Timo Toots

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 in the Estonian Art Museum, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien) and in private collections. In 2012, Toots won Ars Electronica Golden Nica for interactive arts.
In 2013, he founded Maajaam, a farm for technological art. Together with Mari-Liis Rebane, they run this small art centre in the wilderness of South Estonia. It has an artist-in-residency programme and different workshops for all kinds of art. Around the farm, they organise an outdoor technological art exhibition, Wild Bits.
On the side, he also invents playful objects in his studio Masinism.