Written by Emilia Ewa Kwiatkowska
Have you ever dreamt about a smartphone which has a professional camera, where all options can be changed in manual mode, which images are sharp even in low light conditions?

Blogging in today’s life is one of the best ways to communicate with big communities hungry for knowledge and inspirations. Images can express everything, are worth thousands of words. 
Everyone wants to remember important moments and share some of them with others. Emotions, meetings with friends, new purchases, crazy nights, and beautiful views, everything from those and much more you can find at our urban blog on Tumblr. 

Nokia Pureview at *MindTrek OFF Festival 2013 is a project created by us, five young people who are using the Nokia Lumia 1020 for 6 weeks and share their knowledge and experience with everyone. The main goal is to promote Nokia’s new smartphone outside its traditional marketing channels.

We are going through all cameras’ features available on the Nokia Lumia 1020 and we use them in different conditions: night & day, rain & sun, outdoor & indoor, everything to show great images’ quality. We are also running a competition where you can win one of the Nokia’s phones. We invite you to follow us at live1020.tumblr.com

You can find us at MindTrek Festival 2013 where we will be shooting images all over the place. The checkpoints will be on Tuesday and Wednesday between 12.00-12.30 and 15.00-15.30 at Siperia. Do not hesitate to come by and try out new Nokia Lumia 1020! 

Here are few words about our international team members:
(The photos are by the team member introduced below. Find more at live1020.tumblr.com)

Garrett Fookes
Mr Fookes, hailing from South Florida, spends his spare time experimenting on the Internet and consulting new ventures. When he’s not dabbling in those electives though, you can find him dreaming up products at Yolkful, Inc yolkful.com. - @mrfookes

Elizaveta Potapkina
Elizaveta or just Liza, a classical artist and graphic designer, fond of different things such as photography, animation, music and art in general. Originally from Saint-Petersburg, Russia, she has been in Finland for a couple of years and now studying Media design at TAMK. Based on 2D, visualization and video making. - @lizakinner


Joe Pacal
Joe is a visual artist, style enthusiast and art lover. He is a Czech balancing between punk, classy and generally strange. He runs a design studio at porcelainkid.com - @porcelainkid


Emilia Ewa Kwiatkowska
Emilia is a visual artist who combines various media in her artwork. Through painting and photography she shows her world full of colors, details and symmetry. She loves to learn & experience new things what you can read on her blog: emirella.blogspot.fi - @EmaKwiatkowska


Robert Frankó
Robert is a student in TAMK Media program and on his way to become a visual artist mixing photography and illustration. Avoiding everything that’s stereotypical and in the comfort zone, living by the idea of less is more. - @RobeDroid

*MindTrek Off is part of MindTrek Festival 2013 (October 1-3), organized and produced by student producers from TAMK Media. 



The time of the year comes again — the MindTrek conference is about to boom in next Tuesday. This years amazing program including Steve Wozniak, Alan McKay, Niilo Alfthan and other great speakers will be complimented by student-created OFF program once again. We have a fresh new student group with fresh new ideas for this year.
We are continuing the tradition and quality of last years' amazing relaxing lounge, but we also want to build on top of it and introduce more happenings during the event and the breaks in between. We set ourselves on a mission to extend MindTrek's theme and bring interesting free program for visitors and anyone passing by.

This year our team consist of 7 talented student producers from 2012 edition of TAMK International Media Programme; Carolin Büttner, Iina Kuula, Joanne Wong, Liz Kinner, Noora Tolvanen, Sindy Giraldo, Yulia Pak and Joe Pacal.


The Finlayson Siperia square will be transformed into a central area for interesting digital surprises, art and culture related exhibitions, buzzing interactivity, discounted coffee, a real life computer game experience, Nokia close-up hands on and many other interesting happenings, that are top secret treasures.
But that's not all. Along with that our program will truly come alive by pop up performances and happenings. We are on the go!

Are you curious to see more? Come and enjoy our OFF program during MindTrek on October 1-2. We are thrilled to see you there!
Sign up at our Facebook Event page to stay in touch:
https://www.facebook.com/events/717201174973103/


Heartbeat happening throughout the festival
Experience the sounds of buzzing mind at the very heart of MindTrek’s happening. And those who share their story, can become the voice of future MindTrek.



Outsight Outsight 1st+2nd October 2013; 10.00-14.00 and 15.00 - 19.00; Iskelmäbaari,  Siperia
Outsight is a brand new high concept augmented reality game which you can doubtless call a new entertainment medium. Come and experience a completely new kind of virtual reality in MindTrek OFF!  https://www.facebook.com/events/473509579422928/

Photobooth 2nd October 12-14
Take your friends with you and come to photobooth and go crazy. Choose one of our hilarious masks and pose for a photo that you can take home and share online, a must souvenir from Mindtrek afterparty!


Nokia Pureview
 Tue, Wed - 12.00-12.30, 15.00-15.30)
Curious, what is the 1020 PureView really like? You can bet five lifestyle bloggers can answer any of your questions after using the phone for six weeks. Follow the blog at http://live1020.tumblr.com/




Pop-up music
 - "Expect the unexpected and be prepared of improvisational tunes."









Art Exhibition:
 (Tue/Wed, Ziberia)
Art is an essential part of our lives. The digital culture is more vibrant than ever. That’s why you can visit curated exhibition of five artists presenting works related to digital culture and more; Tytti Mäkelä, Niina Kiiveri, Iisa Lepistö, Niko Skorpio, Yulia Pak.



