Timo Toots (Estonia)

Timo Toots is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Estonia. His artistic research concentrates on the relationships between humans, technology and nature. His work addresses the question of privacy in the surveillance society and the role of nature in the technological era. He has exhibited his works since 2006 in Europe, the US and Asia. His works are found in private collections as well as in Estonian Art Museum and ZKM ( Zentrum für Kunst und Medien). In 2012 Toots won Ars Electronica Golden Nica for interactive arts. In 2013 he founded a farm for art and tech called Maajaam. Together with Mari-Liis Rebane they run a small art center in the wilderness of South Estonia. It has an artist-in-residency program and different workshops for all kinds of art. Around the farm, they organize with a bigger team an outdoor technological art exhibition Wild Bits. On the side, he also invents playful objects in his studio Masinism.