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| Festival opening at ORF Studios |
This year's IMPs had their first dip in the professional pool these last few weeks when we were asked to design a logo for the 2014 European Karate Championships that will take place right here in our lovely Tampere.
The championships are organized by the Finnish Karate Federation in colaboration with the European Karate Federation and there are more than 600 competitors from 50 countries attending. The games will also be broadcasted in more than 30 countries.
The students of the international Degree Programme, the IMPs, have courses like Visual Design, Animation and Multimedia, Web Design, Programming and Print Design. But this is not all, they also study media culture and languages.
Story: Anna Tikkanen
The long-awaited Tursajaiset party was finally here. After a long wait (3 h) at Keskustori, fellow Imps finally made it to the Härmälä Camping area.
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.
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| Can you hear? The world is calling! |
The annual New Factory open event is 500+ participants, state of the art keynotes, exhibitions, pitches, competitions, a party. From our point of view New Factory Open is above all a show of the Demola projects IMPs (Art&Media International Media Programme students) have been working in this spring.
The exhibition and the pitches are among the most rewarding moments in a lecturers life: you can see that the students have been busy working and learning, created and delivered excellent results and are able to present the awesome projects brilliantly. It's a wow wow wow day!
All nine projects involving our regular and/or exchange students were shown at the exhibition, three were among the three selected to competed for the best Demola project award and one represented Demola in Demola international competition. The number of Demola projects this spring is 28.
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| Bernard Garvey and Ville Kairamo from Demola, jury representative Kim Dotto, Dean from British Columbia Institute of Technology) and Trent Pancy on behalf of Demola International winners |
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| The Avatars team, Rosanna Salminen speaking and Erika Kim managing the slide show |
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| Laura Räsänen speaking |
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| Visualize it team with Martin Kleinberns presenting, Joanne Wong and Lubos Rezler behind the desk. |
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| Lukas Kallenbach lures people to play his game |
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| Yonatan Wolowelsky shows how it works |
Story by Anna Tikkanen
Last Friday the IMPs gathered at one of the student's apartment to spend together a great "Nightmare Before Christmas" party. The offerings were great; delicious Greek food and home-made sweets along some of their traditional drink, Ouzo. Even though — on behalf of the food — the party was very Greek, we did not forget the typical Finnish mulled wine consumed during the Christmas time. Glögi was enjoyed as a delicate treat after the filling dinner.
"Pikkujoulu" is a Finnish pre-Christmas party tradition. All companies, associations and other communities arrange their Pikkujoulu-parties during the four weeks before the Christmas break.
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| Noora Honkaniemi, Laura Räsänen and Lukas Kallenbach of the muffins team |
Written by: Heidi Mäenpää
The IMPs had a great chance to hear about interactive multimedia this Tuesday from a guest lecturer from the University of Vic: Arnau Gifreu. The first half of the day focused on more theoretical aspects, but after the lunch break the most enthusiastic of the IMPs got to try out some video editing using Final Cut and Flash.
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| The Wilderness Downtown uses pictures from the user's hometown |
Story: Aino Yrjänä
It's soon time to announce new IMP students but before that we would like to introduce you our new edition of IMP tutors.
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| Anna-Kaisa |
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| Waiting for the Gala, the climax of the festival, to start |
Story and pics: Anna Tikkanen
Yesterday the students of the Media programme attended the annual Naamat party in Ruma, organized by Tarina, TTVO's own student club. Tarina's objective to arrange such party is to bring together new and old (as well as already graduated) students. The evening went well and everyone seemed to have great time dancing and chatting with friends.
Like they say, "a picture tells more than a thousand words" so here you go, enjoy!
Text and photos: Anna Tikkanen
Students of the Media Programme had a chance of attending the largest event in the graphical arts industry in Northern Europe, and obviously many of them took advantage of it.
MindTrek is a world class conference with famous keynote speakers and sessions that deal with the most important issues of the digital future. If you want to learn more, check out the MindTrek website.
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| IMPs, the international Media Programme students of TAMK School of Art and Media were there having breakfast in time before the shows started. Aleksi, one of the IMPs (in center), had his birthday, all the fellow IMPs sung the birthday song, and Aleksi's muffin was powered up with whipped cream and strawberries. |
Story and photos: Anna Tikkanen
On Wednesday afternoon, students of the International Media programme took part of manSEDANse, an annual festival of electronic music, art and culture taking place at Tampere. Even though the festival also consists of various club nights and workshops, we only attended the "Play!" seminar, a lecture and a panel talk about game development and research.
Story: Heidi Mäenpää
The summer is almost half way through, but the IMPs still have something
to show: The great works done during the Animation & Multimedia
course this spring! These will probably give the next IMPs some ideas on
what to expect from their course next year.
Suomeksi
