Avatud loengud

Infotund: EKAs valminud teostega “kauplemine” turul
28.11 kl 14.30 – 16.00
ruumis A202

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EKAs valmib igapäevaselt palju erinevaid teoseid: fotod, kursuse- ja lõputööd, raamatud, maalid, skulptuurid, tellimustööd koostöös ettevõtete ja organisatsioonidega jne. Iga loometegevuse alguses on osapooltel võimalik kirjalikult kokku leppida kuidas jagunevad teose autorid ja õigused ning milline saab olema teosega “kauplemise” viis.

Küsimused, mida infotunnis käsitleme:
1) Kes on õppeprotsessis valminud teoste autoriteks EKAs ?
2) Missugused on autoriõigused?
3) Kuidas jaotuvad autorite varalised õigused tudengite, õppejõudude ja EKA vahel?
4) Missugused on võimalikud autoriõigustega seotud kokkulepped koostöölepingutes, et vältida hilisemaid vaidlusi ja varalisi kahjusid?

Käsitleme küsimusi jooksva arutelu vormis. Kui teil on konkreetseid küsimusi, millele soovite infotunnis vastust saada, siis palun saata küsimused juba eelnevalt e-posti aadressile: kelli.turmann@artun.ee, et saaksime konkreetseid huvisid arvesse võtta infotunniks ettevalmistamisel.

Infotundi korraldab EKA teadus- ja arendusosakond. Sissejuhatavad ettekanded ettevõtluskoordinaatorilt Ingela Heinaste’lt ja jurist Anne-Riin Kütt’ilt.

24. oktoobril kell 18:00 toimub EKKMi kohvikus järjekorras neljas EKA FOTO 20 klubiõhtu. Vestluse teemaks on “Foto avatud väljal”. Vestlusring toimub inglise keeles.

Võibolla on “fotograafia” – “valgusega joonistamine” – liiga tagasihoidlik termin hõlmamaks täna selle sõnaga tähistatavate kultuuriliste, sotsiaalsete, teaduslike ja sõjaliste praktikate paljusust. Foto singulaarse kujundi jäikus pingestub andmevoogude peatumatu ringluse vastu, luues ruumi- ja võimusuhteid viisidel, mis tihti inimsilmale nähtavad pole. Milliseid kunstiteooriast väljapoole jäävaid valdkondi ja protsesse kunstnikud jälgivad, et teha fotograafiaga huvitavaid asju ja tähele panna, mida fotograafia maailmaga teeb?

Vestlust modereerib Kristel Raesaar ning osalevad Marge Monko, Maija Rudovska, Hirohisa Koike ja Paul Paper.

Jäätist pakub Chicks on Icecream ning DJ on Marta Vaarik.

EKA foto 20 visuaalse identiteedi autoriteks on graafilise disaini osakonna tudengid Mai Bauvald ja Ran-Re Reimann. EKA FOTO 20 veebileht, mis täieneb aasta jooksul infoga osakonna ajaloo kohta, on kättesaadav siin: https://www.foto.artun.ee/.

Täname: Mai Bauvald, Ran-Re Reimann ja Anneli Kripsaar, Eve Kiiler, Marco Laimre, Eesti Kultuurkapital, Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum.

Kogu ürituste programmi saab jälgida siin:

• Eesti Kunstiakadeemia koduleht: https://www.foto.artun.ee/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EKA-Fotograafia-142012159217400/?ref=br_rs
• Sündmus 24. oktoobril EKKMis: https://www.facebook.com/events/192474868315451/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eka_fotograafia/

Lisainfo:

Laura Kuusk
Fotograafia osakond 
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
laura.kuusk@artun.ee
+372 55 584 609

Laura Toots
Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum
laura.toots@ekkm.ee
+372 511 7886

Kolmapäeval, 7. novembril kell 18.00 toimub EKA disainiteaduskonna avatud loeng teemal “ERKI Moeshow – tagasivaade algusaastatesse”, mille käigus uuritakse ERKI Moeshow tekkimist ja korraldust alates kaheksakümnendatest kuni tänapäevani. Vestlusringis jagavad ERKI Moeshow ajaloost mälestusi ürituse korraldajad läbi aastate – Anne Metsis, Andro Kööp, Inessa Josing, Reet Aus ja Piret Mägi. Vestlust modereerib Karin Kiigemägi, ERKI Moeshow 2018 projektijuht.

ERKI Moeshow sai alguse 80ndatel, kui tollase Kunstiinstituudi tudengid otsustasid korraldama hakata moedemonstratsioone, mis oma mässumeelsuse ja avangardsusega tegid silmad ette kõigile teistele toonastele moešõudele. Legendi järgi sai ERKI Moeshow alguse 80ndatel ajakirjast “Noorus”, kust tollane moetudeng Anne Metsis luges Saksa DV-s toimuvatest üliõpilaste moešõudest. Info levis kiiresti ning sütitas kõiki. Nii toimus 1982. aasta kevadel Anne Metsise, Anu Hinti, Jelena Ljutjuki ja Maire Valdma eestvedamisel ning kogu kursuse toel esimene ERKI Moeshow.

