Aarre Kärkkäinen (°Puumala - 1943), Master of Science (Mathematics), University of Helsinki.
Memberships in the Artists' Association of Finland: Finnish Painters' Union.Union of Artist Photographers Member of MUU since 89, organisation of Media Art and Electronic Art in Helsinki, Finland.

Hilkka Okkonen (°Vaasa - 1946), Artist Memberships in the Artists' Association of Finland:
Finnish Painters' Union.Union of Artist Photographers.

personal.eunet.fi/pp/karkka

ISEA 200, The 10th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Paris, 2000. CYNETart 2000, International competition for computer based art, Dresden, 2000. File, Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, 2001. d>art 01 cd-rom, web & sound art exhibition, Sidney, 2001.

We have done since 92 ten interactive multimedia CD-Roms that have been selected to many international media art festivals and national art exhibitions.
We are using in our CD-Roms digital video, photographs, sound, music, drawings, 3d models,
2d- and 3d-animations. We are using tools like vidoeditor Adobe Premier, Photoshop, Macromedia Director, 3ds Max, Sound Editor. Our CD-Rroms are telling fictive stories and are mostly based on famous Books (like Divine Comedy) but are, of course, our own versions of them. It has been said that our CD-Roms belong to "trash art". We like that. We also like artists like Fellini and Cervantes, bien sûr. Summer cottage and mushrooms are important for us although Hilkka is desperately afraid of spiders.

Description of the CD-Roms

Agony of JC, CD-Rom, 1998.

"Jesus Christ has returned onto Earth
Everything is changed
And He feels Himself lost
No one knows Him
And He has not any more
Power to heal sick people
He can not understand what happens
What all this means"

Espoo-Alexanderplatz, CD-Rom, 1999.

"When shopping in your daily super market
Be careful
It is not what it looks like
You are on the stage of World History.
All the time
And stories that you heard in your childhood
Are true and lies like nightmares or art
Grand mother was not good althought
She ate the wolf."

Divine Comedy Digital, CD-Rom, 2001.

"Is a new version of Dantes' Divine Comedy. A version that reflects our profane digital era. We are examining the values of our time and people. We are also studying the changes of meaning of words and concepts. What is ment by sin now, or punishement."