TTVO.fi - TARINA's new webpage
The new webpage of TARINA is open. The site includes all the links and essential info than before, but we’ve also added something extra. Go check the site and give feedback. We are more than happy to receive also some ideas about improving Tarina’s or the school’s activities. You can give feedback anonymously, but if you enter your name you can win VIP tickets to TTVO Festarit on December!


So take a look at http://www.ttvo.fi and tell us what you think! And if some info is missing in English, please tell us ASAP.

Text: Tia Tuovinen


Blog post by Lukas Kallenbach
Here it is, freshly printed and in a nice, warm orange, our contribution to the poster wall on the second floor! Although inspired by last years’ posters secret of success, we managed to only almost pull even with 10IMP in both poster size and being late. Despite of that, our class poster clearly depicts no fear of breaking boundaries, being the only one of its kind.

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Text by Susanne Wasserlechner (exchange student)
During the semester break the most exchange students made some trips or used the time to go home. But one course in this semester break sounded too interesting, in order to miss it. The "Video Technique & Expression"  was about filming, lighting, camera techniques and editing. It was held by Ville Salminen from Obscure Entertainment.


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Story and photos: Niilo Gustafsson.
For about six months ago I wrote here a post (http://tamk-artmedia.blogspot.com/2011/03/kissed-with-fist-bit-of-light-filming.html) about the film called Kissed with a Fist. At that time I and some other TAMK students were living in Salford, England, in order to produce the film. Back then I wrote that “it was almost a year ago when we were first introduced to the idea of coming to England to shoot a film, a lot has happened since that and huge amount of work has been done.” Well, even a lot more has happened since then.

Dave's lovely penthouse.

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Story and photo by Amir Abdi
As a part of the four-year degree programme in Interactive Media, I’m going abroad as an Erasmus exchange student for the third year. Some make it shorter, but I wanted to properly get to know to English culture and ways of studying and thus decided to stay for the full academic year. Right now I am writing to you in the library of University of Salford located in Greater Manchester.

Media City UK by night. University of Salford’s Media campus on the right

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Story: Sanna Kuisma
International workshop led by professional photographer Rami Marjamäki collected some twenty students with different photography skills. The participants were divided to three groups: Group 1 was taking photos with white background, Group 2 with black background and Group 3 in a space with artificial light. All groups learned how to use both studio flashes and speedlights with main flash and  an external slave flash unit. We also used softboxes, coloured filters, umbrellas and reflectors to create different lighting settings.

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Our campus at Finlayson is truly international thanks to our international degree programmes in media and screenwriting and the exchange students we host. This autumn we have students from 28 countries.

Future Film Studies include work with ice screens. (Photo: Alexander Lembke)

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Zonear won Startup Sauna Warmup Tampere

My colleagues and I had a meeting with Mikko Tikkanen - our interaction design graduate 2010 - to discuss cooperation implementing our new 30 cr Game Design module next spring. Mikko was full of energy and joy, Zonear had just won Startup Sauna Warmup Tampere arranged by Stream Tampere, New Factory and Aalto Venture Garage.

Mikko Tikkanen

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Image: Petri Ruikka

Story: Vesa Rantanen / 10IMP
Prelude:
“Start VJ´ing” has been in my to-do list for way too long without me doing anything about it. Electronic music & club culture is close to my heart and naturally I want to a part of it. I´ve been thinking “VJ´ing would suit me because I´m a visual person and I´ve been so keen into this culture and mentality for quite a few years already."  I´ve just never knewn where to start. And from whom to ask advices how to start. With these and few other excuses I´ve been postponing the start of my VJ career.

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Mondragon Unibertsitatea is a young cooperative university located in the Alto Deba region, in the geographical centre of the Basque Country. Their educational model "is based on values such as innovation, humanism, solidarity and cooperation."

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Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) Applicant's Guide 2012 for degree programmes run in English is now available.

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Actor Tommi Raitolehto plays
one of the main characters in "The Hunting Ground"

Story by Nalle Mielonen
The Hunting Ground (directed by Nalle Mielonen) was finally finished in February 2011 and had it first public screening at Tampere Film Festival a month later. Since then the film has crept in to the consciousness of the rest of the world in various film festivals. The film has screened around Europe, for example in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. The US premiere was last summer at Dallas, Texas at the Fears for Queers Horror Film Festival.

