The article: Lauri Kuusela
The spring came, the snow went away and the game project course showed up. The purpose of the course was to let the students design a game of their own in small groups. Our group received a task from a third party member. Bryan Beamer, a visiting teacher in TAMK from United States, was searching students to create a game about the Incident Command System which is used in U.S.A. The ICS describes how the emergency personnel should be led and organized during a big incident. Bryan wanted to see if this idea could be turned into a game which would show people how the system works.

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One of the first challenges the new media students meet is the traditional IMP Mölkky Open Championship. Pictured the new students last August.

The results of the admission of Finnish UAS programmes run in English are today public.

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The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is an annual award and a network for young people using the internet, mobile phones or other digital media to put the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into action. Winners of the Award use websites to fight diseases, innovative radio technology to battle hunger, or social media to raise critical questions and connect those who do good.

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POWER BEAUTY – Heart of the City
Marja-Liisa Torniainen
Photographs and video installation
Gallery Ronga 29.5. – 16.6.2011
Rongankatu 1 C 9 Tampere
Open every day 12 – 18

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DETVET family photo

TAMK hosted the last meeting of the DETVET project this week at Finlayson Campus. DETVET (Development of Educational Techniques in Vocational Education and Training) is an EU funded partnership programme. TAMK's role in this project is to share its expertise in using SOcial Media in Education. TAMK is represented by ist Educational Technology Center and Degree Programme in Media. Other project partners come from Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Lithuania and Sweden.

The project has had six meetings, all partners have hosted one meeting. After the Tampere meeting partners finish their reports. An electronic book will share the project conclusions with everybody interested.

Links:
DETVET home
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Story, photo and video: Olav Huizer
During my exchange, and with the help of AV-kioski I was able to experiment with video mapping on a next level.. Back home in Holland I'd already done a lot of different projects involving video mapping, but I never before have had more than a day to build, map and animate a sculpture with moving image projected on it. Now being able to work on the installation for my entire exchange period it gave me the ability to try all sort of different software’s and animation techniques.

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Story: Aino Yrjänä 
It's soon time to announce new IMP students but before that we would like to introduce you our new edition of IMP tutors.

Anna-Kaisa

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The Electrician
TV1 Monday May 23 10:50 P.M.

The Electrician is one of the most successful of the films made by our students. It is awarded at numerous festivals all around Europe and also in China.

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The EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards, the European leading contest for young creative multimedia designers and producers, are open for entries. Creative media talents can participate until 1st of July, the awards will be presented in November in the UNESCO City of Design Graz, Austria.

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The most exotic experience for our exchange students this spring semester was the Ice Screen Project, conducted in Lapland in -34 °C temperature. Everybody survived and were happy.

Application time for our partner university students wishing to do their international exchange period at TAMK is now closed. The Art, Film&television and Media programmes got a record of applications, this time from Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK.

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Fruitful and busy semester is coming to an end. I have been involved in two projects in Demola. 

One of them was a Flash game named Hukkelon Aikakone, which will be published in Pikku Kakkonen –website in near future.
Story: Amir Abdi

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Malla Peura
Dance with the monkeys (installation)
May 10-31
Galleria Kioski
Siltasaarenkatu 4, Helsinki
Open Tuesdays to Fridays 12am - 4pm

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Helena Pokkinen
CONNECTION
Art Gallery Ronga, 14–26 May 2011
Rongankatu 1 C 9, Tampere
Open 12-18 all days

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One of our coolest annual international projects is again kicked off!

Call to participate in the 5th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition 28th – 30th September 2011 Tampere, Finland

Competition deadline: June 15th 2011

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Happy MA in Screenwriting graduates

MA in Screenwriting is a joint masters programme arranged by University of Salford (Manchester, UK) and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK).

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The shooting of Miro Laiho's horror film, "8" will start next week, Friday the 13th!

Videos from the shoot will be sent on a daily basis. Jussi Sandhu, the making of -producer of the film, has gathered a team of five persons. They will work day and night during the 19 days of shooting in order to show as comprehensive an image of the film making process as possible.

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The annual Entrance Exam to IMP, our Degree Programme in Media took place this week. Invitations went to 61 best applicants and 53 of them participated in the one day exam on Tuesday and Wednesday. Some applicants could not come due to the clampdown of Finnish visa-policy. Candidates represented Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, UK and the USA. There were again more applicants than before, and first time more international than Finnish applicants.

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