Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The workshop deepens and strengthens the students' personal approach, visual thinking, and technical skills.The learning outcomes vary and are related to each workshop and they will be described in detail in the course description of each study event.
On a successful completion of the course, students
- have learned and are able to present & share ideas, skills and practices related to the course theme.
- are able to apply their new skills and practices to their own work
- can contextualize the thematic approach into the wider field of contemporary photography and dialogically assess their own practice in that frame
Credits: 3
Schedule: 16.11.2020 - 04.12.2020
Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Marjaana Kella
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Marjaana Kella, Maija Tammi
Contact information for the course (valid 28.09.2020-21.12.2112):
Maija Tammi, maija@maijatammi.com, mobile +358 405424655
CEFR level (applies in this implementation):
Language of instruction and studies (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022):
Teaching language: English
Languages of study attainment: Finnish, Swedish, English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Individual work and group work in the guidance of the teacher of the workshop.
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.Lectures,
discussions and practice works (artworks and essay).Teaching
language: EnglishMaximum amount of
students 14.Monday 16.11. at 9–15 Contact teaching – Introduction and warm up
Friday 20.11. at 9-15 zoom – Uncanny
Monday 23.11. at 9–15 zoom – Abject
Tuesday 24.11. at 9–15 zoom – Aesthetic Disgust
Monday 30.11. at 9–14 zoom – Photography in relation to Uncanny, Abject,
and Aesthetic DisgustFriday 4.14. at 9–15 Contact teaching – Review of practice works
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Typical ways of working are lectures, group discussions and practical works. Methods vary according to the workshop.
Applies in this implementation:
The course is worth 3 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 a short
essay. For 5 credits additional independent work is required. Additional works
are also presented and discussed on the last day of the course.Practice work
Photographic artwork that relates to uncanny and/or abject and/or
disgust. 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.
Workload
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
See the details of the contact hours and other ways of working from the workshop description of each workshop.
Applies in this implementation:
Contact
teaching and workshops 35hIndependent work 46–100h
Study credits 3-5
cr
DETAILS
Study Material
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Teacher will provide in the beginning of the course.
Applies in this implementation:
Reading materials
/ workshop literature (parts of these, not the whole books). And some texts
will be read in class.Kristeva Julia, Powers Of
Horror. An Essay on Abjection, 1980Jentsch 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=6213238Mitchell W J T, What do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves
of Images, The University of Chicago Press Ldt., Chicago, London, 2005.
Substitutes for Courses
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
DOM-E3042 Valokuvataiteen työpajat
Prerequisites
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Workshops require knowledge of techniques and expression, that will be announced by the teacher.
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
4 Quality Education
17 Partnerships for the Goals
FURTHER INFORMATION
Details on the schedule
Applies in this implementation:
Monday 16.11. at 9–15 Contact teaching – Introduction and warm up
Friday 20.11. at 9-15 zoom – Uncanny
Monday 23.11. at 9–15 zoom – Abject
Tuesday 24.11. at 9–15 zoom – Aesthetic Disgust
Monday 30.11. at 9–14 zoom – Photography in relation to Uncanny, Abject,
and Aesthetic DisgustFriday 4.14. at 9–15 Contact teaching – Review of practice works