Today we had a very special guest. The first ever exchange student we had in the School of Art and Media, Michael Just from FH Furtwangen in Germany paid a visit.

The first TAMK international Media Programme students' third orientation day on Friday included a meeting with the study office staff and lecturers followed by presentations of School of Art and Media student club Tarina and Game Development Club Score.
In the afternoon IMP visited Demola, and the orientation was rounded up with IMP 2009 Mölkky Championship tournament.

The new international BA programme at TAMK School of Art and Media, the Degree Programme in Media started today. The first day and a half the students orientate at TAMK University of Applied Sciences main campus at Teiskontie, tomorrow afternoon Media Programme students move to the home of the programme at Finlayson in the city center.

GUERRILLA LIGHTING
TAMPERE 17.9.2009 at 20:00 Frenckell

Story by Annukka Larsen

A Guerrilla Lighting event will be organized for the first time in Tampere this autumn. This urban method from England uses concrete examples to raise discussion on exterior lighting. It is an event in which a group of citizens follows a predetermined plan to “invade” the streets with powerful torches. The starting point of the guerrilla march is from the main entrance of Frenckell office building on September 17th at 20:00.

TAMK University of Applied Sciences hosts this autumn 87 exchange students from 19 countries. They started this week doing a three day orientation period, next week they join the regular students in the degree programmes.

Demola is the joint innovation space for companies and the four universities in Tampere. You can find Demola close to TAMK School of Art and Media at Finlayson in the heart of Tampere.

The new academic year of TAMK University of Applied Sciences is about to begin. The lecturers and other staff members have worked hard to have everything prepared. The most exciting development this year is the merger of TAMK and PIRAMK UAS on January 1st. Last Tuesday the staff members of both merging universities gathered to a joint staff meeting, and had a massive get-together party in the evening. New friends and lots of fun.

VIII Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival "BEGINNING" will be held on September, 18 – 23, 2009 in St.Petersburg, Russia. The global contest of the festival invited again this year two films from TAMK School of Art and Media to be shown in the category for Fiction films.

Our annual festival - Tampere Art Factory (TAF) - was in May, but much of the student works seen there are still visible online. In this part of the story we present the games and music videos and the contribution of the Dutch Academy of Popculture.

Sideline, written and directed by Maria Kaurismäki, has been invited to Film Forum “Ecology of Soul” International Competition of debut&student shorts, August 23-27, 2009, Riga & Jurmala, Latvia and to Reikäreuna Film Festival September 9-13, Orivesi, Finland.

Our annual festival - Tampere Art Factory (TAF) - was in May, but much of the student works seen there are still visible online. In this posting we present the fine art's students works and animations that were shown at TAF, which can be understood without knowledge of Finnish language.

The Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Award (SL:MIMA) invites young talented filmmakers to participate with a movie in one of the three categories: ’Computer-Animation’, ‘Digital Film’ and ‘Interactive Movie’. Modern piano music by international artists serves as the basis for the competition.