The blog about the everyday life and highlights of the degree programmes in fine art, film&television and media at Tampere University of Applied Sciences Finlayson Campus in Tampere, Finland.
This year diploma films will be finished soon. We proudly invite you to see those films. The screening will be 11th May 5:15 P.M. at Finnkino Plevna 2, Finlayson. Free entry! The producer of the event is Ilona Tolmunen.
The films:
Metsästysmaa - The hunting ground
Director: Nalle Mielonen
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Kaunis kuolema - A beautiful death
Director: Minna Korhonen
10 min Read more
Sudenveistäjä
Director: Aino Suni
13 min Read more
Muutos meitä johtaa - Change of State
Director: Jussi Sandhu, Ville Hakonen
14 min Read more
Laulu sieltä missä tyyntä on - A Song From Silent Waters
Director: Outi Tienhaara
14 min
Tunnevammoja - No Heart Feelings
Director: Markus Aaltonen
54 min Read more
Tunnevammoja (No Heart Feelings) will be one of the movies showed at TAMK film and television students' graduation film show at Finnkino Plevna May 11 5:15 P.M. The film is a part of the final thesis work of the director, cinematographer and light designer.
Being disappointed in love and wanting to learn how to express himself better, Pekka joins a film course at a community college. At the course he meets Johanna, a girl who dreams of film industry studies and together they start to work on a short film about a feeling called love. Jorma - the courses teacher - tries to teach the young couple what love really is. And it sure as hell isn't just about filming birds.
Director: Markus Aaltonen
Script writers: Joni Ulmanen, Markus Aaltonen
Producer: Hannele Survo
Cinematographer: Joni Ulmanen
Editor: Tomi Pietilä and Markus Aaltonen
Light Designer: Jaakko Tuure
Actors: Teemu Mäkinen, Reetta Kankare, Esa Latva-Äijö, Topi Kohonen, Merja Koivula, Esko Salmela, Anna Ackerman
American activist art group Guerilla Girls visited Tampere on Tuesday and Wednesday. Students of Fine Art were extremely lucky to have the chance to participate in workshop held by Guerilla Girls. These women with gorilla masks have worked with gender equality for over twenty-five years. Their way of planning the project is to first check the facts and come up with a new twisted and fun way to present the issue to the public. For example they have asked: ”Do women have to be naked to get into the Metropolitan Museum?” and then showed the statistics which show how less than five percent of the artists in modern art section are women but eighty-five percent of the nudes are female.
In the workshop Guerilla Girls first presented their methods and then asked the participants to tell one thing that they would like to change in the world. The art students were worried about gay rights, environmental issues, consumerism and the policies of the True Finns party. Because of the encouragement and the vast knowledge of Guerilla Girls the students were able to plan their own activistic art projects in only two hours. So beware, there´s culture jamming coming up!
Moving Gallery presents the STOP MOTION MINUTE animation screening.
The screening will firstly be on the Moving Gallery web site at movinggallery.net. Later on the exhibition will be presented in front of a live audience in one or more screenings. Currently we are gathering works for the exhibition. The duration of the animation should be no more than 60 seconds. And the animation should be in the web on a public video server. For practical reasons we wish that you would use YouTube.
Please visit http://www.movinggallery.net/screening and fill in the application form in order to participate the screening! We would also like to encourage you to make new animations for this exhibition. It is quite easy and fun! Artist, art student or anyone who makes animations is welcome to participate in the screening. There is no participating fee or age limit for the participants. Also one can participate with many videos. Deadline May 31.
Moving Gallery is an artist-run exhibition space that seeks out new ways to promote new art.
Ikuinen Galleria April 22 May 13 2011
Arttu Heikkinen, Wolf Kankare, Eero Lampinen, Veera Moberg, Emmi Nieminen
Ikuiset tissit - Eternal tits (Tattoos and Comics)
Open Mon-Sun 12am - 4pm
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere
Both comics and tattoos are forms of art that are rarely seen in art galleries. Eternal Tits exhibition shows pictures of tattoos and comics dealing with breasts. Pin-up girls are typical sailor tattoos and the women in comics tend to have huge tits. However in contemporary comics the self-evident breasts are questioned. Exhibition contains works from the following artists: Arttu Heikkinen, Juha Janttonen, Wolf Kankare, Eero Lampinen, Emmi Nieminen and Jussi Rossi.
