Launch: 'Questions of Labour' publication
Welcome to the launch of 'Questions of Labour' publication on Thursday 2nd of December! The event will be held at Lymy, Pengerkatu 6, at 6 PM.
Department of Art
Department of Art News & Events
News, articles, events and more from the Department of Art.
Faculty, Staff, Students & Alumni in Media
Department of Art Research Assemblage November 2021
Next Research Assemblage session will be on the 4th of November at 13:15-15:00 in Zoom.
Call for interest to participate in the Artificial Biology, Robotics, and Art (ABRA) Workshop Series
ABRA is calling for applications to participate in a series of international transdisciplinary workshops between September 2021 and June 2023.
The Waiting Room (Practising Building a Nest), a hand-printed book by Athanasía Aarniosuo and Ronya Hirsma
Between January and June 2021, Athanasía Aarniosuo and Ronya Hirsma shared their thought, fears, and hopes in a series of letters to each other.
Concreate Urban Art Festival Comes to Keran Hallit
Artists transform the interior of Keran Hallit for the Concreate Urban Art Festival 2021.
Pyydän lupaa // Asking for permission, Poetry Video by Kirsi-Marja Moberg
MA ViCCA student's poetry video and interactive performance, Asking for permission, depicts the things in our lives that we ask permission for.
Like Shadows Through Leaves Awarded FIPRESCI Prize at Oberhausen
{if your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves wins the FIPRESCI Prize at Oberhausen 2021.
ViCCA Production 2021: Sometimes I Go Places
ViCCA Production addresses the idea that artistic practice and research requires experimenting with how the practice and research is performed to a public
International Women's Day 2021: Feminist Practices and Practitioners from the MA ViCCA Programme
A series of contributions from practitioners who are speaking, listening, conversing, making, reading and writing about feminist practices.
On the Philosophy of Central European Art Published by Rowman & Littlefield's Lexington Books
Senior University Lecturer Max Ryynänen's book is an introduction to the history of the concept and the institution of (fine) art, from its ancient Southern European roots to the establishment of the modern system of the arts in eighteenth century Central Europe.
ViCCA Students Launch Walk & Talk Initiative: #1 Mushroom Picking in Nuuksio
The first ViCCA Walk & Talk took place on 17 October 2020 in the Nuuksio National Park.
Doctoral Candidate Einat Amir presents her research as part of the Berlin Science Week 2020 (external link)
The presentation will be about combining performance art and social psychology to increase empathy between different groups in society. It is part of her doctoral research and done in collaboration with Dr. Yossi Hasson, a social psychologist from the Hebrew University.
NoVA alumni news: The Finnish Game Research Society (Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura Ry) has announced the winner of master thesis prizes of 2020 Game thesis competition
The Finnish Game Research Society (Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura Ry) has announced the winner of master thesis prizes of “2020 Game Thesis Competition” to Ms. Solip Park, one of the 2020 graduates from the Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education at Aalto.
Course 'Lens-based Contemporary Practices' online exhibition, spring 2020 (external link)
Lens-based Contemporary Practices course Online Exhibition is now open, Welcome. Photo: Roope Laukkanen, Marsilaisen puutarhurin päiväkirja, 2019.
Art as We Don’t Know It invites readers into the fascinating world of bioart
Art as We Don’t Know It presents a richly illustrated selection of artworks and bioart research.
Want to change the world? Call in the art educators! (external link)
Art educators can equip people to challenge the status quo and demand change. The secret lies in love, hope, empathy and community — plus art.
Easy Riders and American Beauties: playing around with middle-class identity (external link)
Popular culture serves as a tool for shifting towards more flexible identities.
'Humans are not wired to make sensible choices'
Sculpture lecturer Andy Best talks about technology and the role of art in a world of rising consumption and shrinking public spaces.
Everyday choices: What are arts teachers needed for, Marja Rastas?
The world contains a void in art education, says Lecturer of Visual Arts Pedagogy.
Kalle Keinonen was nominated the Ceremonial Garland Weaver for the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
For the first time in the school’s history the position is held by a male student. The piece of jewerly for the Ceremonial Garland Weaver was designed by Theo Weckström.
Lecturer Minna Suoniemi in the 8th Turku Biennale
Minna Suoniemi’s new project Practical Ecology was chosen for the 8th Turku Biennale as one of 16 out of 260 proposals.
DoA Art & Design Cases
Human/Non-Human Interconnections in Art, Visual Culture & Everyday Life
“Art and art-based learning provides us with an alternative way of perceiving the climate crisis. It has the potential to motivate new modes of engaging with and caring for a world which is more important than ourselves. Art and art-based learning can encourage us to make new connections between living things, objects and materials,” a ViCCA student proposes.
Art, Education & Entrepreneurship LAB
Art, Education & Entrepreneurship course from the NoVA master programme of Aalto ARTS, in collaboration with the Aalto Ventures Programme
School of Arts News
Join us for the first Aalto Open Science Award Ceremony
All Aaltonians are welcome – no registration required!
Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024 will be hosted by Aalto University
Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024 will be held at Aalto University’s Otaniemi campus and in Zoom 3.–4.6.2024. Please register by May 3.
Aalto Open Science Award Honorary Mention 2023 – Professor Riikka Puurunen leads by example to foster sustainable open science
We interviewed professor Riikka Puurunen, head of Catalysis research group at the School of Chemical Engineering, who received an honorary mention in the first Aalto Open Science Award.
Aalto Open Science Award Third Place Awardee 2023 – Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project
We interviewed the Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project, 3rd place awardees of the first Aalto Open Science Award.School of Arts Events
Public defence in Art Education, MFA Einat Amir
Synthesizing Art and Science: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding Intergroup Relations and Contributing to Social Change (title of thesis)
Wappu 2024
Aalto University's vappu, May Day
Public defence in Art Education, Marja Nurminen
The teaching of drawing in higher arts education – articulating the practitioners’ orientations (title of thesis)
TOKYO Spring Sales
Welcome to the TOKYO Spring Sales of the Aalto ARTS Students & alumni!Past Events
Department of Art Research Assemblage September 2021
This Thursday, September 30th, at 13:15 – 15:00 (Finland) we will have the first Research Assemblage session in this academic year. In Research Assemblage one researching faculty member and one doctoral student present their ongoing, or recent research. Everyone is welcome!
Quality education for sustainable development
This session of Aalto Sustainability Talks discusses education's role on sustainability and sustainable development through quality lenses.
Inaugural ViCCA CROW Awards & Graduation Picnic (and Senior CROW Award for Retiring Senior Lecturer, Taina Rajanti)
17.6.2020
On 17 June as we emerged from lockdown, the MA program in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) hosted an appropriately-socially-distanced, graduation picnic beside the Aalto University amphitheatre.
Longing distance art exhibition @ Kalasataman Vapaakaupunki
Spring exhibition of advanced studies in painting. (Aalto university School of arts, design and architecture)
Online MA Evaluations Next Week at ViCCA 15-17 June
Online MA Evaluations Next Week at ViCCA 15-17 June
MA Programme in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art Public MA thesis exam presentations on Monday 18.5.2020
ViCCA's Public MA thesis exam presentations on Monday 18.5.2020
Spring 2020 MA thesis presentations / Department of Art
Spring 2020 MA thesis presentations / Department of Art (Art Education, ViCCA & NoVA programmes)
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