Friday, 30 September 2011

MindTrek photo diary

Our Media students conquered the conference Twitter wall

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Thursday, 29 September 2011

Proud of our students: Carrotia won the MindTrek Indie Games Awards


Juhani Hujala and Vilma Pekola after the awards ceremony

The Carrotia game demo is the winner of MindTrek Indie Games Awards! The winner was announced at the MindTrek Conference today.

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The second day with Cesare Massarenti


Cesare Massarenti today at MindTrek Conference
Story: Rosanna Salminen
Cesare Massarentis two-day seminar continued yesterday. Minna Eloranta wrote a post about the first day (read story http://tamk-artmedia.blogspot.com/2011/09/more-proficient-guests-richard-vickers.html) and Rosanna Salminen reported the second session:

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Inspiring workshop with Ubimedia Awards Winners

Story: Emilia Kwiatkowska

On Wednesday (28.09.2011) at 1 p.m. took place ‘Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2011’ workshop where three nominated projects were presented through their representatives. All interested students gathered in New Factory. The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2011 is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, AMEA – Ambient Media Association and New Ambient Multimedia Group (NAMU) / Tampere University of Technology. The total award sum for this competition category is 6 000€.

First from the left: Wilken Holle, Bjorn Stockleben and Prof. Dr. Artur Lugmayr

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Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Backlight Screening travelled around the Pirkanmaa region


Photographic exhibitions are most often presented us as prints inside a gallery space. Backlight Photo Festival made an exception this year by introducing part of the exhibition as an outdoor screening. Selection of the exhibition works were taken around the Pirkanmaa region and projected on walls of buildings. This way the exhibition reached a new audience. Backlight Screening was also a good way to promote the main exhibition.

At Mänttä-Vilppula

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More proficient guests: Richard Vickers and Cesare Massarenti

Richard Vickers
Story: Minna Eloranta
Yesterday our students introduced Chiara Boeri, who made a great show on Monday. Yesterday two visitor workshops run in parallel. The reason we have many international experts this week is the MindTrek Conference. Below please find two reports written by our students.

24-hours.in

On September 27th, 2011, six students from the Interactive Media program had the pleasure of attending Richard Vickers (University of Lincoln) documentary workshop. This is the second time that Vickers has visited TAMK to work on an exciting interactive project entitled “24-hours.in Tampere”. Last spring’s results, and a deeper description of the project can be seen at: www.24-hours.in.

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Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Chiara Boeri captivated the IMPs



Chiara Boeri, the distinguished Italian Media Artist, really took our Media students yesterday. Here you can read post by two of them:
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Today we had a lecture with Chiara Boeri, well known in the community of media artists all over the world, with work experience in Hollywood, Great Britain, France and Italy (to mention a few). Besides big projects she is undertaking, she is also a lecturer at UAS in Torino, teaching students about the art of integrating today's modern technology of computers and graphics into the old art of film making.

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Monday, 26 September 2011

MindTrek nominees: Ubimedia is Building Bridges


Björn Stockleben on left, Artur Lugmayr on right
After a long and hard elimination process the three unique finalists of Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards competition were determined. “Each year the competition entries come closer to consumer products improving the daily life or solving today’s problems as e.g. energy consumption or health care. This year’s competition attracted 34 entrants and the jury had a hard time to find the best projects”, says Artur Lugmayr, the inventor of the competition and General Competition Chair.

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Sunday, 25 September 2011

Tampere as we see it -event

Story: Noora Honkaniemi
A couple of days ago we received an e-mail from Sohvi Sirkesalo, telling us about a Tampere as we see it –event. The main idea was for the TIKO*- and IMP-students to get to know each other. We were split into groups of 10, and were supposed to come up with three descriptive words around the theme (Tampere as we see it) and take pictures of Tampere.

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Awesome Bowling night!


Story and pics: Erika Sangah Kim
We IMPs gathered for Bowling on Friday night, Sept 23th.
This official 'IMP Bowling Get-together' event has organized for new and old IMPs.
The aim of this event was simple and clear. Getting to know everyone.
Thankfully the school paid for bowling. Yes, it really is a 'official' Bowling event for IMPs. How cool it is!

