The works that will be featured are done by (from left to right) Veera Nelimarkka, Juuso Kuivila, Julia Matinniemi, Nicolo Arnoldi, Isa Hedez, Khalid Imran, Anniina Puiras, Alexandra Mitiku, Lavinia Nuvola, Konsta Koivisto, Riina Haapakallio, and Mikael Seidler.

Sanni Weckman is interviewed of her performance weaving work at the TAMK Fine Art Final Works exhibition at the Mältinranta gallery. Click to 3:55 in the video to see it!

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The crowded and happy vernissage

Top button undone - final thesis exhibition for Tampere University of Applied Sciences is still open
until this Sunday!

TR1 Kunsthalle is open until 13.4.2014, 11.00 - 18.00
Art Centre Mältinranta is open until 14.4.2014, 12.00 - 16.00
Guided tours on Sunday: in Mältinranta at 12.00 and TR1 13.30

It's the perfect opportunity to see this year's graduating fine artists and their final thesis works!

Radio Moreeni visited Art Centre Mältinranta and the broadcast can be heard today
from the station 98.4 at 19.00! The broadcast is also online at http://moreeni.uta.fi/

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As future (or already active) creatives in various fields of design, we students are to create thoughtful products, no matter our media of action. We also should to be aware of the constant creative and technical innovations and keep up with them. This is how we can better ourselves and allow our work to be relevant in our time, and luckily enough, even in the future.

Currently, sustainable design is a hot topic of discussion. It has and will bring countless changes in the whole creative process, whether you work with digital or print media. Sustainability will be an integrated component of our work process and a criteria for producing good design, like the more traditional aesthetical and functional concerns. Certain areas of design are more advanced than others in the matter, like architecture. It is all a matter of education though. Architecture students learn extensively about such practices and have the means to execute them through projects. But it is still a rare thing for media students for instance.

In any case, if we do not develop our skills in sustainable design now, we will be forced to do it the hard way later on.

If sustainable design is just a vague idea in your mind, please get over the kind of bad reputation it might still hold. Sustainability is not just/anymore the redundant "green" slogans or the stereotyped leaf-earth-sunset-flower-kids rolling in the grass- visuals that some short-sighted someones have come up with. It is much more fascinating than that. It is a search for new materials and engeneering, reinventing the way we create and use products, and adding value and durability to our work,... all with the main idea to better our quality of life and minimize our impact on nature.
Why should we care? Because we are the ones more or less indirectly, creating all this crap. And we can use our (more or less limited) influence to (I won´t say it! the make a difference cliché! make the world a better place? worse!) make design thoughtful and valuable again!

Most importantly, sustainability is not a rigid set of annoying guidelines. It is rather a flexible concept that anyone can adapt to his/her lifestyle, ideals, interests and will to get involved. (You won´t have to make leaf logos!)

I am writing this post because I did not know much myself either on the subject. This was before I decided to write my final thesis on sustainability and the future of print design. I read a lot (!) and I got to really know what it meant. Now that I am brainwashed, I selected few major links for the ones who got it too but don´t know where to look:

AIGA, American Institute of Graphic Arts, If you call yourself a creative, a must check. Good resources about sustainable design too.
Green Graphic Design by Brian Dougherty and Celeri Design Collaborative. The book that got me started. Easy read, very complete and not cheesy.
Green Marketing Manifesto by  John Grant More complex and business oriented but good as well.

Thanks for reading!

-Camille

The winner of "The best thesis at Tampere University of Applied Sciences" was announced yesterday at TAMK's Graduation Ceremony. The 1000€ went to Eevi Korhonen's "Evaluating Usability of Games: A Study of Four Facebook Games Using Heuristic Evaluation".

Eevi presenting her Thesis in Berlin

The jury statement: "In her final thesis Eevi Korhonen applied one of the most common usability study methods - heuristic evaluation - to game research in an original, innovative and logical way. She has used wide ranging source material very well and the thesis is of interest to anyone working in the game industry."

Eevi was the first student to finalise and present a Final Thesis work in the international Degree Programme in Media which started in 2009.

Read the Thesis 
Eevi presenting her thesis in Berlin

Also Honorary Mention in the National Game Thesis Award

The first ever Finnish Game Industry Thesis Award went to the Master's Thesis by Gabriela Rodríguez (Turku University) "Learning in Digital Games: A Case Study of a World of Warcraft Guild".
In addition one honorary mention was given - to Eevi's work. The jury considered that Eevi Korhonen's Thesis was best of all works participating in the competition in highlighting the topical research needs met in the everyday life of the current game industry. "The Thesis, exceptionally extensive to be a university of applied sciences Thesis, expresses genuine enthusiasm for the topic and the game industry over all".

The Game Industry Thesis Award is arranged by DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) Finland and Neogames, the hub of the Finnish Game Industry.

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The second part of our Fine Art Degree Show 2013 is now open at Art Centre Mältinranta. The first part opened two weeks ago at TR1 Kunsthalle.

