Story and photos: Tia Tuovinen.
Global Service Jam 2012 gathered some 20 enthusiastic people to New Factory/Proakatemia facilities for fast paced, intensive 48 hours of brainstorming, innovating and developing new services.  The common theme for all the jammers worldwide was “Hidden Treasure”. The Jammers got easily inspired, and the results seen on Sunday were definitely worth all the sleepless hours!
Innovative prototyping: A Secret garden.

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First year art students ask Would You Be [with me].
Come and meet our work.
The first year fine art students at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences present themselves with the exhibition Would You Be. Come and and meet the future artists. Each piece is an individual work of art, created from different perspectives of individual students. The group exhibition offers appetisers of the future artists’s practise.
Would You Be is located at the Finlayson campus, at Ikuinen Galleria and Pesurumpu by the main entrance. The opening will be held at Ikuinen Galleria on thursday 8.3. at 4 pm. 

Welcome!

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Sleeping Patterns is a short dance film which will be screened at the Tampere Film Festival on the Kino-TAMK screening. The film is a part of the thesis of director Hanna Lappalainen. It was filmed in August 2011 in Kangasala and premiered in November. 

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The national joint application for international degree programmes of Finnish universities of  applied sciences closed last week. The number of first choice applicants for our Media programme was 18% higher than last year.

One of the highlight of new studets' orientation week in August is the Mölkky
Challenge. Here's the group who started last year

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Story and pics: Heidi Mäenpää
One of the traditions TAMK's Game Development Club Score has are Game Nights. They haven't been held so often in the past, but we decided that it is time to change that! We sent out invitations and finally on Friday we prepared ourselves for a night of fun with many epic games.

People appreciating the snacks

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Story: Aino Yrjänä
A group of Tampere University of Applied Science degree and exchange students are going to Kuusamo in North of Finland to create Ice Screen Project, an ice event, on Thursday 23rd of February 6pm in Kuusamo, Iisakki Village. After the project there will be an exhibition about the event in Tampere.
Sculptor Vesa Toukomaa demonstrates to Future Film Project
team the art of ice sawing

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This is how you do it on Android devices.

Story and photos: Emma Kiiski and Heidi Mäenpää
This nice two-days workshop was held by a visiting lecturer from our partner University FH Joanneum, Austria: Didi Mosbacher. It was rather interesting for the game developer students since our main goal for the workshop was to create a Tamagotchi game application and publish it to a tablet device or smart phone.

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Story: Johanna Lievemaa
This week our animation lecturer Tuomo Joronen took TTVO a little bit back in time to when the art and communication students used to have more classes together. We do get to combine our different skills in projects but don’t sit in the same classroom so often. Now, hopefully starting a new trend, a group of animation enthusiasts from all Degree Programmes gathered together for a TV Paint Workshop led by talented Joonas Utti from Anima Boutique. He's of course a former TTVO student.



Alvarez by Johanna

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Artmedia blog spotted on Twitter the note:
@heidi_maenpaa Got into Wooga Training Program at #Demola with @DhTier, hope we see @silliet on our visit to Berlin! Whoop! #tamkmedia
...and made the following interview on Facebook:

Question 1: What is Wooga?
Emma Kiiski (@DhTier):
Wooga is the world's third largest social game company, based in Berlin. Their main focus are Facebook and iOS games that attract all kinds of people, not just the usual gamers.

Heidi Mäenpää (@heidi_maenpaa):
-Wooga is Demola's newest, and the first, training program provider. They are Europe's largest social games developer and their offices reside in Berlin.

Emma at Demola

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Degree Programme in Media - 20 seats available!

The joint application for degree programmes run in English of Finnish universities of applied sciences  will be closed on Tuesday February 14th 16:15 Finnish time.
TAMK Finlayson Campus. Our main entrance on left hand

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Story by Johanna Peltola
The third year of media studies brought along a moment of epic proportions for two IMPs: Amir Abdi and I had been accepted as student volunteers in Asia’s biggest computer graphics –event – in Hong Kong! It was going to be a smashing trip, and so it was, I tell you.

Last December we were getting ready for an 11,5-hour flight from Paris to the massive Eastern metropolis of over seven million city dwellers. The destination was no less than SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 –conference.

Can you hear? The world is calling!

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7.2.-24.2.
Mon-Fri 12am-4pm
Finlaysoninkuja 3
33200 Tampere

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University of Salford in Manchester is our oldest international partner. The intense and variform cooperation has however mainly involved film and television studies. But now the cooperation will be broader; the relations were extended to include digital design and game design during the visit by TAMK School of Art, Music and Media Dean Ari Koivumäki and me to University of Salford end of February.

D4DM is in the light and open Centenary Building. old campus

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University of Salford (Manchester, UK) is the oldest international partner we have, we established cooperation in 1995, four years after School of Art and Media started. The cooperation has featured student and staff exchange, a joint MA in Screenwriting, film projects etc.

The Salford students at our main entrance

This spring we host eight students from the School of Media, Music and Performance. They seem well and happy although Tampere wished them welcome with temperatures far below -20 °C. One  of the first things they were introduced with was sauna and swimming in the hole in the ice. Brave exchange students we have!