MindTrek photo diary

Our Media students conquered the conference Twitter wall

10IMP Media student team Emma Kiiski, Anna Narinen and Douglas Symon
were part of  MindTrek Plaza exhibition with their award winning app CalQuest

Our annual Tampere Art Factory festival (TAF) was all over the place

Trent Pancy, Richard Vickers (University of Lincoln, UK), Anna-Kaisa Nässi
and Erika Sangah Kim met during the coffee break to review the results of
the 24h in Tampere workshop on Tuesday

Juhani Hujala, Vilma Pekola, Carrotia won the MindTrek Indie Games Award

Ubimedia Award chairs Artur Lugmayr and Björn Stockleben, 1st prize winner
Kening Zhu, 3rd prize winner Wilken Holle and competition chair Ville Luotonen

MindTrek Party at Ilona in the evening

Skål! Salut! Cheers! Zum Wohl! Na sdorovie! Hölkyn kölkyn!

MindTrek Confererence day one at hotel Rosendahl, Tampere, Finland
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CalQuest
Tampere Art Factory
24h in Tampere
Carrotia
The Ubiquitous Media Award

Proud of our students: Carrotia won the MindTrek Indie Games Awards

Juhani Hujala and Vilma Pekola after the awards ceremony

The Carrotia game demo is the winner of MindTrek Indie Games Awards! The winner was announced at the MindTrek Conference today.

Carrotia is developed by TAMK Visual Design student Vilma Pekola, Interaction Design graduate Juhani Hujala and Business Information Systems student Jani Palovuori.

Carrotia is a puzzle game for iPhone and iPad under development. The main character is a Rabbit Hero trying to save the home village from famine goin out searching for the epic Carrotia, which according to the legent is the most giant magic carrot.

Jury statement:
In Japanese there is a word "kawaii" which means cute (in Finnish "ihqu"). The character of this game is the definition of that word. IP has excellent expanding possibilities.

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Our present and graduated students are also nominated in MindTrek Launch Pad, Zonear and Ovelin are among the six noninees for the award.
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MindTrek Indie Games Awards

MindTrek Indie Games Awards is looking for indie game developers and companies creating the future success of Finnish games industry. The competition is organized with Finnish Center of Games Industry Neogames and Game and Media Brand Investment Fund Mediatonic. The competition is open to Finnish independent game developers with unpublished game or a demo to any commonly used digital game devices. The main prize will be a trip for two to San Francisco to Game Developers Conference in March 2012 (value appr. 5 000 €), and a chance to negotiate for Mediatonic Funding of 30 000 - 500 000 €.

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The second day with Cesare Massarenti

Cesare Massarenti today at MindTrek Conference

Cesare Massarentis two-day seminar continued yesterday. Minna Eloranta wrote a post about the first day (read story http://tamk-artmedia.blogspot.com/2011/09/more-proficient-guests-richard-vickers.html) and Rosanna Salminen reported the second session:

Today we continued with captivating Cesare Massarenti by discussing about the future of tablets. The discussion was highly current because Amazon was about to launch a new kind of tablet the same day. We deliberated if it is going to be a serious opponent to Apple's iPad and how different business strategies Apple and Amazon have. Cesare also told us about different displays used in tablets and especially the technology behind e-ink displays.

The rest of the day Cesare concentrated mostly on digital marketing and advertisement and how to make it effective in new mediums such as social networks. The advertising in an interactive environment differs totally from advertising in television.

He also emphasized how important it is to measure and optimize the impact of digital marketing campaign. By measuring and rationalizing it is possible to reduce the costs and time used in a campaign and reach the right target group more effectively. At the end he introduced us several equations used in measuring and gave us simple examples how to use them in real life situations.

These two days with Cesare Massarenti have been very interesting and we've learned so much. He really talked out of experience and introduced so many possibilities and different points of view that it got our brains steaming. Let's hope he comes back soon because I have hunch he has a lot more knowledge to share with us.

Story: Rosanna Salminen

Rosanna is student of our international Degree Programme in Media
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Inspiring workshop with Ubimedia Awards Winners

On Wednesday (28.09.2011) at 1 p.m. took place ‘Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2011’ workshop where three nominated projects were presented through their representatives. All interested students gathered in New Factory. The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2011 is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, AMEA – Ambient Media Association and New Ambient Multimedia Group (NAMU) / Tampere University of Technology. The total award sum for this competition category is 6 000€.

