Admitted students 2010, Degree Programme in Media

School of Art and Media backside

Here you find the applicants, who have been admitted to Degree Programme in Media 2010.

Please note, that the lists contain only the selection results of the admitted students who have given a permission to announce the results on the internet.

The admitted students will receive by post a personal written notification of admission with detailed instructions on how to confirm their study place. Also those applicants who have not been selected will receive a letter stating their selection points and their placement in the selection queue.

The admission of a student is conditional until TAMK University of Applied Sciences has checked the applicant's school and other relevant certificates.

We welcome:
Haere Maria, Haverila Mikko, Kiiski Emma, Kim Sang, Koirikivi Tommi, Kuisma Sanna, Laine Kaisu, Lecklin Tuomas, Lievemaa Johanna, Mikkonen Pyry-Petteri, Mikola Tuomas, Mäenpää Heidi, Narinen Anna, Ostasheva Alexandra, Poldots Kristina, Puro Juho, Rantanen Vesa, Sairiala Joonas, Seidl Sabina, Symon Douglas, Tuovinen Tia, Varrela Otto, Vilmi Reija, Yrjänä Aino.
Results for all TAMK degree programmes conducted in English
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Degree Programme in Media admission results online soon

Summer has arrived at Finlayson, the home of Media Programme

Today is the earliest day when the admission results of the Finnish UAS international programmes may be released.

We have to wait until we receive permission from the Finnish Board of Education. It is possible that the results are not ready today.

The blog news desk is frequently monitoring email, and will share the results without delay when the GO is received.

Insight to our lectures

See for yourself how it feels to be a student in our program. And save the effort of studying by attending this self study course by Tero Koskela and Ansu Ruottinen.

Can U complete the 5 steps of multimedia to be a true champion?
http://koti.tamk.fi/~a8tkoske/multimedia/

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Read more about our international Degree Programme in Media
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Read more about the IMPs, International Media Programme Students
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Happy reunion of our first BA students

Tampere School of Art and Media merged in 1996 with three other schools to start Tampere Polytechnic, later known as Tampere University of Applied Sciences. The first students of the Degree Programme in Fine Art and the Degree Programme in Media graduated ten years ago, spring 2000.

Yesterday the first BA graduates gathered for reunion in Tampere. In autumn 2000 the School of Art and Media moved to its present premises, the Seeland building at Finlayson, so before the actual reunion dinner and party a tour of Seeland was arranged for those year 2000 graduates who had not seen it.

Pictured you can see the happy visitors packed in the top floor of our tower in Seeland.
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Today TAMK School of Art and Media offers three BA programmes (Fine Art and Film&television in Finnish, Media in English) and two MA programmes (Media Production in Finnish and Screenwriting in English) plus a range of specialisation studies for professionals in the fields of art and media.
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Experience the 4m² Camera Obscura Project online

4m² -project is a camera obscura built by four Fine Art students of TAMK School of Art and Media: Liisa Hietanen, Niina Huovinen, Viliina Koivisto and Laura Rytkönen. The camera was open for public on Laukontori Tampere during one week 8.-16.5.2010.

4m² -project was an Tampere Art Factory event.


Here you can get a clue of how it looked inside the camera:


4m2 - camera obscura project: In a camera from Liisa Hietanen on Vimeo.



4m2 - camera obscura project: Clouds from Liisa Hietanen on Vimeo.


4m2 - camera obscura project: view on Laukontori from Liisa Hietanen on Vimeo.


4m2 - camera obscura project: Crane on Satamakatu from Liisa Hietanen on Vimeo.
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Read more:
On this blog
On Facebook
Project home (in Finnish)
Tampere Art Factory

Now we know how elves and dwarves have sex! – Nordic Game 2010

Redlynx got the Best Nordic Game Award

On Monday 26th of April, a large group of students from Tampere took a train to Turku. The destination was the annual Nordic Game conference in Malmö, Sweden and the students were from TAMK and Score Game Development Club.

