Pseudotoad Laboratories (Finland)
http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad
Pseudotoad Laboratories are a Helsinki based crossover of software production and media art who take a sociological and a philosophical stance torwards technology. For their work Pseudotoad function as an interface between real-time low-level polygon modelling and multimedia works of art, musical pieces, club events and stadion rock visuals. Additionally they strive to promote the overall concept of self-made computer programs as crafted artifacts instead of just functional implementations within an industrial process. The diversified members behind Pseudotoad have a background in the Finnish demoscene, but also are students of sociology, film editing and corporate strategy.
Etymologically pseudotoad is an ambiguous amphibian lifeform and a word that rhymes with pseudocode.