Eternal Tits is part of ”Sissit, tissit ja tasa-arvo” event. On Tuesday 26.4. there is a guided tour to two art exhibiton that take part in the event. Tour starts at 2 p.m. from gallery Rajatila and continues to Eternal Tits and ”Kriittinen rintamalinja” (public discussion) held at Labour Museum Werstas. After the discussion Guerilla Girls give a lecture on equality in art world and the evening ends with a party organised by Tampere Queer klub.
|| Ikuinen gallery is a contemporary art project space located in the old factory complex Finlayson in central Tampere. The gallery is run by a board of fine art students in Tampere UAS School of Art and Media as part of their study program.
Ikuinen gallery’s main focus is in presenting interesting and high quality student work, whereas work from other art school students and teachers as well as visiting artists are regularly also at show.
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In spring 2010 Aino Suni (director, script) started to create a script for her diploma work. Kerttu Hakkarainen decided to be cinematographer as she has co-operated with Aino many times before. The "Sudenveistäjä" short film got also a producer, Ilona Tolmunen. The main actors are Kai Lehtinen and Jaana Joensuu.
Now, a year later, the film has been filmed and the premiere will be on 11th May. The title of the film is Sudenveistäjä, the Wolf sculptor in direct translation, but the team has not yet made a decision on the title in English.
The film tells about Sulo, a lonely artist who lives in countryside. One day he is going to meet his ex-girlfriend and there is also a young girl with a trailer full of cardboard boxes. That´s how started a long moving trip to girl’s new apartment. Sulo finds out that the girl is his daughter. He tries to tell that to the girl also, but it is complicated.
Our filming was set up in February, ten days in all. We found great shooting locations from Nurmijärvi, Lempäälä, Kangasala and Tampere. TOAS helped us to find a great student apartment from Hervanta, Mikontalo. During the shootings the weather was freezing and most of the shootings days were outside! But despite the weather conditions the crew was extremely hardworking. The weather has also positive side – shots looks amazing!
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Screening of six TAMK final thesis films
May 11 5:15 P.M. Finnkino Plevna 2
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On Wednesday the fastest and most observant students got their sugar rush from the dozens of chocolate eggs hidden in our school premises. The eggs could be found in all floors, some in more clear view than others. There were also three golden eggs which contained a bit bigger surprise than a toy inside chocolate covers. The event was arranged by Tarina.
The lucky winners of the golden eggs were thrilled when found out what they had won. Mirka Pimiä, Jenny Kupiainen, Laura Lehtinen.
auto_art_screening @Forum-P, Parking Garage, Helsinki
April 15 - 30 Daily 08:08–20:02
Working for a vibrant city culture is a simple task. Most of the time it's enough that estate owners open their doors for new possibilities. BK-Group which is in charge of the underground parking garages of Forum has taken a bold step by offering spaces for the usage of a two week long video art screening. Works received after a silent call review the role of cars in our culture. The artists approach cars as dividers of social space, from ecological viewpoints and by interpreting myths related to them. Works where received from England, Germany and Finland.
The artists are: David Theobald, Johannes Romppanen, Johnny Amore&Catherina Conrad, Jukka Silokunnas, Keijo Ahlqvist, Timo Bredenberg and Maarit Suomi-Väänänen. But the bunch also features some surprises. The videos are projected on a canvas located in a underground passage connecting the Forum and Kamppi parking garages. An automated system turns the screening on daily at 08:08 and shuts of at 20:02 - In between the videos run in a continuos loop. The site is most easy to access trough the elevators of Kampin keskus from the Annankatu side of the building.
auto_art_screening has been organized by Alkovi Gallery, which has since 2007 been actively working for a vibrant city culture and Eero Yli-Vakkuri who studies at Aalto Universities Fine Art MA program. Instead of a uptight press event interested parties are advised to come at the site on Friday 15.4 between 10:00-18:00 and have a chat as the video system is being build.
Johannes Romppainen and Jukka Silokunnas graduate from TAMK this spring, Timo Bredenberg graduated 2010 and Eero Yli-Vakkuri in 2008.
Last week all web-design students had a chance to study some flash-site building at the Flash Catalyst workshop from Michael Koch.
