Research meeting, 08.02.2012, 9:00-10:00, room 328 Present: Lily Díaz, Heikki Nuutinen, Merja Helle, Maija Töyry, Mika Tuomola, James Nesfield, Koray Tahiroğlu, Young-ae Hahn, Marja Seliger. The agenda: Discussion of the SAAB review board visit to Aalto. James introduced himself, working in Koray’s group, DA student Lily: we can have a quick round and go through things going on, then we can focus on SAAB. Mika: what’s going on Arki? Lily: K-H is in Japan, they are finishing their projectcs and re-grouping. Marja: A new project “Shaping markets for sustanabiility”. A green growth program by tekes, a big one: 85k€. Tekes selected eight consortions for funding; Aalto (Dept of Media/graphic design + tkk) and VTT, University of Helsinki, MTT and Demos Our part Young-ae Hahn, Marjatta Itkonen, Marja Seliger, Sofia Pusa and a civil worker (part time). Sofia has funding from “Kulttuurirahasto”. There is two groups; 1) consumers 2) “kestävä ateria (sustainable meal)”; companies who make lunches for hospitals, schools etc. Has to find out what is “ruoka päivä” (meal day), we create visualizations of sustainable meal to help to create a model. In TKK they are working with a program to for internet. Cooperation with University of Helsinki. Another project with Ilmatieteenlaitos (Finnish Meteorological Institute) and SYKE (a department of Ministry of Environment). Idea is the create a climate guide for everybody. Aalto’s focus on information graphics. We need people from media lab for this, we don’t have funding yet. Have already talked with Markku Reunanen. Mika: There is a City Sets exhibition in Paris. Funding application to Uudenman rahasto. Heidi Tikka and Mika Tuomola in Paris March 15. Marja Seliger in Paris March 23. In May another exhibition. City Sets paper accepted in Cumulus Conference, May 24-26 in Helsinki. Mika will be away first weeks of June. Merja: 1) Personal media day project, 2) Media experience project, 3) Hyperlocal content (under term ‘digital media’). Four MA students. All info in blog? Have been doing Media experience for two years so far. Cooperation with Marja interesting. International conferences coming. Intrernational review in May; how

digitality is changing newspapers. Mika: … Kallio archives March 14. Transmedia storytelling together with film dept Anu Maja. Studying how same story can be transferred between different medias. Needs funding for three doc researchers. Cross-over concept with practice and tv with virtual world and games. We could have a meeting together with these issues later. Merja: I agree. Maija: Nanna Särkkä’s project ‘Visua power’ includes Kauppalehti and Aalto University Magazine; how visual brands are organized in different platforms (internet, tablet, web…), what does it mean in different platforms and how graphic designers run this system. Nanna collects audience reactions/opinions. We use cross media platforms terms, not storytelling. That is another point of view. Merja: There are three doc students in research group who are they are experts in this. Maija: Wa are working studying how to analyze qualitative data this spring. We have to teach separately research work and analyses to researchers. We should talk what teaching is needed, about theoretical approaches. We are working same methods this spring how to make thematic classifications. Joke Hermes asked to teach one week workshop for MA students. Mika: Merja, what is your research relation to video? Merja: developing web sites, how readers use interactivity. User generated issues. Mika: is there relationship to fiction and drama? Merja: instant information, only news mainly. What users generate in web. In city area news. Company we are working with has many channels. They have a big EU project how to use open data. Mika: Cross media/new media thing interesting to continue in next seminar, to get benefit from each others’ works. In our research tv, film shooting in focus; they are changing. Lily: How to make schematic classification: I have been using “soft ontologies” Engine. This is something we could share. It could be useful for everybody. Merja: we are organizing a course how to use it?

