Research, Developmental and Artistic Research projects
Ongoing projects / Finished projects
Ongoing Projects |
Members |
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Speech to text synthesis, NER-based generation of metadata and topic modelling on ERR's audiovisual archive from 2003 to 2021 The project is an elaboration of an already existing PRG grant "The Public Value Chains of Cultural Open Data Solutions" (PRG1191). However, the existing grant doesn't cover the generation of metadata from already existing ERR's archived content. The project consists of 3 operations: (a) speech to text synthesis that is based on the audiovisual content of ERR's archive; (b) the generation of metadata with the help NER-technology (geographical places, public persons, institutions and relevant keywords for this period) (c) the modelling of topics that is necessary to establish a linked database format in ERR's archive. This additional layer of metadata will make ERR's archive potentially analysable for the social scientists and historians. Also it will help to improve the quality of the ERR's public services and its cooperation with other memory institutions. |
Project coordinator: Andres Kõnno
Hagi Šein, |
01.03.2022–31.03.2023 |
FILM-SKILLS: Joint Development of Qualification Standards for Film Occupations FILM-SKILLS is a project that brings together Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partners – three film schools and two film |
Project coordinator: Veiko Vaatmann | 01.12.2021–30.11.2023 |
Accessibility in Digital cOmmunication higheR Education curricula (ADORE) The main objective of the ADORE project is to educate university teaching and training staff working in the field of communication on accessible content publishing and how to provide a more inclusive teaching experience in communication programmes. The project will establish a unique partnership between higher education institutions, training organisations and the private sector, with the overarching goal of mainstreaming accessibility skills in higher education curricula for communication disciplines, and to prepare students for the current and future needs of the economy and society. ADORE will be carried out by a consortium of five European partners (Tallinn University, Funka Nu AB, University of Maribor, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg and the INUK Institut za napredno upravljanje komunikacij). ADORE is coordinated by Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media and Arts School.
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Project coordinator: Anastassia Zabrodskaja | 01.11.2021–31.10.2023 |
Media Literacy in the Baltics US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) The fundamental starting points for continuing the project are essentially the same as they were at the starting phase of the project (16.03.2020-15.05.2021). |
Project coordinator: Andres Jõesaar Aleksander Pulver, Tiia Õun, Katrin Saks, Katrin Sigijane, Indrek Treufeldt, Priit Hõbemägi, Külli-Riin Tigasson, Andres Kõnno, Elari Lend, Toomas Sääs |
1.10.2021–28.02.2023 |
Twinning for Sustainable and Visible Excellence in Screen Media Entrepreneurship Scholarship The objective of the ScreenME-Net project is to enhance excellence in screen media entrepreneurship scholarship at Tallinn University (TLU), to increase its networking position and visibility in this scholarly field, and to ensure sustainability of the impact of this project, mainly through the institutionalization of a screen media entrepreneurship research hub, the so-called ScreenME-Hub, at TLU. In terms of enhancing excellence in scholarship, the project aims at positively impacting all four pillars of scholarship (Boyer, 1990): discovery, integration, teaching and application. The objectives will be achieved through networking and collaboration activities with an interdisciplinary set of internationally-leading research institutions with strong expertise in entrepreneurship teaching and research as well as in various academic disciplines and scholarly areas of high relevance to understanding current dynamics in media industries and their wider societal effects. |
Project coordinator: Ulrike Rohn Indrek Ibrus, Katrin Tiidenberg, Andres Jõesaar, Külliki Tafel-Viia |
01.01.2021-31.12.2023 |
The Public Value Chains of Cultural Open Data Solutions The project studies the complex ways in which cultural open data solutions could produce 'public value'. In conceptual terms it builds on Moore's and Mazzucato's work on public value, links these to our work on innovation systems in creative industries and investigates how new open data technologies such as the Semantic Web and blockchain could be seen as conditioning the emergence of new innovation systems, how they provide new tools for understanding the functioning of the related public sphere and of industry systems and how public value is produced within these systems. Our work in this project will be both empirical as well as applied, aimed at designing and testing new cultural open data management systems with Estonian Public Broadcasting. The project is highly international (studying multiple case studies across the world) and interdiscplinary (combining network science and data analytics with media and innovation economics, anthropology, information systems design and others). |
Project coordinator: Indrek Ibrus Ulrike Rohn, Maximilian Schich, Andres Kõnno, Andres Karjus, Vejune Zemaityte, Hanna Jemmer. |
01.01.2021-31.12.2021 |
