Timo Toots is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Estonia. His artistic research concentrates on the relationships between humans, technology and nature. His work is addressing the question of privacy in the surveillance society and role of nature in the technological era.
He has exhibited his works since 2006 in Europe, US and Asia. In 2012 Toots won Ars Electronica Golden Nica for interactive arts.
He is the founder of art and technology farm Maajaam in rural South Estonia. It’s an artist-in-residency that also produces outdoor technological art exhibitions called Wild Bits. On the side he also invents playful objects as the studio Masinism.
Sometimes a simple art work exits it’s limits and becomes a long-term, large-scale multi-faceted collaborative project. These projects could be seen as very interactive art works where the interaction happens on a wider level and has stong impact for society.
Democracy, the market economy and freedom of speech are intertwined entities, and always have been. A skilled entertainer can mobilise his social capital into politics, a former politician can successfully dive into business, and an articulate journalist can create a public relations office that will bring a previously hopeless niche party to power.
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Memopol is a series of machines that collect visitors private data, analyze it and visualize on custom displays. The project lasted from 2009 until 2019.