Lily: that would be a very good thing. Lily: An Atlas course coming up. Lily: Classifying data could be anther meeting. Koray: We have tried thematic analysis. We have been hassling our experiments, how to valuate. Merja: Kennet Härmälä is an expert on SSP! Lily: I’ll show SAAB review slides (slides) We introduced sour scientific results, we showed the publications we liked the most, there is not a lot coming from graphic design or photography – next year will be different (according to Merja and Maija). The presentation had to be given in 10 minutes then 20 minutes feedback. (!the name of Merja’s group has to be corrected!). We meet SAAB group once a year, we tell what have done and they give feedback how to improve. Important that we can see what is happening elsewhere. We have to present to ourselves and then to SAAB. We have to do more of that together. We develop our (key performance indicators) kpi’s. we would continue our developing kpi’s. we don’t have to be copying disciplines. Mika: slide 15; when you have a concrete experiment it’s interesting to bring people from different fields together, crucial for the department. I like genres tools, is there a reason why we separate practice led and artistic research? Lily: we need to develop it more. We could learn from photography. There is balance to be found. We don’t have to change everything we do, but focus how to do it better. How to evaluate it, how other people will accept it better. Very clear words were that we have the artistic and design identity not to apologize, we are confident, that is the major challenge in Aalto. Koray: it is very important and expected from other parties. We have to make it clear in the beginning (artistic outcome). Merja: we call it developmental research. Artistic research is always tied to production. We have to apply some rules in research. Mika: how to get the confidence, when you have a screenwrites field, I gain respect from face to face contact. screenwriting is actually a discipline of art. Goldsmiths University cooperation interesting, a very highly respected in UK and world wide. Arian Ursu, an important person to contact. we should ask how they do things there.

Lily: EU funding in April. Mika: Could it be possible somebody to give their opinions of our presentation. to get info how they do it. Merja. Visiting their web page would give an impression how much work students have to do. Mika: they have been doing successful recruitments. Lily: two things: minutes will be sent to you. Dominic Surel gives lecture and a workshop in March. Angela dalle Vacche in May > info to come. Merja: Uhrman interested to give an lecture, info coming … Next meeting Wednesday March 14, 9:00-10:00, room 328!

Department of Media About our research in 2011 23.01.2012

Lily Diaz-Kommonen

Philip Dean

Merja Salo

Artistic research, since 1998…

Petri Anttonen: The Touch of Time, 2006

Reported results (Year 2011)

Department of Media International refereed journals 13 National refereed journals 3 International peer-reviewed conference publications 19 National edited publications 2 International edited publications 7 Refereed articles in compilations 5 Monographs 1 Dissertations 2 + 1*

Total: 53

* Including staff dissertation, Dr. Merja Helle.

Reported results (Year 2011)

Department of Media International grants and awards 3 National grants and awards* 15 International artistic productions 37 National artistic productions 60 International art and design publications 17 National art and design publications 16 Monographs 1

* Including the 2011 State Award for Photography, Prof. Merja Salo

Total: 139

Publications (Year 2011)

Ten publications we like the most

•  Acuna, Blanca. (2011). Digital Pre-Hispanic Cultures: The Design Process of the Digital Interface. Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4. Common Ground Publishing LLC, USA.

•  Díaz, L.; Ekman Ulrik (2011).Mobile Ubiquity in Public and Private Spaces. Digital Creativity, Volume 22 (3). Routledge, London. (Routledge journals, editors choice)

•  Díaz, Lily; Reunanen, Markku ; Acuna, Blanca; Timonen, Atte. (2011). ImaNote: A web-based multi-user image map viewing and annotation tool. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) Vol. 3, No. 4. ACM Press, New York, USA.

•  Kohonen, Iina. (2011). The Heroic and the Ordinary: Photographic Representations of Soviet Cosmonauts in the Early 1960's. Soviet Space Culture. Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies. Eva Maurer, Julia Richers, Monica Ruthers, Carmen Scheide. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.

•  Kouratoras, M. (2011). Digital dramaturgy of cruelty: Antoine Artaud: Ludology and the plague metaphor in contemporary video games and new media. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds Vol. 3, No. 2, Intellect Journals, Bristol, UK.

Ten publications we like the most

•  Jylhä, Antti; Ekman, Inger; Erkut, Cumhur; Tahiroğlu, Koray. (2011). Design and Evaluation of Human–Computer Rhythmic Interaction in a Tutoring System. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2. MIT Press, USA.