First from the left: Wilken Holle, Bjorn Stockleben and Prof. Dr. Artur Lugmayr

After short introduction made by Bjorn Stockleben (head of Jury) and Prof. Dr. Artur Lugmayr (the inventor of the Competition and General Competition Chair) was time for the first presentation made by Wilken Holle. ‘CUBODO’ was invented in Germany (Bremen) by three students as part of their master thesis. It is a casual location-based service to explore the word around and connect with players globally mostly via iPhone application (for now). This game is about virtual boxes with photographs made during the travel, dropped in one of visited places and discovered by somebody else. Through this application you can discover who was in the same place before you and what photo he/she made.

'Selective Inductive Powering System for Paper Computing' presentation

Second presentation was made by Kening Zhu who came to us from Singapore. The project name is ‘Selective Inductive Powering System for Paper Computing’. In simply way can be say that this interesting presentation was about new paper-computing system. Paper containing this system is very flexible (almost like traditional paper) and does not need power supply. You can send message to this paper and it will appear as burnt letters.  Kening said ‘the novelty of this method lies in the power receivers in the context of wireless power transferring with multiple receivers’. Everyone was surprised what paper can do.

Our group photo displays on few devices

The third project was named ‘Junkyard Jumbotron’. There were nobody from their team but we could watch short video about their project and applied it to our devices to see how it works. The ‘Junkyard Jumbotron’ is a web tool that makes very easy to combine a bunch of random displays into a single, large virtual display. It works! We could do it!

On this workshop we could learn about prototypes and applications before presenting them to the wider audience. Those three projects made big impression and encouraged us to work harder on our own projects.

Story: Emilia Kwiatkowska

Emilia is student of our international Degree Programme in Media
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Backlight Screening travelled around the Pirkanmaa region

Photographic exhibitions are most often presented us as prints inside a gallery space. Backlight Photo Festival made an exception this year by introducing part of the exhibition as an outdoor screening. Selection of the exhibition works were taken around the Pirkanmaa region and projected on walls of buildings. This way the exhibition reached a new audience. Backlight Screening was also a good way to promote the main exhibition.

At Mänttä-Vilppula

The tournee was made during one weekend from 16th to 18th of Sempteber 2011. In the show there were photographs from 11 artists. The crew left Tampere at around 6 p.m. for the first screening at 7. There were from two to three shows per night. The locations were selected beforehand; Akaa, Hämeenkyrö, Kangasala, Mänttä-Vilppula, Orivesi, Pälkäne and Ylöjärvi. On Saturday a surprise screening was held in the center of Tampere for the Backlight invitees, including some of the artists.

Nomad screening is nothing new. There used to be people travelling around the villages with a movie projector and some featured films. Now with the new digital technology; digital photogarphy and video projectors it is really easy to implement a travelling exhibition with projected still images or video. The screening vehicle does not need an auxillary power source and the video can be screened anywhere the car can be driven to. It is possible to ask the audience to arrive to the exhibition at agreed time and place, on the other hand the exhibtiion can be taken to a place where there is already potential audience present, such as a market square or a terrace.

Backlight Screening was a clear proof that there is a demand for this kind of exhibition in the municipalities. The respond from the audience was thoroughly postitive and at many locations there were discussions about why there wasn’t more audience present. Hopefully more exhibitions will be extended into outdoors and people will get used to these screenings.

At Akaa

The Backlight Screening was planned and carried out by Jyrki Kirjalainen of the Moving Gallery. Jaana Ristola assisted in the screenings and also made a documentary video about the happening. The animation in between the slideshow was made by Tanel Päll. Screening music was made by Olli Aarni. Jyrki has graduated from TAMK Art Department few years ago as well as Tanel Päll. Jaana is a third year student. Backlight triennal is arranged by Photographic Centre Nykyaika.

Documentary video of the happening:



Moving Gallery, Backlight Screening from Jaana Ristola on Vimeo.