Some delay because of a canceled flight made this workshop shorter, but there was still enough time to study how to make static pages using this program. Moreover, we’ve discovered that it is so simple that it can be treated as a cheat after all these HTML tags and CSS properties for normal web-coding.
All you need to make a good static site in Flash Catalyst is a properly prepared layout, for example, in Photoshop file. After you have imported it in Flash Catalyst program you just need to spend some time setting states (that’s how pages are called in FC). It is as simple as changing the visibility of the layers. Also there are some special elements to create buttons, forms, scrollbars, etc. Choose a layer – text or picture – that you want to be a navigation button and convert it with one click. Save your work, run the project and enjoy the result. Now you have some flash-site working as an interactive presentation.
If you want to make transitions between states going smoother use a special timeline. There you can find a list of all transitions that you’ve created with the help of your built-in buttons. Drag special bars to fade out elements of an old page and fade in a new one.
Although Flash Catalyst is very simple in use you should understand that it is not possible to make any site that you want with the help of this program. Mainly, it is a good choice to present your layout or prototype model to some big customer or investor, when you haven’t got enough time to code it.
For more difficult and dynamic projects you need to study Action Script language and Adobe Flash Builder program. And it is a really good way to develop your qualification and career while flash is getting more and more popular both in the “big” Web and mobile one.
Polyamoria at Gallery Nottbeck shows art works by students from South-
Korea, Canada and TAMK
The climax of Tampere Art Factory International Week was TAF Open Day on Friday with a seminar, the Kino TAMK screenings, animations, web- and game projects, the TAF Klub, many exhibition openings and much more.
Tampere Art Factory will run until mid-May in many exhibitions. This week you can find five exhibitions in twelve locations:
P.S. a pic would be nice Graduating Exhibition of fine art students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences
April 16 - May 3 Mältinranta Artcenter (Kuninkaankatu 2)
April 16 - May 15 TR1 Kunsthalle (Väinö Linnan aukio 13)
Two video works by TAMK students got selected into the film program of European Media Art Festival Osnabrück. The Murder Chairs by Nalle Mielonen and Swallow Your Fears by Laura Rytkönen will be presented in Student Campus film programs on the weekend of 27.4. - 1.5. The program holds film screenings, performances, opportunities to meet the artists and Transit – European Young Talent exhibition. This is the 30th time the annual festival is held. There were over 2200 contributions to the film program from all over the world.
The Student Campus program presents works and tendencies from young artists and designers from Art Schools all over Europe. Adding to the broad film program, there are many other events to the festival. Exhibition Moving Stories shows installations by curated artists, who explore and present new forms of narration.
Among others the South-African video artist Candice Breitz will be showing her latest work on the Moving Image exhibition, and she’ll hold lectures on the making of the work, the Character. The work was commissioned for the Moving Stories exhibition. Other parts of the program is the Japanese Media Art Now, that will exhibit new Japanese media artist’s works, the Congress, a series of lectures and artist presentations, and the Media Art Garden, which is a communal project run by two artists.
The Murder Chairs will be seen on screening called Prepilog. Swallow Your Fears is shown on Over the Edge screening. Both movies have been produced on the schools Fine Art program courses. Murder Chairs was produced as a part of the cinematic artwork course from the year 2010. The course was lead by Fanni Niemi-Junkola and Tellervo Kalleinen. Swallow Your Fears was started on the basics of moving image course, under the instruction of Minna Suoniemi in year 2009.
On Friday the 15th many of our students as well as international guests came face to face with their fears.
One of our International week’s workshops was ”the Horror of Interaction”. The 2 day workshop turned out to be so interesting and inspiring that we decided to use more time with the subject – the results of our enthusiasm could be seen in the Face of Fear experience.
Before entering the experiment room, participants had to fill out a questionnaire listing phobias. Then they were taken into a small, dark room. We told the participant that we would measure their heart rate, head movement and other reactions during the experiment. After a short video of different scary things when results were calculating, just as the participant thought the experiment was over we got to the real face of fear.
The chair of fear
Scaring people is a hard thing to do, especially if the person is waiting for it. Judging by the screams and expressions of people leaving the experiment room the face of fear succeeded in its’ goal.
