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Two weeks to go: application time for the degree programmes taught in English of Finnish universities of applied sciences starts on Monday, January 12th and is closed on Friday February 13th.
The second edition of Tampere Art Factory (TAF) will be experienced May 15-16 at Finlayson, heart of the City of Tampere.
Photo 1: students waiting for the beginning of lecture
The ninth edition of the Interactive Media Programme made the IMP 2008 DVD premiere. This attractive DVD with a hilarious user interface presents the shortfilms, interactive movies and other art work made by the students over four months of hard work and intense learning.
A delegation representing mostly the heads of degree programmes at TAMK University of Applied Sciences is on a visit to Hanzehogeschool Groningen, Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, Netherlands.
Story & Photo: Wesa Aapro
Today I was setting up posters of The World Summit Youth Awards 2009 on the notice boards of our school, with a fourth year producer student. As we were removing the expired notices and finding usable pins, we chatted about the Millennium Development Goals.
Three weeks in Tandil have been busy and full of activities. Short course "Marketing and production in Audiovisual Media" at Faculty of Arts, "Facts and figures about Finland" for students of English at Department of Languages and workshop "Marketing and new media" at the Faculty of Economics, meetings and discussions with professors and teachers, in the evenings cultural events like concerts and theater...
Story Riikka Hiekkaniemi and Kaisa Hakala
The Operaatio Hurrikaani women team headed off to Graz, Austria 27.-30.11.2008 to present the project and TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media.
The Academic Network of the European Academy of Digital Media (EADiM) had the annual conference in Graz, Austria, end of last week. This year the conference was titled "Design, Develop, Deliver - Multimedia and e-content trends".
The sessions covered actual topics like
Come, see and know what people are talking about!
Dark hours!
Tickets 3 euros, doors open at 9 pm.
Two visual design students and two graduated students have organised Tussikerho* at Tampere. The concept of Tussikerho was imported by Mari Huhtanen (in picture) from Manchester, the city of her exchange studies.
Photo 1: view from my working place, Vicky´s office
Background: TAMK has some exchange universities in South America, one of them is Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Unicen) in Argentina. When I started to plan my exchange with our international coordinator Riku-Matti Kinnunen, I told him that I am interested to go to Tandil for three reasons: one of my students, Johanna Velling, was here two years ago and another student, Minna Raitapuro, is going to study here next spring. I also wanted to improve my Spanish skills and third, I have been in Argentina before and I really like this country.
Last week two visual design students at TAMK School of Art and Media, Vesa Jokinen and Hanne Zenjuga, travelled to Swan Lake Award Gala. Their animation "It Dwells in the Dephts was one of the three nominees in the Animations gategory of the contest. The animation visualises "The Smell of Rain" composed by Kathryn Toyama.
A delegation with representatives of Dutch Media organisations and directors of graphics- and media schools pays this week a visit to Helsinki and Tampere. TAMK School of Art and Media hosts and coordinates the programme of the Tampere leg of the visit. The purpose of the study trip is to learn about innovation and higher education in Finland. It is organised by Media Update, a news and information service for decision makers of ICT and multimedia.
"i did this..or part of it..well, some seconds" is the caption of the photo you see on right side. I copied it from Pekko's photo album at Facebook. Pekko is proud of his contribution to the latest James Bond movie.
Story: Wesa Aapro
Demola, in one sentence, lets students to do project courses together with students from other universities and companies in Tampere region. TAMK School of Art and Media students are attending in two project courses starting next year. All eyes will be on these two interesting pilot projects.
A new Bachelor's Degree Programme in Media, taught in English, will start in 2009 at TAMK School of Art and Media. The draft curriculum for the programme is now published, and will be sent to partners and friends for comments. The curriculum will be finally approved by TAMK University of Applied Sciences Board in January.
Telakka
Second floor:
13:30-15:00:
- ELPIDIO VALDÉS (Juan Padrón, 1979, 80min, animation) The film is presented by Andrea Zapata Girau and Guido Segal.
