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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 08:26:22+00:00

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The doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts emphasise artistic work of high quality and artistic research in an associated field.
Doctoral studies pursued at the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki provide the means and opportunity to engage in the independent and creative activity of artistic research. Artistic research is multidisciplinary research grounded in the artists and their art. The doctoral programme at KuvA produces artist-researchers specialised in fine art.
Artist-researchers develop and renew the arts and their practice, research and instruction. They engage in pluralistic and critical dialogue with the various actors in society. As specialists in their respective fields they practice art and produce knowledge, skills and comprehension based on art practise that can be utilised and applied in both the arts and other areas of society. Doctoral studies at Uniarts Helsinki develop the artist-researchers' ability to apply the proficiency he or she has obtained as an artist, researcher, pedagogue and specialist.
The doctoral programme's degree objective at the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki is doctorate in fine arts (DFA). The degree extends to 240 ECTS which corresponds to four years of full-time studies. The doctoral degree in fine arts consists of the Doctoral Thesis in Fine Art (170 ECTS) and Postgraduate Studies in Fine Art (70 ECTS).
The doctoral thesis in fine art can include art exhibitions, exhibition curating, individual artworks, artistic processes, experimental arrangements and their articulation, conceptualisation and theorisation. Typically a doctoral thesis consists of one or several visual art components (a maximum total of 140 ECTS) and a written component (30-170 ECTS). In addition, the thesis must be documented and electronically archivable. The artistic components are public artistic research findings. The written component runs parallel to the visual art components and justifies the research approach and goals in relation to other research and practices within the field. On a discretionary basis the dissertation can also consist exclusively of a written study.
The doctoral thesis must demonstrate that the student has a profound understanding of their field and the ability to analyse, articulate and contextualise research questions critically. If the doctoral thesis consists of a separate pre-examined visual component and a written component then the recommended scope of the written component is 50-250 pages (Page = 2000 characters with spaces). If the thesis is entirely theoretical then the recommended length is 150-250 pages. The written component can be realised in various ways: as a monograph, web publication or other multimedia whole. It can also be article-based in which case it must consist of at least three peer-reviewed journal articles and a summarising chapter (15-30 pages).
The doctoral thesis can also consist of co-authored publications and projects provided that the doctoral student's contribution can be clearly identified. The aim, methods, structure and findings of the research must also be clearly apparent in the doctoral thesis as a whole. The thesis can be published in Finnish, Swedish or English and by decision of the Academic Council in some other language. The language of the thesis submitted for pre-examination must be the same as in the final examined publication. This language must also be the main language at the public examination.
The credits awarded to the visual and written components are to be evaluated on a case by case basis in relation to coverage of the subject and number of components and scope in such a way that the written component comprises 30-170 ECTS while the artistic component corresponds to 140 ECTS at most.
See the KuvA doctoral studies Course Catalogue in Weboodi.
Students have to register themselves in Weboodi which requires signing in.
The schedules and places may be updated throughout the academic year when needed. It´s worthwhile to check the info in Weboodi or links in the course PDF.
Since 1997, it has been possible to complete a postgraduate degree, Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA), at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
The Academy of Fine Arts seeks to create and provide the necessary framework for conducting and developing research in the fine arts that follows the above aims and principles. It offers doctoral students and researchers a network that supports their research and career in many ways. It creates conditions for discussing, comparing and interaction between different research configurations. The Academy of Fine Arts is an international artistic and academic expert community that enables critical evaluation and unbiased development of artistic research. It is a community of discourse in which divergent informational, social and artistic frameworks can be developed to respond to the challenges and problems arising in the field of contemporary art. The Academy of Fine Arts is a collegial community of artists and researchers, the operating principles of which are transparency, critical thinking, democracy, equality, pedagogy, and respect and support of the work of others.
A visualization of the doctoral research at the Academy of Fine Arts, including doctoral student projects and finished thesis works has been published in Research Catalogue. The page also contains links to research descriptions.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Screen Surface and Narrative Space: Narration and Construction of Meaning in Moving Image Installations.
Erick Belran Flores: The reading machine as model of edition.Laoccoön and the Katabasis as an engine of ideological social psyche in image flux.