More information
http://www.movinggallery.net/backlight
http://www.backlight.fi

More proficient guests: Richard Vickers and Cesare Massarenti

Yesterday our students introduced Chiara Boeri, who made a great show on Monday. Yesterday two visitor  workshops run in parallel. The reason we have many international experts this week is the MindTrek Conference. Below please find two reports written by our students.

24-hours.in

Richard Vickers

On September 27th, 2011, six students from the Interactive Media program had the pleasure of attending Richard Vickers (University of Lincoln) documentary workshop. This is the second time that Vickers has visited TAMK to work on an exciting interactive project entitled “24-hours.in Tampere”. Last spring’s results, and a deeper description of the project can be seen at: www.24-hours.in.

Vickers began the workshop by showing us Dziga Vertov’s 1929 documentary, “Man with a Movie Camera”, which portrayed a rather avant-garde style of film-making.  We then looked over the existing material of the project, and Vickers gave us some helpful hints and techniques for filming. Armed with our cameras and freshly absorbed knowledge, we set out into the city to begin capturing our material. After going around and collecting our first few clips, we met up with Vickers to review the footage and discuss what we felt was still missing.

For the next 48 hours we will all capture short video footage from around Tampere to enrich the project, and hopefully showcase our own unique perspective of the city we live in.

So go check out the project so far, and stay tuned for our new additions!

Story: Anna-Kaisa Nässi
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An intriguing lecture with Cesare Massarenti

Cesare Massarenti from the University of Milano-Bicocca came to the Finlayson campus to give a very interesting lecture to some of the Art & Media students.

Cesare Massarenti

The topic of the lecture was as comprehensible as "The development of multichannel content delivery and reorganization of production: examples, workflow methods." Didn't really ring a bell to me either when I first read it, but it was worth coming to the lecture to figure out what it meant! He went in-depth in subjects as transition from analogue to digital, to media culture and social networks we have today and on to the predictions of the future followed with examples.

A few decades ago we could easily separate media from each other: TV, movies, radio and prints were individual. The Internet and mobile platforms have changed the way we experience all media. Massarenti explained that we can not separate media from each other anymore, nor can previous methods on traditional media be applied straight to digital platforms. Ways of doing things have changed, from the very fundamentals of experiencing the world. Attention spans have shortened, multi-tasking has become usual and stress levels risen. A linear provider-to-consumer -based monologue has evolved into a dialogue.

Massarenti's lecture emphasized video content and the progression of displays, access and resolutions. Mobile platforms have become the most important display at the moment, which grant access anywhere. 720×576 pixel PAL-television has evolved into the HDTV we know today (1920×1080px). But did you know that a U-HDTV was presented just a few weeks ago? The resolution is sixteen times HDTV with a massive 7,680 × 4,320 pixel resolution.

Even though things have become more accesible and easier to produce compared to the analogue era, Massarenti introduced us with problems of the digital age: different video formats and interoperation issues because of the huge amount of different platforms we have. Artists are forced to expand their knowledge to different fields to fully understand their own methods. Massarenti expanded his lecture to the marketing of today and to things such as UI design and web design. Mobile devices and tablet devices are getting more and more frequent, why it is important to acknowledge their capacities. I truly learned a lot!

Massarenti lectured with a fresh, convincing and innovative style and really went in-depth with the subjects. The amount of information was overwhelming, especially for me who knew nothing about the history and evolution of video and film and how much of an importance it is today.
The lecture continues tomorrow morning, I'm looking forward to it!

Story: Minna Eloranta
Anna-Kaisa and Minna are students of our international Degree Programme in Media
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The Cesare Massarenti workshop will continue until noon today. The international setting will continue with Nokia Ubiquitous Media MindTrek Award winners workshop at Demola in the afternoon. Read more...

Chiara Boeri captivated the IMPs

Chiara Boeri, the distinguished Italian Media Artist, really took our Media students yesterday. Here you can read post by two of them:
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Today we had a lecture with Chiara Boeri, well known in the community of media artists all over the world, with work experience in Hollywood, Great Britain, France and Italy (to mention a few). Besides big projects she is undertaking, she is also a lecturer at UAS in Torino, teaching students about the art of integrating today's modern technology of computers and graphics into the old art of film making.

After about one hour of interesting stories, movie personalities and experiences, she went on to show us some of her works. The ideas were complex and deep reaching, while the implementations ranged from the simplest solutions (like Tabula Fantastica) to the most elegant technology and installation, with a mix of physical objects, image projections and interactivity (like The Reverie for Theater and Cinema).