The road was long, because first we had to take a train, and a ship after that, and an eight hour bus trip after that. Nevertheless everyone was very excited about the conference, meeting the people, hearing the speeches and talking about games.
We spent the first night on the ship to Stockholm, and the next sunny day went by on the sweaty hot bus. At 8PM we were finally in Malmö. Tired, dirty, but happy. Those who still had some energy left, went to check out the Indie Game Night, aka first day party.
 Wednesday was the first conference day.  The place where Nordic Game was held was nice and we all got cool conference passports with our names on them. While sipping coffee, we had some time to read the program and decide what we wanted to hear and see. There was a huge amount of speeches about freeware games, mobile games, tools and technology, the future of games, business and much more.

Keynote by Kristian Segerstråhle, Playfish (UK)

First keynote was held by Erik Robertson, one of the main organizator of Nordic Game. The theme of his keynote and the whole conference was “Closing the gaps”, and he was talking about the gaps we needed to close in the game industry, between continents and also between people.

Maybe the most memorable presentation on the first day was the one by Guillaume de Fondaumiere, from Quantic Dream. He was talking about movies and games, can we ever combine the two forms of art successfully or is the whole idea doomed. de Fondaumiere had a strong vision that the immersion could create something great, because he has been working on a very movie-like game title, Heavy Rain, for the past years.
After all the presentations, it was time to drink some cocktails and eat a fine dinner. At the Nordic Party we had a possibility to build our own network, so we started to hook up with people.

Even though it was a long night, we all woke up early to hear the most exciting keynote from Remedy’s Art Director Saku Lehtinen. His demonstration about Alan Wake was so mind blowing that even the wildest party animals from last night stayed awake.

Score team testing a yet unpublished title by Epic Games

Of course we had to see the next presentation also, because it was called ”Do we really want to know how elves and dwarves have sex?”, held by Tom Putzki, even if anyone didn’t have the slightest idea what it was about.  The presentation itself was also good, and it turned out that it wasn’t porn after all, instead it was about showing feelings and taboos in games.

The last but not least was a presentation by Mikael Hed, the story of a little Finnish game house Rovio, and their success with their iPhone game Angry Birds. How did the small company survive and get Angry Birds to the number one of all charts around the world? That was an encouraging finish to the two days in Nordic Game.
Everyone was very happy about the trip. Some of us found their dream profession, some got to know interesting people, but I’m sure that everybody took home one great experience.

Story: Juhani Hujala
The author is a third year Interaction Design student at TAMK School of Art and Media

Pictures by Teemu Haila
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Nordic Game
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The Night of Museums tonight!

 

The Night of Museums
May 15 6pm-12pm

The Night of the Museums takes place tonight in Tampere, with several museums being open from 6 pm to 12 am. In addition to the beautiful exhibitions, the museums and galleries taking part in the Night of the Museums also offer various kinds of special events for their visitors. The Tampere Night of the Museums is part of a European series of events. Welcome on board!!

Entrance fee: 5 €, group ticket 12 € (max. 5 persons/group)

An old tourist bus from 1957 travels all night between the participating museums. Attendees of the Night of the Museums can get on board for the price of the entrance fee. Hop on board!

TAMK School of Art and Media is of course an active part of the event:

Fine Art graduation show "Sold Out" is open at Mältinranta and TR1. In the latter you can also see the Korean Wave photo exhibition by our Korean partners.

The Promoting Changes art exhibition is open at Labour Museum Werstas, you can also see a part of it on ste street outside.

Hysteria Publishing will perform The Great Hunt with you around Mältinranta and TR1.

You can participate in a street art act hosted by our fine art students on Väinö Linna square starting 6pm.

And finally if you're lucky; Megagagaa is open at Gallery Nottbeck, or at least you can enjoy it trough the windows.

