VISUAL STUDIES LAB - Key Persons
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- Artist and Researcher
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Ariel Caine (PhD) is a Jerusalem born London based Artist and Researcher. His practice focuses on the intersection of spatial optical imaging, modelling and survey technologies and their operation within the production of cultural memory and national narratives. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London and since 2016 was a project coordinator and researcher at Forensic Architecture Agency. His works have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries such as Tate Britain (turner prize nomination with Forensic Architecture), Kunsthal Charlottenburg (Copenhagen), MACBA (Barcelona), and the CCA (Tel-Aviv). Ariel is currently a Gerda Henkel Stiftung post-doctoral researcher as part of the speculative cameras and post visual security projects at Tampere University.
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- Professor ( Visual Studies )
- Professor of Visual Studies at Tampere University
Asko Lehmuskallio serves as Professor of Visual Studies at Tampere University and until May 2023 as Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is co-founder and -director of the Visual Studies Lab.
In his research, Lehmuskallio focuses particularly on the intersection between visual studies and media studies, with a special interest in media anthropology and digital cultures. He leads two research projects, one on Banal Surveillance, funded by the Academy of Finland, another one on Image/Knowledge, funded by C.V. Åkerlund Media Foundation, and is additionally involved in the Speculative Camera project. During the autumn 2022, he will start as PI in two consortium projects, one on Visions of the City (Academy of Finland) with PL Markus Laine, and another on Trust and Visuality (EU CHANSE) with PL Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn) and PI's Maria Schreiber (Salzburg) and Gillian Rose (Oxford).
Lehmuskallio studied cultural anthropology at Philipps-Universität Marburg, and image science (Bildwissenschaft) at the Dept. of Art History and Media Theory, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. He received his PhD (YTT) at the School of Communication, Media and Theatre in Tampere, and was awarded in 2016 the Title of Docent in Visual Studies. After his PhD, Lehmuskallio has held several fellowships abroad, including as Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, US, at the Sussex Humanities Lab, UK, and as Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Among his publications are the co-edited works Digital Photography and Everyday Life (2016, Routledge) and Mobile Digital Practices (2017, Digital Culture & Society) and the Finnish-language Entanglements between Bodies and Documents: A History of the Finnish Passport (2020, Finnish Museum of Photography), co-authored with Paula Haara. In addition, he has published in a variety of journals and edited books, including in Visual Communication, International Journal of Communication, IEEE Pervasive Computing and Journal of Aesthetics and Culture.
Lehmuskallio has also co-curated two well-received exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Photography, #snapshot (2014-15) and Documenting the body: A history of the Finnish Passport (2020).
Frank is a docent and adjunct professor in political science at the University of Jyväskylä and a docent in peace and conflict research at Tampere University. He serves as co-convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Politics and the Arts. He is the author of two monographs on the visualization of peace: Visual Peace: Images, Spectatorship, and the Politics of Violence (2013) and Peace Photography (2019) as the co-editor of Art as a Political Witness (2017). His work has appeared in, for example, Review of International Studies, International Studies Perspectives, Alternatives, Security Dialogue, Global Society, Arts and International Affairs, Global Discourse, Peace & Change, Peace Review, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal for Cultural Research, Critical Studies on Security, and New Political Science. E-mail: frank.moller@tuni.fi
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- Professor ( Visual Journalism )
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / University of Helsinki
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / Tampere University
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- Academy Research Fellow / Tampere University
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / Tampere University
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- Professor of Artistic Research
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / Tampere University
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- Researcher / Tampere Research
Rasmus holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Münster, Germany, and an M.A. in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research from Tampere University. He worked as a research assistance in the OSCE Network Project Cross-Regional Corridors of Dialogue and the Center for International Peace Operations, Berlin. Conference presentations at, for example, Popular Culture and World Politics, Finnish International Studies Association, and Helsinki Photomedia. E-mail: rasmus.bellmer@tuni.fi
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- Academy Research Fellow / University Lecturer
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / Tampere University
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / Project Coordinator
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / University of Helsinki
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / Academy of Fine Arts / University of the Arts
Job Titles:
- Artist, Writer
- Visiting Senior Fellow
Yanai Toister (Ph.D.) is an artist, writer, and educator serving as Associate Professor at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Tel Aviv (where he also chaired the unit for History and Philosophy between 2017-2022). Toister's artworks have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions (including: Sandroni.Rey; Dvir Gallery; Kunstahalle Luzern; Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design; Maison Europèenne de la Photographie; the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale; Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Haus Lange; Israel Museum). Toister's scholarly writing has been published in various books and journals (including: Digital Creativity; Flusser Studies; Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts; Philosophy of Photography; Photographies; Ubiquity). Toister's recent book Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press.
Lisa is an artist, peacebuilder and currently a doctoral researcher working in her PhD project "Visual Peacetech: Digital Visual Images as Security-Building Tools". Lisa's research is inspired by her grassroots peacebuilding work, in particular the visual art-for-peace project she founded in 2016 - Color Up Peace. Lisa now researchers the potential of employing digital visual images as tools to enhance security as a state of being during grassroots peace processes. In her PhD project, Lisa is interested in digital visuality of images, virtual reality image-creation and image-transformation technologies, augmented reality artistic image-layering, and development of short animated videos. Her research is accompanied by creation of original artistic media pieces meant as tools for peace work and pace education.