Kalevankangas is the major cemetery in Tampere. Since 1880 it has been the final place to rest in peace for the citizens of Tampere region. From this spring on the Kalevankangas cemetery can also be viewed through an online map that introduces some cultural, political, econimical and military persons, memorial statues of the cemetary and panorama images from the cemetary.

The results of the Finnish universities of applied sciences (UAS) admissions are public today. You can find the names of the applicants admitted to TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media Degree Programme in Media if you follow the link below.

New album of frosty Finnish band Jääportit released as CD digipak by Epidemie Records on the 12th of May 2009.

Author: Juho Hartikainen, President of Score Game Development Club


Nordic Game is a two-day conference event focused on the game industry on the Nordic countries. Game Development Club Score, which is operating under TAMK, got sponsored tickets to the event from Neogames, the Finnish Center of Game Business, Research & Development. This year's event followed and almost coincided with Tampere Art Factory, so Score had their hands full of work.

Students of Visual Design: Tuuli Juntunen, Kiira Kalliomäki, Tuomas Korolainen, Kaisa Kukkonen and Sound Design: Veera Niemi produced an animation based on a touching "Darwin Awards"- winner story. The animation was a task for the Animation II course.

watch the animation on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_zkYAt8Vc

Sideline, written and directed by Maria Kaurismäki, has been invited to the 31st Moscow International Film Festival June 19-26 2009.

Yesterday was the second and last day of Tampere Art Factory (TAF). A lot of people, a lot of art exhibitions, film screenings, parties, performaces, installations, game shows - everything the students of TAMK School of Art and Media are able to show and do.

The International Week of TAMK School of Art and Media really started this morning, most international guests arrived yesterday. The workshops of the week are:

DISCOURSE DISCO
Graduation show '09 by TAMK University of Applied Sciences Fine Art Degree Programme

Art Centre Mältinranta, Kuninkaankatu 2, Tampere
09.05 - 26.05.2009
Opening hours Mon-Thu 12-18, Fri-Sun 12-16
Artists:
Johanna Havimäki, Kaisa Kirsikka, Jani Kuivajärvi, Jenni Lahtinen, Maria Leppänen, Liina Mäki-Patola, Tiina Raaterova

Next week is for School of Art Media the annual International Week. Five international workshops and a seminar will be arranged, and the results of the workshops presented as a part of Tampere Art Factory programme May 15-16.

Antti Salomaa from TAMK game development club Score reports to our blog:

"We learned that our game "Villa Penguila" has been nominated the first finalist in Nordic Game Portal Competition!

Story: Jani Palovuori

In October we published a story about a joint game project between TAMK and Okayama University students. Our team went to Japan again in April, this time the students of the School of Art and Media were accompanied by a group of students from the Degree Programme in Business Information Systems. Here's the diary:

Story: Petra Välimäki, the producer

In April 2008 ten students from TAMK School of Art and Media went to England to make a cooperative short film with the School of Media, Music and Performance of Salford University. It was pilot project for both schools and a leap into the unknown for the film crew. The road was bumpy but now one year has passed and everyone can be proud of the result, the short movie the Electrician.