Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Arts Council of Finland and AVEK grants for ”Youth as a Refugee” project

Youth from Härmälä group home and Schoool of Art and Media  students in a festival against racism in Tampere 21 March at Kuusela Centre for Seniors
Text: Pekka Niskanen and Anna Knappe
The community art project being made for Europe’s Capital of Culture year 2010 exhibition in Dortmund has received a grant from Arts Council of Finland and R&D grant from AVEK (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture).

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Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Whistle While You Work nominated in Brussels

Story: Jussi Sandhu
The directional debut of Jussi Sandhu and Ville Hakonen, "Whistle While You Work", has been chosen to the international competition of the 13th Brussels short film festival (29.4-9.5). It's nominated with 53 films from around the world and is one of the two Finnish films competing this year.

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Monday, 29 March 2010

"Connection Lost" Victorius in the Languages Through Lenses 2010 Competition

Outi Hartikainen directs actor Pertti Hokkanen at the demo video shoots
Story: Hannu Koivuranta
The film competition Languages Through Lenses 2010 organized by European Commission, ELIA in partnership with PRIX EUROPA and in cooperation with CILECT brought victory to "Connection Lost", a short film script written by Hannu Koivuranta and Outi Hartikainen.

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Sunday, 28 March 2010

Tampere Art Factory Programme Published


TAMK School of Art and Media
3rd International Week May 3-7 2010
3rd Tampere Art Factory (TAF) Festival May 7-9 2010

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Saturday, 27 March 2010

Swallow Your Fears, Raven’s Song and Whistle While You Work are screened in Kinos10 film festival this weekend

From Raven's Song
Story: Aino Suni and Laura Rytkönen
The seventh annual Kinos –film festival in Lahti this year presents stories about what dreams are made of.

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Friday, 26 March 2010

Also Interactive Media Students Paint


Story and Photos: Amir Abdi
Tuesday evening painting classes take place in TAMK School of Art and Media every week. Students from different degrees such as Media, Fine Arts and also exchange students are welcome to release their feelings through a canvas with oil paints. The course is designed to develop and enhance the use of shape, color and value in oil painting.

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Thursday, 25 March 2010

International Week Workshop and TAF: Nou&Herkauw

The result of the workshop will be experienced at TAF Party May 7


Nou&Herkauw is a collective of artists and students who work in several disciplines such as media art, graphic design, illustration, and theatre. In collaboration with students of the Academy for Popculture they develop all kinds of interactive VJ performances for cultural events and dance events through out Holland.

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Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Happy Ada Lovelace Day 2010!


Today blogs all over the world celebrate Ada Lovelace day, so does this blog.

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Monday, 22 March 2010

DobleClick-cooperation paid off

TTVO-tourists in front of the university
Story: Jussi Sandhu and Milla Kaski
The DobleClick-festival of University UVic was organised internationally for the first time this year, as a bunch of TTVO-students headed towards Barcelona and the town of Vic to change experiences with the university. The three-day festival consisted of not only screenings of both of the schools' films, but also of workshops given by students.

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Sunday, 21 March 2010

Ghost Ride - Part 1 of Timo Bredenberg's Graduation Work Online

Sold Out - TAMK fine art graduation show 2010
8.-30.5. Exhibition Hall TR1 (Finlayson)
8.-25.5. Art Centre Mältinranta
Lue tämä juttu suomeksi (Read this story in Finnish)
Sold Out is the exhibition of 17 artists who graduate this spring from the Degree Programme in Fine Art of Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). The opening of the exhibition is one of the highlights of Tampere Art Factory festival.

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Saturday, 20 March 2010

International Week Workshops: Creative Editing

Elie Yazbek teaching at International Week '09
Elie Yazbek, responsible of cinema studies at Saint Joseph's University, Beirut, will host the Creative Editing workshop of our International Week May 3-7. Elie comments his second visit to Tampere: "I'm very happy to join TAF team again in May 2010 during the international week, TAF students are really full of energy and need to express themselves!"

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Thursday, 18 March 2010

International Week Workshops: Design Spam

Interaction designer and lecturer Pawel Pokutycki from the the Design & Communication department of the Hanze University Groningen (Academy Minerva) will host a one day workshop on day two of our International Week (May 3rd) titled:

Design Spam - workshop on conceptual and experimental approach to interaction design

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Monday, 15 March 2010

So in TAMK, you can really earn credits by arranging Speeddates?

Story: Tiina Heikkilä and Teemu Oikkonen
Well, I guess you can. At least we do.

Our project group, consisting of TAMK students, have put together two nights of mischief and mingling in which some 20 people of the opposite sex are going to have miniature dates of 3-4 minutes with all the other 20 persons.

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Sunday, 14 March 2010

Ikuinen Gallery Presents: Alpo Nummelin's STROBE LIGHT HOME

Ikuinen Gallery
March 18 - April 1
Alpo Nummelin: Strobe Light Home
Open Mon-Fri 12-16
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

The artist, third year student of lighting design, introduces the exhibition:

"In this exhibition I explore the blurring of the borders of physical space amidst spiritual and virtual spaces. The gallery room is transformed into a regular, urban studio-sized home.

