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Artistic Research Publications (initial selection of a constantly evolving collection)

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Research in Arts and Education is hosted at Aalto University鈥檚 Department of Art and Media and co-published with the Finnish Society for Research in Art Education. RUUKKU is co-published by Aalto University, Uniarts Helsinki and the University of Lapland.

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Research in Arts and Education

An international peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal co-published by the Department of Art and Media at Aalto University.

Artistic research
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A journal for artistic research that publishes on the Research Catalogue.

Publication highlights

Close-up of beige oat flakes in creamy liquid, showing rough texture and scattered pieces

Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice

A practice-led research exposition exploring architectural practice through feminist spatial practice providing possibilities for un-learning and speculation.

Artistic research
Three oval crackled pendants in white frames hang on thin chains against a rough brick wall.

From matter to method: Situated and relational approaches through geothermal clays

Alejandra Vera

Artistic research
People in white lab coats drawing anatomical sketches on black paper around a white table

Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in collaborative research across the sciences and creative practice

Camilla Groth, Margherita Pevere, Kirsi Niinim盲ki and Pirjo K盲盲ri盲inen

Artistic research
A person wrapped in brown fabric stands in a studio while the fabric spreads in folds across the floor.

Bringing 鈥榠t鈥 out of the body and into matter: Fostering a contemplative and corresponsive methodology for costume design pedagogy

Susanna Suurla

Artistic research
Two women pose in black and white outfits with strapped glass tubes worn as experimental body harnesses.

Investigating Stray-Concept and Ticks as a Co-Species

Laura Beloff

Artistic research
A lush garden with purple flowers and tall grasses in front of a brick structure, with trees and buildings in the background.

Making Things that Change: EMPIRICA Research Group鈥擱esearch in Arts and Education

Vega, L., et al. (2024). Research in Arts and Education

News
Children craft a starry night collage, gluing yellow stars onto a large black paper sky

Metaphoric Methodology: Moving with Research and Writing

Anna Lioliou and Juuso Tervo

Artistic research

Journal articles and expositions

Beloff, L. 2026 Leonardo, 59(5), 482鈥486

Choubassi, H., Beloff, L. & Blanchette, C. 2026 Technoetic Arts, 24(1), 3鈥12

Koivisto, E. V. 2025 Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, 14

Beloff, L. 2022 Research in Arts and Education, 2022(1), 34鈥43

Groth, C., Pevere, M., Niinim盲ki, K. & K盲盲ri盲inen, P. 2020 CoDesign, 16(4), 328鈥344

Niinim盲ki, K., Groth, C. & K盲盲ri盲inen, P. 2018 Temes de Disseny, 34, 34鈥43

Books and edited volumes

Niinim盲ki, K. & K盲盲ri盲inen, P. 2026 Espoo: Aalto University. ISBN 978-952-64-9685-6, eISBN 978-952-64-9686-3

The Presence of Exchange: GIFT in Artistic Research and Beyond

Ziegler, D., Beloff, L., Blanchette, C. & Vahvaselk盲, H. (Eds.) 2025 Helsinki: Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. Art Theoretical Writings from the Academy of Fine Arts, no. 22. ISBN 978-952-353-490-2, eISBN 978-952-353-491-9

Niinim盲ki, K. & Lohmann, J. (Eds.) 2023 Espoo: Aalto University (Aalto ARTS Books). ISBN 978-952-64-1204-7

Book chapters

Community and Socially-Based New Media Art

Beloff, L. 2025 In P. Thomas (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of New Media Art, Volume II: Artists and Practices. Bloomsbury.

Blanchette, C. 2025 In D. Ziegler, L. Beloff, C. Blanchette & H. Vahvaselk盲 (Eds.), The Presence of Exchange: GIFT in Artistic Research and Beyond (pp. 49鈥65). Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki.

Tervo, J. 2024 In S. Travis, A. Guttenberg Smith, C. Hern谩ndez-Cabal & J. Lucero (Eds.), Experiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art? (pp. 69鈥70). Routledge.

Beloff, L. 2023 In M. Ryyn盲nen & P. Barrag谩n (Eds.), The Changing Meaning of Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance (pp. 249鈥262). Palgrave Macmillan.

Conference papers and presentations

Navigating the taboo: Porno-art, pedagogy, and academic freedom in higher education

Meril盲inen, A., Heinonen, H. & Pusa, T. 2026 Artist Pedagogy and Artistic Thinking: Perspectives and Practices, Uniarts Helsinki, 27鈥29.8.2026.