Maria Kärkkäinen
P e k i n r i n n e – a place for growth (Photographs)
April 5 - 24.2011
G12 Gallery, Töölöntorinkatu 3, Helsinki
open Tue-Fri 12 am to 5 pm, Sat-Sun 12 am to 4 pm
Maria K's (Maria Kärkkäinen) sixth solo exhibition is a homage to her childhood home which she had to say goodbye after almost 18-years of shared time. Pieces include symbolic takes on the landscape on North-Savo and intimate portraits on artists large family. Tenderness and powerful emotions transmit beautifully through the emsemble and ties all the works together.
“The Murder Chairs” is an experimental film made by Nalle Mielonen in 2010. This spring it can be seen in international festivals.
“The Murder Chairs” tells seven stories about chairs. Trough these stories we see a portrait of hidden and public violence and the effects it has on the places where it occurs. The film was shot and finished in the spring 2010. The Crew was very small, but many fellow students and friends helped by lending their chairs for the movie.
The film is written, directed and cinematographed by Nalle, edited by Nina Forsman and the sound design was made by Jussi Sandhu. Other vital members of the crew were Laura Rytkönen (set design, co-producer), Kerttu Hakkarainen (camera assistant, gaffer) and Hannu Käki (camera assistant, electirician).
The international premier of The Murder Chairs was at the Mexican student film festival Kinoki, where the film competed in the experimental short film section. Next Murder Chairs can be seen in Germany, first at the European Media Art Festival at Osnabrück and in the beginning of June in EMERGEANDSEE media art festival at Berlin.
The graduating artists were adorned with flowers at the vernissage last night
P.S. a pic would be nice
Graduating Exhibition of fine art students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Mältinranta Artcenter (Kuninkaankatu 2) 16.4.-3.5.
TR1 Kunsthalle (Väinö Linnan aukio 13)16.4.-15.5.2011
First weekend of the exhibition offers an opportunity to see artist of the exhibition face to face as part of the Taidesuunnistus (Art Orientation) happening.
Come to see works and artist in both locations 16.4.-17.4. 11am-5pm. Welcome!
Tampere Art Factoryn open doors today: you can be familiar with the creations of the students of degree programmes in Fine Art, Film and Television, Media. Also results of the International Week workshops and works of our exchange students are shown.
Evelyn Urm (left) has produced a unique and absolutely amazing exhibition on
Soviet Estonia poster and plastic bag art. Chris Hales' (right) Horror Worshop
results will be shown tomorrow noon at Deneb, 5th floor
Soviet Estonia practically lacked advertising in the sense we understand it today.
What was Soviet Estonian print advertising like?
Which was the work field of artists?
Which were materials and possibilities to express themselves?
This you can find out today and tomorrow at the School of Art and Media, Finlayson. Evelin Urm, lecturer at our partner Tartu Art College has produced the exhibition which is a part of our International Week and Tampere Art Factory.
The plastic bag factory of entire Soviet Union was in Tartu. Artists and graphic designers who got their art work on the plastic bags had their creations spread in 20 million copies. This is one of the amazing facts you can learn from the exhibition.
Polyamoria Galleria Nottbeck
16.4. – 15.5.2011
Open: everyday from 12am to 6pm
The course of art production of Tampere University of Applied Sciences gathers 36 pieces of art to a polyamoric relationship. The group exhibition of three schools greates seamless, even flirtatious discussion between the art and the viewer. Polyamoria is a combination of individual exhibitions.
The artists from Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea, are exploring the bubbling spirit of the time below the surface in their part, 'Sparkling Silence'.
The section of the show from Tampere University of Applied Sciences, 'Long Distance Relationship', takes a look at the big picture by pondering the importance of the distances, the choices, and the small gestures.
The joint project of TAMK and Toronto’s Ontario College of Art and Design presents new perspectives on documentary photography via the virtual exhibition DocPhoto.
This annual comic event was arranged near TTVO, around Finlayson. Cosplaying was popular this year (dressing a character from for example a comic, usually manga or anime) though its popularity seems to be pretty high always in these kind of events. Tampere Kuplii was arranged from Thursday to Sunday with lots and lots of events for people interested in comics.
