monautomaton
VJ Reel | Recent Sketches | 2024
VJ Reel | Recent Sketches | 2024
BIO
Monika Eva Hauck (aka monautomaton) is a Canadian/Polish VJ and multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her practice spans live visuals for performances, festivals, and events, as well as interactive installations and exhibitions. Hauck crafts surreal digital landscapes that merge abstraction with immersion, interactivity, and improvisation.
She has collaborated with a range of nationally and internationally recognized artists, including Canadian icons like Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Deerhoof, US Girls, Julie Doiron, Partner, Witch Prophet and The Sorority. Her live visuals have animated stages for festivals such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Kazoo! Festival, Wavelength Music, Hillside Festival, Flourish Festival, Electric Eclectics, Up Here and numerous other DIY and underground events.
Currently completing her MA in New Media Design and Production at Aalto University in Helsinki, Monika is also the former Chair of the Digital Art and Design Association (DADA, 2022) and Vice-Chair of TOKYO Ry, the Aalto Arts Student Association (2023). She was a finalist in the 2023 Tampere Film Festival VJ Contest, has performed at Aavistus A/V Festival, and frequently collaborates with Helsinki-based Entropy Ry.
In addition to her work in live visuals, Hauck holds a BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and is a co-founder of the A/V project Static Channel, where she creates visuals and performs synth. Her creative portfolio extends to painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, in which her process based practice informs her approach to installation and performance.
Check instagram for recent work
and her CV for everything else
Monika Eva Hauck (aka monautomaton) is a Canadian/Polish VJ and multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her practice spans live visuals for performances, festivals, and events, as well as interactive installations and exhibitions. Hauck crafts surreal digital landscapes that merge abstraction with immersion, interactivity, and improvisation.
She has collaborated with a range of nationally and internationally recognized artists, including Canadian icons like Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Deerhoof, US Girls, Julie Doiron, Partner, Witch Prophet and The Sorority. Her live visuals have animated stages for festivals such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Kazoo! Festival, Wavelength Music, Hillside Festival, Flourish Festival, Electric Eclectics, Up Here and numerous other DIY and underground events.
Currently completing her MA in New Media Design and Production at Aalto University in Helsinki, Monika is also the former Chair of the Digital Art and Design Association (DADA, 2022) and Vice-Chair of TOKYO Ry, the Aalto Arts Student Association (2023). She was a finalist in the 2023 Tampere Film Festival VJ Contest, has performed at Aavistus A/V Festival, and frequently collaborates with Helsinki-based Entropy Ry.
In addition to her work in live visuals, Hauck holds a BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and is a co-founder of the A/V project Static Channel, where she creates visuals and performs synth. Her creative portfolio extends to painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, in which her process based practice informs her approach to installation and performance.
Check instagram for recent work
and her CV for everything else
Live VJ Set | Static Channel | Madame Claude BERLIN 2025
Live VJ Set | Kanae Nozowa | Korjaamo HELSINKI 2023
Live VJ Set | Entropy e30v | 2024
Live VJ Set | DJ - Mary Young | Aavistus Festival 2022
Techno Bunker | Installation Visuals | Lumen Festival 2022
Music Video | Half Truths by Static Channe l 2023
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Cymatic Monoprints | Analog VJ Printmaking with Versa | 2015
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