Leeuwarden video workshop from joonas tikkanen on Vimeo.

Earlier we published an illustrated story by Veera Niemi about the Brick by Brick installation our student made together with Academy of Popculture students in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.

Now we are happy to present a video by Joonas Tikkanen, which documents the trip and installation.
Read the report by Veera Niemi
Academy of Popculture in this blog

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.

I have spent my autumn semester as an exchange student in Toronto, Ontario College of Art & Design on The Faculty of Art. Studying in another country has been an eye-opening experience that has helped me to concentrate to develop the content of my artistic work as much as improve technical part of artistic process.

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.

The Electrician won the Audience Award in the Up-and-coming International Film Festival, Hannover, Germany last night.

Next application time for our BA programme run in English is January 11 - February 12. For the Media Programme it is not enough that applicants fill in the online form, they also have to complete and send by the deadline a pre-task with three assignments.

Sari Tervaniemi: Memento Mori
2.-29.11.2009
Gallery Alkovi
Helsinginkatu 19
Gallery Alkovi is located in Helsinki at Kallio district as a window gallery.

EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival, now third time in ever so wonderful and hospitable Graz, was once again unforgettable. Populated by members of the 20 nominee teams, digital media industry representatives, lecturers and students the three days were filled with energy and creativity plus all other fun stuff.

Our fine art students are an active part of the fifteenth Forces of Light Festival in Helsinki November 11-15.

TAMK´s two day Game Design Workshop was organized for the second time in DEMOLA. This time we were able to experience how it works to have a virtual lecturer as one participant of the workshop.

The Electrician won the Gold Panda Special Jury Award at the 10th Sichuan International TV-festival in Chendu, China last weekend. Simultaniously the film became winner of the Vimma09 (Fury09) competition at the Arctic Fury Film Festival in Rovaniemi, Lapland. The Electrician was also winner of the Favourite of the Audience award in Rovaniemi.

TAMK’s interaction design student Vappu Leinonen has studied in her final thesis “Interaction Designer in Agile World” how the shift from traditional waterfall process models towards agile methods in software development affects the work of interaction designers.

University of Liepaja in Latvia, by the Baltic Sea, is one of TAMK's partner universities. Last week they had the opening of the New Media Art study and research environment and International New Media Art Week with workshops, presentations and lectures.

Photo and story: Antti Haapio
A group from St.-Petersburg Informational Center FotoDepartament visited our Fine Art Programme today, to meet our students and review their portfolios.

The most international project of TAMK School of Art and Media has turned out fine. Ania Ciuba from Poland, a multimedia student from our partner school SDE College in Odense, Denmark, made a web site for Tan Minh Single Woman's group, Vietnam, during her exchange period in our school.