There were many interesting lectures about comics and not just about comics. In one lecture on Sunday they were talking about Japanese and American animations (the show was more than full.) Some popular Finnish comic artists gave interviews and autographs for fans which was a really good chance to meet some creators of the popular Finnish comics. For manga and anime fans there were a lot of stuff to buy since the TR1 space was full of selling tables with masses of merchandise from Japanese series and comics, also from games. You could buy many comic books and several publishers had their newest products available. It was also a great chance to get some books a bit cheaper than in the usual stores.
At least one student from TTVO was selling their crafts at the Pienlehtimarssi, in Gallery Nottbeck in Siperia. That room was meant for artists without publishers to sell their self-published comics, smaller comic publishers and hand-made crafts and drawings. It was interesting to see how many talented people were presenting their crafts and art. Actually, this room was far more interesting than TR1 because it had a totally different feeling about it.
All in all it was a nice way to see old friends, inspiring artists and to connect with the publishers.
During the 30th and 31st of March, a team of staff and students paid a visit to the beautiful Spanish town of Vic, just a few clicks north of Barcelona. The reason was to attend the 2nd annual event of DobleClick, a European inter-university audio visual workshop. The workshops, or "Clickshows" were led by students and ex-students from the participating universities. TAMK was represented by the wonderful Mr Robert Niva who discussed marketing student projects. The recent "Ice Screen Project" was showcased (on a lovely hot spring day) by Mr Antti Kareinen and Mr Neil Hopkins.
A big thank you has to be given to the staff and students of UVIC for their warm and friendly hospitality, and an extra big thank you to the Spanish weather and cheap produce. One euro for a bottle of damn fine red wine...I mean, how good is that?!
The film by Neil Hopkins and Vaidotas Ambrozaitis in action
Four interactive film projects were completed during the recent one-week workshop led by Chris Hales. Three of the films were designed as interactive installations, whereas the remaining work was an educational film about gravity designed for children.
This film, designed by Neil Hopkins and produced by Vaidotas Ambrozaitis, used NASA space footage to make the understanding of gravity enjoyable for children. Two sets of inflated balloons form the interface, half the balloons being yellow and half the balloons being blue. Children have to keep hitting balloons in the air in order to win a 'space-race' between yellow and blue teams - a video image of the ceiling is analysed to work out when yellow or blue balloons are in the air - and the on-screen video changes accordingly.
Interactive projection by Olav Huizer
Amongst the three installations, Olav Huizer made a projection of a sinister bird onto the door of Spede - when visitors walk into the Spede room (where Olav is showing another project) the bird projected on the door appears to fly off, returning shortly afterwards. The interaction technology here was to place a microphone on the floor outside the Spede room - when a high sound-level impulse is detected the system knows that a visitor is entering the room.
Of the two remaining projects, Ruth Hogger experimented with using a re-wired keyboard to make a film in which viewers could 'walk' through videos of the 3rd floor corridor to visit the fine art studios and 'collect' paintings observed there. Ruth constructed foot pads out of cardboard, foam, foil, tape, and a old piece of telephone cable so that physical walking on the foot pads results in the video of the corridor-walking to progress forwards.
The final workshop creation, from Vladimir Kvasnikov, was composed of about 60 videos filmed in the streets of Tampere and divided into 5 categories such as 'people' and 'landscapes'. A webcam points down at a table on which 5 coloured counters (one for each video category) can be moved around in order make unique layered compositions, new videos being introduced by pressing keys on the keyboard.
Story: Chris Hales
Photos and videos: Vladimir Kvasnikov
Saturday morning of 2nd April, 9am, in University of Vic campus, there were a number of students with red T-shirts bustled around, as well as numerous visitors walked up and down amongst teaching buildings—This is the Open Day Of UVic.
Open Day is, self-evident, a day of University of Vic open to the public, it’s organized in name of the university, assisted with over 50 volunteer students who would show UVic two campuses to visitors, meanwhile, it’s also an excellent stage for its students from all departments to put theories into practical exercises that would be totally open for guest visiting. The day was open to everyone who is interested in studying in UVic, who desires to explore how these university facilities run, whose parents are longing to experience their children’s college life…
David Pérez, a sophomore from mass communication department, gave me a tour of TV&Radio studio working environment. Every student had opportunities to record her/his own show or program which would be presented to UVic electronic magazine. There were TV talk shows, sports weekly news, music radio productions, etc. “It is exceedingly useful and helpful that we can have this kind of practice frequently” David said, “And it’s also a good chance to enhance our sense of team spirit by producing all these programs as teams.”