Enactive co-presence in narrative virtual reality - a triadic interaction model The multidisciplinary project integrates film and digital media studies, physiological experiments, and theoretical synthesis. The future medium that combines cinema with immersive virtual reality (VR) allows real-time interaction between the viewer and screen characters. The core assumption is that new technological developments such as VR do not radically change the way how stories are told. Rather, same emotive-cognitive rules that drive narrative sense-making in literature and films drive our minds also when exploring narratives in VR headsets. What aspects these new methods of storytelling add to the viewer’s experience of co-presence, and how they can be harnessed for storytelling in VR? The goal is to augment multidisciplinary knowledge exchange about narrative film and media. Accommodating young researchers and fuelling future innovations, the project will benefit both the academic community as well as local film industry. Mobilitas+ programme |
Project coordinator: Pia Tikka Ermo Säks, Robert Graham McNamara, Abdallah Hussein Sham, Ats Kurvet, Mati Mõttus, Debora Conceição Firmino De Souza, Marie-Laure Cazin |
01.09.2017-31.03.2023 |
Representations of Femininity in Estonian Pop Music This study explores the representation of women in Estonian popular music (in music videos, lyrics, interviews, pop artists' self-representation on social media, and audience reception) to examine how femininities are constructed. The analytical lens used to explore this topic is that of postfeminist (Cohen 1997; Schippers 2007; Lazar 2009; James 2017; Whitefield-Madrano 2016; Gill 2001; Gonick et al. 2009) and post- colonial / post-soviet femininities (McEwan 2001; Koobak 2013), relying on extant research on gendered discourses within popular music, popular media and women’s social media self-presentation. As such, the project contributes to (new) media, pop music, feminist and post-socialist studies by offering an in-depth analysis of Estonian pop music and constructions of femininity in the 21st century, as well as extending the dominant (Western) conceptual framework for studying constructions of gender in popular culture. |
Mobilitas Pluss Kerli Kirch Schneider |
01.06.2021-31.05.2023 |
Freud's last Hypnosis - Validating emotion-driven enactions in cinematic VR Using 360 VR film Freud’s last hypnosis as a study case, this experimental project will model the film viewers' emotion-driven enactment by specifying time-locked parameters of the viewers' engagement with the narrative. The project builds on my concept of Emotive Cinema and on-going development of the Emotive VR headset with integrated electroencephalographic (EEG) device for real-time measures of viewer's brain signals. I will identify a specific set of behavioral and physiological measurements that allow correlating the viewer's mental states and related emotion-driven interactions with the film's temporal and narrative unfolding. Eventually, the project will allow validating the viewer's unconscious mental states when iteratively testing the Emotive VR prototype, in particular, but, importantly, increase the conceptual and theoretical understanding on the enactive dynamics of emotion-driven cinematic narratives, in general. |
Mobilitas PlussMarie-Laure Cazin |
01.09.2021-31.08.2022 |
Finished Projects |
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Cross Motion Interreg Baltic Sea Region |
Alessandro Nani Indrek Ibrus |
2016-2019 |
Perception of Russia across Eurasia: Memory, Identity, Conflicts ERA-NET Rus Plus Programme |
Anastassia Zabrodskaja | 01.01.2016-31.12.2017 |
Courses for journalists from developing countries Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Katrin Saks |
2014-2016 |
Three Layers of telling a story European Commision Erasmus+ (former Erasmus Mundus) |
Elen Lotman | 2014-2017 |
The European Movie Masters - Erasmus Plus Joint Master Degree European Commision Erasmus+ (former Erasmus Mundus) |
Elen Lotman | 2014-2017 |
Preparation for the international study programme Serious Games Nordic Council of Ministers' Nordplus Horizontal |
Andres Jõesaar |
2014-2015 |
Creativity needs nurturing: enhancing school culture through a cross-sectional network II Nordic Council of Ministers' Nordplus Horizontal |
Eda Heinla |
2014-2015 |
Transparency of New Forms of Media Advertising Online Helsingin Sanomat (HS) Säätiö |
Kaja Tampere |
2014-2015 |
Benchmarking water protection in cities European Commision Life+ Finnish Ministry of the Enviroment |
Kaja Tampere |
2012-2015 |
Architectural Short Films Cooperation with Estonian Association of Architects |
Elen Lotman |
2013-2015 |
A Dozen Questions about Estonia In cooperation with Estonian Institute |
Elen Lotman |
2014 |
Paul Beaudoin PhD (Fitchburg State University/Brandeis University, USA) former Institute of Fine Arts Department of Music Fulbright Guest Scholar |
Project coordinator at TU: Gerhard Lock |
spring semester 2015 |
Choreography Department Participation in Nordplus Network EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC AND DANCE / EMD NETWORK Nordic Council of Ministers Nordplus |
Tiina Ollesk |
2010 |
Finished Projects
Robot Theatre I and II The Project ROBOT THEATRE tries to teach a robot to make theatre, starting from writing a play and ending up with a performance both directed and played by robots. The artistic aim of the project is to explore the possibilities of using AI in creating an emotionally efficient performance; while as the research aims, more broadly, at understanding AI's potential to participate in any creative process. |
Project coordinator: Liina Keevallik Indrek Ibrus, Pia Tikka, Janika Leoste, Ermo Säks, Jaagup Kippar |
01.12.2020–31.12.2021 |
Master of Arts in Cinematography, as an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree |
Elen Lotman | 08.02.2016–31.07.2021 |