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Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) -maisteriohjelma

Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) on Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulun tarjoama kaksivuotinen poikkitieteellinen maisteriohjelma. Ohjelma tutkii kehittyviä tietämyksiä ja käytäntöjä visuaalisten kulttuurien, kuratoinnin ja nykytaiteen risteyskohdissa. Kehotamme opiskelijoita kehittämään omia käytäntöjä näissä ja niiden välisissä asiayhteyksissä. Ohjelma on avoin kaikille asiantuntijoille, tutkijoille, taiteilijoille ja toimijoille, jotka etsivät mahdollisuuksia ymmärtää, haastaa ja muuttaa nykytaiteen ja maailman paradigmoja.

Four ViCCA students stand apart amongst the forest trees looking for mushrooms

A ViCCA student stands in front of projected screens talking about her work with a macbook in hand

A student hangs her work from one of the stairwells in the Vare building at Aalto University

A student arches over the laboratory workspace to look more closely at some of the petri dishes laid out before her. In the background, two students converse with each other.

Students gather outside an old military bunker, in the middle of a forest, on the island of Reposaari

Green moss is placed around a macbook as part of an exhibition display

Close up of a digital piece showing swirls of blue and some fictional text laid over the top

***Images taken before the Covid-19 pandemic prior to official recommendations for social distancing and mask use. Please follow current guidelines and stay safe!

Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) is a two-year Master’s Programme at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture situated in the Greater Helsinki area of Finland. ViCCA’s goal is to optimise the working across disciplines, fields of research, and various occupations that is becoming a hallmark of our times. The programme considers visual culture, curating and contemporary art an agora in which conversations, negotiations, and articulations between theory, science, technology, ecology, urbanism, popular culture, economies and thinking around societal impact can be emboldened.

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ViCCA-pääaineessa taiteilijat, kuraattorit ja tutkijat pyrkivät ymmärtämään, haastamaan ja muuttamaan nykytaiteen ja maailmamme paradigmoja.

Koulutustarjonta

Three happy students in overalls in the Aalto University metro entrance

Aalto-yliopisto on rohkeiden ajattelijoiden yhteisö, jossa tiede ja taide kohtaavat tekniikan ja talouden. Koulutamme muutoksentekijöitä ratkaisemaan yhteiskunnan suuria haasteita ja luomaan hyvinvointia.

The admissions to Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) are organised once a year. The current application time is December 1, 2021 – January 3, 2022.

Department of Art

Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) has a lively student community that organizes variety of activities (for example community dinners, exhibitions and other extracurricular activities). ViMMA is the Student Association for the students of (ViCCA) through which most of these activities are organized.

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The programme merges theoretical and practice-based artistic and curatorial processes, offering an opportunity for the students to develop, deepen and re-contextualise their skills and knowledge across disciplines. At ViCCA, the faculty works with students to diversify and develop their knowledge base, offering concrete opportunities to develop research competencies, methodologies and a sense for artistic and critical thinking.

Art, visual culture and the forms of organisation that go into making them public cannot be described as a mirror of society but rather they are and always have been an active agent in worldmaking. Characterised by a strong transdisciplinary approach across art, science and technology, ViCCA offers students access to emerging knowledge and practices at the intersections of multiple fields through an arts-driven engagement with societal, political, economic, ecological and philosophical concerns.

Encouraging experimentation with diverse practices, contexts and forms of research, ViCCA is open to artists, practitioners, curators and research-oriented individuals with different backgrounds and experience, who are looking for opportunities to understand, challenge and shift the paradigm of contemporary art and the world around us.

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Aalto-yliopiston Taiteiden ja suunnittelun ylioppilaat TOKYO ry on opiskelijajärjestö, jonka tehtävänä on toimia jäsentensä eli Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulun opiskelijoiden ja alumnien yhdyssiteenä.

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Artists from the peripheries in parallax research group take part in a performance: they hold a red string between them. They stand in a snowy forest.

peripheries in parallax: BRAVE NEW PERIPHERIES is a two-part conference mapping out the implications and alliances of ‘peripheries’ and ‘peripheral approaches’ through art, artistic research and related fields in society. Alongside the conference, a durational, curated Art Event ‘MATTER’ takes place at the Aalto University Campus. The opening event will be held on the 22nd January 2021.

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ViCCA congratulates its students and alumni who have been active (and often founding) members of the Museum of Impossible Forms (est. 2017) – an anti-racist and queer-feminist cultural center in the suburb of Kontula – for the 2020 State Art Prize that they received from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.