“Täna korraldavad moeshow’d ning esinevad ERKI laval juba kunagiste osalejate järeltulijad. Kuigi ERKI tollaste tegijate noorusaeg erineb tänapäevast, on tänaste  noorte inimeste õhin ja entusiasm siiski samasugune,” leiab Karin Kiigemägi, ERKI 2018 peakorraldaja.

“ERKI Moeshow’d ei saa vaadelda sugugi vaid moeloomingu seisukohast moeshow’na, vaid  pigem sündmusena, mis on olnud läbi aja tähelepanuväärne Eesti kunsti- ja kultuurisündmus. ERKI Moeshow ajaloost loengut pidada on omaette väljakutse, kuna teave ERKI ajaloo kohta pärineb suures osas mälestustest, mis omakorda ajapikku muutuvad – inimesed tõstavad esile erinevaid seiku ning tõlgendavad toimunut vastavalt meenutustele ja kontekstile. ERKI-t ei muuda see aga sugugi kehvemaks, vaid annab juurde nö legendaarsuse vibe’i.”

Lisainfo:
Karin Kiigemägi
ERKI Moeshow projektijuht
Email: karin.kiigemagi@artun.ee
Gsm: +372 5035096
https://erki.artun.ee/2018/
FB: facebook.com/ERKIMoeshow/
IG: #erkimoeshow 

Neljapäeval, 18. oktoobril kell 17.00 toimub EKAs (ruumis A302) )Kanada kunstniku Tor Lukasik-Fossi kunstnikuvestlus.

Tor Lukasik-Foss(1967) on Kanadast pärit kunstnik ja kirjanik, kelle teosed uurivad avaliku ruumi ja sotsiaalse ärevuse toimemehanisme. Viimase kümne aasta jooksul on ta tegelenud performatiivsete skultpuuride seeriaga “ebatõenäolised kontserdid”, mis kasutades varjuteatri elemente kompavad skulptuuri avaliku ja privaatse ruumi piire. Lisaks kujutava kunsti praktikale on Lukasik-Foss viimase kahekümne aasta jooksul avaldanud mitu originaalloomingut sisaldavat muusikaalbumit pseudonüümi “tiny bill cody” alt. Tor Lukasik-Foss on hetkel Eesti Kunstnike Liidu ja Hamiltoni Kunsti Euroopa Nõukogu poolt korraldatud neljanädalases reisdentuuris Tallinna Kunstihoones.

Neljapäeval Eesti Kunstiakadeemias toimuval kunstnikuvestlusel kõneleb Tor Lukasik-Foss oma varasemast praktikast, Tallinna residentuurikogemusest ning vaatleb laiemalt sotsiaalset ärevust ning selle mõju skulptuurile ja performance’ile.

www.torlukasikoss.ca  

Vestlus toimub inglise keeles.

18.–19. oktoobril toimub Eesti Kunstiakadeemias Baltimaade arhitektuurikoolide 2018. aasta parimate diplomitööde ülevaatus. Kahe päeva jooksul esitletakse magistri-, rakendusarhitektuuri-bakalaureuse taseme lõputöid, valitakse välja parimad, avatakse diplomitöödest koosnev näitus ning tutvustatakse veebikataloogi.

Võistlustöödega saab juba eelnevalt tutvuda näitusel, mis avatakse pidulikult neljapäeval, 18. oktoobril kell 16.00 EKA II korruse galeriis (Põhja pst 7, Tallinn), kus see jääb avatuks kuni 2. novembrini.

Bakalaureuse- ja magistritööde presentatsioonid toimuvad reedel, 19. oktoobril algusega kell 10.00 EKA suures saalis. Igale osalejale on ette nähtud 15 minutit oma töö presenteerimiseks. Päeva lõpuks selgitab rahvusvaheline žürii välja parimad.

Võistlusel osalevad kokku seitsme Balti arhitektuurikooli BA ja MA tudengid ning võistlustulle astub 17 projekti: 10 Leedust, 4 Eestist ja 3 Lätist.

Sündmused on avalikud, tasuta ning kõik huvilised on oodatud osalema!

Võistlust korraldab Eesti Arhitektide Liit koostöös Leedu ja Läti Arhitektide Liitudega (BAUA).

Lisaks toetavad: Eesti Kultuurkapital, Läti Kultuuriministeerium, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia arhitektuuriteaduskond, Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkooli arhitektuuriinstituut, Riia Tehnikaülikool ja Knauf.

Rohkem infot 18.–19. oktoobril EKAs toimuvate sündmuste kohta ning täpsema ajakava leiate kirjaga kaasas olevast dokumendist.

16. oktoobril kell 18:00 toimub EKKMi kohvikus järjekorras kolmas EKA FOTO 20 klubiõhtu. Vestluse teemaks on: “Kunst ja sõnad”.

Et tänases kaasaegses kunstis sõnadeta enam hakkama ei saa, võib näida ohuna nii kunstile kui eripärasele suhtluskeelele kui ka väljendusvahendite mitmekesisuse säilimisele ühtlustuvas globaalses maailmas. Kas kunst on aktiivselt ja eneseteadlikult tungimas aladele, mis on traditsiooniliselt olnud sõnade pärusmaa? Või on kunst, vastupidi, andmas ära oma positsioone kõnelejana sellest, millest sõnadega rääkida ei saa? Räägime kunsti ja sõnade vahekorrast tänases hüpervisuaalses maailmas, aga ka kaasaegsest kunstist kui globaalsest institutsioonist, mille mängureeglite juurde kuulub üha vältimatumalt kirjaoskus.

