Layers in the Peace Machine

What builds peace?

Layers in The Peace Machine is an immersive and multidisciplinary media-installation, entangling technology and art. Based on the literary work ”Peace Machine” by late Timo Honkela, the installation portrays peace as a dynamic process, that shifts and evolves with the interaction from the participants. 

Layers in The Peace Machine encourages the participant to reflect on their own relationship with peace and peace-related questions. What sort of memories, images and emotions arise? How to work towards a more peaceful world in everyday life?

Transforming multiple spaces at the Oulu City Hall, the artwork sheds light on the multifaceted concept of “building peace”. It offers diverse means to interact with the installation and other participants, through language, movement, senses and cognition.

The artwork is structured to emphasise the effects of these interactions on the work itself and other participants’ experiences. Through these means Layers in the Peace Machine is part of the dynamic discourse about actions, choices, mutual interactions and power, which all greatly affect the processes of peace.

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The Layer of Sharing

The virtual part of the work, the Layer of Sharing, invites the audience around the world to share their own peace-related memory and to reflect on it in relation to other people’s memories. These memories on peace will later influence the artwork experienced at Oulu City Hall.

Ekho Collective

The Finnish Ekho Collective is a group of artists, designers and technology professionals, who specialise in immersive experiences: Calvin Guillot, Essi Huotari, Vertti Luostarinen, Saara-Henriikka Mäkinen, Sini Parikka, Ilmari Pesonen, Olivia Pohjola, Iina Taijonlahti and Timo Tikka.

The group’s works include Ahto, an installation at the Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva that changes according to the flow of visitors. Ekho Collective also contributed to the creation of the Finnish National Opera’s interactive and award-winning piece Laila.