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!

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10PICT (10KUVAT)
25.10.-15.11.2010

Washing Trommel (our lobby)
Finlaysoninkatu 7
Tampere

Story: Antti Haapio

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

• All details about application + Applicant's Guide dowload
• Degree Programme in Media home
• Read stories by & about the IMPs, the Degree Programme in Media students

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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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Neil by the largest telescope in Finland: 1,03m reflector

Story: Eeva-Kaisa AhlamoThe Interactive Media Programme students have many projects. Some of the them big, some of them small. During their second year, many students will work in a project that will give them 30 study credits, that is equivalent to 800 hours of work.

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Eevi Korhonen and Erik  Svedäng

Story and photo: Emma Kiiski
Lectures about indie games! Interesting, huh? It had Score (TTVO’s own pride, the awesome game club) included, so it couldn’t have been bad. ;-)

At first Score was introduced by Eevi Korhonen. There had been added some spice into it since I heard it last time. She told about Score’s Co-operative and interesting projects the Score members have been working on, for example 5D2.

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Michael Koch (sitting) demonstrating how it goes

We have many international partners and guests at the school this week, because our friends love to come to the most awesome annual digital media and business event in the northern hemisphere, the MindTrek Conference.

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Dutch guests with hosts at the main entrance to Finlayson Campus

A delegation of sixteen media lecturers and professionals from the Netherlands are our guests this week. Yesterday Tampere College Study Programme in Audiovisual Communication at Pyynikki, the ProAcademy, Voimala and the degree programmes in Fine Art, Film&Television and Media was in their programme, they also met Head of TAMK international services Kirsi Tolvanen.

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manSEDANse 2009. Photo Sakari Karipuro

The manSEDANse is a festival of electronic music, art and culture. It is arranged by MARry, a non-profit organisation based in Tampere. The mission of MARry is to promote electronic music and culture in Finland.

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From Speakeasy! Heidi Lindén, Hiski Grönstrand, Jane Kääriäinen, Panu Mikkola. (Photo: Jatta Oksanen)

The ninth Open Saint Petersburg Student Film Festival "Beginning" October 1-6 will show four TAMK film&tv student films. This is a nice achievement: By deadline 668 films from 100 film schools from 50 countries were sent to the festival, and the 60 best will be seen at the festival.

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