The night of museums
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Internationally hot Steam of Life

Documentary Steam of Life, produced by former TAMK Art&Media student's company Oktober, has received international success again. It won the first prize at DocAviv festival in Israel. Before that the film was screened at Hot Docs in Toronto, North America's largest documentary festival. "The best sauna movie anyone's ever likely to see", commented film critic John Anderson in the Variety.

The international distribution of the film is in the hands of Jan Rofekamp (Films Transit International) who himself got the "Doc Mogul" prize of the year at Hot Docs festival. The film will be distibuted at least in France, Germany, Sweden and Poland. And there are yet more deals and festivals to come…

Tampere Art Factory exhibitions open for you!

TAF opening weekend is over, but you can still see the exhibitions:
SOLD OUT, the final thesis exhibition of fine art graduates in two locations:

May 8-30 Exhibition centre TR1
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson, Tampere
Open: Tue-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun  11am-6pm (Mon closed)
On Fridays free admission!

May 8 - 25 Art Centre Mältinranta
Kuninkaankatu 2, Tampere
Open: Mon-Thu 12am-6pm, Fri-Sun 12am-4pm  
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Korean Wave
Photography Exhibition
May 8 - 30
TR1 Exhibition Centre
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson, Tampere
Open: Tue-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun  11am-6pm (Mon closed)
On Fridays free admission
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Visuvaara 
Final thesis exhibition  of  visual design students 
School of Art and Media entrance hall

May 7 - June 4 9am-4pm 

Timo Wright: "Long Sunday"
Photographs 
Ikuinen Gallery
April 29 - May 21
Open Mon-Fri 12-16
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere
Read more

Promoting Changes
Finnish Labour Museum Werstas
May 8 - June 20
Finlayson
Open Tuesday–Sunday from 11 am–6 pm
Read more 

4m² -project 
Pinhole camera at Laukontori market square
You can go inside the camera
May 8 - 16 at 10am-7pm
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On Facebook

I Love Photography – photography exhibition
Students of Specialization Studies on Photography
May 7-21 Mon-Fri 9 am – 4 pm
TAMK, Art and Media, 3rd Floor, Finlaysoninkatu 7
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MEGAGAGAA
Photographs, sculptures, paintings and videos. Drawings, installations, performances and graphic.
May 7-23 Open all days 12am-6pm
Gallery Nottbeck
Finlayson
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Michael Böger awarded at 2010 Radio Festival in the category “sound composition”

School of Art and Media student Michael Böger´s piece “Kuin odottaisi vettä mereen” (“As if waiting for water into the sea”) won the award for best sound composition at the Radio festival.

The festival is an annual event, at which audio-oriented students and professionals can share and discuss their works. This year the event was held in Tampere, in the School of Art and Media facilities. The sound composition series presented more experimental works, which cannot be clearly seen as traditional radio plays or documentaries. The award-winning work was praised for its dynamic audial dramaturgy and a somewhat critical point of view.

The awarded pieces can be heard at www.radiofestivaali.blogspot.com.


Story: Hanna Lappalainen
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TAF – How can universities give students a kick to go global?

Andrea Zapata Girau final thesis work trailer

The international seminar "How Universities give students a kick to go global?" was kicked off in Demola by Jukka Siltanen and Taru Söderlund. Jukka invited the audience to ponder: "What can I learn?" and "How is it important to me personally?"

As Jukka pointed out, most importantly, TAF seminar is a day to celebrate TAMK students and their achievements! The speakers spoke of art and internationalism from different perspectives.

Andrea Zapata Girau showed a trailer of her up-coming Flamenco Movie, and Pekka Saari spoke about his film Memory of tomorrow, especially about combining the production with postproduction. Pekka Niskanen told the audience of the exhibition his students are having first at Werstas in Tampere and then in Dortmund. He also shared his experiences in the international art world. Then Robert Niva and Martti Sirkkola demonstrated their 3D animation project, in which they had learned the entire process of doing a 3D animation by doing it together, in a group, instead of relying on traditional lecture-based education. They explained the importance of using the wisdom of crowds and social media application in learning and producing art.

