Our Media degree students and Media exchange students have been involved in 50 (Fifty!) design and development projects this spring. Fifteen of them have been part of Demola Academy (Read the story about the pitching contest).

Some projects were present at Media Spring Expo last week. The expo worked in two ways - there was a project poster exhibition, and also students showcasing their projects.

This spring we decided that the students can make the project reports in poster format instead of the traditional heap of paper.

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Story: Ikuko Ishida
Kouvolan Sanomat, local newspaper in Kouvola, eastern city in Finland, wrote an article about my photos. I have taken photos of people and landscape in Finland, especially in Tampere since I came to Finland last August. Luckily I had an opportunity to show my photos to Kouvolan Sanomat, and they liked them. At first  they were planning of using my old photos for an article, but later I was asked to shoot Kouvola.

1/2 page of the article

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The entire conference attendance has been organized within a projects of us two Media students. Due to our strong interest in VFX and CGI we wanted to participate to this conference, but how to afford it?

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

One of the first challenges the new students meet is the IMP Open Mölkky Championship. Pictured the group that started last August after the Mölkky thing

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Story and pictures: Heidi Mäenpää
The Nordic Game Conference lasted for three days and gave all of us Game Design students a great overview on how the industry actually works. Like with many other new media professions, networking is the key element. Perhaps the main message of the whole event was "Drink All the Beers!", a statement made during one of the presentations. This means that even if you don't actually drink beer, you have to be ready to spend time with people from the industry at any time. The more people know your name, the more likely it is that you get help when trying to reach your personal goals.

The beginning of a great trip!

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"New Factory Open is a one-day event about what’s going on in the core of innovation and startup scene – and what’s next! It takes a dive into out-of-the-box creativity and turning innovation talk into real life action."

Both Demola Academy final pitch winner teams - Trelab and Techie Doggy Toys - in a family picture

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So, tonight at 18:00 the Nordic Game event started with the INDIE NIGHT.
The students and I mingled first with the crowd, then went to hear the presentations - which were short and sweet.

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Story: Julius Tuomisto
World Summit Award winners 2011 event in Cairo

The trophies were handed over by H.E. Mohamed Salem, Minister of CIT, Yasser El Kady, CEO ITIDA, Ossama Kamal, CEO Tradefairs International, and Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the WSA Board. Julius Tuomisto in the centre, just about to grab hold on his trophy.

The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global activity to select and promote the world's best e-Content and most innovative ICT applications. It offers a worldwide platform for all who value the creative use of ICTs and who are committed to making today’s information society more inclusive.
WSA was initiated by Austria in 2003 in the framework of the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and is organised by a global partner network, coordinated by the International Center for New Media. WSA partners come from governments, private sector and civil society in over 160 UN member states.

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We proudly present the brand new TAMK Media showreel.

Thanks to everyone, who sent us their amazing works and portfolios to make this happen. The process of selecting the best and most suitable ones has been very hard due to all the excellent submissions we received.
We also wanna give a special thanks to Philippe La Grassa for designing the sound.

We hope you enjoy the showreel and feedback is highly appreciated!


Showreel produced by Alexandra Ostasheva & Sabrina Seidl
Sound design by Philippe La Grassa.

TAF International Week 2012 attracted a record of 60 international visitors: 30 academic and other staff members from 22 institutes of higher education, 25 students from three universities and five staff members of three enterprises. The International Week featured nine workshops lead by our guests, four seminars and one show of our student works & International Week workshop results, six exhibitions, one networking sauna event, visits to Demola and (Angry Bird) Rovio, one reception and one evening party, countless project and partnership meetings.

The biggest delegation, 13 persons, came from Tartu Art College, Estonia (Rector Valeri Nuust on left). Also OCAD University from Canada sent a remarkable delegation of nine persons.

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Yes, we are nervous - but only until the speeches are over!

The second half of the ERO graduation show of our Fine Art students had a cheerful, welcoming and international vernissage at TR1 Kunsthalle on Friday, the opening day of Tampere Art Factory (TAF). The first half opened on May 4 at Art Centre Mältinranta. (Read the story)Mediums divide the graduating artists into two rough categories depending on whether they use their hands or machines to create their works. This difference is brought under your eyes by dividing the artworks themselves into two exhibitions according to technique. TR1 Kunshalle shows this year only photography, moving image and media art. Artworks in the fields of painting, drawing and sculpture are on exhibit in Art Center Mältinranta.

