Art and Media Research

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In this blog we regularly publish recent research related activities and events in the Department of Art and Media. For the old research blog from the Department of Media please visit https://blogs.aalto.fi/mediatutkimus/.

Blog posts

Still image from performance, where a person is dropping liquid into someone's eye.

Public Defence in Art Education, MFA Einat Amir

Thesis: Synthesizing Art and Science: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding Intergroup Relations and Contributing to Social Change

abstract image of green and dark textures

Public Defence in Art & Media, MFA Jaana Okulov

MFA Jaana Okulov will defend her thesis: Quantifying Qualia – Aesthetic Machine Attention in Resisting the Objectifying Tendency of Thought

Green book cover with round image of children playing with sand.

Public defence in New Media, MA Jaana Brinck

Doctoral Thesis: "Grounded Principles for Open Design Pedagogy: Design Perspectives on Early Years Pedagogy with Digital Technologies"

Papers hanging by clips on a thread indoors. Black plastic boxes with books at the bottom of the image.

Paradata: Example of an artist-researcher's curriculum vitae

Andrew Paterson’s presentation in the Doctor of Arts Seminar in New Media.

Round cropped image of sky with aeroplane in distance

Public Defence in Photography, MFA Hanna Timonen

MFA Hanna Timonen will defend her thesis: "Ordering the Everyday – Serial photography, repetition and everyday acts".

overflowing tube of toothpaste

Public Defence in Contemporary Art, MA Andrea Coyotzi Borja

MA Andrea Coyotzi Borja will defend the thesis: "In the middle of things: on researching the infraordinary".

A person in a light blue cap taking a picture with a red digital camera

Public defence in Photography, MFA Liisa Söderlund

MA Liisa Söderlund will defend her thesis: "In the picture – photography as a practice of liberation"

Collage style image with construction site and Iranian tapestry

Public Defence in Contemporary Art, MA Ali Mousavi

Thesis: "Beautiful Rotten Tehran. A Multi-Sensory Artistic Research On Contemporary Urban Design in Tehran (Pardis Phase 11)"

Cover image of Agnieszka's thesis. Two hands dirty with charcoal intertwined with orange thread.

Public defence in Contemporary Art, MFA Agnieszka Karasch

MFA Agnieszka Karasch will defend her thesis "Reciprocal Drawing. Bodies’ Co-dependence and Direct Contact in Performance Drawing".

Evergreen Inner Jungle, 2021. Kuvaaja/Photo Shubhangi Sing.

Public defence in Visual Culture, MA Anna Jensen

Anna Jensen will defend the doctoral thesis "Encyclopedia of In-Betweenness. An Exploration of a Collective Artistic Research Practice".

Still image from The Wife of Them All (2022), animation film Dir. Rebecca Close (featuring intervened footage from Dark Ground Illumination

Public defence, MA Rebecca Close

Rebecca Close defends the doctoral thesis "Post-Internet Queer Reproductive Work and the Fixed Capital of Fertility.

HB23

THE HELSINKI BIENNIAL ART MEDIATION FORUM 2023: An Anthology

Excited to be announcing a new publication, launched as part of the Helsinki Biennial x ViCCA collaboration.

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