15:00-16:50
- Noticiero 49 (10 min, News)
- HOMBRES SOBRE CUBIERTA (2008, 50 min, document)
The BA Degree Programme in Media is about interactive media content design and production. The students learn about current digital media issues and gain deep insight into one of the three specialisation options: visual design, interaction design or project management.
(Films subtitled in English)
Telakka:
13:00-15:45, Telakka Theater
- POR PRIMERA VEZ (Octavio Cortázar, 1967, 9 min, document)
- UN HOMBRE DE ÉXITO/ A SUCCESSFUL MAN (Humberto Solás, 1985, 116 min, fiction) The film is presented by Derubín Jácome, Art Director of the film.
Today at Telakka:
15:30, Telakka 1st floor: lecture on Cuban film by Derubín Jácome and Diana Fernández.
16:30-19:45, Telakka Theatre:
- Noticiero 49 (News, 10 min)
- LUCÍA (Humberto Solás, 1968, 160 min, fiction) After the screening discussion/analysis with Derubín Jácome and Diana Fernández, both have co-operated with Humberto Solás in many projects.
Hannaleena Hauru's "If I fall" won the Grand Prix at Uppsala Film Festival. The jury judged:
Tonight at Niagara 20:30-23:20
- POR PRIMERA VEZ, document, Octavio Cortázar 1967
- SOY CUBA, fiction, Mikhail Kalatozov 1964
After the screening debate/analysis by Film Researcher Veli Pekka Makkonen, Art Director Derubín Jácome and Costume Designer Diana Fernández.
(From the Days of Cuban Cinema event at Facebook:)
"Between the 6th and the 9th of November the first edition of this event will take place in Tampere. It is a unique opportunity not only to watch films, but also to fully discover the cultural and political life of Cuba, almost fifty years after the Revolution. Different representatives of the Cuban art world will come to the city, specially to introduce their work: art director Derubín Jácome and well-known costume designer Diana Fernández will give seldom lectures about film, while members of the legendary band Habana abierta, such as Boris Larramendi, Alejandro Gutiérrez or Nam-San Fong, will offer varied music concerts.
Post by Tiiu Balvin
I've been spending the last few days here taking part in the 10th ELIA Biennial Conference, Independent Forum for the Higher Arts Education Institutions. Represented here are all disciplines in the arts, including Fine Art, Architecture, Dance, Design, Media Arts, Music and Theatre.
Laurence Davey has been teaching screenwriting to the students of MA in Screenwriting at TAMK School of Art for two weeks. Teaching is not his regular work, but he has agreed to teach screenwriting 20 hours per year at Salford University.
Score game development club at TAMK School of Art and Media has launched their new website just now. The fresh site is based on WordPress, the open source blog publishing application. There are already some articles about the club's recent activities, and they plan on publishing much more in the future. According to rumors, the current, defaultish visual theme is but a mere placeholder for what is yet to come...
The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) invites young designers and e-Content creators to participate in an international competition. Sought-after are e-Contents that address in an inspiring manner the UN Millennium Development Goals, and use internet and mobile contents to create awareness of the MDGs.
Marianne Connor has been teaching script writing for MA in Screenwriting students last week, and will do so over the next week. She will also advise students of the previous MA in Screenwriting course who are now writing their final script.
Story: Antti Haapio
Backlight 08 Photo Festival artists Giuseppe di Bella and Reiner Riedler keep their two days workshop in the School of Art and Media in September.
Where is Tampere? At the edge of the tundra? Why should one bother to move to Tampere to study or to do business?
Tampere is actually the central spot of Northern Europe. If you want to draw a circle with a radious of 1000 km, including the Baltic sea, Scandinavia, Finland, and northern Russia, your circle will hit the Russian capital Moscow, the Polish capital Warsaw, Rostock in Germany and Hammerfest in northern Norway. And there it is, the centre of this circle, Tampere in Finland.
Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Award is about visualising music in two contest categories; Animation and Digital Film.
This year Vesa Jokinen and Hanne Zenjuga, students of visual design at TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media, are nominated for SL:MIMA in the Animation Category. There are three nominees in both categories.
