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BUSINESS NEWS AMOS REX: A NEW CULTURAL POWERHOUSE FOR HELSINKI The latest addition to Helsinki’s cultural quarter opens with “teamLab: Massless” a major international exhibition by the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab filling its 2,200 square meter gallery space with digital art. Finland’s capital Helsinki has gained a major new cultural institution and a striking new public space with the completion of Amos Rex. The art museum opens after a five-year, €50 million project designed by architecture firm JKMM , which has seen the refurbishment of the landmark 1930s Lasipalatsi building in Central Helsinki. At the heart of the museum, 13,000 cubic meters of rock was excavated to create a new 2,200-square-meter world- class flexible gallery space topped with a series of domes and skylights that form the new undulating landscape of the Lasipalatsi Square. Amos Rex’s exhibition program extends from the newest, often experimental, contemporary art to 20th-century modernism and ancient cultures. Amos Rex aims to present captivating and ambitious art refreshingly and exuberantly. The goal is for the past, present, and future to produce unique experiences and surprising encounters beneath and above ground, and on the screen.

Amos Rex opens with Massless, an exhibition by the Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, which will run until January 6, 2019. In the early half of 2019, Amos Rex will present a retrospective of the Dutch art collective Studio Drift as well as Rene Magritte: Life Line, the first major exhibition of this pioneer of the surrealist movement in Finland. Kai Kartio, director of Amos Rex, said: “The opening of Amos Rex is one of the biggest events to occur in the cultural life of Helsinki for a generation and will offer unrivalled facilities for the display of art, exhibitions, film, and performance.” Asmo Jaaksi, founding partner of JKMM said: “Integrating one of Finland’s architecturally pioneering 1930s buildings – Lasipalatsi – as part of the Amos Rex project has been a moving experience. By adding a bold new layer to Lasipalatsi, we feel we are connecting past with present. We would like this to come across as a seamless extension as well as an exciting museum space very much of its time”; The square adjacent to Lasipalatsi is one of the most important public spaces in Helsinki. We hope the newly landscaped Lasipalatsi Square with its gently curving domes will be received as a welcome addition to Helsinki’s urban culture; a place everyone and anyone in the city can feel is their own.”

Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of teamLab said: “We are very excited to have the opportunity to participate in the inaugural exhibition at Amos Rex. teamLab aims to explore a new relationship between humans and the world, and between people and nature through art. Digital technology has allowed art to liberate itself from the physical and transcend boundaries, and we believe digital art can turn the relationship between people in the same space into a positive experience.” Amos Rex is the latest addition to the buzzing cultural quarter of Helsinki, which already includes the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Music Centre, Alvar Aalto’s Finlandia Hall, the National Museum of Finland, the Finnish Museum of Natural History, the Ateneum Museum, Helsinki Art Museum and the soon-to be completed Oodi Central Library. The centrepiece of the new museum is a 2,200-square-meter gallery space created beneath the Lasipalatsi square which will offer the curators of Amos Rex the opportunity to accommodate large scale works of art and performance, and to stage exhibitions, installations and performance in a hugely flexible space with a high degree of technical control.

MARK LITTLE, from page 11

XML, but how many of your team members work with XML? (again, see No. 3) Integrations with other systems (time- keeping, financials, etc.) are not included. Finally, with more employees using smartphones and tablets in and out of the office, large Excel spreadsheets become clumsy and difficult to work with on a small screen. “Laying out a schedule of work in Excel isn’t difficult, but how do you find out if the employees assigned to perform the work are available? Many firms will keep this information in yet another Excel file. What happens if the project is pushed back or delayed?”

2)Lack of collaboration. Excel doesn’t provide you with an easy way to share your file and allow other team members to make changes. Ultimately, one person must be responsible for merging in all of the various updates. Excel also doesn’t allow you to automatically notify collaborators when the file has been updated. 3)Expertise needed. Most computer-savvy employees can use the basic functions in Excel (adding, grouping, etc.). However, to get the most use out of Excel, your employees would need to know how to create pivot tables, manipulate/search/find data across multiple tabs, and master the advanced Excel for- mulas. This type of expertise (or training) can be expensive and doesn’t easily translate to the rest of the team. 4)Time tracking is difficult. A lot of firms use Excel as a timesheet tool. Getting this data into the project manage- ment Excel file is cumbersome and tedious at best. 5)Can’t forecast resources and allocations. Laying out a schedule of work in Excel isn’t difficult, but how do you find out if the employees assigned to perform the work are avail- able? Many firms will keep this information in yet another Excel file. What happens if the project is pushed back or delayed? Keeping these sources in sync is difficult and time consuming. 6)No reporting. Sure, you can create some basic charts and analysis (see No. 3), but Excel isn’t going to give you the infor- mation you need to make proactive decisions during or after your project has been completed. 7)Doesn’t play well with other software or mobile devices. Excel has added the ability to import and export data via

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