The last part of her lecture, Chiara showed us several short movies, winners of Melzo Film Festival competition. The movies were full of originality and very diverse, from art movies with visual impact to animation movies and mixed media.

It was a great afternoon, a delight for our eyes and minds.

Thank you Chiara... Thank you Cai and Sohvi... And all others who made this possible for us.

Magdalena Vasilescu
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“Art is fundamental!” - Chiara Boeri

Chiara Boeri, a Professor at The Polytechnic of Torino at the Cinema Engineering and New Communication Media faculty, a director of the MelzoFilmFestival, winner of several international awards visited Tampere to give an exclusive workshop for students of TTVO on the 26th of September.

The lecture was dedicated to the role of new technologies, computer graphics in film/movie production.
We recalled the old “Star Wars” movie series of George Lukas. It was funny to know that he rejected to use computer graphics in his first movies, he only couldn’t avoid it for recording camera movement.

Chiara mentioned that directors nowadays rely on computer graphics to solve all the problems, to correct the mistakes, to save money on reducing of number of scene takes. But mostly they are wrong, post-production may be even more expensive and it never gives perfect results. She adviced to use tricks such as false perspective, that was used in scenes with short hobbits and other characters that had to be much taller in “the Lord of the Rings” movie by Peter Jackson, rather than computer tools.

We discussed one of the most famous and successful movies “Avatar” and so popular nowadays 3D technologies. “A good thing about using 3D technologies is that we bring back old way of shooting scenes. Since our brain is not used to such effects it’s hard and harmful to perceive fast-changing pictures and directors now shoot longer frames.”

Chiara paid attention on that Hollywood keeps being too commercial, studio system still works as a movie factory producing patterns and relying nowadays on visual effects to make itself secure in making money.  “Content is what needed now” was the main message from for the workshop.

Daria Adamitskaya
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Magdalena and Daria are students of our international Degree Programme in Media
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MindTrek nominees: Ubimedia is Building Bridges

Björn Stockleben on left, Artur Lugmayr on right

After a long and hard elimination process the three unique finalists of Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards competition were determined. “Each year the competition entries come closer to consumer products improving the daily life or solving today’s problems as e.g. energy consumption or health care. This year’s competition attracted 34 entrants and the jury had a hard time to find the best projects”, says Artur Lugmayr, the inventor of the competition and General Competition Chair.

The Head of Competition jury, Björn Stockleben, emphasizes the fresh approach of this year’s competition entries: “Connecting the tangible part of the world with the intangible has been part of Ubimedia's DNA right from when we first started this competition. But a closer look reveals that bridging things normally perceived as antipodes is kind of a theme to this year's event. Our nominees reconcile computer and screens with plain old paper, they overcome the dividing character of individual mobile devices and they connect impaired people to their social environment. This year's candidates were chosen because of their fresh impact on the way we think about ubiquitous media. Now that the first wave of Ubimedia technologies, like location-based services, is established on the market, all of our participants seem to be eager to go for the next.”

Winners workshop Wed September 28

You are welcome to see the nominees and discuss Ubimedia on Wednesday, 1pm to 4pm at New Factory, Finlayson area, Tampere!

The three winners in alphabetical order are:

Junkyard Jumbotron 
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Institute: ProCenter for Future Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mobiles devices share a curious paradoxon: While connecting remote people, they tend to distract you from people next to you. Junkyard Jumbotron provides a simple, yet ingenious answer by joining all kinds of screen devices into one large shared patchwork screen. All that is needed is to open a webpage, make a photo of the screen arrangement, upload it and there you go. The jury concordantly appreciates the strong emphasis on the social potential of ubiquitous media as well as the simplicity and playful quality of Junkyard Jumbotron.

Cubodo - out there! Communication 
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Institute: University of Applied Sciences Bremen - Center for Informatics and Media Technology

Is Cubodo a game or is it communication? With Cubodo you can create a virtual package, choose a theme, add a photo and drop it in your environment. Other players may pick it up, carry it to other places and add photos and comments. It is the way characteristics of physical goods are applied to virtual artifacts that makes the packages unique and possibly meaningful. The simplicity and openness of the basic game idea holds great potential for emergent playful communication, limited only by the creativity of its players.

