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Dear applicants / New MA students
The lists below are NOT official. The application office still needs to check that everything is legal and by the rules. The official results will be published on 28.5.2010. You will receive a letter with very good information in it – read it well and act as guided. Also those who are not listed here, will get a letter with information on possibilities to receive feedback.
*Find BELOW too: Press release in Finnish, abstract in English*
INVITATION
Academic dissertation to be presented for public examination with the permission of the Research Board of the Aalto University School of Art and Design Helsinki, in Sampo auditorium (Media Centre LUME), Hämeentie 135 C
Jürgen Scheible, researcher and doctoral student at the Media Lab of the Department of Media within the Aalto University School of Art and Design, received on April 16th 2010 the Best Speaker Award at TECHNARTE International Conference on Art and Technology in Bilbao Spain. During the event Scheible ‘painted’ the ‘Arriaga Theatre’ one of the most emblematic buildings of Bilbao (see photo) using his MobiSpray art tool. MobiSpray uses the Mobile phone as spray can to spray dabs of digital paint via large scale projections onto buildings and objects (http://www.mobispray.com).
Have you ever been interested in learning more about activity theory? Are you interested in hearing about new ways in which cultural and activity research is being used in design? Then you should consider attending FISCAR 2010, 23.-25.5. in Helsinki.
The conference theme is “Perspectives on social creativity, designing and activity”. We conceive of design as a field of knowledge and activity concerned with the creation of artifacts. Creative activities operate with diverse modes of knowing and representations. Creativity is a social quality that involves communication and community formation. Creative activities and design are needed when humans transform their circumstances by developing new technologies and institutions. Creation of the new relies on cultural mediation and historically accumulated resources. Activity theory and socio-cultural approaches offer fresh perspectives on these themes. The conference aims at bringing together diverse points of view and disciplinary orientations to discuss social creativity, design and activity.
For more information and an updated preliminary programme:
http://neumann.uiah.fi/fiscar2010/programme-and-venue
FISCAR in Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113477872005962&ref=ts
“Reflections on the role of digital design, art, and technology in the museum” is the issue on 27th of April. During the past decade Design Museum in Helsinki has collaborated widely with Media Lab of the School of Art and Design, Aalto University. Media Lab students have produced installations to support the contents of the exhibition and to enhance interaction between audience and the museum contents. The most recent projects created for the exhibition Modern[ism] will be presented in the event that discusses the role of museums in the education of media artists and the role of media designers in museum exhibitions.
From the beginning of next month you can apply for our minor subject studies. The application time is 1.4.-30.7.2010. All the information and guidelines are here on our minor subject page.
Post-doctoral position 1.8.2010-31.12.2012:
Experimental interfaces and interaction design
Philip Dean’s exhibition of photography, Long White Cloud 12-22.1.2010 Media Centre LUME gallery
Long White Cloud is a new exhibition of photographs by photographer Philip Dean. Dean spent 5 months in New Zealand during early 2009 as part of a sabbatical leave from his position as Professor and Director of the Media Lab TaiK. During January-May Dean travelled widely in the distant country which is known especially, these days, as a land of film locations for fantasy movies. In reality the modern landscape of New Zealand is the result of millions of years of isolated evolution, extreme geological and climatic conditions, as well as the destruction and exploitation of its virgin environment by European settlers during the last 200 years. The modern New Zealand ‘natural landscape’ is the source of fascination for the exhibition’s main series of large format color prints. The images depict both the famous grand vistas of South Island as well as places of strange beauty, created through the concerted efforts of the pioneers in taming the land.
The research council of TaiK has decided to accept Kari Kuutti’s docentship in the Media Lab. His expertise area is “Theories and methods for design and use of digital artifacts” (“Digitaalisten artefaktien suunnittelun ja käytön teoria ja menetelmät”).
A lot of things will change in our organisation at the beginning of the year 2010.
Our brand remains. We’ll continue to be ‘Media Lab Helsinki’. This is still the home of two new media related MA degree programmes and a doctoral programme.