Tampere Light Festival last shows:
December 31th to January 5th 4.30pm to midnight: Tammerkoski Rapids
January 2nd to January 8th 4pm to 8pm: Pyynikki Observation Tower and Old Termopyle Bandstand

Carita Elko: Hidden

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During the shootings in February the weather was freezing
and most of the shootings days were outside

Wolf Carver (Sudenveistäjä) directed by Aino Suni is the only Finnish film selected to one of the world's leading international festivals for short films, the Festival du Court Metrage de Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival celebrated January 27 to February 4, 2012.

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Story and photos by Johanna Lievemaa

Reporting after the Design Management -course

What is Design Management? It is a far wider concept than one 5 credit course can cover.

Design is too important to be left to Designers.” (Raymond Loewy)

Concept Designs by Kristina and Sabrina

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Tampere Art Factory workshop project successful around EuropeThe  15th Videomedeja Festival  was arranged December 16-18 2011 in Novi Sad, Serbia.


The jury was unanimous awarding "24 hours in Tampere, an interactive documentary" with the Bogdanka Poznanović award - for the best media installation due to participatory potential of the work. The Sphinx award – for the best video/film went to "A Finnish Fable" by Niina Suominen.

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The most talented startups from Northern Europe, Russia and Finland have been found. Last Friday, the Startup Sauna announced the top three winners of its latest Fall Batch. These three teams show great improvements and hustle during the program. The Coaches of the program made the decision that Zonear, Qminder & Maxygen are the winners of the Startup Sauna.

Mikko Tikkanen revealed Zonear plans visiting our Media Programme
in October

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Story: Ikuko Ishida
Now I exhibit my photos which I have taken in earethquakes and tsunami-hit places from May to July this year, at entrance space of Finlayson campus. The exhibition lasts until 23rd December.

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Three international delegations last week

Bart Geerts and Jan Louis De Bruyn at Tampere waffle café

Our academic international coordinator Sohvi Sirkesalo was very busy last week. The beginning of the week she spent in Brussels preparing EU funded projects, then hosting three international delegations.

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The head of our Degree Programme in Fine Arts Juha Suonpää is awarded with the Finnfoto 2011. The Union of Finnish Photography Associations grants this annual award to a person or an organisation who has had a significant impact on developing Finnish photography as an art form and promoted the appreciation of photography.

Juha Suonpää analyzing photographs with students Elise Mäkitalo and
Liina Mäki-Patola. Photo: Antti Haapio

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The Minna Korhonen short film Family Portrait (Perhepotretti), awarded the Best Experimental Short Film at Tirana International Film Festival 2010 can be found online.

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Entrance to TAMK UAS Finlayson Campus

20 new media student seats available

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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The Game Design Workshop - Part 2 (Click here for Part 1)
Story and pics: Heidi Mäenpää
The second day of our Game Design Workshop began with one of my favorite game ideas by the SuperSmash Foreigners. In the game the player is controlling drops of water on a leaf by tilting their smartphone or tablet. It's a shame that most of the team will go home after Christmas, all of them being exchange students. But I am putting my hopes on Klemen Krulec to make this awesome game ready before he leaves Finland!
The SuperSmash Foreigners with their game "Drop, Drop, Water Drop"

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Story and pictures: Heidi Mäenpää
Last Thursday a TAMK student Jussi Salonen held a lecture on the Finlayson campus about using Microsoft Kinect for motion capture. Everything was made possible with Blender, a free open source 3D computer graphics software, which the 10IMPs also have tried out during their Animation course last spring.

Jussi preparing his presentation

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Story: Emma Kiiski
The Game Design Workshop - Part 1
The Game Design workshop is the coolest event for TAMK’s annually held online course in game design. The first day began with a short presentation of our dear Demola. After Antti Salomaa finished the PowerPoint (with some awesome information about upcoming projects!), our visiting game industry expert Gareth Noyce held a presentation about making games. He recommended the students to start to make games and showed some different ways how you can reach the topic. With Gareth there was also a game consult Lassi Kurkijärvi giving feedback for the concepts and pitches.
Gareth Noyce telling us about the different ways to make games.

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From the Family Act by Laura Rytkönen
Story: Laura Rytkönen

YOUNG ARTISTS 2011
2. December - 8. January, 2012
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Tue, Thu, Fri 11–18
Wed 11-20
Sat-Sun 11-18
Mon closed

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Opening of Photo Art exhibition SEGUES by lecturer Antti Haapio was 1st of December 2011 in Gallery Emil Studio.

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The directional debut of Jussi Sandhu and Ville Hakonen, "Whistle While You Work" can now be seen on Vimeo with English subtitles.

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