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Our blog has already documented most workshops and the four seminars of Tampere Art Factory International Week 2012. If you have missed the introductions, check the links at the end of this post. In addition the programme included one show of our student works & International Week workshop results, six exhibitions, one networking sauna event, visits to Demola and (Angry Bird) Rovio, one reception and one evening party, countless project and partnership meetings. Belowed some of those events pictured.

The Networking Sauna at Marttilan Pirtti, Wednesday

Group photo in front of Marttilan pirtti. TAMK International Services hosted the Networking Sauna evening

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Tampere Art Factory exhibition "fastbreak" May 12 - June 1 2012
Gallery Emil
The Old Library House
Keskustori 4, Tampere
Opening hours
Mon and Fri 10am – 4pm, Tue - Thu 10am - 6pm, Sat - Sun 11am - 5pm
Free admission

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Toronto, Seoul and Tampere wish You welcome to the
1 < 3 -exhibition
May 11-31 2012 Finlayson area, Tampere

Installing Penpals and You and I are

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On Thursday Tampere Art Factory International Week featured two seminars:

Awesome Art&Media 2 hosted by Sohvi Sirkesalo

Max Neupert, Bauhaus-University Weimar: Applying Musical Strategies to Video

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This morning at 10:00, our intrepid 2nd-year students Alexandra Ostasheva and Sabrina Seidl held their presentation of the International Media Programme at the FMX2012 event in Stuttgart, Germany.

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On Wednesday Tampere Art Factory International Week seminars started. Here are the speakers and topics of the first session

Awesome Art and Media 1 hosted by Cai Melakoski:

Rosa Pons, University of Vic (ES):  DobleClick -festival and workshops in University of Vic

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Ever wondered about how marriage affects social status? Or just wanted to learn some random fun facts about Finns? Well if you have, go check out some info-graphics made by students of the Animation and Visual Design course at the cafe on the 2nd floor. You'll find info-graphics on these topics, and more!
TAF International Week

 Story and pictures: Heidi Mäenpää
TAF events are ongoing in the Finalyson campus area, and luckily there is still time to participate! This two-day Producing with the Audience -workshop was held by Cyrille Bloemers and Johan Rijpma from the Utrecht School of the Arts, Netherlands.

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Four new workshops started today, the two-day Open everything: Theories, Methodologies and Practices by Yu-Wei Lin (University of Salford, UK), the four day Video mapping on custom sculptures by Olav Huizer, Jelle Valk and Joachim Rümke (WERC, the Netherlands), the one-day 24 hours.in - revisited by James Fields (University of Lincoln, UK) and the three day Arduino Workshop by Danica Mast and Joey van der Bie (The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands).

Open everything: Theories, Methodologies and Practices

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Story: Antti Haapio
One more Tampere Art Factory exhibition is open: The photo art exhibition in the painting studios, Finlayson campus third floor. The art Works are from courses Fine Art Photography I and II in spring semester 2012. So very fresh stuff!

J.A. Juvani: Poison tongue

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The first fifteen of our 60 International Week participants came this morning to Finlayson Campus, and the first workshops started their work.
Tampere Art Factory (TAF) international week will run until Friday, when the actual Tampere Art Factory Festival will begin.

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Tampere Art Factory International Week starts today with 60 international teachers, enterprise representatives and students.

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The first half of the graduation show of our Fine Art students had a joyous and welcoming vernissage at Art Centre Mältinranta on Friday. The second half will be opened on the opening day of Tampere Art Factory (TAF) next Friday at TR1 Kunsthalle, Finlayson.

Who is the crochet sculpture by Liisa Hietanen, who our lecturer in Photography Art?

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Story and photos: Emilia Kwiatkowska
Last Friday students from TAMK Media Programme had a great opportunity to take part in the trip to Helsinki organized by our school. The main destination of this visit was Kevätgraph, the digital graphic event but on the way we visited one of the most awesome places for digital artists in Finland – Anima and her sister company Anima Boutique.

Animator at work

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Story and photos: Erika Sangah Kim
So, KevätGraph was held at Aalto Venture Garage on Friday, May 4. This event happens every six months to take a look at what's new and hot in the Finnish computer graphics and interaction scene. It was my first participation in KevätGraph.

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Story: Anna-Kaisa Nässi
For the past nine weeks I’ve been participating in the Image Interpretation course led by Doru Pop, on the European Virtual Academy (EVA).  EVA is an online university that allows students from around Europe to collaborate and learn in a virtual environment.

Screenshot of the animation

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