News about creativity and transdisciplinarity
Rewiring art education
Käsityökoulu Robotti is an extra-curricular school for kids that is as much about having fun bending circuits as about learning by breaking boundaries.
Fragile Water exhibition highlights vulnerability of water resources
Water resources are limited and vulnerable in many places in the world. Design students and water researchers joined forces to visualise sustainable water solutions in the Fragile Water exhibition.
Quantum Garden uses sculpture to get the public to train AI
The sculpture gathers data sequences to help solve a quantum computing problem.
AI’s story won’t be complete without art
Aalto’s Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka wants art and technology to collide and make something new
Photos from the last Xmas Demo Day
Collection of photos from the last Demo Day organized on the 5th of December 2018 at the Maker Space, Learning Centre of Aalto University.
Is artificial intelligence capable of love?
Love simulation EVE studies the relationship between a human who wants to be loved and a loving AI.
Mixing art and artificial intelligence
Artists have for long been quick to experiment, use and misuse new technologies--but does AI mean the end of human-made art?
Introducing Bassam El Baroni, Assistant Professor in Curating and Mediating Art
Bassam came ʵ in May 2018 from the Dutch Art Institute MA program at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
Aalto Visual Communication Design student shortlisted for the Kantar Information is Beautiful Award
Adina Renner’s project ‘Wall of Silence’ places alongside the Guardian and the Washington Post as one of the most beautiful data visualisations of 2018.
World premiere: Play Quantum Garden and help build a quantum computer!
Quantum Garden, a new and exciting Science and Art project, will be exhibited from 16.11 until 14.12. at A Bloc shopping center, Otaniemi.
Jenni Haukio to wear gown made of sustainable Ioncell material at December’s Independence Day reception
Ioncell is a new technology that creates high-quality textile fibres from wood or recycled materials.
Artificial intelligence meets art
The story of AI will not be fully explored without the inclusion of art, believes doctoral student Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka, who wants to collide art and technology – while exploiting the tensions that exist between them.
Aalto researcher among 8 finalists for the 2018 Skolar award
Amber Geurts, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics and Management Studies, is one of eight finalists competing for the 2018 Skolar Award.
Innovating in the IDBM Challenge course for the future of Helsinki and Copenhagen
Students in this multidisciplinary and multi-format IDBM Challenge course developed practical solutions for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
"Feels great!" - Jaakko Kahilaniemi won ING Unseen Talent Award
"Nature Like Capital" photo series by Kahilaniemi focuses on how people use nature as capital - not as environment and a natural place.
Aalto University and University of the Arts Helsinki sign partnership agreement
Aalto University and University of the Arts Helsinki sign partnership agreement
Väre’s public art collection examines equality
Collection was published with “Global Equality” as its art concept.