Vestlust modereerib Liisa Kaljula ning osalevad Indrek Grigor, Taavi Talve, Siim Preiman, Maarja Kangro ja Laura Kuusk.

Süüa pakub EKA fotograafia osakonna maitselabori tudengite grupp Hirohisha Koike ja Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo juhendamisel. DJ on NexTrax muusikalabelist DhmR.

EKA foto 20 visuaalse identiteedi autoriteks on graafilise disaini osakonna tudengid Mai Bauvald ja Ran-Re Reimann. EKA FOTO 20 veebileht, mis täieneb aasta jooksul infoga osakonna ajaloo kohta, on kättesaadav siin:https://www.foto.artun.ee/

Täname: Mai Bauvald, Ran-Re Reimann ja Anneli Kripsaar, Eve Kiiler, Marco Laimre, Eesti Kultuurkapital, Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum.

Kogu ürituste programmi saab jälgida siin:

Eesti Kunstiakadeemia koduleht: https://www.foto.artun.ee/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EKA-Fotograafia-142012159217400/?ref=br_rs
Sündmus 16. oktoobril EKKMis: https://www.facebook.com/events/273786519928765/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eka_fotograafia/

Kontakt:
Laura Kuusk
Fotograafia osakond, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
laura.kuusk@artun.ee, Tel. +372 55 584 609

Laura Toots
Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum
laura@ekkm.ee, Tel. +372 511 7886

Neljapäeval, 18. oktoobril algusega kell 18.30 toimub Eesti Kunstiakadeemia auditooriumis A501 (Põhja pst 7) avaliku ruumi nõuniku Levente Polyaki avatud loeng. Polyak pühendub oma töös eelkõige linnakeskondade taastamisele, kultuurilistele arengutele ja kogukondlikule kaasamisele. Polyak tuleb Tallinnasse esinema EKA arhitektuuriteaduskonna Avatud Loengute sarja raames ning ta on väljavalitud Tuleviku Arhitektuuri Foorumi finalistidest (FAP)– loengud toimuvad neljapäeviti iga kahe nädala tagant, on inglise keeles ning tasuta.

Levente Polyak on linnaplaneerija, uurija ning sotsiaal-poliitilise agendaga avaliku ruumi nõunik. Pühendudes linnakeskondade taastamisele, kultuurilistele arengutele, kogukondlikule kaasamisele ja innovatsioonile, keskendub tema uurimustöö hoone ehituslikele probleemidele, juhindudes kohalikest materjalidest. Polyak õppis arhitektuuri Budapesti Tehnoloogiaülikoolis, urbanistikat Pariisi Linnaplaneerimise Instituudis ning sotsioloogiat Eötvös Loránd’i Ülikoolis Budapestis ja EHESSis Pariisis. Ta on töötanud külalislektorina Moholy-Nagy Disaini- ja Kunstiülikoolis, Budapesti Tehnoloogiaülikoolis ja Viini Tehnikaülikoolis. Doktorikraadi sotsioloogias kaitses ta Kesk-Euroopa Ülikoolis. Ta on tegelenud linnaosade taaselustamisega New Yorgi linnaplaneerimise ametis ning Pariisis ja Roomas. Aastatel 2012-13 töötas ta Budapesti linnaplaneerimise direktori nõunikuna, olles Budapesti linnaarengu strateegia 2030 kaastoimetaja.

Polyak on kohalikke omavalitsusi linnaplaneerimise ja kogukondade kaasamisel konsulteeriva büroo Eutropian Research & Action kaasasutaja. Hetkel töötab ta Euroopa Investeerimispanga ja Euroopa Regioonide Komitee kodanikedialoogi konsultandina.

Oma loengus pealkirjaga “Rahastades ühistulisi linnu: kogukonnarahandus ja avaliku ruumi ökonoomika” räägib Polyak sellest, kuidas viimastel aastatel on kultuuriline, sotsiaalne, ühiskondlik ja hariduslik ruum muutunud uute elamise, töötamise, õppimise ja kollektiivse läbikäimise viiside laboratooriumiteks. Sellise avaliku ruumi puhul on aga tihti keeruline leida stabiilseid majandusstruktuure või piisavalt finantsvahendeid pikaajalise, jätkusuutliku ja sõltumatu tegutsemise tagamiseks. Uurimusprojekt “Ühistuliste linnade rahastamine” on püüdnud välja selgitada, kuidas kodanikeinitsiatiivid, ühistud, MTÜd, ühisrahastusplatformid, eetilised pangad ja spekuleerimise vastased sihtasutused suudavad toimida väljaspool tavapärase kinnisvaraarenduse dünaamikat ning luua uusi mehhanisme saamaks ligipääsu, osta, renoveerida või ehitada hooneid kogukondadele. “Ühistuliste linnade rahastamine” üritab kogemuste toel aidata ja inspireerida kodanikuühiskonna initsiatiive, aidates neil koguda ühist kapitali, luues stabiilseid finantsmudeleid, tugevdades lokaalset majandust, hoides kasumid naabruskondades ning tagades avalikku ruumi, mis takistab avalikkuse mahasurumist ja kasumi väljaviimise majandusmudelit.

