Impact, organisers

	The organisers are the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, the Departments of Art, Graphic Design and Photography, the Academy of Fine Arts with the co-operation of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland and in association with the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
	ORGANISING COMMITTEE Kari Laitinen, Chair of the Organising Committee, Lecturer of Printmaking, Dept of Art, UIAH, Helsinki Taneli Eskola, Dr., Professor, Dept of Photography, UIAH, Helsinki Jan Kenneth Weckman, Professor, Dept of Art, UIAH, Helsinki Kuutti Lavonen, Professor, the Academy of Fine Arts, Dept of Printmaking Tapani Aartomaa, Professor, Graphic Designer, Lahti Juhani Tuominen, Professor, the Faculty of Art and Design, the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi Inka Finell, Secretary, Dept of Art, UIAH, Helsinki
	Graphic Design for Conference Material Project Leader: Professor Tapio Vapaasalo, Dept of Graphic Design, UIAH, Helsinki Graphic Designers: Katja Kuittinen, MA-student, Dept of Graphic Design, UIAH, Helsinki Matti Pikkujämsä, MA-student, Dept of Graphic Design, UIAH, Helsinki Pertti Vilkki, Web Support, Dept of Art, UIAH, Helsinki Osmo Ketola, Technical Assistant, Dept of Art, UIAH, Helsinki

	ORGANISER'S BIOGRAPHIES
	Kari Laitinen, Chair of the Committee Lecturer and Head of Printmaking, Dept of Art, University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH His main subject is woodblock printmaking in both western and Japanese techniques. He has worked at UIAH since 1985 as a part-time teacher, researcher and professor. In 1998 he began research entitled, New Block Material for Japanese Woodblock Printmaking; into finding new block material from Scandinavian wood and to replacing cherry wood for Japanese woodcuts. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1980, is a practicing printmaker and has regularly exhibited one-man-shows in Finland since 1982. He has taken part in international Biennials and Triennials in Brazil, Germany, Japan, Slovenia and Switzerland. He has also been regularly represented in exhibitions throughout Europe. He has held many official positions since 1985, first as a cabinet member and then as a chair the Association of Finnish Printmakers 1990-91; vice chairman at Artists' Association 1988-1989; chair of the board at Taide Art Magazine Publishing Company Ltd., 1990-1991; a member of the State Art Committee 1996-1999. He has received honourable mentions at VII Biennale Internationale de la Gravure sur Bois, Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia 1982 and Biennale Balticum, Finland 1985. In 1984 he was rewarded with the 2. prize at a printmaking competition organized by the State of Finland. His prints are represented at several private and public collections.
	Taneli Eskola Dr., Research Director, Dept of Photography, University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH Dr. Taneli Eskola is currently working as the head of Research at the Department of Photography at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He is working both as a photographic artist and a researcher. He has published several books in the fields of landscape photography and the art of gardening and on art printing of photographs. He has developed gravure and offset methods and has together with Kari Holopainen published two manuals on Polymer Photogravure. He has made portfolios of his prints, f. Ex. Viva Giro! (1998) and Aulanko (1993). Since 1982 he has held approx. 16 solo exhibitions, taken part in approx. 55 national group exhibitions and approx. 40 international group exhibitions. His works are represented in major Finnish Art Collections.
	Jan Kenneth Weckman Professor, Dept of Art, University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH Jan Kenneth Weckman is Professor at the Art Department, a painter and printmaker currently working on his doctorate thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. As an painter and draughtsman Weckman has shown extensively his work in several countries and is represented in many collections in Finland as well as abroad. Born 1946, Jan Kenneth Weckman has been actively teaching students of the University of Art and Design since 1980. His thesis work:The work of art as theory – on articulation of artistic praxis, centers on analysis of semiotics of image and painting, introducing specially the maker´s studio experience into the semiotic investigation. Weckman´s interests in materiality, painting and image are mainly directed to teaching projects with the students of interior architecture and furniture design programs. See also: www.kiasma.fi/awe
	Kuutti Lavonen Professor, Dept of Printmaking, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Kuutti Lavonen is an artist and Professor of Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Recently he has exhibited in Budapest, Reinbek in Germany, Madrid, Copenhagen, Luxembourg, Antwerpen, Paris, and Lons-Le-Saunier in France. His works can be found in many collections, e.g: the collections of The Finnish State, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finnish Parliament, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Pori Art Museum, Turku Art Museum, Alvar Aalto Museum, Wihuri Foundation, Yrjö A. Jäntti Collection, Teresa and Rafael Lönnström Foundation, Paulo Foundation, Pyynikinlinna Art Collection, Kerava Art and Culture Association, The Swedish State, Art Museum of Estonia and Malaga University Collection. Kuutti Lavonen has received numerous prizes, among them an honourable mention at Intergrafik, Berlin in 1984, runner-up for Young Artist of the Year 1986, Tampere Art Museum, Finland, joint first place Mino Pro Graphica, Lohja, Finland and first place in a mural painting competition for Vaasa City Theatre extension in 1991.
