AXM-E0001 - Thinking Practices in Art & Media, Lecture, 6.9.2022-11.10.2022

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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

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Assess and critically evaluate personal and shared thinking patterns and practices in the fields of art, design, and media.
  2. Describe and discuss historical and past practices of thinking through the lens of retrospection.
  3. Describe and discuss current, topical debates and issues in art, design, and media and their relationship to the historical perspectives.
  4. Speculate and envision future ideas and practices in art, design, and, media.
  5. Apply the thinking practices and ways of making sense (or not making sense) of the world to their future studies.
  6. Recognize the complex conversation that philosophy has contributed to art, media, science and technology.

Credits: 6

Schedule: 06.09.2022 - 11.10.2022

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Bassam El Baroni, Max Ryynänen, Matti Niinimäki, Annakaisa Kultima, Arja Karhumaa

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

Max Ryynänen (teacher in charge) of ViCCA and ArtED major specific component

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:

    This course offers students an introduction to theoretical approaches to art and media and provides conceptual tools to reflect professional practices of their fields. The central goal of the course is to map and co-create a shared ground for students of Art & Media program to work, think, and discuss together. Additionally, the course will familiarize students with some perspectives from the philosophies of art, media, science and technology, historical and modern.

    In this course, theory does not merely refer to theoretical writings, but rather practices of thinking that are historically and epistemologically contextual and contingent. In Art & Media Program, these practices include art education, photography, sound, contemporary art, film, media studies, interaction design, etc. 

  • applies in this implementation

    ViCCA and ArtED Major Specific Component 

    13.9 Systems and Infrastructures

    9:15-11:45       Max Ryynänen: An Introduction to the History of the Western Art System, What Was Let Out of It – and Its Competitors

    Related Reading can be found at this link: http://maxryynanen.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Achebe.pdf

    13:15-15:00      Bassam El Baroni: Infrastructural Re-Examination and Speculation in Art - YOU CAN ACCESS THE LECTURE SLIDES AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:https://www.dropbox.com/s/dx1zm8f1kuarepq/Bassams%20Lecture%20Slides13.09.2022.pdf?dl=0


    27.9 Art and Art Education as Catalysts in Culture and Society

    9:15-11:45      Kevin Tavin: Contemporary Global Approaches to Art Education
    13:15-14:45     Minna Henriksson and Ahmed Al-Nawas Presentation and discussion


    11.10 Fictioning, World-Making and Other Worlds

    9:15-11:45       Juuso Tervo: Fictions and Figurations
    13:00-15:00     Curated screening programme of contemporary Egyptian video works by Bassam followed by open discussion between course participants with Max, Juuso, Bassam

Assessment Methods and Criteria

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Participation in teaching, completed assignments.

    Minimum 80% attendance.

    See MyCourses for more detailed information on evaluations methods and criteria.

  • applies in this implementation

    Participation in class is prioritized for this major specific component 

Workload

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    6 ECTS ≈ 162h

    Lectures, large and small group discussions, group work.

    Participation in the course. Minimum 80% attendance.

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Language : English

    Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn I
    2023-2024 Autumn I

    Enrollment :

    Minimum amount of participants: 8
    Maximum amount of participants varies according to the implementation of the course.

    Registration for Courses: Sisu.

    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-at-aalto-arts

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