Meet.Chat.Pose.Twit.Win! Photo twitter contest
MindTrek Off invites you to have the best day during MindTrek festival!
1. Meet, chat and mingle around the diverse crowd!
2. Gather 4 of you with 4 different colours on your MindTrek pass during MindTrek 2013 festival.
3. Pose and take a photo together. As creative as possible!
4. Upload it to Twitter with #Mindtrek2013 #TampereAllBright and#TYP2013 #Lumia1020
5. Win brand new Nokia 1020 from Nokia!

MindTrek you find here: www.mindtrek.org




Cool Students + Cool Camera on a Cool Phone = Cool Blog
Just follow the link.
http://live1020.tumblr.com/

MindTrek Off produced and organised by IMPs, TAMK Media students


Outsight is coming to Mindtrek OFF with their brand new high concept augmented reality game. Be the first to witness the birth of a new entertainment medium @ Iskelmäbaari, Finlayson October 1-2.
Tue/Wed @ 10.00-14.00/15.00-19.00
Outsight event on Facebook 


What is Outsight? from J. J. Aittanen on Vimeo.

What is MindTrek Off?
The Siperia square and Finlayson surrounding will be transformed into an area with interesting digital surprises, art and cultural exhibitions, buzzing interactivity, discounted coffee, virtual reality game experience, Nokia close-up hands on and many other interesting happenings.


That's not all. Expect pop up performances and win some cool prizes at our party! Curious? Sign up at our Facebook Event page for latest updates and further details. We are thrilled to see you there!

What is MindTrek?
MindTrek is the most important digital media and business event in Northern Europe since 1997. MindTrek is conferences, workshops, exhibitions. You will hear, meet and interact with digital media professionals, researchers and students from all ovar the world.

This year's amazing program comes with not only amazing speaker lineups including Steve Wozniak, Alan McKay and Niilo Alfthan, there are also many happenings including Technology Entrepreneurship Days, Academic MindTrek and MindTrek OFF!

Other MindTrek Off events:
Photobooth

MindTrek October 1-3
MindTrek Off produced and organised by IMPs, TAMK Media students

Take your friends with you and come to Photobooth and go crazy. Choose one of our hilarious masks and pose for a photo that you can take home and share on line, a must souvenir from Mindtrek!Tuesday October 1st: MindTrek Party 9 PM
Wednesday October 2nd Siperia Square (Finlayson) 12 AM to 2 PM

What is MindTrek Off?

The Siperia square and Finlayson surrounding will be transformed into an area with interesting digital surprises, art and cultural exhibitions, buzzing interactivity, discounted coffee, virtual reality game experience, Nokia close-up hands on and many other interesting happenings.


That's not all. Expect pop up performances and win some cool prizes at our party! Curious? Sign up at our Facebook Event page for latest updates and further details. We are thrilled to see you there!

What is MindTrek?


MindTrek is the most important digital media and business event in Northern Europe since 1997. MindTrek is conferences, workshops, exhibitions. You will hear, meet and interact with digital media professionals, researchers and students from all ovar the world.

This year's amazing program comes with not only amazing speaker lineups including Steve Wozniak, Alan McKay and Niilo Alfthan, there are also many happenings including Technology Entrepreneurship Days, Academic MindTrek and MindTrek OFF!

The World Summit Award (WSA) jury has chosen the best digital media applications in 2013. BlindSquare by MIPsoft is a winner in “e-Inclusion & Empowerment” while Kinetic Stories by Delicode wins in the “e-Entertainment & Games” category.
BlindSquare is a new solution that combines the latest technology to improve the daily life of the blind and visually impaired. Kinetic Stories is a series of storybooks that mix traditional storytelling with the latest developments in motion tracking and speech recognition technology.

Kinetic Stories
The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global activity to select and promote the world's best e-Content and most innovative ICT applications. WSA was initiated in 2003 in the framework of the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and is organised by a global partner network, coordinated by the International Centre for New Media. WSA partners come from governments, private sector and civil society in over 160 UN member states.
Five winners are selected in each of the eight award categories.
"We value a win in the WSA due to its prestige, ideological background and the expertise of its multicultural jury. This win strengthens our belief in that Kinetic Stories brings something new to the everlasting tradition of storytelling" says Julius Tuomisto, CEO of Delicode.
BlindSquare
"Winning this top-notch competition proves that even for a small start-up it is worth to snatch at big challenges" says Ilkka Pirttimaa, CEO of MIPsoft.
The nominees of each country are chosen by the National Expert. Principal Lecturer at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and MindTrek Association board member Cai Melakoski is Finnish National Expert. WSA Finland is organised by TAMK and MindTrek.

The award ceremony will take place at the WSA Global Congress in Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka 23 - 26 October 2013.
More:
WSA

BlindSquare

Kinetic Stories



The band where the head of Media Timo Kivikangas is playing, Kolmas nainen is certainly not superstitious!
They have published their new single Me ollaan ne on Friday the 13th of September 2013.

Kolmas nainen - Me ollaan ne
By the way, their song is quite good, especially if you understand Finnish and know a bit about the band's history. The lyrics are sung in clear Finnish, so it suits also for people who are learning the language.

- Carita Forsgren