Kuulama on oodatud kõikide Eesti koolide tudengid – olgu siis arhitektuuri, urbanistika, sisearhitektuuri või ka robootika, programmeerimise, disaini ning vabade kunstide valdkonnast; samuti tegutsevad arhitektid, õppejõud ning lihtsalt arhitektuuri- ja ruumihuvilised – eriti aga kõik, kes kaaluvad tulevikus arhitektuuri õppima asumist. Avatud loengud on alati tasuta ja inglise keeles.

EKA arhitektuuri ja linnaplaneerimise osakond on arhitektuuri avatud loenguid korraldanud 2012. aastast alates – igal õppeaastal astub Tallinnas erialase publiku ette kümmekond valdkonna omanäolist praktikut ja hinnatud teoreetikut. EKA arhitektuuriteaduskond on Eesti arhitektuurihariduse keskpunkt ja olulisim kompetentsikeskus kõigis tehiskeskkonda loovates distsipliinides, hõlmates sisearhitektuuri, arhitektuuri ja linnaplaneerimise valdkonda.

Loengusarja toetab Eesti Kultuurkapital. Levente Polyaki loeng on osa Future Architecture programmist. Tegu on innovatsiooni ning eksperimenteerimist edendava programmiga, mis tutvustab arhitektuuri ja Euroopa linnu lähitulevikus kujundama hakkavat noort põlvkonda. Täpsem info: http://futurearchitectureplatform.org.

Kuraatorid: Sille Pihlak, Johan Tali

www.avatudloengud.ee

https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

Lisainfo:

Pille Epner

E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee

Konverents Koostööpööre kunstis: uurimisprotsess kunstipraktikas tegeleb loomeuurimusega laiendatud tähenduses ja koostöö küsimustega loomingulises praktikas.

Mõiste “loomeuurimus” (artistic research) on aktiivses rahvusvahelises kasutuses 2000. aastate algusest. Esimene loomeuurimuslik doktoritöö õppekaval “Kunst ja disain” kaitsti Eesti Kunstiakadeemias 2011. aastal.

“Looming” on seostatav eelteadmiseta sündiva, inspiratsioonilise ja mitteratsionaalse praktikaga ning “uurimus” on mõistetav kui “teaduslik tegevus” — ratsionaalne ja mõistuslik, põhineb eelneval info ja teadmistel. Kuid loomeuurimuse termini ja praktika levik iseloomustab muutunud olukorda.

Kollektiivne uurimispraktika on teaduses tavapärane, kollektiivsus on omane ka teostusprotsessidele disainis. Kaasaegses kujutavas kunstis on kollektiivsus haruldasem, kuid siin on näha põhimõttelisi muutusi: kunstnikud loovad interdistsiplinaarsetes kollektiivides, tellivad oma projektide osi professionaalsetelt teostajatelt, kunstiteosed leiavad aset erinevate meediate, tehnoloogiate ja lokaalsuste koostöös. Varasem individualistlik, introvertne ja heroiline kunstnik on asendumas kommunikaatori ja projektijuhiga, kes on paindlik suhtluses teostajate ja kunsti vastuvõtjatega.

Konverentsi eesmärgiks on kaardistada uurimuslikku ja kollektiivset loomingut kunstis.

Kutsutud esinejad: Malin Arnell, Varvara Guljajeva, Chris Hales, Andi Hektor, Taavet Jansen, Marianne Jõgi, Jan Kaila, Raul Keller, Arne Maasik, Tuula Närhinen, Piibe Piirma, Taavi Talve, Pia Tikka, Julijonas Urbonas ja teised.

Konverentsi korraldajad: Raivo Kelomees (EKA), Chris Hales (Liepaja Ülikool), EKA vabade kunstide teaduskond.

Registreerumine kuni 15. oktoobrini.

Konverents toimub EKA ruumis A501.

Kontakt: raivo.kelomees@artun.ee

Conference programme

Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7, room A501

Day 1

Friday, October 19, 2018

9.30 Coffee

10.00 Welcome words by prof. Epp Lankots, Vice Rector for Research, Estonian Academy of Arts

10.10 Introduction and moderation: Raivo Kelomees (EAA)

10.25 Pia Tikka. Neurocinematics & Art-Science Collaboration

10.50 Piibe Piirma. Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Artistic Research

11.15 Chris Hales. From Tacit Knowledge to Academic Knowledge

11.35 Arne Maasik. On Geometry in Architecture of Louis Kahn

12.00 Lunch break

13.00 Taavi Talve. Paldiski Project, Case Study

13.30 Raul Keller. Process

14.00 Andi Hektor. What is a Research Paper?

14.30 BREAK (a tour in the building)

15.30 Tuula Närhinen. Phenomenotechnics in Visual Art Practice – a hands-on approach

16.00 Julijonas Urbonas. Gravitational Aesthetics and Exodisciplinary Art

16.30 Questions and discussion

Day 2

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7, room A501

10.00 Morning coffee

10.20 Summary of the previous day and moderation: Chris Hales

10.30 Varvara Guljajeva. From Interaction to Postparticipation: The Disappearing Role of the Active Participant

11.00 Malin Arnell. The Word for Research is Action – engaging a live dissertation.

11.30 Jan Kaila. 20 Years of Artistic Research – what has been lost and what has been found? (45 min)

12.20 Questions and discussion

12.30 Lunch break (45 min)

13.15 Chris Hales. Creating and Running a Practice-led Doctorate in Latvia, 2009 – 2018

13.35 Marianne Jõgi. Spatio-temporal self-similarity in the creative process

14.00 Taavet Jansen. NEUROTHEATER as an interdisciplinary collaboration form: example from New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre

