Tapio Mäkelä
mbar programme manager, founder
Tapio Mäkelä
mbar programme manager, founder
Tapio Mäkelä creates the programme of mbar together with fab club hosts. He is the founder, partner and CEO of mbar.
Tapio Mäkelä founded mbar in 2001, having first started Meteori Books and Café in 1998. Current partners in the company are Mika Raunio and Jukka Murto. Today, Tapio works as a part time CEO and programme manager. Besides the music programme, he is responsible for design management and collaborations with other organizations and companies. Besides loving life and work at mbar, Tapio is an internationally known media artist and theorist. He currently teaches part time at Medialaboratorio, Aalto University. Tapio also runs Translocal, a small production company currently specializing in locative arts and games.