Open Day is not only a day supplying the public with adequate information about university Of Vic, but is also a day offering its student chances to learn more about themselves, to acquire self-worth, to share talents, to chase their dreams together!
Story and photos: GuanJun Liu
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GuoanJun participated in the second edition of DobleClick festival at Vic University, Barcelona with three other TAMK students and two staff members. You will find more information about the festival soon. DobleClick
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The aim of the course is to invent and create some kind of horrifying performance which audience can participate in a way or another. The day started by telling stories that have frighten us. We collected a huge pool of spooky things which come handy when we actualize our act later on this week.
No one in the group admitted to have seen a ghost but fairly many phobias were presented. Hales said he has been afraid of only one of his student's work and he has had hundreds of students in his workshops. It's very hard to come up with anything that scares people. I find it hilarious that we are so individualistic when it comes to being afraid of something and at the same time we have a collective opinion that the horror films sucks.
I must admit that creating horror stories is hard work. After seven hours of thinking and trying to catch the scariness of life in our safe little school I feel totally exhausted. I don't blame Lovecraft for being depressed and wrecked after too many years of writing horror stuff. It ain't easy.
From left Sabrina Seidl, International Week project manager and
registering Lenno Veerhoog, Utrecht School of Arts
and Zsofia Ruttkay, Moholy-Nagy University
of Art and Design Budapest
The fourth edition of Tampere Art Factory kicked off this morning with the International Week. TAF is a demonstration of the skills of TAMK art and media students. The International Week hosts 50 guests from South Korea to USA and Kanada and all over Europe.
The first of the ten International Week Workshops started this morning, the series of six seminars will kick off tomorrow. The climax of the week will be the open day and opening of the exhibitions on Friday.
The week offers TAMK members and friends a good chance to be familiar with Finlayson degree programmes and many TAMK partner universities and institutions. Below please find a collection of events which wish you warmly welcome:
Seminars at Spede, Finlayson Campus 2nd floor
Tue, Wed and Thu afternoons 1 to 4 PM Awesome Art&Media seminars 1 to 3. Topical talks about current art and media issues and partner university introductions
Wed 9 to 12 AM Triple Helix - Innovation and Academic/Public/Private cooperation
Thu 9 to 12 AM Higher education promoting social development
Fri 9:30 to 12 AM Highway to Entrepreneurship - People and Stories Behind the Statistics (at café, 2nd floor)
Films, animations, games and web projects:
Thu 4 to 6 PM Kino TAMK, Café
Fri 10 AM to 5 PM Demos, games, animations, Donner and Café
Fri 12 AM to 5 PM 12-17 Cinema screenings, Teatteri and Kuvaopetusluokka
Exhibitions: P.S. a pic would be nice
Graduating Exhibition of fine art students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences
April 16 - May 3 Mältinranta Artcenter (Kuninkaankatu 2)
April 16 - May 15 TR1 Kunsthalle (Väinö Linnan aukio 13)
April 7 - 17 Soft Values, installation, Ikuinen Gallery
April 8 - May 15 Graduation exhibition of TAMK Specialization Studies on Photography students Tessa Ojala and Annu Salminen
April 12 -15 The outputs of socialist advertising in Soviet Estonia by Evelin Urm (Tartu, Estonia)
April 16 - May 15 Polyamoria, Gallery Nottbeck featuring works by students from Canada, South Korea and TAMK students
Tampere Art Factory 2011 (TAF11) will present culture entrepreneurs graduated from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in its seminar Highway to Entrepreneurship – People Behind the Statistics. The seminar is a part of TAF’s international week.
Approximately 15 percent of Tampere University of Applied Sciences’ fine art and media graduates are entrepreneurs, which is a high figure nationally. About 4 percent of TAMK’s all students work as entrepreneurs at the graduation phase. Entrepreneurship is an attitude, which can be learned e.g. through the project learning model of the Degree Programme in Media. Entrepreneurship courses do not generate entrepreneurs but future entrepreneurs need to test their innovation and creativity in an inspiring environment.
