About me
I was born in the summer of 1977. For a long time I wanted to be an airplane pilot. I ended up as an artist, an academic and an art educator. It’s almost better than being an airplane pilot.
Me. Photo by Johanna Slotte Dufva
Tomi Slotte Dufva, Doctor of Arts, is an artist, educator, and researcher. He works as an Assistant Professor at Aalto University’s Department of Art and Media and serves as Head of the Master’s Programme in Art Education. His interdisciplinary practice explores intersections of art, technology, and material processes. His research examines post-digital culture, education, and art, with recent work emphasising AI in relation to teaching, visual culture, and post-AI art education.
He is also active in the Observatory for Arts and Cultural Education Finland (Suomen taide- ja kulttuurikasvatuksen observatorio), ELIA’s Future Readiness Working Group, and Cumulus’s Art and Design Teacher Education and Pedagogy (AADTE) Working Group.
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