The fourth edition of the joint MA in Screenwriting programme of Salford University and TAMK started three weeks ago at Finlayson. This week representatives of four universities gathered to prepare the programme to be even more international.

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Photo by Annika Haanpää

Mercè Prat (Head of the International Relations Unit) and Pere Morera (International Academic Coordinator of the Faculty of Business and Communication Studies) paid a visit to TAMK and the Degree Programme in Media at the Finlayson campus earlier this week.

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Nico Meisnner in our rooftop garden

'Using the World Wide Web to Sustain Independent Filmmaking' was the title of the four day workshop given by Nico Messner from Salford University last week for our third year film&tv students and some exchange students.

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The visitors to the Arts Academy of Düsseldorf in the long hallway, where the doors lead to students' workrooms.

Text: Timo Piikkilä
In the beginning of the 19th century, Finnish artists would travel to to Düsseldorf, Germany, to receive the best art education of that time. Today, the Düsseldorf Art Academy is still a notable art school and Düsseldorf a lively and multifaceted city of culture. Students from the School of Art, Music and Media Timo Piikkilä, Juuso Oksala, Jaana Ristola, Anna Knappe and Mari Ljokkoi got to know the school and the city during the Quadrinnale Düsseldorf:

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Students of the School of Art, Music and Media and exhibition visitors at the Inter-cool 3.0 opening.

Text and photo: Mari Ljokkoi
The Inter-cool 3.0 exhibition opened on Friday 17 September in Dortmund. The Fine Arts students Karoliina Paappa, Mikko Keskiivari and Liisa Ahlfors participated in the exhibition with their works. In the exhibition was also the Youth as Refugees project, which was made by Anna Knappe, Timo Piikkilä, Jaana Ristola and Pekka Niskanen along with the help of TV and Film students Dimitri Okulov and Juuso Oksala. Students Mikael Kinanen and Vili Nissinen held an opening performance on youth culture. In the performance they were still and had been labeled as part of the youth culture archive, which was on show in the exhibition.

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The Fine Arts students Martta Tuomaala and Essi Laurila were awarded at the SEE YOU festival in Dortmund 16-19 September for their project "Speech Bubbles@city". The project was awarded the international RUHR.2010 Young Europe Award. The SEE YOU festival, which showcases children's and youth culture, is part of the 2010 European culture capital events around the Ruhr area, and it gathered hundreds of projects from all over Europe, all of which were aimed at youth.

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Parasites, 2010, silk flowers, approx. 3 x 2 x 4 m

Story and picture: Maija Kovari
Skulpturenpark Berlin Centrum is a part-time sculpture park in the very heart of Berlin, on the ancient border of the eastern and western parts of the city. The park consists of two separate lots, one big savannah-like wild park, while the other has piles of old bricks and sand among the grass and trees. Between art exhibitions, the sites wait for a new owner offering the locals a nice place to walk their dogs.

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Story and pictures: Heidi Mäenpää
On Saturday night at eight a group of old and new IMPs with a few tagalongs gathered to spend the evening at Kaatopaikka, Tampere’s best bowling alley. Once everyone had arrived the IMP10 tutor Anna Tikkanen divided us randomly into groups of four, and we took our places after a swift battle for a pair of right size shoes.

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Mari Ljokkoi inspects the three-channel video installation "Last Riot" by a Russian AES+F artist group at Inter-Cool exhibition.

The Fine Arts student Mari Ljokkoi will be getting to know the work of a curator as the assistant to artist Pekka Niskanen at the Inter-Cool 3.0 exhibition in Dortmund. Mari Ljokkoi will aim for curator training after her Fine Arts studies. Ljokkoi, with this in mind, has devised together with the programme a special set of study modules, which will allow her to familiarize herself with the responsibilities of a curator.

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The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. Ubimedia means technology that is embedded in its surroundings. The word “Ubi” comes from the Latin word “ubique” which means “everywhere”. The competition was open to all kinds of artists, practitioners, and industries and the total prize sum is 7.000 Euros.

Head of Jury Björn Stockleben, 2009 winners with DonkeyPedia Frans Alsema and Joost van Eeden and competition co-chair Kirsi Lindfors

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23rd Helsinki International Film Festival (Love & Anarchy)
September 16-26

Memory of Tomorrow it the "Finnish Pearls" screening:
Sat 18.09. 12:15 - Kinopalatsi 10
Wed 22.09. 16:15 - Dubrovnik (Andorra)
Thu 23.09. 21:15 - Dubrovnik (Andorra)

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Anna Knappe, Timo Piikkilä, Mari Ljokkoi, Juuso Oksala, Jaana Ristola and Dimitri Okulov in Dortmundi preparing Inter-Cool 3.0. The exhibition will open in MedienKunstVerein 17.9

- Youth as Refugees opened today

The Finnish government, companies and academies have found one thing they can agree on. That is internationalization.

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“Tursajaiset is a legendary whole day event for new students in TAMK.”
Story: Sabrina Seidl
Sounds interesting, sounds crazy, sounds like something we definitely have to attend!
Gathering at Keskustori, going by bus to the secret location and then… let the party with games begin. We divided our class into two groups and started without any delay the run for the points.

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Our spokesperson Tuomas Lecklin went as far as possible to get points

Story and photo: Tiia Tuovinen
Our student life really kicked off this week. On Tuesday we had Naamat, TTVO’s own get-together party at Jack The Rooster, and on Wednesday the new students were introduced to the academic student life with Tursajaiset, an initiation rite including an oath, task points, costumes and much more.

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The Engage Newsletter published a report on the successful international game design summer school hosted by Demola and our Degree Programme in Media last week:

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Since Thursday I've been working with experts from all over Europe to identify the best of the 300 projects registered for the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards. The participants are students and young professionals under 30, and they are competing in nine categories and for three special prizes.

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10IMPs in group photo after the Mölkky game, an essential part of study orientation

Story: Johanna Lievemaa
School has truly started! Most of our courses for the first period, as well as extracurricular activities and evening life, are rolling on smoothly. We know the teachers and classrooms, we know what to do, most of the technical difficulties and the fuss and bustle of the beginning are over. There are still some mysteries (like Moodle for myself) but I'm sure everything will become familiar soon enough. I've never felt more at home at a new community or as relaxed as I have at TTVO. We've been given a warm welcome and all the info we could ask for. The student tutors have been all but holding our hands the first few weeks and everybody's been really nice and helpful.

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The fourth edition of the joint MA in Screenwriting Programme of  TAMK University of Applied Sciences and Salford University started today.

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