I’m Santtu Huotilainen, a Finnish-American artist, hacker and a game developer.
After a succesful career in games and entertainment spanning nearly two decades and reaching an audience of hundreds of millions of people, I decided in 2020 to focus on personal art projects on a variety of media – freed from the usual constraints and compromises of popular entertainment.
I quit my job in Los Angeles and moved back to Finland with my family, into a quaint country house with a small separate studio. The studio serves as a base of my operations for art projects and collaborations that live in the avant-garde cross-section of traditional art sensibilities and digital hacker mentality.
Gameskunstwerk is a label I use to publish some of my works.
– Santtu Huotilainen, 2022