Niina Turtola
niina turtola

Dr Niina Turtola

Lecturer

 0131 455 2259

  N.Turtola@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Niina Turtola uses both texts and images to explore conventions of book, layout, and writing. Her work has been exhibited internationally in several countries such as Finland, Namibia, UK, Germany, and United States. She has defended her artistic research in 2021 on typographic estrangement where everyday words are made visible by pragmatic enstrangement projects of Turtola. Turtola works as a lecturer of contextual studies of design, graphic design and design theory at the Edinburgh Napier University. Turtola is book designer, information designer, text designer and a contemporary, conceptual artist and a writer.

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Research Groups

Research Areas

Esteem

Conference Organising Activity

  • Programme Committee Chair

 

External Examining/Validations

  • MA thesis evaluation at Aalto University, Finland, the Visual Communication Design Department
  • MA thesis evaluation at Aalto University, Finland, the Department of Art
  • MA thesis evaluation at Aalto University, Finland, the Visual Communication Design Department

 

Invited Speaker

  • Presentation at Variantti-colloquio
  • Presentation at Artistic Research for Generative Arts

 

Reviewing

  • Academic Conference Peer-review
  • Peer-review for two Academic Book Chapters

 

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Contextualisation of an unpublished document as text collage: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016)

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turtola, N. (2023, November)
Contextualisation of an unpublished document as text collage: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016). Presented at AOR2023: The eighth Art of Research conference 2023 - “Re-Imagining, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
The purpose of this article is to contextualise an unpublished document titled Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) through the method of experimental writing: text collage. Contextual...

Society for Artistic Research

Presentation / Conference
Turtola, N. (2024, April)
Society for Artistic Research. Poster presented at SAR International Forum on Artistic Research 2024, Tilburg
Contextualisation of an artwork to text collage.

Tender Dialogues @ SAR2022

Digital Artefact
Turtola, N. (2023)
Tender Dialogues @ SAR2022. [artistic research writing]
Suspending Artistic Research Writing as Meaning-Making Tender Dialogues was a 3-hour workshop which took place on 2 July 2022 activated within the frame of the 13th Society o...

Unpublished documents: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) and Tate Vaino (2016); and their 13 derivates between 2013-2023

Exhibition / Performance
Turtola, N. Unpublished documents: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) and Tate Vaino (2016); and their 13 derivates between 2013-2023. [15 x A4 printed B&W sheets]. 30 November 2023 - 1 December 2023

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Turtola, N. Unpublished documents: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) and Tate Vaino (2016); and their 13 derivates between 2013-2023. [15 x A4 printed B&W sheets]. 30 November 2023 - 1 December 2023
This experiment consists of 15 pages, 13 of which were created in 2023 in the process of revising the original 2016 writing. Turtola communicates/reveals and hides/disguises t...

Contextualisation of an unpublished document as visual poetry, text collage and experimental writing: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016)

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turtola, N. M. (2023, November)
Contextualisation of an unpublished document as visual poetry, text collage and experimental writing: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016). Presented at AOR2023: The eighth Art of Research conference 2023, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
The purpose of this article is to contextualise an unpublished document Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) with the concept of text collage to enable re-visioning and returning to th...

Unpublished documents: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) and Tate Vaino (2016); and their 13 derivates

Exhibition / Performance
Turtola, N. Unpublished documents: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) and Tate Vaino (2016); and their 13 derivates. [Print]. Exhibited at Espoo, Finland. 30 November 2023 - 1 December 2023. (Unpublished)

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Turtola, N. Unpublished documents: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) and Tate Vaino (2016); and their 13 derivates. [Print]. Exhibited at Espoo, Finland. 30 November 2023 - 1 December 2023. (Unpublished
This experiment consists of 15 pages, 13 of which were created in 2023 in the process of revising the original 2016 writing. Turtola communicates/reveals and hides/disguises t...

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