Selective Inductive Powering System for Paper Computing 
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Institute: Keio-NUS CUTE Center, National University of Singapore

This project excels in applying ubiquitous computing principles to a material we thought becoming
obliterated by the rise of tablet computers – plain paper. Thin wire-loops attached to paper receive power via magnetic induction and can form or even animate the paper. The technology is unique and the first sample applications promise great potential in “natural” computing and artistic ubimedia projects.

The winner on Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards competition will be announced on the 29th of
September 2011 at 16.45 in the Hotel Scandic Rosendahl. Register now at http://www.mindtrek.org/
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The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards

The Competition addresses digital media makers with different backgrounds. It gives them the opportunity to present their visions on the future of ubiquitous media to the unique audience of the annual MindTrek conference in Tampere. Ubimedia comprises technology that is embedded in its surroundings and that enhances our ability to sense and communicate with our environment. The competition is open to all kinds of artists, practitioners and researchers. The total prize sum is 6.000 Euros.

TAMK is one of the producers of the Awards
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Tampere as we see it -event

A couple of days ago we received an e-mail from Sohvi Sirkesalo, telling us
about a Tampere as we see it –event. The main idea was for the TIKO*- and
IMP-students to get to know each other. We were split into groups of 10, and
were supposed to come up with three descriptive words around the theme
(Tampere as we see it) and take pictures of Tampere.

Our week at Finlayson-campus started (and ended) out awesome! We spent
the whole Monday-morning getting to know each other and basically just
talking. Around noon we were ready for action, I mean starting to make our
photo collages based on the groups’ theme and images. What we didn’t
except was the printer to fail at us right about the time we were supposed
to start printing our pictures. Long story short: what was supposed to be 10
collages, turned out only to be one.

After well-earned beverages and pastries, some of the people headed out for
Mallashovi – you know, to make connections. It was a very successful night,
and by the looks of it we will do it again next Monday!

Perhaps our collages were not successful, but a beer after school was! Now
we can honestly say: TIKO-students, you guys rock!


Story: Noora Honkaniemi
Photos: Rami Lehtinen
Noora is student of our international Degree Programme in Media
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Rami is TIKO Senior Lecturer 


*TIKO = Degree Programme in Business Information Systems. We have a lot of cooperation, especially in game design studies and at Demola

Awesome Bowling night!

We IMPs gathered for Bowling on Friday night, Sept 23th.

This official 'IMP Bowling Get-together' event has organized for new and old IMPs.

The aim of this event was simple and clear. Getting to know everyone.

Thankfully the school paid for bowling. Yes, it really is a 'official' Bowling event for IMPs. How cool it is!

Second year student, and 11IMPs' tutor, Mikko Haverila reserved 8 lanes at Kaatopaikka, and Anna-Kaisa Nässi divided us into 8 groups. 4 players per lane, one 11IMP, one 10IMP and 2 representatives of 09IMP/08Vuoro/Teachers in each group.

At 8pm, we started to roll a ball. Some of us made a strike and some of us had to watch a ball rolling into the gutter. But it didn't matter to us whether we're good or bad. We all enjoyed it, we got-together and got to know each other, that's all that matters.

After 2 hours of Bowling, some people went home and others headed to the bar to get to know each other more. In all respects, it was successful.

Story and pics: Erika Sangah Kim

Erika is student of our international Degree Programme in Media
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Kick off party @Demola!

More than 30 student teams started  projects with companies

The event started at 16.00 but we were there already half an hour earlier. The place was full of new faces coming to see the presentation which made us feel really excited.

The first presentation started few minutes later, when the facilitators of the projects introduced themselves and talked a little bit how Demola works from inside. Afterwards, we had the opportunity of listening to some successful stories from students who participated in the last Innosummers (which is a full-time summer job working on a project in a more intensive way).

All of them seemed to be so friendly and to be a big family, making us feel relaxed and motivated to start. Then, we had a special guest from YLE who gave us really good tips about working on a team or what we should do and not to do in order to succeed in our projects and working life. In the last position, a member of Stream Tampere came to tell us about their organization, which helps young people with entrepreneurial ideas to develop them into real businesses.

