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Dreamweaver opens in Murano

Imagine you have ten seconds to shout your dreams into a glass microphone. Easy? Maybe, but when the moment arrives, the words get stuck in your throat.

The Dreamweaver piece, which debuted in Murano, captures visitors’ dreams through AI. These dreams are reflected through a two-meter-tall unicorn panel. The glass unicorn fragments light into the room: red light on one side and blue on the other side of the darkened space. The reflection of the dream is not clear. It requires a true gaze to be seen.

The large glass pieces The Lady and Echo were created in Kuopio at the Essis by Lasilinkki studio. Multidisciplinary collaboration is an essential part of the works. Photo: Juhamatti Vahdersalo.

The glass unicorn acts like a large surface filtering reality. The more we try to look, the harder it becomes. This time, filled with information and noise, suffocates us—when do we actually have time to dream? There is more to the world than just surface-level observation; it requires feeling.

Glass has always been a revealer of the invisible. A material that opens our eyes to both microscopic worlds in raindrops and to the universe beyond the stars. As a medium of art, it allows for an immaterial approach. The skill of glass is learned through touch. It reminds us that in art, as in life, the deepest meaning often arises from what we cannot see.

The Dreamweaver piece was exhibited in Murano at the SpazioB exhibition space. Photo: Juhamatti Vahdersalo.

In the white room stands The Lady, which changes color depending on the viewer’s angle. As we walk around her, she doesn’t change—only our perspective shifts. It’s rare to challenge our own prejudices and see others as separate from ourselves. At the same time, the piece invites touch. The two-meter surface is filled with grooves and shapes.

The works explore the relationship between humanity and technology, existing at the boundary between the visible and the invisible. Glass has always been one of the key technologies revealing the unseen, but what is our responsibility in this time when artificial intelligence is already part of everyday life? Who curates our dreams, and who truly owns them? And what about the future: do we have the right to the privacy of our dreams?

The AI-generated video piece reflected through the glass unicorn fragmented into the surrounding space. The technical implementation of the piece, including the AI aspects, was handled by Jarkko Takala, Tung Bui, and Ken Burridge. Photo: Juhamatti Vahdersalo.

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Infinity Vessel

Infinity Vessel production fuzes holographic art and AR together with studio made glass. Infinity Vessel Video by Juha-Matti Vahdersalo & Iiro Svanbäck.

Finnish glass artists Sini Majuri and Marja Hepo-aho discover the limits of the ancient art of glass in the Infinity Vessel production opening in Venice on September 2022. The myth of Pandora comes to live when contemporary glass mixes with holographic art, haunting soundscapes and grim interpretation of AR.

Majuri and Hepo-aho uses augmented reality as a way to illustrate a hidden – subconscious levels of human mind, where all the fears live. The modern tech reaches the intangible surfaces of expression in the narrative that mirrors the state of the society – asking what happens when human is disconnected from humanity.

As in the myth of Pandora, hope is an important part of the whole, and it is reflected via the profound connection between humanity and craftmanship. The connection is interpreted in a Live glass blowing show at the legendary Berengo Studio Murano.

 The surreal project reflecting the state of the society will be exhibited in Venice on September 2022. Image by Juha-Matti Vahdersalo. 

In the glass show the artists demonstrate how the hope is the final thing released from the Pandora’s vessel. The vessel is paradoxically broken and whole at the same time – as a metaphor to a human.

Infinity Vessel production is a riddle where the participants are experiencing contemporary glass art in a adventurous way. It is a live show, exhibition as well as a real life treasure hunt where valuable glass sculptures are hidden in the maze of Venetian Streets. The open hunt will last for nine days and has a AR level tied to the experience – where the treasure hunters will see the horrors of Pandora spreading across the ancient city.

In the treasure hunt valuable artifacts are hidden in Venice for anyone to find. Image by Juha-Matti Vahdersalo
The Infinity Vessel project has three parts: an installation, live show and a treasure hunt. The installation is a vessel that is broken and whole at the same time, as a paradox. Horrors and nightmares are illustrated via hographic art and augmented reality – as layers of the experience.
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Sini Majuri in A’Design Award Grand Jury

Sini Majuri will be in A’Design Awards Grand Jury for the 2020 – 2021 competition after winning a Golden award from the competition in 2019. A’ Design Award Grand Jury Panel brings together the World’s leading design professionals, prominent academics, influential press members and leading experts in industry to recognize, cherish and value good design products, projects and services. A’ Design Award jurors are fully committed to acknowledge and distinguish good design in all its forms.

Sini Majuri will represent Finnish design in the award Jury.
The award ceremoni will be held in Italy in 2021.

The mission of the A’ Award and Competition is to provide a fair, ethical and competitive platform for companies, designers and innovators from all design fields with different experience levels, diverse disciplines and market focus to compete on, while providing them a global audience to showcase their success and talents to. The A’ Award and Competition aims to act as blender; to bring together designers, companies and the press. Learn why it is called A’ (A-Prime) Design Award.

For 2020 – 2021 there are 219 Jury Members forming the International Design Academy – The Grand A’ Design Award Jury Panel – The World’s Largest and Most Influential Design Award Jury. Sini Majuri will represent Finnish design and glass making in the jury. She is also the only jury member from Finland in 2020.

There are 218 Jury members in the 2020 award edition. The international award is based in Italy.
The annual gala is one of the worlds largest design events.

A’ Design Award and Competition is the worlds’ largest design competition awarding best designs, design concepts and products & services. The motto of the A’ Design Awards is “Ars Futura Cultura” i.e. Arts Cultivate the Future, Arts for the Culture of Future. The future is shaped by arts, design and technology, thus there is need of good design for a better future.