After the break it was time for Jukka Siltanen to take the stage again. Jukka talked about Hub Tampere and entrepreneurship. Hub Tampere is all about joint entrepreneurship and sharing both skills, ideas and resources. Hub Tampere has already had some excellent success, and Jukka sounded very optimistic about its future. The Proacademy students presented their projects: a Tampere guidebook for exchange students, a football tournament and its afterparty. Then producer Timo Vierimaa, spoke about his film, the "Steam of Life" ("Miesten vuoro") and how he succeeded in making his film truly international. According to Vierimaa, the keys to success are good presentation and communication skills along with patience.

The final speaker of the event was Juho Hartikainen from Score game development club, who explained how the Score game club came to be. Hartikainen emphasised the fact that the students who have the enthusism and drive to do new, innovative things, should be supported and encouraged. The students should feel like they are working for the school instead of just in the school. Siltanen, Vierimaa, Niva and Sirkkola as well as the highly interesting Proacademy projects, all highlighted the fact that so much of today's learning takes place outside the traditional classroom environment. This type of learning must be supported and nurtured, for it is the key to national and international success.

Story: Marianna Leikomaa 


Steam of Life trailer



Links:
Memory of Tomorrow
Promoting Changes
3D Animation Project
HUB Tampere
Proacademy
Game development club Score

Tampere Art Factory today and tomorrow

Sold Out and Korean Waves vernissage at TR1 last night

TAF will be selebrated two more days, welcome to Finlayson! This will happen today and tomorrow Sunday:

Sold Out, the Graduate Show of Fine Art Students
- 12-16 Mältinranta Art Center  (8.5. - 25.5. 2010)
- 11-18 TR1 Exhibition Centre  (8.5. - 30.5. 2010)

11-18 Photographic Exhibition Korean Waves by Chung-Ang University students (Seoul) TR1 Exhibition Centre  (8.5. - 30.5. 2010)

11-18 Graduation work films at Vooninkisali

11-18 Promoting Changes Fine Art exhibition, Labour Museum Werstas

10-18 Films, Animations, Visuvaara final thesis exhibition  of  visual design students, School of Art and Media (Saturday only)

10-18 I Love  Photography exhibition, School of Art and Media, 3rd floor (Saturday only)

10-17 4m² pin hole camera project, Laukontori

12-18 Open Studio: MEGAGAGAA (Nottbeck gallery)
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LOPPUUNMYYTY - SOLD OUT. The graduation exhibition

Laughter and happy chit chatting filled the Art Hall TR1 when I entered the door, Heta Mäkelä one of the graduating students welcomed us warmly to the premises.  We started off with Jaana Laakonens works where she had used photographs as inspiration. She uses oil on canvas and her style is sometimes so intense that it´s hard to tell the origin of her inspiration. 

 Maarit Hallapuro is inspired by graphic art and her beautiful installation that is built in layers is a very intense and sensitive work of art. Her objective is to use the same method and style in the future as well.

 

Laura Konttinen wanted to project her memories by using photographs as the building material. Her photographs reflected a trip in her memories during her life. 

Päivi Hirsiahos videoinstallation gives the spectator an insight of the growing of an human being. Her three screens works in a wonderful harmony with the back ground that she had built as a big passé-partout  for the installation. (Photo Päivi Hirsiaho)

Ghost riding is a crazy phenomenon in the United States. The trick is to leave a car moving with the neutral shift on and dance around, on and in it!! Crazy as it sounds it looks even more crazy when filmed! Timo Bredenberg has put together a video installation with the mentioned theme. Two screens are presenting the art form, where the other screen is showing You-tube reviews of the movies shown.  Timos main message with the installation is to bring out the fact that the art form has travelled from the Us all the way to Irak! (Video Timo Bredenberg)



Mari Sydänmaalakka is giving the question of change a serious thought. She explains for us that the only way to achieve something and to get rid of the old is by experiencing a major change. Her video installation is very personal and close to your mind. Two big canvases on your both sides reflects a very interesting close up video of the human changing to something new.