Right after all these presentations, we could finally eat and have a beer with our team! It was the best opportunity to finally get to know each other better and talk about something else than the project we are involved in… at the end, having fun together is an essential to feel comfortable during the work process and bring it to a good result.  We also had the chance to meet also some second year IMP’s and members of different projects and play some games together. In my case, I’m so glad I got the chance to meet amazing people from very different backgrounds, interests and skills.  I feel so lucky!

Story: Alicia Fernández Franco
Alicia is student of our international Degree Programme in Media
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Carrotia nominated for MindTrek Indie Games Award!

The Carrotia game demo is one of the five nominees of MindTrek Indie Games Awards. The winner will be announced at the MindTrek Conference next week Thursday.

Carrotia is developed by TAMK Visual Design student Vilma Pekola, Interaction Design graduate Juhani Hujala and Business Information Systems student Jani Palovuori.

Carrotia is a puzzle game for iPhone and iPad under development. The main character is a Rabbit Hero trying to save the home village from famine goin out searching for the epic Carrotia, which according to the legent is the most giant magic carrot.

Jury statement:
In Japanese there is a word "kawaii" which means cute (in Finnish "ihqu"). The character of this game is the definition of that word. IP has excellent expanding possibilities.

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Our present and graduated students are also nominated in MindTrek Launch Pad, Zonear and Ovelin are among the six noninees for the award.
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Workshop with photographer Andrzej Maciejewski

Vernissage in TR1 Kunsthalle

The Backlight Photo Festival organized by Photographic Centre Nykyaika opened up 17^thSeptember 2011. Festival is focused on photography and photography-based projects which promote intercultural dialogue. On Friday ^16th took place three vernissages: “Migration and Integration into Ruhr Region” in Mältinranta Art Center, “Territories and Desire” in Tampere Art Museum and “Migration and Nomadic living in 21^st Century” in TR1 Kunsthalle. During that day we could admire the wonderful photographs and talk with the artists from all over the word.

TAMK in cooperation with Backlight Photo Festival organized two workshops. One of them was conducted by great photographer Andrzej Maciejewski whose exhibition “Garden of Eden” could be seen during the Festival. Workshop started from 1, 5 hour lecture on Friday 16^th where Mr Andrzej introduced himself and his works. After the lecture, some of us had opportunity to show him portfolio and discuss about it.

   

Cube with one black and two white walls; white background 

Next day of workshop started at 10 in the morning on the 1 floor in Finlayson Campus.  Mr Andrzej gave very clear and interesting lecture to his 12 students about lightening objects in shooting sessions. To practise lightening effects we had to build three white cubes (one for each group). Teams could use only one light to create four different photographs of the cube. Cameras which we used, Nikon D700, were set to black and white mode what helped to check percentage of colour content in grey scale later on. Thanks to this exercise we could also fix issues such as ISO, shutter speed and aperture. Around 4 p.m. all photos were ready to present and discuss what went good or bad. If the photography was not as we expected we could hear advances from our mentor.  

Sunday, still life setups

Sunday morning started also from the lecture. That time we learn about tricks which were used by Mr Andrzej during his work on ‘Garden of Eden’. He showed to us photos from his studio in Canada which performed his way of work. We could hear also interesting story about Camera Obscura. He built one walk-in type of this device in his garden for ‘Weather report’ project. That day was focus on the lightening exercise but more difficult than in previous day. We had to make still life set and photograph it in the interesting way at least four times. There were so many things to do that the time was up very fast.

Students with photographer Andrzej Maciejewski

Last day of workshop was on Monday 19^th in the afternoon. We had still 1 hour to continue still life’s shooting sessions. During presentation of our works we had to guess what type of light, reflector and screens were used by other teams. It was very interesting exercise which taught us how many things we can do with light to make our photography better.

Workshop was full of useful information, fun and study of professional approach to lightening.   

Story and photos: Emilia Kwiatkowska

Emilia is student of our international Degree Programme in Media
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Cinematography students' retreat

Students of cinematography go to forest - never mind the weather!

The 3rd and 4th year cinematography students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences, led by Tommi Moilanen, withdrew on Tuesday (13.9.) to the Kintulampi log cabin to speak of abstractions in cinematography and to formulate the future photo exhibition to be held in December.

