Credits: 6
Schedule: 26.02.2019 - 05.04.2019
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
Teacher: Maija Tammi
Teaching Period (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
I, II, III, IV, V
Learning Outcomes (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Deepens and strenghtens the students' own personal exprenssion, visual thinking and technical know-how.
Content (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Personal work and group work in the guidance of the teacher of the workshop.
Details on the course content (applies in this implementation):
Disturbing photographs is a
workshop that examines terms abject, uncanny and (aesthetic) disgust in
relation to making photographic art. The workshop examines how photographs can
turn mundane into eerie or disgusting and how disgust and fascination
intertwine in artworks. The aim of the workshop is to learn the concepts of
disgust, uncanny and abject, and apply them as an inspiration or as a method in
the making of photographic artworks.
The course is worth 6 credits, and requires 80% attendance in the
scheduled course days, as well as completing course assignments including
reading texts, discussing, producing the practice work(s) and writing an essay.
For 9 credits additional independent work is required. Additional works are also
presented and discussed on the last day of the course.
Deadline for the course essay is on the 4th of April.
Practice work
Photographic artwork that relates to uncanny and/or abject and/or
disgust. The first review and discussion of practice works is done in a digital
format. For the final review students are required to produce print(s). Each
participating students has an allowance of 50 euros at Printlab at Aalto
University to produce print(s) for the course.
Assessment Methods and Criteria (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Typical ways of working are lectures, group discussions and practice works. Methods vary from workshop to workshop.
Elaboration of the evaluation criteria and methods, and acquainting students with the evaluation (applies in this implementation):
Requirements for the students
Taking part in the discussions, making a practice work and writing an essay (three pages) on how the works relates to either uncanny, abject and/or disgust.
Workshop is evaluated pass/fail.
Workload (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
See details of the contact hours and other ways of working from the workshop description of each workshop.
Details on calculating the workload (applies in this implementation):
Contact teaching and workshops 35h
Independent work 55–145h
The course is worth 6 credits, and requires 80% attendance in the
scheduled course days, as well as completing course assignments including
reading texts, discussing, producing the practice work(s) and writing an essay.
For 9 credits additional independent work is required. Additional works are also
presented and discussed on the last day of the course.
Deadline for the course essay is on the 4th of April.
Study Material (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Teacher will provide in the beginning of the course.
Details on the course materials (applies in this implementation):
Reading material / workshop literature (parts of
these, not the whole books)
Kristeva Julia, Powers
Of Horror. An Essay on Abjection, 1980
Jentsch Ernst, ‘On the Psychology of the
Uncanny’, 1906.
Korsmeyer Carolyn, Savoring
Disgust, The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics, 2011.
Kolnai Aurel, On Disgust, Smith
Barry, Korsmeyer Carolyn (eds.), 2004.
Mori Masahiro, ‘The Uncanny
valley’. IEEE, Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol 19, Issue 2,
2012, p 98– 100. Original text in Japanese in1970. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.libproxy.aalto.fi/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6213238
Mitchell W J T, What do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves
of Images, The University of Chicago Press Ldt., Chicago, London, 2005.
Prerequisites (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Workshops require knowledge of techniques and expression, that will be announced by the teacher.
Grading Scale (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Pass- fail or 1-5, see workshop specific information from study event.
Registration for Courses (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
The order of priority is as follows: 1. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS); 2. exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester; 3. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet; 4. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major’s or programme’s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year 5. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major’s or programme’s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet; 6. students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor; 7. students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject’s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet; 8. students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.); 9. other students.
Details on the schedule (applies in this implementation):
Tuesday 26.2. 9.15-12
Overview
Tuesday 5.3. 9.15-12 Uncanny
Tuesday 12.3. 9.15-12 Abject
Friday 15.3. 13.15-17 Disgust
Tuesday 19.3. 9.15-12
Photographs in relation to Uncanny, Abject and disgus
Tuesday 26.3. 9.15-12 First review of practice
works 1/2
Friday 29.3. 9.15-17 First review of
practice works 2/2
Tuesday 2.4. 9.15-12
One-on-one meetings.
Deadline for the essay (3 pages), 4th of April.
Friday 5.4. 9.15-17 Final review of practice works
- Teacher: Tammi Maija