Heta Mäkeläs colourful animal themes are really capturing. She is a great fan of colour layering and that can really be seen in her works. The setting and the forms of her animals are very important, but colour is the most important thing in her jobs.

Vera Arjamas combination of photographs and video installation is a reflection of the thoughts and feelings in the life of a human being. She wants to bring out the contradictions of various feelings in her work.  Her work Etsijä is about your own journey through your mind and finding yourself.

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Story: Fredi Lilius
Photos: Turkka Tervonen
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Sold Out, the Graduate Show of Fine Art Students
May 8 - 30 2010 Exhibition centre TR1
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson, Tampere
Open: Tue-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun  11am-6pm (Mon closed)
On Fridays free admission!

May 8 - 25 Art Centre Mältinranta
Kuninkaankatu 2, Tampere
Open: Mon-Thu 12am-6pm, Fri-Sun 12am-4pm

Promoting Changes opens today at TAF

Promoting Changes today 17-19
Finnish Labour Museum Werstas
May 8 - June 20
Finlayson
The museum is open Tuesday–Sunday from 11 am–6 pm

The show “Promoting Changes” explores the diverse ways in which mediated representations function in the construction of identity politics.

The show comprises of four different topics – activism, communities, fashion and the wild. The works in the show overlap with each other and none of the works don’t necessarily represent only one approach.

The show explores possibilities for another kind of narration for some of the stories transmitted by mass media, and how hegemonic models of thinking could be shifted through narratives. The exhibition is targeted at young people and we have chosen to mostly use socially engaged methods.

Härmälä family group home, the Lammi refugee centre, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) Fine Art students and Pispala contemporary art center Hirvitalo will collaborate to realize the show.

Liisa Ahlfors:
Pretty slipper socks for ickle feet!
Performative installation
Pretty slipper socks for ickle feet! is a performative installation that depicts the making of process of my work Dream On. During Promoting Changes exhibition I will knit slipper socks for babies at the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas. The spectator is invited to sit on a sofa to see this one-girl manufacturing plant.

Hirvitalo:
Virtual Forest Conflict sites

Hirvitalo is exploring conflicts that appear in Nordic forests by extending them into the online virtual world of Second Life. You can participate and explore the conflicts in Second Life or in the exhibition and a workshop in Werstas.

Twilight Picnic in the Devastated Forest - Workshop in the Night of the Museums in 15.5. at 18-22
Luonto-Liitto will present the following documentaries at Werstas:
Luonto ei tunne rajoja (Kari Kemppainen, 2004),
Last Joik in Sámi Forest (Hannu Hyvönen, 2008)
Sateenkaaren pää (Ritva Kovalainen & Sanni Seppo, 2007)
As a part of the screening Hirvitalo will organize a twilight picnic in which the relationship between present day city dwellers and the forest is investigated.

Lukas Hoffman, Ilpo Jääskeläinen, Mikko Torvinen
Nord Stream - The Game

The platform game Nord Stream is based on the scheduled natural gas offshore pipeline which will be built between Vyborg in Russia and Greifswald in Germany by the company Nord Stream AG. In the Nord Stream game the player will take the role of the builder of the pipeline.

Härmälä family group home, Lammi refugee center, Anna Knappe, Pekka Niskanen, Timo Piikkilä, Jaana Ristola:
Youth as Refugees
During the project the team teaches the young refugees to film and edit videos, in which they get to tell about their life in the reception centres. The finished videos will be gathered into a website that opens in summer 2010.

Mikko Keskiivari
I am YouTube
Work in progress

I am YouTube is a portrait of a community; but the documentary-like production presents also lifestyle of a certain generation and culture. It is a work about structures of families, sexuality, playing roles of adulthood and about sincerely growing up. Cinematic cut of video material and Keskiivari’s electronic music rearrange the life of the community.