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Jacob Sikker Remin performing with his
"Cheap, Fat and Open" synthesiser at Telakka.
Story & photo by Susanne Wasserlechner
An exciting week is over. It was the week of manSEDANse 2011. The festival of electronic music, art and culture was filled with interesting lectures, workshops, works in the exhibition and the awesome DJ and VJ Events at the evening.

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Sini Sofia Kujala: Anonymous 14.10.-4.11.2011

Ikuinen Galleria

Opening on Thursday 13.10. at 16-18

 
Black figures stare at you. You don't know what or who they are. Anytime they can do something peculiar, attack or disappear. Or maybe they just stand still and stare at you. Unknown threat - Anonymous.

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Story: Eeva-Kaisa Ahlamo IMP09
The third year in the studies of IMP09 students has kicked off. For many of us it means student exchange, since it’s part of our programme’s spirit. I have been happily residing in Weimar, Germany, for the past couple of weeks, so I guess it’s about time to update some news from down here.

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Our new open learning space Ada was today formally opened to celebrate the International Ada Lovelace Day. Pictured Vesa Antikainen and Jonna Rautala unveiling the portrait of Ada made by Lukas Kallenbach at the entrance to Ada.

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International Ada Lovelace Day
About Ada, the open learning space
Our previous Ada Lovelace story
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Story and pics: Emma Kiiski
This  week’s Tuesday was filled with interesting events for a game designer student and a game developer.
ManSEDANse Play! event was new and fresh. This year’s theme wrapped around technology and the role of it: What can you really do with it, what are the new possibilities and how important is the technology in the creative process of creating new games.

Kutomo in Finlayson area got full of people

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Everything not on place yet, but intense work going on

Welcome to open our new open learning environment Ada 5th floor 3 pm!


Traditional class rooms are good for teaching, but not always so suitable for collaborative learning. Our students (and teachers) learn and work more and more in collaborative projects and need big round tables instead of the traditional rows of desks directed to the teacher on the podium.

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Story and pics: Emma Kiiski
He's the founder of IGDA, a former programmer, game designer and nowadays a freelance game consultant. He's THE GUY every game developer should meet and participate in his lectures and workshops. This day was really interesting, fun and teaching! Mr. Adams [http://www.designersnotebook.com/] is really a top professional in his field. Of course some curious and enthusiastic Score members showed up to participate to this awesome action!

Ernest Adams having a great lecture about Game Design

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 Poster for 8 is designed by Henna Pekki.

After one and a half years of technical, bureaucratic, financial and logistical battles, uphills and headwinds, psychological horror film 8 is finally finished. It is part of the thesis work of four students in TAMK School of Art and Media. The film premieres with style in Night Visions festival, the biggest genre film event in Finland.

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Building our tiny Frankenstein
Story and photograps: Aino Yrjänä
October has begun with grey and cold weather. Luckily manSEDANse festival has kicked off at the same time. I participated with dozen other TAMK students in Arduino workshop at Finlayson campus held on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th afternoons. Even though it was a two day workshop we got to experience a lot of basics of Arduino. We didn't necessary need to know any fancy stuff before the workshop. The lecturers helped us hand by hand how to build our very own singing Frankenstein.

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The Arduino workshop will work three days


The electronic culture festival manSEDANSe is "A week of startling seminars, fascinating talks, engrossing workshops, dramatic festivities and club nights beyond brilliant. Amazing acts, inspiring people, food for thought, and love potion for your ear canals."

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Tuomo Joronen just reminded me this afternoon that in the 0th floor, there was the Arduino Workshop just about to begin.

I went there and wow, it looked really interesting what the students were doing, with the help of Jukka Hautamäki and Otto Urpelainen. Well, actually they were just configurating the computers with the program and with the arduino gadget, but the workshop had barely begun. There seemed to be some problems with configuring the oldest laptop models, for these had no access to the school's WLAN. But eventually everything seemed to be working fine.




Ooh, there are so many exciting things going on here this week with MANSEDANSE2011, I wish I had time to participate in all of these workshops and lectures! But I have my own lectures and teaching stuff to prepare...

The big lobby of the second floor at Finlayson is pretty quiet now. It is four o'clock in the afternoon, and there are only students waiting for the Arduino Workshop to begin, down in the 0th floor.



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