The partnership between University of Wisconsin and TAMK has now been extended to involve Fine Art and Media. Professor Kevin Pontuti will participate in our International Week and Tampere Art Factory in April. We asked him to introduce himself and his department:

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Story: Robert Niva
Vettä sakeampaa was filmed in autumn 2010 at Vehkajärvi church. Film´s DVD and TRAILER are now ready. Shortfilm is made by film & television students from TAMK University of Applied Sciences. The film tells a story of love, addiction and difficulty of letting go.

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Story: Minna Orvokki Korhonen
A beautiful death is a short film which is a graduation work for three students from the School of Art and Media. A beautiful death is an experimental film that deals with emotions about losing someone really close to you.

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Hannu Koivuranta is the cinematographer of the film "Lesson", showed in Gothenburg

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The entrance exam will be composed of an interview, a pitch and two design assignments. Pictured an applicant working with her design assignment last year

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Have you got enough of ice(y) fishing? Are there no goldfish in your pond? Do not worry! Surreal Sundays is back in Club Volume Sunday Feb 20th.

We guarantee you the best fish in this town has to offer, everything in a reasonable price of course.
Fishermen have friends, and we are proud to bring you all together.

If this post makes hardly any sense you definitely should come to check the event out. It will explain a lot of things, but also raise more questions about the Finnish way of life.

Rhythm of the Stars team

The Global Game Jam 2011 was a fantastic success for Finnish developers – a whopping number of four Finnish-developed games (with one strong runner up) from the total number of ten winners were chosen by Game Sauce for best of Global Gamejam 2011. The ten teams behind the games were invited to have their titles showcased at Casual Connect Europe in Hamburg on Thursday, February 10.
Story: Juho Korhonen

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Photo by Professor Alexander Lembke, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany

While waiting for the actual report to come later, please view the video report by Albert van Zyl from our Ice Screen show in Savukoski, Lapland last week.

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Accreditedonlinecolleges.com has featured our blog in one of the recent articles on their own blog.
The article "50 Awesome & Inspiring Blogs for Art Teachers" lists our blog as one of the seven blogs in the category "Secondary and Higher Ed", commenting that our blog "shares the work of its interactive media and art students through this blog – inspirational for others in art ed as well."

We are happy and proud to be on this list and wish Accredited Online Colleges blog all the best!

Degree Programme in Media - 20 seats available!

The joint application for degree programmes run in English of Finnish universities of applied sciences  will be closed on Tuesday February 15th 16:15 Finnish time.

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Ikuinen Gallery
February 11 to 24 2011
Pintandwefall
Open Mon - Fri 12:00 am to 4:00 pm
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

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Ville Heijari from Rovio Mobile shares the success story of Angry Birds

Photo and story: Johanna Peltola
D²-seminar was held in Valkoinen Sali in Helsinki last week. The event was arranged by AVEK, the Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture and was divided in two parts, the pitching competition and the seminar. The event brought together the old and new skills in the field and offered food for digital media –driven thought.

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The Prix Europa -festival opening gala, Berlin

Third year film students Outi Hartikainen and, author of this post, Hannu Koivuranta took part in a shortfilm competition Languages Through Lenses last year organized by the EU and European League of the Institutes of the Arts (ELIA). The mission was to produce a 60-90 second shortfilm promoting the importance of foreign cultures and languages.

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Ella Tarmo, Elihu Galvan and Heikki Nousiainen

Last week we told that two films by our fine art students are invited to the domestic competition of Tampere Film Festival. (Read the story) Swallow your Fears by Laura Rytkönen was earlier introduced on our blog. Now it is time to introduce Strange Walls by Martta Tuomaala and Mikko Keskiivari:

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Disney on ice

Future Film Studies
The Ice Screen project (IceP)
Story and photos: Albert van Zyl

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Story and photos: Johanna Lievemaa
I’m almost sad we’re this far along, only 3 years and some months left of IMP goodness!

Experimental oil painting techniques

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Village of the Future will build up on Tampere Keskustori (central square) and the event takes place September 2nd and 3rd, 2011. The village will give information on climate change and sustainable living in an out-of-the-ordinary way.
Story: Essi Santala

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Story: Nina Forsman
It’s  again that time of the year when Americans are celebrating the past year of cinema and awarding those few lucky ones – first with Golden Globes and then with Oscars.

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From Swallow Your Fear

Altogether about 300 films were offered for the national competition of Tampere International Film Festival this year.

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Written by: Heidi Mäenpää
The IMPs had a great chance to hear about interactive multimedia this Tuesday from a guest lecturer from the University of Vic: Arnau Gifreu. The first half of the day focused on more theoretical aspects, but after the lunch break the most enthusiastic of the IMPs got to try out some video editing using Final Cut and Flash.

The Wilderness Downtown uses pictures from the user's hometown

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Timoteus Tuovinen

One of the secrets of our success is our close connections to the working life. One expression of these relations is our professional advisory board. The members of the board are professionals in fine arts, film and television and different fields of media.

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