Minna Heikinaho: Keskeneräinen toimintatapa on yhteisötaiteen eettinen arvo.
Ruumiillisen läsnäolon, intervention ja prosessitekemisen merkityssuhteista omassa taiteellisessa toiminnassani.
Flis Holland : Revisiting: Traumatic Memory on a Small Scale (working title).
Maija Närhinen: Experiments on Depicting.
Ilya Orlov: Actualizing Revolution. A Revolutionary Legacy and the Avant-Garde in the Context of Artistic Research and Contemporary Art Practice.
Pilvari Pirtola: Demoscene - Creative Digital Subculture.
Heli Rekula: The Absent Body - the relationship between the working process and the presented work in photography, film and video art.
Katja Tukiainen: The Army of Girls. The Open Meanings of Narrative Painting in Space.
Markus Tuormaa: The unity of lansdcape and portraiture imagery.
The Open access archive of the published doctoral theses can be found in HELDA.
2018 Johanna Lecklin: Esitettyä aitoutta. Osallistavasta taiteesta ja sen etiikasta.
2017 Markus Rissanen: Basic Forms and Nature. From Visual Simplicity to Conceptual Complexity.
2016 Timo Heino: Aineen olemuksesta materian muuntumiin.
2016 Tuula Närhinen: Kuvatiede ja luonnontaide. Tutkielma luonnonilmiöiden kuvallisuudesta.
2016 Paul Landon: Intersecting travelogues. Wandering through practices and archaeologies of space, place and time.
2016 Itay Ziv: Disabled Art. Escapism as Artistic Tactic.
2015 Stig Baumgartner: Virhe abstraktissa maalauksessa. Tekijän paikka maalauksen rakenteessa.
2015 Shoji Kato: Place of Geometry.
2014 Silja Rantanen: Ulos sulkeista. Nykytaiteen teosmuotojen tulkintaa.
2014 Pekka Niskanen: Taide identiteettien politiikan rakentajana.
2013 Jay Koh: Art Led Participatory Processes: Subject to Subject Communication within Performances in the Everyday.
2012 Petri Kaverma: Tyhjä piha – häiriö ja hiljaisuus (nyky)taiteessa.
2012 Sami van Ingen: Moving Shadows – Experimental Film Practice in a Landscape of Change.
2011 Irene Kopelman: The Molyneux Problem Five backstage stories – and a map of why and how.
2011 Marjatta Oja: Kolmiulotteinen projisointi – tilanneveistos katsojan ja kokijan välissä.
2010 Denise Ziegler: Poeettisen piirteistä. Kuvataiteilijan mimeettinen työskentelytapa.
2008 Jan-Erik Andersson: Life on a Leaf – Tila ikonina. Taloni arkkitehtonisena taideteoksena.
2006 Tarja Pitkänen- Walter: Liian haurasta kuvaksi -– maalauksen aistisuudesta.
2005 Jan Kenneth Weckman: Seitsemän maalauksen katsominen ja Maalaus maailman osana.
2005 Teemu Mäki: Näkyvä pimeys – esseitä taiteesta, filosofiasta ja politiikasta.
2002 Jan Kaila: Valokuvallisuus ja esittäminen nykytaiteessa, teoksia vuosilta 1998-2000.
2001 Jyrki Siukonen: Uplifted Spirits, Earthbound Machines, Studies on Artists and Dream of Flight 1900–1935.
The Doctoral Programme at the Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki arranges every year a public event called Research Days. During the days the public will have an opportunity to participate in discussions about art and research generated by talks and performances by KuvAs Researchers and Doctoral Students as well as guest speakers they have invited.
The Doctoral Studies Programme is the home of doctoral training and research in the Academy of Fine Arts at University of the Arts Helsinki. It delineates and implements the research-oriented basic function of the Academy, which is to train artists and artist-researchers working in the field of art, and to conduct research in the field of the fine arts. The term ‘fine arts’ here refers to the areas of contemporary art that are represented in the Academy of Fine Arts. The research community in the Academy of Fine Arts is an academic community that comprises the doctoral students, teachers and researchers involved in the programme, along with administrative personnel. The Academy of Fine Arts conducts artistic research as well as research of contemporary art.

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