Mikael Kinanen, Vili Nissinen:
Everyday Clothes Stories
Everyday clothes stories is a fashion show that emphasizes the wearers and their ideas on what they are wearing. Normally, the emphasis would be on a designer and on what he wants to say, but not here.

Essi Laurila, Martta Tuomaala:
Speech Bubbles @ City

Community art comic strip project Speech Bubbles @ City invades a part of public space in the centre of Tampere. The project is made in collaboration with 15-20-year-old students from different schools of Tampere. Young people have made comic strips about things they haven’t had chance or courage to do. 

Karoliina Paappa, Leena Pukki:
Route Couture

The art project Route Couture presents garments made of the skins of road kills as expensive high fashion. By doing so, the project challenges consumers to question general opinions on beauty, luxury, and on marketing values and truths. (The project Route Couture consists of actual garments,  series of fashion and fine art photographs, web pages and a making of -segment.)


Read more about Youth as Refugees project in this blog

Promoting Changes is invited to Inter-Cool 3.0 exhibition. The exhibition will open in September 2010 and will contain environmental, media and social works of art from world-famous artists as well as from TAMK’s fine art students.

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Inter-Cool 3.0
RUHR.2010
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Promoting Changes is a Tampere Art Factory exhibition
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Welcome to Tampere Art Factory

The third edition of Tampere Art Factory Festival (TAF) started today at the old Finlayson cotton mill in the heart of Tampere, Finland. TAF is above all a demonstration of the skills and talent of the graduates of the School of Art and Media at Tampere University of Applied Sciences, and their friends.

TAF is several fine art exhibitions, animation and film shows, interactive media, installations and performances. The fifty international guests of the International Week which started on Monday will also participate in TAF. Several works of the week workshops hosted by international lecturers will be seen at TAF.

Tampere Art Factory May 7-9 at Finlayson 

TAF today, Friday:

9.30-12.00 Seminar: How can Universities Give Students a Kick to go Global? (Demola)
12-17 Films, Interactive Movies, Animations, Visuvaara final thesis exhibition  of  visual design students (School of Art and Media)
12-16 Timo Wright's Long Sunday photo exhibition (Ikuinen Gallery)
12-18 Open Studio: MEGAGAGAA (Nottbeck gallery)
13-16 Demos at Demola
13-19 Graduation work films at Vooninkisali
16-18 I Love  Photography exhibition opening, School of Art and Media, 3rd floor
19-21 Promoting Changes Fine Art exhibition, Labour Museum Werstas
21-02 TAF party at Klubi

Open doors 13-16:

• Demola
• HUB Tampere
• Creative Tampere
• Mediamuseum Rupriikki
• Proakademy

4m² pin hole camera project starts on Saturday at Laukontori, Tampere

4m² -project is a pinhole camera built by four Fine Art students. A year ago the camera turned Ruoholahdentori marketplace upside down in Helsinki. Now the camera opens in Tampere, in the middle of Laukontori. The scenery inside the camera is recognizable yet alien. The shifting, changing, dimming and brightening sunlight paints the outside world on the inner walls of the camera. The camera doesn’t record anything, the only way to experience it is to step inside.

4m² -project will be opened on Mothers Day weekend 8.-9.5. at 10-19 in Laukontori. After that the camera will be open if good weather during the week, and again on weekend 15.-16.5 at 10-19.

ATTENTION! Due to the fact that the pinhole camera works poorly in low light, the camera might not be open on rainy of heavily cloudy days. Check the opening hours on Facebook event, or pop by and see if we’re open.

On Facebook
Project home (in Finnish)

4m² -project is Liisa Hietanen, Niina Huovinen, Viliina Koivisto and Laura Rytkönen

4m² is a Tampere Art Factory project
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I Love Photography – photography exhibition

Tiina Riutta: In the park

I Love Photography – photography exhibition
Students of Specialization Studies on Photography


Exhibition hours 7. - 21.5. Monday-Friday 9 am – 4 pm
TAMK, Art and Media, 3rd Floor, Finlaysoninkatu 7


Welcome to the opening on Friday 7.5. at 4-6 pm

Visual artists and students of Specialization Studies on Photography love taking photographs and you can see it in the exhibition. There is a wide range of approach to photography. We can see different kind of life of people for example a woodoo-priestess from Ghana, people live in institution in Estonia or a visual artist having an adventure in her backyard.

