Comments for Art and Technology

Comment on Description by admin

admin — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:22:29 +0000

Hi Rik,
To apply to our Art and Technology study module you should be either an exchange student, or a master’s degree student in some Finnish university. So it’s not possible to apply directly to a minor study module without having a status like this. (But it’s probably possible to become an exchange student based on your current studies.)
And since this is a rather small module I think it makes most sense if you would have some other studies going on here at the same time. The courses of the Art and Tech module take one year (September – May), but they are not full-time. I can give further advice with email (markku dot nousiainen at aalto dot fi).
Best,
Markku

Comment on Description by admin

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:48 +0000

Hi Rik,
Thanks for your questions. I’ll have to find out about how and if you could apply in this case. It may be easiest to communicate directly with email about this either this week or next week: markku dot nousiainen at aalto dot fi.
Cheers.
- Markku

Comment on Description by Rik van der Laan

Rik van der Laan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:24:52 +0000

Hello Reader,

Currently I’m studying Industrial Design Engineering at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. Since a while now I’ve been thinking about starting a career in Interactive Installations. Currently I’m working on a schoolproject in which I’m tracking individuals at trainstation and beamer interactive visuals at their feet. After this project I intend to further improve on my programming skills (sofisticated motion-tracking) and work on some personal projects (digital costumes and scenes for theathershows and other). Also I will be applying for the TU delfts Honours programs of which I’m currently decided to choose a philosophical issue or using this honours program to dive into ‘light’. This ‘light’ study would fit perfectly into your ‘art and technology’ module. Therefor it might be a good module to fit into my personal ects within this honours programs. Would this be on option? I could sent you my hours prgrams application form (will be done by next week). But summarizing its content I intend to investigate the potential of light in design. Since without light there is no vision and vision is the window into your outside world (first you see a product after which you decided to interact with it). Possible applications which I’m thinking of would be:
- fashion (digital make-up)
- anti-light (filtering out stains or texture of materials)
- customization of environment (advanced ambilight)
- psychological (enhancing moods)
- theather (digital costumes/scenes o enhancing emotions)
- sports (enhancing experience for athlete or spectators)
- and more

So might it be possible to apply for your module while being a student of my university or should I aplly for one of your masters?

regards,
Rik