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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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