Two films by TAMK School of Art and Media were invited to the VII Open St.Petersburg Festival of film schools "Beginning" end of September.
TAMK student delegation members at the festival were the Flippers team: Director and script writer Jussi Autio, producers Emilia Kiviniemi and Anita Hyppönen, and the Escape team: Director and script writer Helena Yli-Kyyny, photographer Ossi Käki and editor Arttu Salmi.
The postcard from the festival sent by Jussi Autio:
Demola is an open innovation environment for university students and ICT and media companies operating in the Tampere Region. It is a service provided jointly by TAMK University of Applied Sciences, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere University and Technology Centre Hermia Ltd.
A New Bachelor's Degree Programme in Media, conducted in English, will start at TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media August 2009. The focus of the programme is in interactive media content design and production. The students learn about current digital media issues and gain deep insight into one of the three specialisation options: visual design, interaction design or project management.
Social Media - one of the main themes at the MindTrek Conference earlier this week - was dominant also at the MindTrek Awards Price Ceremony.
The winner of MindTrek €20 008 Grand Prix is Wreck-A-Movie, the movie production community by Star Wreck Studios Oy.
The MindTrek Awards Ceremony yesterday wittnessed the success of Interactive Media Programme students in MyTampere Video Competition.
"Tampere – A Truly British Guide" by Dan Castro and Nick Rowley won the first prize. Dan and Nick are students of Edinburgh College of Art.
MindTrek Conference started today with the workshop day. As always, MindTrek brings also this time international visitors to TAMK School of Art and Media.
Science journalist Kalle Heiska has published a report about our theatrical functions modelling project at his web site "New High Technology!"
The five nominees for the €20 008 MindTrek Grand Prix have been announced. The nominations are made by the MindTrek Grand Prix jury. The winner will be selected by the Grand Juror Matti Apunen, Editor-in-Chief of Aamulehti, and awarded at the MindTrek Awards Ceremony October 8th at Hotel Rosendahl.
Story: Juho Hartikainen
Score Game Development Club's president Juho Hartikainen, club co-founder Teemu Haila and club member Heikki Leppänen recently made a three-day excursion to Norway. The trip was due to contacts made in the spring at Nordic Game 2008.
The nominees of the 2nd international NOKIA Ubimedia MindTrek Award are:
• Babbage Cabbage Empathetic Living Media: Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Keio University, Japan;
• Point-to-Discover: Peter Frohlich, Rainer Simon, Erwin Wittowetz, Gerhard Obernberger, Matthias Baldauf, Telecommunication Research Centre, Austria;
• TreasureHunter: Remco Magielse, Iris Soute, Panos Markopoulos, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands;
Story: Jenni Järvinen, Student at Game Development, TAMK School of Art and Media
Local student clubs and recreation possibilities in Tampere were presented at the 'Welcome to Tampere' fair that was organized at Pakkahuone. As this in English-only event was mainly intended for the international students, it turned out to be interesting for the local students too.
If I Fall, a short film written and directed by last year's graduate from TAMK School of Art and Media Hannaleena Hauru, has been invited to Reykjavik International Film Festival.
SCORE is the game development club created by TAMK School of Art and Media students one year ago. Score is member of the International Game Developers' Association IGDA.
Teemu Räsänen sent a postcard from Canada. He is a fourth year student of the Degree Programme in Fine Arts at TAMK Schol of Art and Media.
Piia Pienihäkkinen sent a postcard from Malaysia. Piia is a fourth year cinematography student in the Media Programme at TAMK School of Art and Media.
"Greetings from HOT Malaysia!
My fourth month here is going to start soon. Weather is unbelievable, everyday over 30 degrees. Even thought the rain season is just going to end, little rain has only been refreshing.
The Second Nordic Business Week, arranged by TAMK Business School ProAcademy, visited the TAMK School of Art and Media today.
This blog posts postcards sent from TAMK School of Art and Media people traveling abroad.
The first postcard comes from Päivi Hirsiaho. Päivi is a third year student in the Fine Arts Degree Programme, and doing her exchange period in the Edinburgh College of Art.