•  Lankoski, Petri. (2011). Player Character Engagement in Computer Games. Games and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 4. Sage, USA.

•  Marttila, Sanna; Hyyppä, Kati ; Kommonen, Kari-Hans. (2011). Co-Design of a Software Toolkit for Media Practices: P2P-Fusion Case Study. New Media Technologies and User Empowerment. Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer and Eugène Loos (Eds.). Peter Lang - International Academic Publishers, USA.

•  Salo, Merja. (2011). On Location: Proper and Not So Proper Places of Fashion in Finnish Fashion Photography. Langkjaer, Michael A.; Sigurjónsdóttir, Aesa (Eds.). Images in Time. Flashing Forward, Backward, In Front and Behind Photography in Fashion, Advertising and the Press. Sigurjonsdottir, Aesa.

•  Toikkanen, Tarmo; Lipponen, Lasse. (2011). The Applicability of Social Network Analysis to the Study of Networked Learning. Interactive Learning Environments, Vol. 19, No. 4. Taylor & Francis, UK.

Promoting research education (Year 2011 - onwards)

•  Introductory courses in research methods for MA students in all units (modules in Finnish and English).

•  Helsinki Photomedia 2012: The conference is a new venue for researchers working on different aspects of photography and it will be arranged every two years.

•  Integrative educational activities focusing on special topics such as research methods. –  Example: Workshop with Sarah Pink on visual ethnography,

workshop with Samuel Weber.

Department of Media Some of our current research projects

•  Le Group (Learning environments): iTEC: Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom, is a four-year, pan-European project focused on the design of the future classroom. The largest project of its kind in Europe.

•  Sound and Physical Interaction (SOPI): The Notion of Participative and Enacting Sonic Interaction (PESI), funded by the Academy of Finland; Human Emotional Interaction (HEI), funded by TEKES.

•  Next Media Research Group (NMRG): Cost Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, transforming Societies”. Role of media in organizations and society. TEKES funded projects: eReading, Hyperlocal, Personal media day.

Department of Media Some of our current research projects

•  Graphic Design and Crucible Studio (Interactive narrative): City Sets in World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, DIMEKE - Content Development for Digital Media project.

•  ARKI (Role of digital in everyday Life): EU Screen, funded by the European Union and contributor to Europeana. In ARKI, the project is developing the Journal of European Television History and Culture, the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal in the field of television studies.

•  Systems of Representation in Digital Cultural Heritage (Sysrep): Re-discovering Vrouw Maria, collaboration project with National Board of Antiquities, DesignFest, a TEKES funded project.

Department of Media Doctor of Arts theses (2011)

•  Media Lab: Sormina, A new musical instrument using new media technology, Juhani Räisänen.

•  Photography: Camera Pixela, Ammattilaisten näkemyksiä valokuvauksen digitalisoitumisesta, Pekka Makkonen.

•  Staff member: Merja Helle, Changing journalism. Activity theory and media concept as tools for understanding and developing work practices in newsrooms, (Toimitustyö muutoksessa. Toiminnan teoria ja mediakonsepti tutkimuksen ja kehittämisen kehyksenä). University of Tampere.

Department of Media (Projected doctor of Arts theses, 2012)

•  Graphic design: At least 1. •  Media Lab: At least 2. •  Photography: At least 2.

Department of Media Post-doc research

•  Graphic design: Young-ae Hahn, hvMuseum, Information graphics, Research institute post.

•  Media Lab: Till Boverman, Tangible and auditory interfaces, artistic research, RAE bonus post.

•  Media Lab: Koray Tahiroglu, Sound and physical tangible interfaces, Academy of Finland post.

•  Photography: Mika Elo, Media aesthetics, internationalization of photography, RAE bonus post.

Future strategy

•  Strengthening the identity of each of the units while also promoting integration through the creation of a common culture. –  Content-led, practice-led innovative research –  New genres and tools –  Multimodality and communications –  Artistic research

•  Developing new lines of research that synthesize the knowledge of the 3 domains.

Thank you! Kiitos!