14.30 Break (15 min)

14.45 Doctoral students presentations ca 15 min each

14.45 Tze Yeung Ho

15.00 Rait Rosin

15.15 Hirohisa Koike

15.30 Conclusion

18.00 and later. Options in the city:

• NU Performance Festival: avaõhtu / opening night

Koht/location: Sveta Baar (Telliskivi 62, Tallinn)

• VI Artishok Biennial

From 20 to 28 October, the passenger terminal of the Baltic railway station in Tallinn will host the VI Artishok Biennial (VI AB) which will use the format of a fashion exhibition. Starts 18.00

/Summary of speakers’ biographies and presentations see below/

Short bios:

Malin Arnell (SE) PhD, interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator is a frequent collaborator with other artists, activists and writers. http://www.malinarnell.org/

Varvara Guljajeva (EE) MA, is an artist and a researcher. Varvara is a PhD candidate at Estonian Academy of Arts. http://www.varvarag.info/

Taavet Jansen (EE) has been working on the field of performing art for more than 20 year – as a dancer, choreographer, director, sound-designer, light-designer, video-designer, interactivity programmer etc. http://taavetjansen.mimproject.org/

Marianne Jõgi (EE) MA, is an artist based in Tallinn. She graduated from the Georg Ots Music School where she majored in music theory. She holds an MA in sculpture and installation from the Estonian Academy of Arts. http://www.mariannejogi.com/

Jan Kaila (FI) DFA, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts/Art University Helsinki. He was one of the founding members of the European Artistic Research Network in 2004 and in 2010 he was nominated as a member of the executive board of the Society of Artistic Research. Between 2011-2013 he was a member of ELIA´s executive board. https://www.uniarts.fi/en/jan-kaila-0

Chris Hales (GB) PhD, is a long-time specialist of the interactive moving image, as artist-practitioner, educator (Bachelors, Masters, Doctoral) and researcher. http://smartlab-ie.com/faculty/dr-chris-hales/

Andi Hektor (EE) PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn. https://www.etis.ee/CV/Andi_Hektor/est?lang=ENG

Raul Keller (EE) MA, is a professor and head of the New Media chair at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Based in Tallinn. http://raul.kuuratsanikud.ee/index.php/en/

Arne Maasik (EE) is a photographer and artist with an education in architecture. http://arnemaasik.org/

Tuula Närhinen (FI) PhD, is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.tuulanarhinen.net/

Piibe Piirma (EE) PhD, is an artist and researcher based in Tallinn. http://www.piibepiirma.com/

Taavi Talve (EE) earned MA from the Estonian Academy of Arts (2008). Member of the artist collective Johnson and Johnson (2005). Docent of Sculpture and Installation department at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Pia Tikka (FI) PhD, is a professional filmmaker and EU Mobilitas Research Professor at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM) and MEDIT Centre of Excellence, Tallinn University. http://enactivevirtuality.tlu.ee

Julijonas Urbonas (LT) is an artist, designer, researcher, engineer, Vice-Rector for Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Vilnius, and PhD student in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, London. http://julijonasurbonas.lt/

Raivo Kelomees (EE) PhD, is an artist, critic and new media researcher, holding a Senior Researcher position at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Lives and works in Tallinn. www.kelomees.net

Summary of speakers’ biographies and presentations:

Malin Arnell

The Word for Research is Action – engaging a live dissertation

Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action)* was articulated / manifested over the course of 72 hours, situating itself within and proceeding from KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space, a decommissioned nuclear reactor hall 25 meters below ground on the campus of Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), May 27-29, 2016. The opponents and the examining committee were invited to become part for 42 hours; so was the audience—as agentially intra-acting components.

http://dissertationthroughaction.space/

* The English word dissertation translated to Swedish makes “avhandling.” When you break the word into its composite parts (“av” and “handling”), “av” can be translated to of, by, for, from, with. I chose to translate it to “through,” because I have pursued my research through the actions of my practice. “Handling” can be translated to action, document, or deed. I chose “action” to emphasize the continually unfurling and shifting nature of this research, and to echo Hannah Arendt, who maintained that actions have no end.

Biography:

Interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator Malin Arnell, PhD, is a frequent collaborator with other artists, activists and writers. Through these collaborative practices, Malin works with key issues for participating in (social) domains by emphasising the porous intimacy between environments and actions. In doing so, Malin focuses on the experiences around/in/through/of the body (my body, their body, our body) by incorporating the affectivity between relationalities, territories, and power.

