Members

Country

Finland

Role

Assistant Professor in Arts Education; group coordinator

Institution

Aalto University, the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art and Design

Research interests

Post-digital, post-AI art, education and culture; embodied and experiential learning; critical digital literacy; visual culture; philosophies of art, craft, and education

Tomi Slotte Dufva coordinates the group and researches art, education, culture, and technology through post-digital and post-AI perspectives, with attention to embodiment, experience, critical literacy, visual culture, and philosophies of art, craft, and education.

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Country

Finland

Role

Multidisciplinary artist, designer and educator; doctoral researcher

Institution

Aalto University and Velkua Comprehensive School

Research interests

Art and technology; creative learning; visual technologies; digital making; multidisciplinary art and education

Iiro works across artistic practice, design, and education. Alongside doctoral research at Aalto University, he teaches visual arts and craft at Velkua Comprehensive School and explores how technologies participate in creative learning.

Country

Italy / Finland

Role

Media artist and technician

Institution

Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki

Research interests

Sensors, data and simulation; feedback systems; sonification; experimental electronics; programming and design

Roberto is a Helsinki-based media artist working with sensors, data, and simulation to explore the Baltic Sea and other environmental systems. His practice treats technology as an instrument that can shape experience, while remaining attentive to the social and ethical conditions surrounding technological work.

Country

Sweden

Role

Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies

Institution

Södertörn University, Sweden

Research interests

Postdigital media; digital sociability in education; visual arts teacher education; interactive research methodologies

Ingrid is a media and communication researcher with a background in visual arts education. Her work examines current digital sociability in education, teacher education reform, and the histories and futures of interactive research methodologies.

Country

Finland / Portugal

Role

Doctoral Researcher in Art Education; Workshop Master in ARTS IT

Institution

Aalto University, Finland

Research interests

Digital technology in art and education; informal media-based learning; participation; facilitation; creative practice with young people

Tiago works across digital technology, educational practice, and creative coding. His doctoral research focuses on informal artistic and media-based learning with immigrant-background young people in Eastern Helsinki, particularly questions of participation, facilitation, and creative practice.

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Country

Norway

Role

Associate Professor in Digital Development in Design, Art and Crafts Education

Institution

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Research interests

Virtual reality and AI in art and crafts education; architectural tasks; screen-based media; interdisciplinary pedagogy

Ingri develops pedagogy in design, art, and crafts education in relation to new technologies. Her research includes virtual reality in lower-secondary architectural tasks and the introduction of technologies such as VR and AI into art and crafts education.

Country

Finland / Sweden

Role

Artist, art educator and artistic researcher

Institution

Finland / Sweden

Research interests

Physical, digital and virtual spaces; sculpture; photography; photogrammetry; 3D scanning; public clouds; visual environments

DanTommi's practice moves between physical, digital, and virtual spaces. Working with sculpture, photography, photogrammetry, 3D scanning, public clouds, and virtual environments, DanTommi explores how spaces become digital and how digital forms return to physical space.

Country

Switzerland

Role

Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer

Institution

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), Switzerland

Research interests

Creative coding; art and media education; web cultures; software studies; computer aesthetics; postdigital subjectivation

Hanna teaches across hybrid bachelor modules in design, film, and art. Her doctoral work reconstructs creative coding from an art and media education perspective, asking how practitioners navigate its heterogeneous positions, assumptions, and unresolved questions.

Country

Finland

Role

University Teacher in Art Education; doctoral researcher

Institution

Aalto University, Finland

Research interests

Art, science, and technology; interdisciplinary dialogue; collaboration; media art; art education

Kasperi is a university teacher in art education and a doctoral researcher at Aalto University. With a background in school art teaching, media art, and arts organizations, he studies how dialogue and collaboration across art and science can have a systemic impact on postdigital society.

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Country

Finland

Role

Associate Professor of Multiliteracies and Digital Literacies

Institution

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Research interests

Postdigital childhood; education, texts, and technologies; new literacies; human-computer interaction; relational philosophy

Pekka studies what it means to be a child in a postdigital world. He leads the interdisciplinary Education, Texts, and Technologies research group and currently explores how different forms of talent are defined, recognized, and performed in postdigital conditions.

Country

Finland

Role

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institution

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Research interests

Literacies; media and data literacy; education policy; digital technologies in learning; ecological and social dimensions of educational technology

Lauri works with media literacy, data literacy, and education research across national and European contexts. His postdoctoral work considers how literacy concepts are reshaped in the postdigital age, with particular attention to the ecological and social dimensions of educational technology.