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Friday, 12 March 2010

Today and Saturday on TFF: When I Move

A film about the fear of stopping

Two TAMK School of Art and Media Films were invited to the national competition of Tampere International Film Festival. Memory of Tomorrow directed by Pekka Saari was introduced yesterday. Now When I Move by Ville Salminen is in turn:

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Thursday, 11 March 2010

Today and Saturday on TFF: Memory of Tomorrow

- A Story of Memories, love and letting go

Two TAMK School of Art and Media Films were invited to the national competition of Tampere International Film Festival. The documentary film When I Move directed by Ville Salminen will be introduced tomorrow.

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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

TAMK Goes Tampere Film Festival 2010

From the film Adaption
The students of TAMK School of Art and Media are annually involved in Tampere Film Festival in many ways. There are a lot of students active with the practical arrangements and duties; working or doing their work practice or voluntary work. The film and television students are also responsible for the broadcasts of the Film Festival Studio and organisation of the Film Fest Party.

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Raven's song showing at Tampere Film Festival

Story: Aino Suni
Seven-year-old Iiris is abandoned by her mother and thrust in the care of her relatives. The girl finds a safe haven from the world of adults in the company of her new raven friend in a cosy barn. Caring for the bird lands the girl in trouble with her relatives and she decides to run away.

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Tampere Film Festival Studio 2010 Up and Running Today

Filkkaristudio is here again! You can follow the broadcast live through DINA or watch the recording later at www.filkkaristudio.fi.

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Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Martin Breindl, curator of media art in Fluss museum visited Art and Media

Martin Breindl (left) and Fine Art student Jussi Koitela having a portfolio session
Story: Sari Tervaniemi
In the middle of February Austrian curator Martin Breindl came to TAMK, Art and Media to see the portfolios of a group of fine art students, students of the specialization studies on photography and recently graduated artists in order to choose some to a show called Young Finnish Photography.

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Monday, 8 March 2010

Kahvia ja tupakkaa: Time for the Premiere

A different kind of movie Kahvia ja tupakkaa – a pastiche to the famous movie Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) by Jim Jarmusch – was shot last autumn and now it’s the time to celebrate the premiere which is going to take place March 11 as a part of Tampere Film Festival.

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Sunday, 7 March 2010

On Tampere Film Festival: All that I Wanted

Pirjo is a woman who demands pure perfection from herself as well as others. With unusual methods Pirjo is going to secure the future of her perfect genotype as well. This short film contemplates the modern demand for flawlessness which affects us all. An absurd story told with vivid comic-like images will definitely make the viewer think.

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Saturday, 6 March 2010

International Week Workshop: Interactive Cinema by Chris Hales

Chris Hales will be back again in Tampere to run a self-contained workshop about the 'interactive moving image' - involving the design and actual production of a prototype in which interactivity and video imagery are combined.

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Friday, 5 March 2010

Creative Cooperation with Tartu

Raul Oreshkin and Külli Hansen on our snowy roof top garden
We welcomed again visitors from the Estonian twin city of Tampere, Tartu. Külli Hansen and Raul Oreshkin, representatives of Tartu Centre for Creative Industries were guests of Creative Tampere for two days to learn about creative institutions in Tampere. Tampere UAS Finlayson campus with the School of Art and Media and the proAcademy were targets of the tour.

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Thursday, 4 March 2010

GUEST POST: What ever you have done before, has brought you here

Written by Albert van der Kooij
Arriving at the International Week smoke sauna evening 2008: Albert's colleague Adri Schokker, Albert van der Kooij, Interactive Cinema Doctor Chris Hales, lecturer Sohvi Sirkesalo and Head of Film and Television Programme Leena Mäkelä, TAMK

My first trip to Finland included a visit to Mindtrek, the Nordic digital media and business conference, focusing on social media & Web 2.0.

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Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Fine Art Students in X-OP-project

Story: Sari Tervaniemi, X-OP –project contact person in Art And Media


Mikko Keskiivari in Hagia Sofia
X-OP Festival, Event of the border areas of Europe
Art School Maa, with the head of the school Bo Karsten, organizes X-OP Festival. The festival is taking  place in Helsinki in November 2010. It is a Contemporary art festival (fine arts, performance art and experimental music). In this year there will be also other events by X-OP-net for example in Balkan area, which aims to give opportunity for Finnish artists to show their artworks abroad.

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Tuesday, 2 March 2010

TAMK co-produces a Village of the Future to Keskustori in August 2010

Text: Essi Santala
Graphic: Saana Karala
August 28-29, a vision of a future city presents itself at Keskustori central square in Tampere. The main aim of the event is to bring information from experts to everyone through art and fun
experiences. The event will host art exhibitions, workshops as well as discussion panels.

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Monday, 1 March 2010

Joint application for study programmes in Finnish begun

The joint application for universities of applied sciences begun today, and there are 2012 study places available in TAMK for degree programmes beginning in autumn of 2010. In addition to Tampere, there are study places available in Ikaalinen, Mänttä-Vilppula, Sastamala and Virrat.

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