Tomi Slotte Dufva

Tomi Slotte Dufva

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
A806 Department of Art and Media

Tomi Slotte Dufva (Doctor of Art) is a senior university lecturer at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, specialising in emerging practices within art education. Slotte Dufva also works as an artist focusing primarily on the intersections between art, technology and science. He has taught new media, interactive art and programming from primary schools to universities. He co-founded the art & craft school Robotti, which combines art, science and technology education. Slotte Dufva’s research revolves around post-digital art education, embodied digitality, art and tech, art and science studies, code literacy, media literacy, critical pedagogy, digital feminism, and societal, philosophical and cultural issues in AI research.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...

Areas of expertise

Code, programming, Creative coding, floss, code literacy, Media Art, Media literacy, Art Education, Artificial intelligence, futures studies, post-digital, digitality, digi-grasping, embodied digitality, interactive art, philosophy of the digital

Honors and awards

National Art Education Association (NAEA) Grant

Tomi Slotte Dufva, Christine Liao (Western Carolina University), and Robert Sweeny (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) received an NAEA grant (10000$) to conduct a Large-Scale Survey on Digital Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Arts in K-12 Art Education in the US.
Granted funding (public project funding) Department of Art and Media Jan 2024

Svenska Kulturfonden stipend

Svenska Kulturfonden stipend for artistic research project “Öl som materia och landskap”
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Art and Media Jan 2023

Publications

Beer as a landscape and material

Tomi Slotte Dufva 2025

Kuinka tässä kävi näin? Kuinka ymmärsin kaiken aivan väärinpäin?

Tomi Slotte Dufva 2025 Research in Arts and Education

Reframing Learning to Code

Tomi Slotte Dufva 2025 Postdevelopmental Approaches to Digital Arts in Childhood

Uusi ketsuppi – eli mitä jokaisen pitäisi tietää tekoälystä

Tomi Slotte Dufva 2025 Kriittisen ajattelun aika

Keittiön kautta pedagogisen vuorovaikutuksen pelillisyyteen

Mikael Brygger, Tomi Humalisto, Tomi Slotte Dufva 2024 Jäljen jälkeen: kehittyvä taideopetus ja opettajankoulutus

Grasping AI Entanglements: Digital Feminism and Generative AI

Tomi Slotte Dufva 2024 Humane Autonomous Technology: Re-thinking Experience with and in Intelligent Systems

Mihin tekoäly ei pysty?

Tomi Slotte Dufva 2024 Kirjailija

Sattuma

Tomi Slotte Dufva, Mikael Brygger, Tomi Humalisto, Tiago Martins Pinto 2024

Editorial: Arts Education in a More-Than-Human World

Henrika Ylirisku, Tomi Slotte Dufva, Mikko Snellman 2024 Research in Arts and Education