Where is Tampere? At the edge of the tundra? Why should one bother to move to Tampere to study or to do business?

The English admission pages for the new TAMK have been launched.

The pages mainly serve foreign applicants, so they focus on marketing the English degree programmes and giving information about TAMK and Finland. The application period for the English degree programmes is 11.1. – 12.2.2010.

This is a note from director of Electrician Miina Alajärvi, sent to members of the Electrician group on Facebook:

Heihoi!

I'm writing from my vacation in Sweden. Good news reach even here! The Electrician keeps on compeeting around the world!

Demola is seeking enthusiastic adventurers to research and development projects.

Act now, and gain:

• company contacts
• project experience
• credit points on learning by doing
• multidisciplinary teamwork
• business opportunities
• reward from the job well done

Arctic Fury Film Festival
4.-8.11.2009 Rovaniemi Invited School of Art and Media Films:
Alone
The Electrician
Rain Must Fall

The international MindTrek Conference 2009 is now over. While waiting for the 2010 conference next October, you can enjoy the contents of the 2009 online. Even if you were one of the 800+ participants, you could not be present on every track of the conference nor the many parallel workshops on the pre-conference partner's events day.

The kick-off session of the DETVET project was rounded off late Thursday afternoon with a tour to Klaipeda's old brewery.

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.

Hello from Klaipeda, Lithuania! The TAMK delegation travelled here today via Riga, Latvia. Soon we will meet our partners representing educational institutions from Lithuania, Czech Republic, Italy, Denmark and Sweden.

"manSEDANse is a festival of electronic music, art and culture taking place in Tampere, Finland. In it's fourth year, manSEDANse keeps gaining momentum and magnitude to bring forth electronic culture of the highest order!"

Swanhilde de Jong made a staff exchange last week to TAMK School of Art and Media. The students of our MA in Screenwriting Programme work with a course on genres, and Swanhilde brought the expertise of documentary scriptwriting to this course. She said she enjoyed her work very much, the students showed a very professional attitude.

MA in Screenwriting is a joint programme of TAMK UAS and University of Salford, UK. The third edition of the programme started in September.

Diary of a Person with Asperger’s Syndrome is a documentary film written, directed and produced by Kristiina Lehto. She made this documentary, because Asperger's syndrome is present in her family. Kristiina wants to help people to understand what Asperger's syndrome is about. Every day person's with AS experience much injustice, because people don't understand their behaviour.

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.

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.

October starts today and that means two awesome events. First MindTrek at Tampere. And next week: The MIPCOM at Cannes.