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Saturday, 24 September 2011

Kick off party @Demola!


More than 30 student teams started  projects with companies
Story: Alicia Fernández Franco
The event started at 16.00 but we were there already half an hour earlier. The place was full of new faces coming to see the presentation which made us feel really excited.

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Friday, 23 September 2011

Carrotia nominated for MindTrek Indie Games Award!



The Carrotia game demo is one of the five nominees of MindTrek Indie Games Awards. The winner will be announced at the MindTrek Conference next week Thursday.

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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Workshop with photographer Andrzej Maciejewski

Story and photos: Emilia Kwiatkowska

Vernissage in TR1 Kunsthall
The Backlight Photo Festival organized by Photographic Centre Nykyaika opened up 17thSeptember 2011. Festival is focused on photography and photography-based projects which promote intercultural dialogue. On Friday 16th took place three vernissages: “Migration and Integration into Ruhr Region” in Mältinranta Art Center, “Territories and Desire” in Tampere Art Museum and “Migration and Nomadic living in 21st Century” in TR1 Kunsthalle. During that day we could admire the wonderful photographs and talk with the artists from all over the word.

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Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Cinematography students' retreat


Students of cinematography go to forest - never mind the weather!
Story by Hannu Koivuranta
The 3rd and 4th year cinematography students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences, led by Tommi Moilanen, withdrew on Tuesday (13.9.) to the Kintulampi log cabin to speak of abstractions in cinematography and to formulate the future photo exhibition to be held in December.

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Guests and graduate exhibition from Tartu Art College


Lend exhibition now under construction will open tomorrow

Lend - Graduate show from Tartu Art College
23.9.-21.10.2011
Emil Gallery, Old Library House
Opening hours:
Mon and Fri 10am – 4pm, Tue - Thu 10am - 6pm, Sat - Sun 11am - 5pm
Free admission

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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

XV MindTrek next week! Welcome to join us!

Hotel Rosendahl, venue of MindTrek Conference
MindTrek is an annual three-day international digital media and business conference gathering a unique blend of top industry professionals and the newest players on the scene. It has become the leading Nordic technology and social media event, bringing thinkers and doers, old and new friends from digital industry together in Tampere, Finland every fall.

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Niko Skorpio: Consumers at Ikuinen Gallery


Niko Skorpio: Consumers
Opening on Tuesday 20.9. from 16 to 18 pm. Welcome!

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Monday, 19 September 2011

Making games and a little bit of tea

Story: Eevi Korhonen
About half a year ago, I wrote about starting my practical training at a game company called Denki. That post was mainly about Dundee and my initial impressions about both the town and the company. Now that I've finished my practical training, I can write more about the actual work and the lessons I learned.


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Friday, 16 September 2011

Murder Chairs travels to Festivals in Italy and Switzerland



Text: Nalle Mielonen
The experimental film Murder Chairs (director Nalle Mielonen, 2010) is going to be screened at Novara Cine festival at Italy, far away from the darkness of Ocktober. And because the festival, the film now has an italian translation, for the joy and pleasure of local audience. In Italy the film will be called “Omicidio Sedie”.

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Art & Media students in Prague


Fine art student Veera Luoto & Augustin "Gustav" Bubnik
Story: Vesa Rantanen, 10IMP
In september 10-17 2011 a team of ten College of Media and Journalism (Prague) and ten TAMK Art & Media students were working together in Prague, Czech Republic, as a part of EU coordinated Youth in Action programme.

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Thursday, 15 September 2011

Backlight 11 Photo Festival Expanded Views open tonight



Backlight 11 Photo Festival Expanded Views
TTVO lobby
Finlaysoninkatu 7
Opening September 15 6pm to 9pm

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Wednesday, 14 September 2011

TAMK Finlayson Library: great tool for self-education


Story and photographs: Daria Adamitskaya
What kind of Media are you fond of? Film or animation, design or photography, web or game development? Haven’t yet defined? TAMK library in Finlayson is here to help you discover, go deeper into all fields of Media.

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Tuesday, 13 September 2011

See Naamat!



