Minna Tarkka is a researcher, producer, critic and educator of media arts and design. Her focus lays on cultural, social and participatory approaches to new media and technology. From the late 1980s on she has been lecturing and contributing to new media-related curriculum development in Finnish universities, including the Academy of Fine Arts (Time and Space) and the University of Art and Design (Media Lab). In 2000 Tarkka co-founded m-cult, centre for new media culture in Helsinki, which she currently directs.