Earth, sea, sky divide: Practice-based research with Cambrian blue clay

Torrey, M. 2026 College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

Paper as a responsive threshold: Material correspondence and assemblage in collagraphs

Torrey, M. 2026 Symposium on Paper, Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

The spatiotemporal collagraph: A material exploration of granite and glacier palimpsests

Torrey, M. 2026 International Printmaking Conference Wroc艂aw 2026: Print Media in Contemporary Art 鈥 Between Materiality and Immateriality, Wroc艂aw, Poland.

What color is the Cambrian sky? Material thinking with Cambrian blue clay

Torrey, M. 2026 Thinking with the Sea 鈥 Interactions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities, Forum Marinum, Turku, Finland, 30 September鈥1 October 2026 (forthcoming).

What color is the Cambrian sky? Material thinking with Cambrian blue clay

Torrey, M. 2026 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities, Cappadocia, Turkey. (Accepted; not presented.)

Vera, A. 2026 In Proceedings of DRS 2026: Edinburgh. Design Research Society.

Sentient Mothers

Blanchette, C. 2025 Politics of the Machines: Synthetic Sentience, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 16鈥18.7.2025.

sacrificial holes of devolution

Blanchette, C. 2025 TABOO 鈥 TRANSGRESSION 鈥 TRANSCENDENCE in Art & Science (TTT2025), Kino 艩i拧ka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 9鈥13.9.2025.

Click here: The teacher showed porn! 鈥 On the responsible presentation of porno-art in higher education

Heinonen, H., Meril盲inen, A. & Pusa, T. 2025 FERA Conference 2025, Rovaniemi.

Excluded

Meril盲inen, A. 2025 AeRaTe Symposium. Aalto University, Espoo.

What color is the Cambrian sky?

Torrey, M. 2025 AeRaTe Symposium, Aalto University, Espoo, 5.5.2025.

Distant surfaces: The spatiotemporality of Cambrian blue clay as an exploration of the deep time of pigments

Torrey, M. 2025 SECAC Conference, Cincinnati, OH. (Accepted; not presented.)

The spatiotemporal collagraph: A material exploration of granite & glacier palimpsests

Torrey, M. 2025 6th PARSE Biennial Artistic Research Conference "Some Like It Hot", University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Blanchette, C. 2024 In Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness and Beyond, Aachen 2024 (pp. 277鈥283). British Computer Society.

Parasitic Souvenirs

Blanchette, C. 2024 GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE: Meanings and Materialities conference, Cable Factory, Helsinki, 6.6.2024.

Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & Beyond

Blanchette, C. 2024 RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

The life of a brick: Using expanded printmaking as a material exploration of Wiang Kum Kam in Northern Thailand

Torrey, M. 2024 Session "The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay," Comit茅 International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA) World Congress 2024, Lyon, France.

Exhibitions and creative outputs

Parts for People

Blanchette, C. 2026 Solo exhibition, V1 Gallery, Aalto University, Espoo, 20鈥25.4.2026.

Kotiteatteri esitt盲盲: Makuuhuoneessa

Laitinen, T., Meril盲inen, A., Piispanen, E., P盲ivikk枚, U. & R盲m盲, L. 2026 Tehdas Teatteri, Turku (premiere 17.6.2026) and Salo (8.8.2026).

Parasitic Souvenirs

Blanchette, C. 2025 In AeRaTe 鈥 Artistic Research Exhibition.

The Bite

Blanchette, C. 2025 In V盲lill盲 V盲盲r盲ss盲. Imatra.

Kudos 鈥 Library for Material Relations

Koivisto, E. & Suomi, M. 2025 Forum Kortteli, Turku, 9.12.2025鈥7.2.2026.

Excluded

Meril盲inen, A. & Lehto, T. 2025 AeRaTe Exhibition. Aalto University, Espoo.

Hypnos (media design)

Meril盲inen, A. 2025 Agit-Cirk: Hypnos by Sakari M盲nnist枚. Cirko, Helsinki (premiere 6.2.2025).

Shit Load

Blanchette, C. 2024 In GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE: Meanings and Materialities exhibition, Cable Factory, Helsinki, 6鈥15.6.2024.

Doctoral theses

Tikka, E. 2026 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation. Aalto University publication series Doctoral Theses 145/2026.

Hidalgo Uribe, L. 2026 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Yiu, S. 2026 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Keski-Korsu, M. 2025 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation. Aalto University publication series Doctoral Theses 206/2025.

Yau, N. 2025 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Qureshi, A. 2025 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Madsen, T. M. K. 2025 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Vega, L. 2024 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Pouta, E. 2023 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Korolainen, H.-K. 2022 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Falin, P. 2022 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation. Aalto University publication series Doctoral Theses 116/2022.

Akta艧, B. M. 2020 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Valle-Noronha, J. 2019 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.

Groth, C. 2017 Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
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