Mika "Lumi" Tuomola, artistic director of Crucible Studio, is a dramaturg, director and actor for interactive digital media, as well as the subject teacher at the Media Lab (mlab.uiah.fi) of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (www.uiah.fi). He's in the editorial advisory board of the Digital Creativity journal (www.szp.swets.nl/szp) and a founding member of M-Cult, the Finnish Association of Media Culture (www.m-cult.org).

Mika's productions include the world's first audiovisual and spatially navigable web drama "Daisy's Amazing Discoveries" (Coronet Interactive Ltd. 1996), "the results of which are remarkable considering both the visual and the story's navigational quality" (Libération 29.3.1996), the philosophical strategy game "Socrates" (Werner Söderström Publishing Ltd. 1998), and the recent experimental research production of the interactive non-linear digital movie "Myths for One." "Cool content... Extremely interesting... Myths for One creates a story, a moving image piece, just for you..." (Aamulehti 14.11.2002) Also, the numerous virtual community events/performances, based on Mika's 'digital Commedia' approach of dramatisation (mlab.uiah.fi/9events/mika1.html), have received wide appreciation among the members of virtual communities, as well as among the creators of the events in the context of his international workshops, for example, at Cambridge University Moving Image Studio, UK, ZKM Center for Art, DE, and the Interactive Institute studios, SE.

In addition to many web awards, the productions' awards include the first prizes in the new media pitch of the Banff2003 international television festival, the Knowledge and Discovery category of the EuroPrix 1998 competition and the New Media category of Grafia's (Finnish Society of Graphic Designers) Top of the Year 1996 competition, as well as the second prize in the International Computer Art Competition in Beijing 1997. In 1998, Mika was chosen Finland's Young Artist of the Year. His recent publications include "Computer as Social Contextualiser" (:ec/art S: pratiques_artistiques nouvelles_technologies, Vol. 2, pp. 333-339, :ec/artS: publishing site, Paris 2000), "Drama in the Digital Domain: Commedia dell'Arte, Characterisation, Collaboration and Computers" (Digital Creativity Vol. 10, No.3, Swets and Zeitlinger, Lisse 1999) and "Daisy´s Amazing Discoveries: Part 1 - The Production & Part 2 - Learning from Interactive Drama" (Digital Creativity, Vol. 9, No. 2-3, pp. 137-152 & 75-90, Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse 1998).