Colour fountain by Ninni Luhtasaari (sculpture, acrylic, color, motor) in the background  Johanna Mattila's Shivers, series of photograps

Opening speaches by graduating student Mari Ljokkoi and Senior Lecturer Minna Suoniemi, supervisor of the show.

The graduates - solemn so far until the laughs break loose

This time not only graduates but also lecturers were awarded with outrageously funny diplomas

Finally relaxed - time for hugs and flowers!

Verna Tervaharju's End of the world of fear, hama bead installation

Our Fine Art Head Juha Suonpää and Lecturer Lenno Verhoog, Utrecht School of Arts, in intense discussion about the works

Henna Laininen: The Sacrifice, video Convenient bean bags for the visitors.

Ismo Torvinen's Do It Yourself Spectacle (computer controlled vortex cannon) admired by Eltons Kūns, MP-Lab Liepaja University and Christian van Duuren, Utrecht School of the Art

Marianna Piepponen's Remaining (paintings, oil on canvas) assessed by Dr. Christopher Hales from the SmartLab, Dublin

Viika Sankila's animation Eternal from back

Brilliant art brings people together: Old friends Andris Vētra from Latvia and Emilia Kwiatkowska from Poland met again at Himona. On left part of Anna Haaja's Song Lesson

Most of the international guests at the Vernissage are participants of the Media Culture 2020 workshop active at our campus two weeks.

The artists exhibiting at Mältinranta Art Centre are:
Anna Haaja, Henna Laininen, Ninni Luhtasaari, Johanna Mattila, Marianna Piepponen, Viika Sankila, Veli-Pekka Suorsa, Verna Tervaharju and Ismo Torvinen.
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Himona home (Bilingual Fi/En. You can download the exhibition publication)
Himona on Facebook
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The graduation show Himona is shown in two separate exhibitions:

TR1 Kunsthalle April 6 - 28, 2013
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson
Open Tue-Fri 9AM to 5PM, Sat-Sun 11AM to 6PM
Tickets 5/1€, on Fridays free admission
www.tr1.tampere.fi

Art Centre Mältinranta April 20 - May 7
Kuninkaankatu 2
Open Mon-Thu 12AM to 6PM, Fri-Sun 12AM to 4PM
Free Admission
www.tampereen-taiteilijaseura.fi

Story and pics: Cai Melakoski
Fan of TAMK Fine Art students

"If you want to survive as a professional artist you must work passionately. Luckily the work itself is the artist’s passion." writes Mari Ljokkoi - one of our Fine Art graduates in the Himona exhibition publication.

Laura Laukkanen: Matter - site specific gelatine sculpture

Himona comes from the Finnish word himo which can be translated as passion, desire, lust, craving. The word himona also means plenty, a lot, much. In order to make art one must work like crazy and passionately.

Part one of the exhibition is now open at TR1 Kunsthalle, the second part will open after two weeks at Art Centre Mältinranta.

Two speaches first: Programme Leader Juha Suonpää and the supervisor of the exhibition, Senior Lecturer Minna Suoniemi (speaking)

Ninni Luhtasaari (in front) spoke on the behalf of the graduates...

...then the graduates awarded each others with humorous but accurate diplomas...

..and finally time to adorn the graduates with flowers and hugs!

The artists exhibiting in TR1 Kunsthalle are:
Anne Alalantela, Riikka Gröndahl, Heidi Hemmilä, Laura Impola, J. A. Juvani, Sini Sofai Kujala, Jenni Kuoppala, Laura Laukkanen, Mari Ljokkoi, Lari Mörö, Jaana Ristola, Talvikki Tenhunen, Timo Piikkilä and Elsa Trzaska.

Himona home (Bilingual Fi/En. You can download the exhibition publication)
Himona on Facebook
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The graduation show Himona is shown in two separate exhibitions:

TR1 Kunsthalle April 6 - 28, 2013
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson
Open Tue-Fri 9AM to 5PM, Sat-Sun 11AM to 6PM
Tickets 5/1€, on Fridays free admission
www.tr1.tampere.fi

Art Centre Mältinranta April 20 - May 7
Kuninkaankatu 2
Open Mon-Thu 12AM to 6PM, Fri-Sun 12AM to 4PM
Free Admission
www.tampereen-taiteilijaseura.fi

Laura Impola: Stand-by - sculpture from recycled materials

Lari Mörö: WHAT GOES AROUND - free drawing

Sini Sofai Kujala: Trap - sculpture installation

Story and pics: Cai Melakoski
Fan of TAMK Fine Art students

by Riikka Gröndahl
Right now the fourth year Fine Art students have the final juicy squeeze on their hands. The last hammering, exporting, brush stroking and colour managing are being done and the ideas students have been working on for six months will get their concrete shape. 

Graduating fine art students having coffee and a meeting

Graduating artists are proud to release their Himona website for audience. Now it's possible to see some sneak peeks of the pieces from 23 fine art students and to be updated on the latest happenings concerning the exhibitions. One can also download the exhibition publication on the site. The publication's theme is work. Art is work that is done out of pure passion. Passion is a compulsive desire that has made the artists to give all they have and even more. In order to make art one needs to work passionately and like crazy.

