Accidental Tourist Guide in Node Space and Connecting Space Zürich
(images: Ruusu Hulmi, Minna Suoniemi, Andreas Kohli & Marianne Kesselring) Accidental Tourist Guide Project reached it’s final phase as the exhibitions in Node Space Helsinki and Connecting Space Zürich opened simultaneously on Wednesday 22.3. Hong Kong Baptist University joined the opening trough a virtual tunnel. The Node Space exhibition presents the Helsinki version of the group projects. The Helsinki group is Heikki Heinonen, Heta Huttunen, Maija Mikkola, Verna Kuutti, Emma Hovi, Ruusu Hulmi, Valeria Nekhaeva, Meisi Wang, Aina Bexell and…
Accidental Tourist Guides in Hong Kong
This February 10 Aalto ARTS Students with lecturer Minna Suoniemi were working on “Accidental Tourist Guide”, an intercultural artistic project of students from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Aalto University Helsinki (Aalto ARTS) and Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University(HKBU). The projects was developed before and during a one week period in Hong Kong, where the students with different cultural backgrounds have negotiated their inputs and interests in relation to the local communities in Hong Kong area.…
Alternate Facts?
Helena Sederholm When scientists start to deal with art some are enthusiastic about it but others will become wary. Neuroscientists have tried to measure the responses art pictures trigger using brain imaging experiments. In that way they’ve tried to locate areas of the brain linked to the aesthetic experience and creativity. The discipline is called neuroaesthetics. Many art researchers have took a critical attitude to the results of neuroaesthetic research. According to neuroaestheticians humans have a capacity to ascribe beauty…