Students had also been obliged to watch the film The Tree of Life (directed by Terrence Malick, cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki), which served as a basis for discussion about what kinds of themes, images and atmospheres may exist in a film.

During the discussion, the film was dissolved to levels which were used to inspire the students to come up with a theme for the first cinematography students’ photo exhibition ever in the history of Film and Television department. Ideas were invented which generated a good basis for the future exhibition.

The evening ended with the pleasant warmth of Kintulampi lakeside sauna and the bravest  even dared to swim in the cold water.

An official media release will be posted about the photo exhibition closer to the event. The exhibition will include works from 3rd and 4th  year students of cinematography. 

Story by Hannu Koivuranta.

Guests and graduate exhibition from Tartu Art College

Lend exhibition now under construction will open tomorrow

Lend - Graduate show from Tartu Art College
23.9.-21.10.2011
Emil Gallery, Old Library House
Opening hours:
Mon and Fri 10am – 4pm, Tue - Thu 10am - 6pm, Sat - Sun 11am - 5pm
Free admission

Today TAMK hosts a delegation from our partner in Tartu, Estonia, the Tartu Art College. Rector Vallo  Nuust, Vice Rector Erika Pedak, Vice Rector Maarja Aeltermann and specialist of studies Marleen Viidul will meet head of International Services Kirsi Tolvanen in the morning and discuss cooperation in developing education in the afternoon with Vice-President Marja Sutela and Head of Media Programme Cai Melakoski.

Rector Vallo Nuust (standing behind) participated in the
opening of first Tampere Art Factory in 2008

The cooperation between Tartu Art College and TAMK Art&Media has been quite intense for some 15 years.
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The Lend 2011 exhibition from Tartu Art College gives an overview of the graduation works that have attracted the most attention this year.

Madis Liplap, the exhibition curator and master at Tartu Art College painting department tells that the works shown in this exhibition represent the fields in Fine Art you can study at the college.- This exhibition is a natural and individual continuation of our previous exhibitions in Tampere. Lend 2011 completes the already extensive picture of our school, say Madis Liplap.

The exhibition is part of the XXI Estonia-week programme in Tampere. The exhibition is produced by City of Tampere Cultural Affairs and Tartu Art College.

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XV MindTrek next week! Welcome to join us!

Hotel Rosendahl, venue of MindTrek Conference

MindTrek is an annual three-day international digital media and business conference gathering a unique blend of top industry professionals and the newest players on the scene. It has become the leading Nordic technology and social media event, bringing thinkers and doers, old and new friends from digital industry together in Tampere, Finland every fall.

TAMK/Artmedia is one of the MindTrek founders. We play an active part in the preparations and at the conference itself - 70+ of our students and lecturers will attend the conference.

MindTrek Awards

In addition to the conference MindTrek Awards are an essential part of the package. This year there are three competitions:

• The global Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards. You can meet the three nominees at the winners seminar (free admission) Wednesday September 28at New Factory/Demola, Finlayson. Read more... 
• The main contest, MindTrek Launch Pad (20 000€ prize money). The six nominees are revealed. We are proud that two of the nominees, Zonear and Ovelin have started at Demola and feature our graduates/students. Read more... 
• MindTrek Indie Games Awards five nominees are been revealed today. Read more... 

The winners of Ubimedia and Indie Games will be announced at the MindTrek Conference Thursday afternoon and celebrated at MindTrek Party in the evening. The Launch Pad winners

Don't be a late bird - register latest November 22

If you register latest on Thursday November 22 you pay the lower priced standard tickets. Read more and register 

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MindTrek Conference key-note speakers:

• Margaret Wallace, CEO, Shadow Government, Inc.
• Joe Wilson, Western Europe Sr. Director of Developer and Platform Group, Microsoft
• Martha G. Russell, Media X, Stanford University
• Julie Meyer & Karima Serageldin, Ariadne Capital
• Alan Boyd, Silk Road Venture Partners

Sessions: 

Thu: | App Economy | Community Based Business | Future Learning | Launch Pad |
Fri: | War Stories: Future Female | Visions of China | Society Media |
+ Academic MindTrek talks, presentations, workshops
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Full MindTrek Conference Program
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