Longer bio: http://www.malinarnell.org/bio/bio/

Varvara Guljajeva

From Interaction to Postparticipation: The Disappearing Role of the Active Participant

The presentation introduces my practice-based dissertation which analyses and contextualises passive audience interaction, in the form of post-participation. The research explores the paradoxical situation in interactive art, where the artworks that demonstrate no direct audience interaction are addressed as interactive ones. It is argued that the concept of post-participation helps to address the shift from an active to a passive spectator in the complex age of dataveillance—an age where humans are continuously tracked, traced, monitored, and surveilled without their consent.

Biography:

Varvara Guljajeva is an artist and a researcher and currently a PhD candidate at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has been invited as a visiting researcher to IAMAS (Ogaki, Japan),  LJMU (Liverpool, UK), and Interface Cultures (Linz University of Art and Design).

Varvara unites with Mar Canet in the form of the artist duo Varvara & Mar. The duo has been exhibiting in international shows since 2009. Their works have been shown at MAD in New York, FACT in Liverpool, Santa Monica in Barcelona, Barbican in London, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Ars Electronica museum in Linz, ZKM in Karlsruhe, etc. The duo’s work is frequently inspired by the digital age and in their practice they confront social change and the impact of the technological era.

http://www.varvarag.info

Taavet Jansen

NEUROTHEATER as a interdisciplinary collaboration form: an example from the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre

In my short presentation, I will talk about the TLU summer school “Experimental Interaction Design: physiological computing technologies for performative arts ” held in ITMO University in St.Petersburg: how artists and scientists met in this one-week laboratory; what were the main concepts we discussed; how was the whole process held; and what are the final thoughts.

Biography:

Taavet Jansen has been working in the field of performance art for more than 20 years—as a dancer, choreographer, director, sound-designer, light-designer, video-designer, interactivity programmer etc. Studied Art and Science at Den Haag Art Academy and Dance and New Technologies at the Amsterdam Theatre school. Taavet is one of the founders of the technological art network MIMproject, and head of the performing arts department at TÜ Viljandi Cultural Academy.

http://taavetjansen.mimproject.org/

http://www.mimproject.org/

Marianne Jõgi

Spatio-temporal self-similarity in the creative process

Neurological evidence suggests a specialisation of the cerebral hemispheres when processing temporal and spatial information from the sound field. Further studies have revealed optimal geometric principles as well as digital technologies for creating sustainable sound fields. The presentation will focus on links between the concepts of physiological and cultural sustainability.

Biography:

Marianne Jõgi (b.1983 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an artist based in Tallinn. She graduated from the Georg Ots Music School where she majored in music theory. She holds an MA in sculpture and installation from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Her postgraduate research and practice involves investigations at the intersection of architectural acoustics and art, with the aim of integrating sensory environmental technologies with spatial forms. She has been exhibiting work since 2005. In 2013, Jõgi was awarded the Young Artist Award (Estonia) for her installation Inaudibles.

Jan Kaila

20 Years of Artistic Research – what has been lost and what has been found?

I will talk about the situation within Artistic Research (AR) in 2005 or so, in comparison with how it looks today. My questions are: Do arts need fundamental research (like in the sciences)? Is the PhD in the arts educating “better” artists or is it educating researchers that  have a completely different context than for example MA-students? Is AR a new player in the “hierarchy of the art world ? if it is – what are the consequences?

Biography:

Jan Kaila (born 1957) studied at the Doctoral Studies Program at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts from 1997 to 2002. The subject of his doctorate, completed in 2002, was Photographicality and Representation in Contemporary Art.

Kaila worked in the 1980s and 1990s as a teacher and lecturer in several Nordic photography schools, including the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the School of Photography at Gothenburg University. In 2001, he was elected Professor of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and, in 2004, he was appointed Professor of Artistic Research at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008, he was elected Vice Rector of the Academy.

Kaila was one of the founding members of the European Artistic Research Network in 2004 and in 2010 he was nominated as a member of the executive board of the Society of Artistic Research. Between 2011-2013 he was a member of ELIA´s executive board.

Kaila has worked as an evaluator of fine art educations and artistic research in Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria and Ireland and he has lectured about research in United States, France, Germany, Hungary and Latvia.

Since 1980, Kaila has held one-man exhibitions and participated in group shows in many Nordic and Central European countries, Russia, the United States, Japan, South Korea and China. Kaila has also worked as a curator and has published writings about visual art and photography.

Since 2014 Kaila worked as Scientific Advisor of Artistic Research at the Swedish Research Council and as a Senior Researcher at the Art University Helsinki being in charge of the by Swedish Research Council funded project Poetic Archaeology. In 2018 Kaila started working as the Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts/Art University Helsinki.

Chris Hales

From Tacit Knowledge & Collaborative Practice to Academic Knowledge & Individual Practice

This short talk will present a personal journey starting from the enthusiasm of making interactive artworks in an intuitive manner to the drudgery of a more informed and methodologic approach for doctoral purposes. The willing collaborator transforms into an individualistic academic researcher. Let’s discuss!

Creating and Running a Practice-led Doctorate in Latvia, 2009—2018

A short presentation about how a new doctoral course was developed at Liepaja University, the first practice-led arts degree in Latvia. Some conclusions will be drawn from the experiences and outcomes of creating the course and actually delivering it.