	Tapani Aartomaa Professor emeritus, University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, Graphic Designer Born in Karuna, Finland in 1934. Studies include Graduate program in the School of Graphic Designers with professors Erik Bruun and Martti Mykkänen (1959-1960) and the University of Art and Design Helsinki, UIAH (1984). Tapani Aartomaa has worked as teacher and professor at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. He is the founder and chairman of the Lahti Poster Biennial in 1975 and member from 1975 to 1993 and Vice president of the Helsinki Poster Biennale from 1995 to 1997. He is currently Honorary Fellow of Associazione Italiana Creativi Communicazione Visiva (AIAP), member of AGI, member of Council of Finnish Association of Designers GM, member of Lahti Poster Biennial and member of the Finnish Stamp Board. Tapani Aartomaa has exhibited widely, including one man shows in Italy, Poland, China, Sweden and Finland. He has received numerous national and international awards for his work, including 14 awards in the Most Beautiful Books in Finland Competition since 1967, 12 awards in The Best posters of the Year Competition since 1968 and 22 awards in the Best of the Year Competition since 1981. Aartomaa´s works can be found in both national and international collections.
	Juhani Tuominen Professor, Faculty of Art, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi Juhani Tuominen studied at the Finnish Fine Art Academy in Helsinki and graduated as a painter in 1974. After graduating he returned to his home town Oulu. Since then Tuominen has taken part in several joint and group exhibitions and has held private exhibitions in the different parts of Finland. Since 1985 Tuominen has worked with one special motif: The Osmanly time Turkish mausoleums (= Türbe). Paintings of Juhani Tuominen are mostly found in the Art Museums of Northern Finland. From 1977 to 1982 Tuominen was serving as Regional Artist of the Oulu Region. In the 1980´s he taught art at the Department of Architecture in Oulu University. Since 1991 Tuominen has been teaching at the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi, serving as professor in Fine Art.
	Inka Finell,Secretary Dept of Art, University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH Inka Finell has been working as Project Secretary at the University of Art and Design since 1987. Previously she worked as Secretary at the Finnish Fine Art Academy (exhibition and information department 1975-1987), at the Nordiska Konstförbundet (Finnish section 1989-90), as Exhibition Secretary at Gallery Atski since 1988 and as Secretary at A-Clinic 1972-75. Inka Finell has been a member of administration of the University of Art and Design since 1990. She worked as Amanuensis at the Department of Design for Theatre, Film and Television, UIAH 1999-2000. She has been a member of the Conferment Committee at UIAH 1992-1993 and 1999-2001. She has been employed in different tasks since 1967. Other activities: Cat, husband, daughter, garden, sailing, hiking, flying, classic homeopathy, theatre, art exhibitions, organisation of parties.
	Secretariat Kaari Martikainen Born in 1959 in Heinävesi, Finland. Kaari Martikainen is a painter. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 1982-86 (BA) and 1994-95 (MA) in Department of Painting. She also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam 1984-1985. Her debut exhibition was held in 1987 in Helsinki after which she has held 15 solo exhibitions in Finland and about 30 group exhibitions. Her paintings are in many collections, e.g. Collections of the States of Finland and Sweden and the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma. She has received numerous artist scholarships from private foundations and 1-year and 3-years artist scholarships from the State of Finland. She has been teacher of painting at the Department of Art Education, UIAH, 1988-90 and since 1999. She was Lecturer of drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Finland 1990-93. She is a member of the Finnish Painters´ Union since 1986 and member of the board of the Finnish Painters´ Union 1989-90.
	Elina Aalto Born in 1976 in Helsinki. Elina Aalto is a Spatial and Furniture Designer. She received her MA in 2000 from the University of Art and Design Helsinki (Department of Spatial and Furniture Design). She has worked as an exhibition designer and designer for public and private spaces in addition to which she has studied, in her diploma work, the re-use of city spaces. She has participated in group exhibitions (mostly furniture design) in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Switzerland. She has received prizes in design competitions (Finnish betting company Veikkaus and the Tallinn International Bench Design Competition). She is a founding member of the experimental design collective FIASKO.
	Graphic Design for Conference Material Katja Kuittinen and Matti Pikkujämsä, MA-students, Dept of Graphic Design, University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH