TAMK Art and Media OLD BLOG -2019

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Eevi got the Golden Pineapple!

The results of the 2010 Golden Pineapple game design awards were announced yesterday. The selected Nominees were judged not only on what is displayed for the People’s Choice, but on all other aspects on the game design concept; gameplay, challenge, learning outcomes, budget, etc. In total, 20 entries were selected for review from over 70 submissions from 10 European countries. This was further reduced to the top three in each category.

Sunday, 19 December 2010

SL:MIMA 2011: Vote for your favourite

The Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Award (SL:MIMA) invited again 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.

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Vote: the Golden Pineapple Award Nominees are here

The Golden Pineapple Awards is a student contest for designing learning games, focused on developing awareness among young game designers and creative people and companies of the potential of games as learning material. Originally starting as an educational game design course created by Professor Maja & Paul Pivec, the concept has taught over 300 information design students at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum in Austria.

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Coming up: summertime horror

A small country town is getting ready for a big celebration when two strangers, Kiuru and Moukari, drive through it. On the highway they meet young Alma, who leads them to an ancient forest. When night falls, the hunt begins...

Story: Nalle Mielonen
This is the synopsis of one of this year’s thesis films, Metsästysmaa aka The Hunting Ground. The Hunting Ground was shot during the last heat wave on August 2010. The locations were scattered around the countryside of Pirkanmaa, at Lempäälä and Valkeakoski.

Sunday, 12 December 2010

Tampere - the Focal Point of Northern Europe

Finlayson is the home of TAMK art and media programmes

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

Saturday, 11 December 2010

We are arctic and fabulous

From All that I Wanted

The Arctic and Fabulous film festival competition finalists have been selected. Out of 189 registered entries 20 were invited to compete in the professional's category and 24 in the student's category. Five of the chosen student projects are made by film&television and fine art students from TAMK Finlayson Campus.

Friday, 10 December 2010

Visitor from Prague - Tomáš Bouška

This week we got a visit from the College of Media and Journalism in Prague. Tomáš Bouška is Vice-Director for External Relations and Communication of the college, and he is looking for international partners, because CMJ has decided to join the European networking community of higher education.

Thursday, 9 December 2010

EVA - the virtual campus of visual culture studies

Prof. Doru Pop, coordinator of the project, leading the curriculum workshop

Last weekend the EVA-project was kicked off in Cluj, the capital of Transylvania in Romania. Our aim is to build the campus of visual culture studies as a pilot of European Virtual Academy over the next two years. We will have courses, library, labs and forums in the digital world, taking advantage of social media tools and Open Source software.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

The Art Christmas Sale - welcome!

Ikuinen Gallery
December 8 - 11 2010
Art Christmas Sale
Open Thu-Fri 12-16; Sat 12-18
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

Story: Teemu Markkula
At first the idea was that I would go to Germany and play couple of shows as a warm-up artist for Pintandwefall. Then it turned out that they would need a sound engineer also. I was hired for the job with the condition that I wouldn’t have to work as a sound engineer on those gigs I was playing as a warm-up.
Then it turned out that they would need a tour manager too. I was hired for the job. I just can’t say no can I? Well no problem. A little bit of extra work can’t do any harm.

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

WSA Mobile Content Award Winners: Angry Birds and Need4Feed

The Trophy (Photo: Juha Kaario, Newelo via Facebook)

The United Nations based World Summit Award announced the winners of the best mobile content and apps at the Abu Dhabi Gala, December 6th, 2010. While mobile telephony is a global network, the best content comes from producers developing very local content.

Friday, 3 December 2010

Game Design Workshop

Text: Eevi Korhonen, 09IMP
It was that wonderful time of the year again, when students of the Game Design course gather to present their game ideas in a two-day workshop, where they get feedback from industry professional as well as their peers. To me, this is the highlight of the year, as I find this workshop to be one of the most useful parts of our education here. I've already lurked in the background for two previous workshops making notes and giving feedback, but this time I was finally an actual participant and thus got to pitch my idea.

Team Red Balloon presenting their idea. From left to right: Vasileia Tolou, Johanna Peltola and Anayte Delahay

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Christmas of the Arts

The Special Guest: Heart-a-Claus

Story and pics: Tia Tuovinen, Media '1002
First year students from all different study programs – fine art, television and media – united their powers in organizing a memorable pre-Christmas party last Friday. Christmas of the Arts was held in “the secret chamber” of 4th floor – a former classroom also known as Tarkovski. Few eager students set up decorative lights, music and video installations to set the mood. Christmas food like rice porridge and glögi was offered as well as other snacks.

Tuomas Mikola demonstrating his princess pose in front of the IMP10 poster

Story: Johanna Lievemaa, Kristina Põldots and Heidi Mäenpää
Some of you might have noticed the huge and entertaining picture which has appeared on the wall in the 2nd floor hallway. The 10IMP poster has finally arrived.

IMP10 found out a way to make everyone love their poster. Number one: make them wait. Number two: make it massive. Who could pass this great poster and not smile? A big hand to our design team for the great idea and creation! But how did it all come alive?

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Application pre-task now online

Next application time for our BA programme run in English is January 3 - February 15. 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.

Sunday, 28 November 2010

'8' - a horror movie by Miro Laiho

Director Miro Laiho's 30-minute short psychological horror film is produced by Blind Spot Pictures and currently in pre-production. It is part of the final thesis of Laiho, cinematographer Jaakko Tuure and film editor Ville Hakonen. It is currently applying for funding and searching for collaborators.

Saturday, 27 November 2010

Brilliant iweek in lovely Liepaja, the final notes

Yesterday our day started with the univeristy/degree programme presentations. Pictured Lenno Verhoog from Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands.

Then we started to discuss about networking, student and staff exchange, projects and shared online classes.

Friday, 26 November 2010

Liepaja New Media Art Week, post 2

Yesterday morning we made an excursion to Karosta, the former Soviet military base and to the old Russian Empire fortress in Karosta. That really was the end of the world.

Enthusiastic gamers planning their next step

Story: Emma Kiiski
Once again our beloved game club Score gave us enthusiastic students an interesting chance to meet game developers. This time the main topic was board game development and one particular game, UHKA (Threat). Special thanks to Eevi Korhonen who organized the cool event!

Pupils of Vilpeilä village school during shootings

Story and photo: Hannu Koivuranta
The “3 minute films” which take place every year were once again very different in the ways they were produced. This applied specifically to the shortfilm “Oppitunti” and its heads of department: director Outi Hartikainen, cinematographer Hannu Koivuranta, sound designer Mikko Koskinen, gaffer Jenni Riutta and producer Joni Luomanen.

Thursday, 25 November 2010

Liepaja New Media Art Workshops

Make Liepaja Happy performance

Arrived in Liepaja, Latvia on Tuesday for the International New Media Art Week, the iweek, of the Art Research Lab of University of Liepaja.

Story: Janne Keränen
The film, Fall Down, written and directed by Janne Keränen has been selected to the HEdge-screenings of Bang! Short Film Festival held in Nottingham, England on 26th to 28th of November 2010. The film was made in connection with Fanni Niemi-Junkola's Film Art course in May 2010.

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Installation 'November' by Liisa Ahlfors at Ikuinen Galleria

Ikuinen Gallery
November 25 - December 3 2010
Liisa Ahlfors: November, installation
Open Mon-Fri 12-16
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

Welcome to the opening at Wednesday 24.11.2010 4-6 p.m!

Story: Sabrina Seidl
45 students, 9 workshops, some tutors and organizers and an idyllic island in the North Sea were the main ingredient for the Island Creative Quarantine, an international and interactive meeting at Ameland.

Monday, 22 November 2010

Whistle While You Work best student fiction at Kettupäivät

TAMK film students were successful at Kettupäivät Film Festival last week-end. Whistle While You Work by Jussi Sandhu and Ville Hakonen won the student fiction competition, and Raven's Song by Aino Suni got a honorary mention.

Kettupäivät (Finnish for "Fox Days") is an annual Finnish short and documentary film festival in Helsinki.

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Thursday, 18 November 2010

Night of Communal Animation in Gallery Rajatila on Friday

Rakennetun ajan esitys
Gallery Rajatila
Hämeenpuisto 10
19.11.2010
19–22

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Family Portrait short film at Kettupäivät Film festival

Story: Nalle Mielonen
The next opportunity to see the short film Family Portrait is at Kettupäivät Film Festival at Helsinki. Family Portrait, directed by Minna Korhonen and written and cinematographed by Nalle Mielonen, is one of the 3-minute short films made by the class of 2007.

Monday, 15 November 2010

Students learn best from the best

EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival, Graz November 11-13 2010

I've spent three days at the EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival in Graz with nineteen students of our Degree Programme in Media. My colleagues from universities all over Europe did frequently asked me, why does our university spend so much in travel and accommodation of the students. Is it not enough that professors travel, and report to students after-wards what happened?

Sunday, 14 November 2010

EUROPRIX: IMPs learning from the best

Yesterday was the most important day of the festival. The 23 EUROPRIX Award nominee teams presented their projects and how they did them. On the photo Klaus Hammerum Gregersen and Troels Johnsen, Press Play, Denmark, introduce "Max & the Magic Marker" which was one of my favourites and the winner of the Games category.

Saturday, 13 November 2010

IMPs at EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival - day 3

The third day was again warmer and sunnier - like a normal nice day in June in Tampere. But not exactly, the trees are all naked. Pretty challenging to go inside to listen to key notes. But it was a good decision to go inside anyway.

Friday, 12 November 2010

IMPs in Graz - day two

Joanneum open learning environment on top floor

The first morning in Graz was sunny and warm, so we walked to FH Joanneum which is close to Europa Plaz, where our hotel is. Joanneum was the venue of the Academic Network Conference, our main activity yesterday, but we made an early start to do a tour at Joanneum hosted by Paul Pivec and International koordinator Michaela Bernreiter.

Thursday, 11 November 2010

IMP on tour: EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival

Yesterday 19 09IMPs and one programme leader came to Graz, Austria, to participate in the EUROPRIX Multimedia festival

Friday, 5 November 2010

Connection Lost among top 3 in Prix Europa

Outi Hartikainen directs Raimo Grönberg while cameraman Hannu
Koivuranta checks the composition (Photo: Eero Alava)

The Languages Through Lenses 2010 -competition is over.

Languages Through Lenses is one of Prix Europa's film competitions. Last spring the international jury chose 15 best scripts among 100 competitors from over 18 EU countries. The chosen fifteen got a 5,000€ grant each to produce a short film from the script. The underlying theme of the competition scripts was to motivate people to learn languages and get people interested in learning more about other cultures.

Thursday, 4 November 2010

Score Game Night

Story: Emma Kiiski
It was a dark and gloomy evening. Only a few people were walking in the rain, heading to the secret meeting place … which was filled with games, food, drinks, people and LOTS OF FUN!

Youth as Refugees community art project has been invited to INSIDE / OUTSIDE media art exhibition showing as a part of the Arctic Fury Film Festival this weekend November 3-7.

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Who owns the space in our city?

We will own it on Friday 5.11.2010 when 27 students will be walking around Tampere centre wearing bullet boards.

Come and write your message, glue you stickers, tag your posters or just to leave you own print.

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Island CQ -festival is getting close!

Testing the "Won't Stand By" workshop. Photo & Story Satu Leskinen

Island Creative Quarantine is an international, interactive meeting place between students, teachers, scientists and artists from the various partner universities from Finland, Latvia, Hungary and the Academy of Popculture in the Netherlands.

IMP report: Horrible Halloween

Story: Tia Tuovinen

We IMPs take studying seriously, but other things too. In this year’s horrendous Halloween party there were mortals and immortals from six feet under as well as the seventh heaven – and everything in between.

The nun and Jesus are not always so serious. A monk was also present.

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Business Theme Day filled the seats and stairs

Story and photo: Emma Kiiski
The main campus of TAMK got the Grand Auditorium filled to the last seats (and floor too!) on Thursday. It’s not too surprising; the last people having their humorous presentation were Tuomas Milonoff and Riku Rantala from the popular TV show The Madventures. Sadly only in Finnish!

Saturday, 30 October 2010

10PICT (1st year fine art photo art exhibition)

10PICT (10KUVAT)
25.10.-15.11.2010

Washing Trommel (our lobby)
Finlaysoninkatu 7
Tampere

Story: Antti Haapio

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Course report: Video Techniques & Expression

Story and photo: Sabrina Seidl
Upcoming next: Autumn holidays - but not for all of us. Some found the motivation to participate the intensive course 'Video Techniques & Expression' which took place from the 18th to the 22nd of October.

Monday, 25 October 2010

Great opportunity for great talents - The Swan Lake Award

The Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Awards, short SL:MIMA, is an international short film competition which is exclusively organized by students on behalf of the University of Applied Science Mittweida (Germany).

Friday, 22 October 2010

Odense - the city of H.C. Andersen and multimedia design

Last week I spent some days in Odense, Denmark, participating in a meeting of the DETVET-project.

One of the project partners is SDE-college, which also is a TAMK partner, but the cooperation has not been very intense. But things change, now Odense is one of the most promising partners for IMP, our Degree Programme in Media.

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Postcard from Beginning Festival, St. Petersburg

Story: Marja Pihlaja and Lauri-Matti Parppei
The International Student Film Festival Beginning was held in St. Petersburg, Russia from 1st to 6th October 2010. There were four works selected for the competition program with two films from TAMK School of Art and Media: our 5-minute film Aarnipuu (The Chainsaw Poet) and Huomisen muisto (Memory of Tomorrow) by Pekka Saari who also was a guest at the festival. The two other Finnish films were Ghosts, a documentary by Jan Ijäs, and R for Realdoll by Katja Niemi.

Sunday, 17 October 2010

School’s most recent camera purchase was tested in the shortfilm “Siivooja”

Photo by Eero Alava

Story: Hannu Koivuranta
One of the latest purchases in our school is the Canon EOS 7D digital camera. It is capable of recording Full HD-video at 25 frames per second using H264-compression. The camera had been eagerly awaited by cinematography student Hannu Koivuranta, who picked the camera as his choice of weaponary for shooting “Siivooja”. The script had been under development since spring of 2010.

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Want to study media in Tampere? Applicant's Guide 2011 now online

Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) Applicant's Guide for degree programmes run in English is now available.

The application time is January 3 to February 15 2011.

To apply for the Degree Programme in Media a pre-task has to be sent in addition to the application.

The pre-task is available for downloading on December 1st.

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Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Bad Internet – threats and webs of desire

The event was co-produced by Rupriikki Media Museum. Photo from
their new exhibition “Weaving a net – the history of the Internet”.
The Photo is published on the Rupriikki web site

Story: Tia Tuovinen
Part of manSEDANse festival was an interesting lecture about the bad features of our dear friend: The Internet. Despite being held on a Wednesday evening the lecture attracted an audience of some 20 people. Unfortunately the lecture was held in Finnish.

Monday, 11 October 2010

Photography of Karoliina Paappa in exhibitions in South Korea and Germany

From "Girl Is A Harsh Mouth" by Karoliina Paappa

Story: Mari Ljokkoi
To become an artist requires more than just taking art lessons in school. It is crucial to take part in art exhibitions already as a student and while getting works shown, one gets to know how the art world works. The best way to make this happen is to have unique style and a strong will to work with it. It is possible to work with ones own work on school courses as well as along the courses. This way, during the school years, the student ends up having art works he or she can offer to exhibitions.

Saturday, 9 October 2010

MindTrek picture diary

MindTrek Conference is one of the highlights of the year of digital media students and staff at TAMK. MindTrek is the most important annual digital media and business event in northern Europe since 1997. TAMK is one of the key actors and founding member of MindTrek Association. MindTrek Conference was arranged October 7-8 this year.

MindTrek is the meeting point of digital media producers, researchers and students. Here we have Mark Sorsa-Leslie, Hammerkit Managing Director discussing with Antti Kareinen, second year IMP-student. Antti did a project using Hammerkit in the summer.

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Designing card games

Story: Emma Kiiski
Everyone plays them, right? Or are they too old-fashioned? The Card Game Workshop in TTVO held by the Swedish game designer Erik Svedäng challenged enthusiastic students to create their own games.

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