Himona condoms ready for distribution

Himona exhibition spreads the joyful word of art also with condoms. In collaboration with HIV Foundation graduating artist J. A. Juvani has designed a condom package. Soon the condoms will be in distribution around the city of Tampere. The artists think that best result in everything is a mix of passion and responsibility. The work of an artist is a union of wild, limitless creativity and conscious sense of responsibility.

Passionate welcome to www.himona.tamk.fi
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Himona on Facebook
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The graduation show Himona will be shown in two separate exhibitions:

TR1 Kunsthalle April 6 - 28, 2013
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson

Himona sticker, pink

Open Tue-Fri 9AM to 5PM, Sat-Sun 11AM to 6PM
Tickets 5/1€, on Fridays free admission
www.tr1.tampere.fi

Art Centre Mältinranta April 20 - May 7
Kuninkaankatu 2
Open Mon-Thu 12AM to 6PM, Fri-Sun 12AM to 4PM
Free Admission
www.tampereen-taiteilijaseura.fi

Tampere Film Festival Youth Jury Award went to Thoughts About Dying (Ajatuksia kuolevaisuudesta, 2012) by Jani Ilomäki. Congratulations!

The Mass of Men directed by Gabriel Gauchet (2012), a fiction from United Kingdom, won the Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival International Competition.
See all winners


About Thoughts about Dying:
Boy wonders about death.

Eight-year-old Antti is told that his dog should put to sleep. Antti will have his first facing with death, and he begins to think what death means.

The film is director’s (Jani Ilomäki), cinematographer’s (Mikko Parttimaa), producer’s (Julia Elomäki) and production designer’s (Salla Lehtikangas) diploma work in Tampere University of Applied Sciences 2012.

Read more on the film official web site (bilingual Finnish/English)

EEVI KORHONEN:
Evaluating Usability of Games
A study of four Facebook games using heuristic evaluation
Bachelor's thesis 68 pages
September 2012

Eevi Korhonen presenting her thesis at Wooga, Berlin

TAMK Degree Programme in Media (alias IMP, International/Interactive Media Programme) started in August 2009. The first students of this four year Bachelor's education are supposed to graduate in May/June next year.

Eevi Korhonen did it in three years and a half, and her final thesis review was arranged in November in a session running simnultaniously in Berlin and Tampere.

Now you can find the thesis at Theseus.fi, the Open Repository of the Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland:
http://publications.theseus.fi/handle/10024/52055

Read the report from Berlin "The first IMP thesis reviewed"
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WANTED: 30 New IMPs
The application period for Finnish UAS programmes run in English will kick off on January 7 2013. If you want to study interactive media or music production in Tampere, check this story!
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Our big hand to Eevi Korhonen! Bachelor's thesis on usability in Facebook games.

Eevi Korhonen

The International Media Programme started in 2009 and the first students of this 4 year BA programme are supposed to graduate in June 2013. But Eevi is fast and efficient - she has now done her Final Thesis and after the final touch on one course she has got the required 240 credit points to graduate.

Wilhelm Österberg giving his feedback, Emma Kiiski making notes

Eevi did her internship at Wooga (World's third largest developer of games for Facebook platform) in Berlin, got then permanent employment and did her final thesis to the company. The thesis work deals with researching usability of games and will be online for you after some weeks. (Yes, you can find the link on this post later.)

Douglas Symon memorialised the event with his iPad in Tampere

The review of the Final Thesis happened in two locations simultaniously: Eevi Korhonen, the reviewer Wilhelm Österberg (Wooga), IMP student Emma Kiiski (intern at Wooga) and head of IMP Cai Melakoski (in Berlin for Online Educa Berlin) sat at the Wooga office and Ari Närhi (the tutor of the thesis work) and IMP students and lecturers took part at our campus at Finlayson.

Nobody needed to enter the panic room on right hand

Eevis presentation of the work was as brilliant as her thesis, and Wilhelm Österberg's feedback was competent and insightful. A fantastic start to a series of bachelor's thesis review sessions it was!
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Our four year BA Degree Programme in Media - known as IMP (International/Interactive Media Programme - started three years ago. The last year of the first edition of students kicked off today with the Media Analysis and Research seminar, aimed at helping the students to process their final Thesis project.

Eevi Korhonen works with Wooga in Berlin

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Our active partner Tartu Art College invited me to participate in the committee evaluating their New Media theses - an honorable challenge which I accepted with pride and pleasure. During one very long day and a half I have seen 15 videos, games, animations, interactive installations and performances and had very intense and in-depth debates with the six other members of the committee. Brilliant days, because I learned so much from the students, their supervisors and evaluators and the evaluation committee members.

The Graduate Show Lend 2012 is open in two locations: at the Market Hall and in Gallery Nooruus (Youth), the gallery of the Art College.

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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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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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Romka-97 shortfilm 2007 (13 min.) 
With English subtitles

Dinka (Anastasia Teplyakova) and Romka (Dmitry Filimonov) Photographer: Jaakko Slotte

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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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