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 course examines sound art and sound studies issues in the diverse and multi-faceted context of gender issue problematics. The conceptual division between theory and praxis is abandoned as obsolete, and all doing at the course aims for the vital and visceral in-between-state of those two. The course aims to encourage students to strive for new territories of doing and thinking in their artistic paths through various mixes of sound and text related embodied acts. The main goal of the course is to provide mixed media tools for critical elaboration, creation and reflection of an artistic process.   

Credits: 5

Schedule: 11.01.2022 - 28.01.2022

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Antti Ikonen, Saarikivi

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    The course explores the intertwining activities of listening, writing, sensing and recording sounds in terms of performative writing/field recording, artistic research, and tactile listening. The activities in the course include reading/discussing, writing/touching, recording/listening/sensing, and moving/reflecting sounding frequencies and artistic work. The relevant material will include writings from the wide field of sound studies and sound philosophy, post-critical art theories; sounds from past and future, and improvisational encountering. Touch, multimedia, new networking and virtual fluidities of sonic/textual flows can be understood as potential fields of diverse feminine contribution that will be explored in the course. The course aims to encourage students to strive for new territories of doing and thinking in their artistic paths through various mixes of sound and text related embodied acts. The main goal of the course is to provide mixed media tools for critical elaboration, creation and reflection of an artistic process.

Assessment Methods and Criteria
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    The activities in the course include reading/discussing, writing/touching, recording/listening/sensing, and moving/reflecting sounding frequencies and artistic work.   

DETAILS

Study Material
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    The relevant material will include writings from the wide field of sound studies and sound philosophy, post-critical art theories; sounds from past and future, and improvisational encountering.

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Period:

    2020-2021 Spring III

    2021-2022 Spring III

    Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=DOM-E5117

    Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts

    in Weboodi, at least one week before the course starts

     

    The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)

    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.

     

    Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.

    This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.