The Slicer

Kari Yli-Annala is a visual artist, moving image researcher and teacher. Yli-Annala graduated with MFA degree from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1996 and he has done post-graduate studies in the Academy of Fine Arts and University of Art and Design (Aalto University) in Helsinki. He has been engaged with making video works since the early 1990s. Yli-Annala’s works explore time, space and movement combining narrational techniques with non-narrative structural forms. Yli-Annala is the founder of a pedagogical project called Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts and he is the Artistic Director in the annual AAVE – Alternative AudioVisual Event in Helsinki.