Story Tia Tuovinen
The semester has started for all the TTVO* students, so it is time for our annual start of the year party, Naamat. This year Naamat is on Thu Sept 15th, in Ruma. Naamat is a good opportunity for the old and the new faces to get acquainted and get connected with each other. There is no entrance fee and the prices are very student friendly.

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Saturday, 10 September 2011

Tursajaiset 2011


Story: Trent Pancy
September 7, 2011 was a great day for 11IMP, and a great day for the world! Amongst the bright colors, loud noises and well-dressed students lay a group of disheveled, dirty and down-right nasty-looking hobos, otherwise known as the 11IMPs.

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Friday, 9 September 2011

Jellyfish and rendering


Seili Island
Text and fotos: Laura Lehtinen
28. August, in the morning. Second year art students start to pack the buss while anxiously waiting for the adventure to Seili island. Hot topics are for example tics and the dark history of the island as a leprosy- and mental hospital. But the students are also thinking so much more etc. the starting of school with the moving image course. After hundreds of kilometers and couple of ferries we got a chance to step on to this interesting island which Swedish name means seal island. Unfortunately we didn’t see seals but the diversity of nature was captured with eyes and also in the videos made. Everyone’s favourite seemed to be jellyfish who were captured in front of the lense night ’n’ day plus the cows who were running freely in the fields keeping the cultural landscape open.

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Wednesday, 7 September 2011

NEU/NOW presents Karoliina Paappa's final thesis project Die-Cut



The NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2011 showcases exciting new work in visual arts, design, film, theatre & dance and music produced by emerging international artists. 35 projects from 17 countries have been specially selected to feature in the live festival, that will take place this November in Tallinn, Estonia, in the frame of European Capital of Culture 2011.

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Tuesday, 6 September 2011

The fifth edition of MA in Screenwriting started

MA  in Screenwriting students at our main entrance

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Monday, 5 September 2011

Tampere hall survives another Tracon!

Story&pictures: Heidi Mäenpää
If you walked anywhere near Sorsapuisto last weekend you must have wondered why a huge bunch of strangely dressed people were surrounding the Tampere hall. The answer is very simple: Tracon VI had taken over! The sixth annual role-playing game and anime/manga convention with an average of 3500 visitors brought together people from all around Finland and the other far corners of the world. This year the Guests of Honor were Yoshihiro Takahashi (the maker of "Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin" manga, in English "Silver Fang: Shooting Star (or Meteor) Silve"), Mike Pohjola (a Finnish author and game designer) and Janne Kemppi (a long-term lecturer and entertainer in Finnish conventions, focusing on RPG, anime and manga). Right from the beginning everybody knew this was going to be the best Tracon yet!

Nice and clear weather made it possible for people to enjoy
the outsides while waiting for another presentation,
competition or workshop to begin

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Sunday, 4 September 2011

Tiina Lehikoinen opens Ikuinen Gallery season



Ikuinen Gallery
September 5 to 15. 2011
Tiina Lehikoinen: REx REaction
Open Mon - Fri 12:00 am to 4:00 pm
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

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Friday, 2 September 2011

Heidi won Adobe Creative Battle!


The winner!


Heidi Mäenpää, our second year Media student (IMP) won Finnish first price in the Adobe Nordic Creative Battle.

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A graduation film shoot wrapped out in Eräjärvi

Outi directing the film's main character.
Text: Hannu Koivuranta
 "Arno", a graduation film directed by Outi Hartikainen, wrapped up last week in Orivesi, Eräjärvi, about 60 kilometers north from Tampere. The film starring Ismo Kallio, Tiina Rinne and Mikko Reitala was shot in nine days, 11.-22.8.

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Thursday, 1 September 2011

Village of the Future unfolds at Keskustori on September 2nd - 3rd


A view of Keskustori on the coming weekend.
Picture by Village of the Future architects Saana Karala and Tuomo Joensuu.
Story: Essi Santala
The central market square in Tampere has seen many different kinds of events during its lifetime, but on the coming weekend the square will be filled with the spirit of the future. The Village of the Future -event (Tulevaisuuskylä) will deal out information on climate change and sustainable living by offering differing views on the future. The event wishes to engage communities with different backgrounds to build a better future together. The Village of the Future has been designed and built in large part by the students at TAMK Art and Media.

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