Marita Liulia

Finland, b. 1957 in Perho.

Marita Liulia is a versatile visual artist and a pioneer of multimedia. Liulia started her artistic career in theatre and worked with various visual art forms in the 1980s. She extended her work to digital and interactive media in 1991 with Jackpot, a CD ROM on the world of advertisement. Maire, a study into modernism released in 1994, was one of the first artworks to be published in CD ROM format. Ambitious Bitch, a colourful CD ROM about femininity (1996) was her international breakthrough. SOB (Son of a Bitch), a CD ROM about men and masculinity, followed in 1999.

In 2001 Liulia returned to theatre with the works Manipulator and Animator, which were created collaboratively with musician/composer Kimmo Pohjonen. Hunt, a dance performance realized together with choreographer/dancer Tero Saarinen premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2002.

Liulia has received numerous awards including Prix Ars Electronica in Austria (1996) and Prix Möbius International in France (1996, 1999). She has also received the Finland Prize, the Finnish Cultural Fund Prize and the Erik Enroth Prize (2002) for her achievements as an artist. She founded the production company Medeia in 1997 and Prix Möbius Nordica, a media culture competition, in 2000.

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