirja Hiltunen (Faculty of Arts, University of Lapland) University of Lapland. pdf.
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