Biography:

Long-time specialist of the interactive moving image, as artist-practitioner, educator (Bachelors, Masters, Doctoral) and researcher. PhD in 2006: ‘Rethinking the Interactive Movie’. Currently working independently and as a visiting lecturer in various educational institutions. Associate Professor (Docent) at the Liepaja University ‘New Media Art’ programme and Director of Studies of its doctoral course. Exhibitions of interactive film installations date from ARTEC’95 in Japan, to ZKM’s Future Cinema (2003), the Prague Triennale of 2008, the X111 Media Forum in Moscow in 2012 and most recently the premiere of You·Who? at the Madeira Film Festival 2018.

Andi Hektor

What is a Research Paper?

What is a research paper? A research paper is an academic work that is published in an academic journal and follows a rather standardised structure, e.g. IMRAD (introduction, methods, results, and discussion). The paper has usually multiple authors with (or without) special roles. A new trend is that the data presented by a paper should follow FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) principles. But what is the content of a paper? Is it some new knowledge and data? In the talk I will point out similarities between a research paper and a story, a work of art and an arbiter of fashion.

Andi Hektor

is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn.

https://www.etis.ee/CV/Andi_Hektor/est?lang=ENG

Raul Keller

Process is a piece which documents a technological and somewhat mediaarcheological approach to a process of physically inscribing sound into material, of homebrewed vinyl/plastic scribing with the emphasis on the emerging artefacts and outcomes of the process. It begins with a research into online DIY cultures and history of lofi sound reproduction on X-ray film sheets and continues into revisiting/revamping the historical professional devices. Perhaps the process will evolve into new and alternative physical reproduction devices that are technologically set back from the current state-of-the-art by decades but are lead by a different mindset.

Bio
Since end of 90s has been engaged in a multitude of contemporary art practices, focusing on site-specific sound installation, performance, improvisation, DIY culture, video- and radiophonic art. Sonic performances and radio art with LokaalRaadio (with Katrin Essenson, Hello Upan). Member of Eesti Elekter, experimental electronics performance group (Kerikmäe, Leemets, Lond, Tikas, Tikas). Free impro noise duo Post Horn (with Hello Upan). Performed as Paul Cole with his group The Great Outdoors in burlesque americana rock genre. Founding member of MKDK, A Dynamic Collective of Music and Arts. Founder of radio art festival Radiaator (with Katrin Essenson). Member of artist collective MIMproject. Works commissioned / performances in Great Britain, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Iceland, Brazil, India, Poland, Russia and The Baltic States. Since 2014 professor and head of New Media chair in the Estonian Academy of Arts. Residing in Tallinn, Estonia.

http://raul.kuuratsanikud.ee/index.php/en/biocv-eng

Arne Maasik

On Geometry in the Architecture of Louis Kahn

The Louis Kahn project: Louis Kahn (1901-1974) is considered one of the greatest architects of the 20th century, and he has a direct link with Estonia—Kahn lived in Kuressaare until he was five years old and visited his home island again in 1928, when he was a young architect. The Louis Kahn Estonia Foundation, the art historian Heie Treier and Estonia’s most recognized architectural photographer Arne Maasik have looked at the striking similarities between the architecture of Louis Kahn and the sacral architecture found on Saaremaa. In his lecture Arne Maasik will give a brief overview of his journeys to Kahn-related locations in the US, India, Bangladesh and Saaremaa, Estonia.

Arne Maasik is a photographer and artist with an education in architecture.  He has participated in long-term projects involving large-scale research and had numerous solo exhibitions at home and abroad. Arne Maasik’s work is characterised by an awareness of metaphysical undercurrents and muted poetry. As an artist his focus is on metropolises as well as their outskirts, old houses and scrublands, as well as other peripheral living environments that become animated and alive in his photos.

He has worked as a faculty member in the Photography Department of the Tartu Higher Art School, Estonian Academy of Arts. Contributed to many architectural and art publications in Estonia and abroad. Member of the Estonian Artists’ Association since 2003.

http://arnemaasik.org/

Tuula Närhinen

Phenomenotechnique in Visual Art Practice 

My projects examine the inherent visual potential in naturally occurring events. I have constructed visual interfaces that enable us to move beyond the explicit and to grasp the unfurling of a world invisible to the naked eye. Empiric and experimental methods are at the core of the inquiry. This talk focuses on tracings and (photo)graphic recordings. I consider the role of various inscribing apparatuses in a process that allows natural phenomena to manifest themselves. The installations showcase the DIY instruments implicated, encouraging the spectator to participate in the re-presentation of an event.

Biography:

Tuula Närhinen is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland.

Her works explore the pictorial agency of natural phenomena such as water and wind. Re-adapting instruments derived from natural sciences, Närhinen has developed methods for letting trees trace the shape of wind on their branches and found techniques that the enable the waves of the sea to inscribe themselves on paper.

Närhinen holds a Doctorate of Fine Arts (DFA) from the University of the Arts Helsinki. She is a graduate of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (MFA), and the Helsinki University of Technology (M.Sc. in Architecture). Find her at www.tuulanarhinen.net

Piibe Piirma

Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Artistic Research

Interdisciplinarity as the combining of academic disciplines into a single study is a concept increasingly used in all instances where the finding of something new and unique and the crossing of boundaries between fields is considered important. This concept in more general terms is linked to the 20th century but its historical roots lie within Greek philosophy. In short, the interdisciplinary approach is related to the aim to create more perfect knowledge because in order to resolve important problems, staying within specific disciplines in a traditional or conventional manner is not enough.

