Mia Makela is a Finnish media artist and cultural historian, whose work explores intersections between art and other disciplines: technology, science, ecology. She is a researcher-artist whose production is based on a deep need to understand and take into account the non-human world.  

Makela uses expert knowledge and empirical research as part of her media artworks. In her artistic process, she has turned into an algae hunter, a zookeeper, a bird watcher, a beekeeper. She challenges us to see the limitations of human senses and to look at the world in a larger continuum.  

Makela exhibits chosen themes in the forms of video, installations, audio guides, expeditions, participatory acts and related publications. Makela, internationally acknowledged pioneer in the field of live cinema, has shown her work and lectured all over the globe.