There are about 100 photographs in the exhibition and and they are for sale!

This is a Tampere Art Factory exhibition

Welcome to Open Studio MEGAGAGAA

MEGAGAGAA
7.5.-23.5.2010
Gallery Nottbeck
Finlayson
Open all days 12am-6pm

Welcome to MEGA-OPENING Thu May 6 at 6pm!

Who cares if it's a human or an anima? Looks good, and mega can't be too little! Is this questioning of gaga even necessary anymore? The art students from Tampere University of Applied Sciences, riding on the fame of popstar,  rope you in to this exhibition, the variety of which can confuse the mind of an unsuspecting viewer.

During the year, a lot of new works are made in an art school. The pace is frantic, and the environment encourages to experiment to your heart's content.  Photographs, sculptures, paintings and videos. Drawings, installations, performances and graphic. In order to let everyone, not just fellow students, experience this abundance of the freshest modern art, we have decided to right this wrong with our mind-blowing exhibition. MEGAGAGA is an androgynous earthworm, it is both at the same time, in the big picture mostly harmless but in reality a very useful individual. Above all, it must be experienced in the flesh!

The exhibition has works from over 20 artists, and it is part of the annual Tampere Art Factory event. The exhibition space is provided by the brand new Gallery Nottbeck in the shopping centre Siperia.  


Tampere Art Factory

MEGAGAGAA projects introduced earlier in this blog:
A Small Study Of Woe (Woe is me!) (animation) 
Family act (Communal animation project)
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TAF shows: The animation A Small Study Of Woe by Karoliina Paappa

A Small Study Of Woe (Woe is me!) 
Animation, 4:3, DVD, 3.20min, 2009
Animation by Karoliina Paappa
Music by Mikko Keskiivari




Karoliina Paappa:

In this surreal animation I am observing self-destructive behavior, which
appears when an individual is facing extreme states of mind. Animation is an
effort to understand my own behavior and human nature in general. It is also
an attempt to let go. Despite the hard subject, the tone is comforting and
forgiving throughout the story.

The animation combines elements of music videos, cut-out animation and of Butoh aesthetics. 


Woe on Youtube

This animation is showed at
Tampere Art Factory

Tampere Art Factory promotional animations!

A first year film&television student team has made some Tampere Art Factory (TAF) promotional animations. Here they are:


Avaruus - Space



Metsä - the Forest


Norsu - the Elephant



Metsä 2 - The Forest 2


The team: Heli Lappalainen, Jenny Priiki, Tiina Lehikoinen, Raisa Partala and Dimitri Okulov.

Tampere Art Factory

International week - workshops started successfully

Interactive Cinema Workshop

Chris Hales opened the first day of his workshop by talking briefly about the importance of interactive cinema amongst the growing media business in the world. He emphasized the fact that the form of interactive communication with the audience threw the screen is still not a very common form of film making.
What is interactive cinema? Simply when the audience is affecting the outcome of the movie by its action, this can be made either by sound, light or movement.
The task given to the workshop for this week will be fun and demanding. The group will film during the week interactive short films where the audiencehave the chance to affect the movie.
The shows will be on display at the Theater, 2nd floor on Friday 7th at 12.00pm.


photo: Chris Hales, SmartLab, University of London



Nou &Herkauw
The work of a VJ is still little new for the everyday consumer. Visual Jockey is the artist behind all the moving images at a party, dance club or any other venue where visual ambience is needed. Adri Schokker (NL) opened the day by explaining to his audience the meaning of workshop’s title.
Nou & Herkauw is literally directly translated “Now & Ruminate” . By this he wanted to point out the facts that the key material that is used for VJ´s around the world is already used material which is transformed into another format that is rhythmically in balance with the given atmosphere.
The final object for the workshop is to build a mind blowing show for the upcoming TAF -party at restaurant KLUBI on Friday, 7th of May.

photo: Adri Schokker, Academy of Popculture, Groningen, NL



text: Fredi Lilius
photos: Turkka Tervonen

We are Seeland! (A short history of our home at Finlayson)

A view from our tower. In the red brick heart of Tampere cotton was made no more than 30 years ago. Nowadays there is no cotton factory, but something completely different.