Collaboration between art and science permits highly specific characteristics to be discovered that do not fit into the boundaries of conventional scientific research or the practice-based study of an artist. In what way is it important and novel both in terms of the focus on disciplines as well as the greater inclusion than before – in terms of collaboration in which the lines of thought of the scientific, societal, political, ethical and aesthetic world views are in harmony? The diversity of lines of thought and potential solutions, as well as the fact that engaging in science can involve many intuitive ideas and – until now – uninvolved groups of society leads us to analyse the term of transdisciplinarity.

Biography:

Piibe Piirma is media artist, curator and teacher based in Tallinn, Estonia. She has worked as designer and visual artist since 2002 and curated several new media art exhibitions since 2006. Piibe’s latest activities were related with PhD studies at Estonian Academy of Arts since 2009. She graduated on 2015, the title of her thesis was “Hybrid Practice. Art and Science in Artistic Research”. In her research she were focusing on her artistic experience by collaborating different Science labs in Estonia – TUT Centre of Biorobotics, TUT Department of Chemistry, UT Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, TUT Institute of Marine Systems etc.

http://www.piibepiirma.com/

Taavi Talve

Paldiski Project, Case Study

The Paldiski Project. This case study focuses on communal art practices in Paldiski by the artist group Johnson and Johnson in terms of artistic collaboration and collectively elaborated meaning.

Biography:

Born 1970, Tartu. Earned MA from the Estonian Academy of Arts (2008). Member of the artist collective Johnson and Johnson (2005). Docent of Sculpture and Installation department at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Pia Tikka 

Neurocinematics & Art-Science Collaboration 

I will discuss the first hand knowledge gained from several collaborative projects in which I have worked as a consulting film expert, and my own neurocinematic projects in which I have functioned as the principal investigator. I will highlight the diversity of issues one faces in collaborations between artists and scientists. Especially interesting will be to reflect conceptual, technological and methodological differences between arts and sciences. The discussion will range from conceptual to technological issues, however the focus will be on challenges such as finding shared language, working methods, best division of labor and responsibilities and authorship.

Biography:

Dr. Pia Tikka is a professional filmmaker and EU Mobilitas Research Professor at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM) and MEDIT Centre of Excellence, Tallinn University. She has directed fiction films “Daughters of Yemanjá”, “Sand Bride”, and the Möbius Prix Nordic winning cinematic installation “Obsession”. As the leader of the research groups NeuroCine and Enactive Cinema, she has published on the topics of neurocinematics and enactive media, and written the book “Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense.” She has been honoured with titles of Adjunct Professor of New Narrative Media at the University of Lapland and Fellow of Life in the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image. Currently her ENACTIVE VIRTUALITY research group studies the viewer’s experience of co-presence emerging in facial encounters with an enactive screen character. http://enactivevirtuality.tlu.ee

Julijonas Urbonas

Gravitational Aesthetics and Exodisciplinary Art

For almost a decade, working between amusement park design, space medicine, choreography, sci-fi and robotics, the artist Julijonas Urbonas has been developing various creative tools of negotiating gravity: from a killer rollercoaster to an artificial planet made up entirely of human bodies. In these projects he coins the term gravitational aesthetics, an artistic approach exploiting the means of manipulating gravity to create experiences that push the body and imagination to its extremes. In this lecture he will introduce his creative methodology by surveying a selection of his projects.

Biography:

Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, designer, researcher and engineer. He is Vice-Rector for Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Vilnius, and a PhD student in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, London.

Before embarking on an artistic career, since childhood, Julijonas worked in amusement park development. In 2004, he became the head of an amusement park in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and ran it for three years. Having worked in this field — also as a designer and engineer — he became fascinated with what in his research he calls ‘gravitational aesthetics.’ This experience is unavailable elsewhere, and he became intrigued by this under-developed topic. Since then the topic has been at the core of his artistic research, intermingling such fields as critical design, speculative engineering, social sci-fi, performative architecture, choreographic heuristics, medicine, theatre and dance.

His work has been exhibited internationally and received many awards, including the Award of Distinction in Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2010. His projects can be found in private and museum collections such as the permanent collection of the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM).

http://julijonasurbonas.lt/

Raivo Kelomees 

PhD (art history), artist, critic and new media researcher. Presently working as senior researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn. He studied psychology, art history, and design at Tartu University and the Academy of Arts in Tallinn. He has published articles in the main Estonian cultural and art magazines and newspapers since 1985. His works include the book “Surrealism” (Kunst Publishers, 1993) and an article collection “Screen as a Membrane” (Tartu Art College proceedings, 2007), “Social Games in Art Space” (EAA, 2013). His Doctoral thesis was “Postmateriality in Art. Indeterministic Art Practices and Non-Material Art” (Dissertationes Academiae Artium Estoniae 3, 2009).

In recent years he has been participating on conferences dedicated to new media, digital humanities, theatre and visual art in São Paulo, Manizales, Plymouth, Krems, Riga, Shanghai, Göteborg, Hong Kong, Dubai and other places.

www.kelomees.net

This event is organised by the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts, supported by the ASTRA project of the Estonian Academy of Arts – EKA LOOVKÄRG (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).