We want to tell how diverse and interesting career stories can be found behind the statistics. Eight TAMK’s media and fine art graduates working as entrepreneurs or artists tell their stories. Some of them also employ a number of other professionals in the field.
The seminar Highway to Entrepreneurship – People Behind the Statistics takes place on Friday 15 April 2011 at TAMK’s Finlayson campus. The event is free and the language of the seminar is English. The School of Art, Music and Media has an open day on the same day with more than 20 film shows and exhibitions on view.
The entrepreneurship statistics are based on the student feedback system OPALA, which is a joint student feedback collection system of Finnish universities of applied sciences and the Ministry of Education and Culture. The OPALA system collects up-to-date information on graduating students’ employment and on the students’ views on the education and practical training.
TAMK offers degree-awarding education in seven fields of study and more than 40 degree programmes for approximately 10 000 students. TAMK operates in Tampere, Ikaalinen, Mänttä-Vilppula and Virrat.
Highway to Entrepreneurship – People Behind the Statistics
on Friday 15 April 2011 at 9.30 – 12.00
TAMK: Finlaysoninkatu 7, 2nd floor
Graduation exhibition of TAMK Specialization Studies on Photography students
Tessa Ojala and Annu Salminen
April 8 - May 15
Art Worshop Werstas, Mamsell's coffee room
Kanavaraitti 3, Finlayson
Open Mon 12am to 3pm, Tue-Fri 10am to 3pm
The exhibitions of Tessa Ojala and Annu Salminen at Mamsell's coffee room opened the series of graduation exhibitions of Specialization Studies on Photography students. The other exhibitions will be introduced soon.
Tessa Ojala: Sulje silmäsi pahalta - Close your eyes to the bad things
So many negative news; wars and nature catastrophes. Pictures of destruction, despair, malice. Pictures I don't want to see.
Themes of my photographs are escapism and the search of beauty. You can try to live in your own little world and close the negative things away, but maybe you will miss something then?
Photographs taken 2010-2011
Annu Salminen: Jaettu arki - Shared Family
In year 2007 my daughter Aamu turned 3 years old and got a digital toy camera for her birthday present. Aamu started photographing the everyday life of our family. Aamu's photographs show the little big things. The children's movement is present in my photographs.
Aamu's photos are large prints, mine are small ones. This emphasizes the difficulty of two different perspectives. You must choose which photographs you are looking.
Tampere Art Factory got a new look. Both the TAF'11 logo in two shapes and five colours and the new look of TAF blog are designed by Camille Romano, student of our international interactive media programme.
Tampere Art Factory kicks off with the international week on Monday.
A visualization of the project green wall (Miska Wilhelmsson, Danko Pantovic, Antti Kareinen)
During the Design Management course for the second year students, the opportunity to have hands on a real project was truly a challenge. Developed at Demola with the collaboration of City of Tampere, the eco2 projects, were innovative and coherent with the brief.
Riina Pulkkinen, co-creation manager at Demola, was delighted by the number of proposals and the overall quality of the concepts presented at the feedback session. The projects are viewable at the course´s blog.
Hopefully some ideas will be also developed in the future and viewable around the city. Interactive screens, festivals concepts, visual communication for a network of sustainable practices planned with the underlying philosophy of designing services to comply with the principles of economic, social and ecological sustainability.
Simona Vitalini
Design Management course lecturer
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Welcome to Tampere Art Factory 2011 seminar on young entrepreneurship Time: Friday April 15 9:30-12:00
Venue: TAMK Finlayson Campus café
Language: English
Some 15% of TAMK Art&Media students become entrepreneurs after they graduate. Compared to national statistics this is a high figure. The average share of TAMK students starting their own business at the time of graduation is 4%. What kind of businesses incubate in the fields of culture? Come, hear, see, learn!
Highway to Entrepreneurship - People and Stories Behind the Statistics
Host: Tiina Rinkinen, Producer, Net journalist
Programme:
Opening by Tiina Rinkinen. "Blogging your way"
Fonal Records, CEO Sami Sänpäkkilä, BA in Fine Arts, "Es Symphony #6"
Zonear, Timo Pietilä: Building a start-up without capital
Obscure Entertainment: Emilia Howells, Ville Rissanen
KLOK Creative Agency: Pauli Kopu
Hannamari Matikainen: “Business” Logic in Fine Arts – How to Survive?
