Hello Thomas,

I have been conducting doctoral research at Media Lab University of Art and Design Helsinki since 2004. The content of my research matches almost all the keywords you mentioned. Artistic point of view probably will lead you follow artistic and more experimental methodologies. Combining your studies and knowledge with artistic practices are quite new comparing to general scientific ones, therefore not all the institutions are willing to offer these as  doctoral research methodologies. Almost all the Nordic countries, ( I know at least Finland-Sweden-Denmark) and UK give full program to artistic research projects. Here in Helsinki institutions are also well integrated among each other,  if you are studying at one place, you can easily attend any seminars in another places and use their facilities.  It is your responsibility to find who will supervise to your research. He/she does not need to be from Finland at all, but they would probably recommend you to have at least one of your supervisors from Finland to maintain regular meetings. Helsinki is cold and dark but, New Media, experimental music has its own valuable scene here both in academic and artistic means. There are also lots of Pd-people in Helsinki, not that much in touch with each other, but using Pd heavily in their projects :) If everything will go fine, I might have my defense day in this December, and I will move back to Helsinki as well to work further on my things :)

good luck with your PhD prog-search,

Koray