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: English

    Maximum 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 Disgust

    Friday 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 35h

    Independent 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
    , 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.


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 Disgust

    Friday 4.14. at 9–15 Contact teaching – Review of practice works