In 1819 a man called James Finlayson came to Tampere from Scotland to sell bibles, and found his way to the shore of Tammerkoski. A year later the Scot decided to use the advantage the rapids offered, and started a workshop and a foundry next to it, but decided to change the property into a cotton factory in 1828. For approximately 160 years the factory produced cotton and fabrics to the masses, but in the 1980's the work in the factory was decreasing, and it was time to make room for new life.

One factory was named Seelanti in its birth year in 1865. Seelanti come across a big change in the year 2000, when new residents took over. A herd of never before seen creatures came in carrying cameras, paintbrushes, lights, computers, blank canvases, long cabels and all kinds of odd things.

The social animals of creativity wander around Seelanti still to this day, sometimes planning digital artworks, sometimes coding 3D-movies, sometimes designing Hungarian prints and fabrics. Some come to join the herd from overseas, some run away to foreign countries every now and then, but they do send messages back home to Seelanti via the smoke signals of social media.

The second official TAF Magazine introduces these animals, the current life in the cotton memories of Seelanti and the experiences of those who came abroad and those who went there.

TAF Magazine is the official magazine of Tampere Art Factory -festival and it can be found from several places from TTVO and Finlayson area. Us and the works of our kind can also be seen during this week in Tampere Art Factory exhibitions and events. A brave man will also find a way to the end of Itäinenkatu and through the big armour door to see what our species is really up to.

Story and picture: Niina Virtanen, the editor-in-chief of Taf Magazine
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Korean Waves photographic exhibition at TAF

From Alice in wonderland by Kang Seulgi

Korean Wave
Photography Exhibition
May 8 - 30
TR1 Exhibition Centre
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson, Tampere
Open: Tue-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun  11am-6pm (Mon closed)
On Fridays free admission

One of the partner delegations visiting our International Week is the group of professors and students coming from the Chung-Ang University, the Korean top university for photography.

The guests bring with them the Korean Wave photography exhibition. The exhibition has already been shown last year at Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia and will be seen later this year at Galerie Lampingstrasse, Bielefeld, Germany

Professor Walter Bergmoser, curator of the exhibition:

"Korean Wave is usually connected to popculture and soap-operas. Althought the
expression “Korean wave” might not be known very well in the western part of the world, it had and still has a strong influence in whole Asia like Japan, China and South East Asia.

Nowadays it becomes more and more known to the rest of the world. It has even spreat
further to countries like South America, Russia, Hungary atc. It started in the late 1990s and improved the country‘s image considerably. The impact was so strong that it even caused some backlashes, some countries had difficulties to accept the popularity of the “korean wave”.

Though “Korean Wave” may not so strongly be connected to fine-arts, I see a potential of the same impact in the Korean photography of the new generation as in its original field. The images in this exhibition are made by young photographers from the Chung-ang University, the Korean top university for photography.

The artists are showing us their guilts, fears and hopes in a very personal way. But they also explore the contemporary Korea in a genuine combination of western influence
and Korean identity. Confucianism with its boundaries of inner world and outer shame,

the “losing face” and filial piety are still strong in the Korean society, whereas the technical standards are far ahead from us in daily life."

The artists:

Hong Bonggi
Kang Dayoung
Kang Seulgi
Kim Jihye
Kim Minjeong
Kwon Jihyun
Park Serry
Park Siyeon 

The Exhibition is a part of  TAMPERE ART FACTORY (TAF)

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