She is the author of Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense (2008), Enactive Cinema project Obses- sion (2005) awarded with Möbius Prix Nordic prize and co-author of the interactive film-game Third Woman, exhibited in the Galapagos Art Space, New York (2011). She is a founding member of the research project Enactive Media (2009–11), Aalto University, Finland. Currently Tikka is affiliated in the research project aivoAALTO. Her NeuroCine-group combines filmmaking practice with the methods of neuroimaging to study the neural basis of cinematic imagination. She earned a doctor of arts degree from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki.