http://digitalbigscreen.si/?lang=en

https://vimeo.com/192751211

Barbara Jazbec, Mind´s eye

Fine art – Moving Image Productions – TAMK

Work in progress of modelling the skull

Koulutie / Way to School (2014)

3.10.2014 - 26.10.2014

3.08 min loop of 30 mins

Music: Es, comp., adapt. Sami Sänpäkkilä, Fonal Records

Editor: Ville Hakonen, Wacky Tie Films

Actor: Juha Niemi-Junkola

Production: Fanni Niemi-Junkola

Funders: AVEK The Promotion Centre for AV Culture, TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre of Finland, City of Tampere

Fine Arts students on Seili

Excerpt from the video by Tiina Lehikoinen

Fanni Maliniemi working on her installation 'Adam'

Tiina Heikkilä: Page from graphic novel

Black Line video screening in The Finnish Institute, Berlin 8.11.2013
By Hinni Huttunen

In the spring 2013 arranged video screening Strange Walls got a sequel titled Black Line. The screening consisted video works from current students, alumni and teachers.

Lecturer Minna Suoniemi and two final year students Hinni Huttunen and Elina Ylhäisi formed the working group of screening.

Minna Suoniemi (right), Elina Ylhäisi (middle) and Hinni Huttunen (left) considering how to solve the technical issues.

The theme of screening was heritage and it was observed from many different points of view. Some of the work focused on spiritual heritage and other works were based on the heritage we leave for upcoming generation: how we treat this planet and how DIY –culture helps to survive.

In the evening of screening things got heated when the working group encountered a senseless technical problem. All the technical equipment’s had worked well during a test play, two days before the screening. After four hours of testing and testing things seemed hopeless. The working group had tried to make the screening happen with at least 3 HDMI-wires, 2 beamers, 1 media player and 2 computers, and nothing helped.

The screening attracted full house of audience!

Finally the problem was solved in the way of a performance: moving image and sound were played from different computers. Minna Suoniemi beat time and Hinni Huttunen and Elina Ylhäisi tried to press play as simultaneously as possible to make sound and image sync. The lesson learned was that when technology plays tricks and doesn't work creative problem-solving method is the saviour.

In the end of video happenig there was an Q&A –section, where the audience was able to ask questions from the working group

Both of the screenings have been successful and there has been lot of audience present. This time the audience included also some of the members of the board of The Finnish Institute in Berlin.
Working with The Finnish Institute has been rewarding and educational on both times.

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The Intac exhibition last day in Tampere tomorrow, opens in Seoul today

The globally held trialogue makes all the language, culture and time zone barriers vanish.
트라이얼로그/Trialogi/Trialogue is the exhibition of an international and virtual collaborative project, INTAC (International Art Collaboration). INTAC presents in its conclusive exhibitions works of art that have been made in the collaboration of 29 South Korean, Canadian and Finnish art students. The term “trialogue”, coined in mutual agreement, draws together the multicultural and multilingual themes of the third INTAC project.

The second exhibition will take place at Gallery Illium in Seoul, South Korea, on May 18th, and is organized by Chung Ang University. The students and personnel of all of the three universities will meet each other for the first time at the opening of their second exhibition in Seoul.
The exhibition is prepared collaboratively on-line.

The artists: Sebastian Benitez, Yoonji Choi, Hyunjin Choo, Stacey Croucher, Riikka Enne, Iris Fong, Shanon Fujioka, Gabriel Gutierrez, Eve Heino, Niina Kiiveri, Jung A Kim, Tuomas Koskialho, Laura Laukkanen, Patricia Lawson, Laura Lehtinen, Mari Ljokkoi, Nayun Maeng, Jessica Maltais, Hyung Jo Moon, Anu Mustonen, Pat Nav, Heidi Persaud, Jaana Ristola, Raymond Salaber, Niko Skorpio, Kwon Soohyun, Ismo Torvinen, Rebecca E. Wilson, Elina Ylhäisi.

The professors: YongHwan Lee, Peter Sramek, Juha Suonpää , Sari Tervaniemi

Hurry up if you haven't seen this photo&video exhibition by Canadian, Korean and Finnish students! Last chance next Sunday!

INTAC - 트라이얼로그/Trialogi/Trialogue
Photographs and videos
April 26 - May 19
Gallery Emil
Keskustori 4, Tampere
Open Mon and Fri 10-16,
Tue to Thu 10 - 18,
Sat, Sun 11-17
Free admission

The opening of the exhibition was the last event of our International Week, en of April. Speakers of the vernissage were Stacey Croucher (speaking), Niina Kiiveri (center) and Raymond Salaber. Also many people at Ocad University, Toronto, took part in the opening event over net video.

International Art Collaborations is an ongoing initiative currently involving art/photography programs at: OCAD U in Toronto, Canada, TAMK in Tampere, Finland, Chung-Ang U in Seoul, South Korea
Intac on Tumbrl
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INTAC - 트라이얼로그/Trialogi/Trialogue
Photographs and videos
April 26 - May 19
Gallery Emil
Keskustori 4, Tampere
Open Mon and Fri 10-16,
Tue to Thu 10 - 18,
Sat, Sun 11-17
Free admission

Story by Niina Kiiveri & Elina Ylhäisi
INTAC is an international art collaboration project that has combined the forces of 29 art students together. The collaboration has lasted for the whole school year, and as a result, the team soon presents two conclusive exhibitions. The first one of these trialogues opens on April 26th in Gallery Emil, Tampere, and the second trialogue on May 18th in Seoul, South Korea.

The global team has worked internet-based. Ideas and materials have been exhanged through Skype, blogs and social media. The final pieces of art are mostly photographs and video pieces, and almost all the works are displayed also on the Internet.


Despite the time differences and language barriers, the artists have worked in solid companionship throughout the day, almost managing time travel. The most peculiar time dimensions took place in the groups' Skype -meetings when the participators were present simultaneously during morning, day and evening - depending on one's country.

This week some of the Canadian art students from OCAD U University arrived to Tampere to help their Finnish teammates with the construction of the first trialogue exhibition. The exhibition opens on the Friday of the International Week at 6 p.m. Welcome!


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International Art Collaborations is an ongoing initiative currently involving art/photography programs at: OCAD U in Toronto, Canada, TAMK in Tampere, Finland, Chung-Ang U in Seoul, South Korea



Photos from the installation of the exhibition

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This poster was made by designer Melanie Hong

By Samantha Conlon
as part of our video art course, our teacher, Sari, invited artist/curator Angela Washko to come visit TAMK to give a lecture and also to meet us individually and talk about our work. i was quiet nervous at the mention of it, the words 'New York' and 'curator' automatically made me feel on egde, then i googled Angela's work and felt even more anxious about our talk! turns out there was no need because within minutes of meeting Angela i felt really relaxed and comfortable, she had a really nice presence.

Angela Washko

i showed Angela my tumblr and we discussed various past and present projects i had been working on, she gave me a lot of really good advice on how to approach a new project and where to publish it to get some attention to it. my work at present works sort of in the online sphere, i had worked with chatroulette in the past and i just find that 'internet art' really appeals to me, this is why i was really excited to meet Angela as her work is a culmination of all things i am interested in; technology, the internet, 21st century, feminism. i especially liked her new work 'Chastity' which she is working on at her residency in The Cable Factory in Helsinki (so i believe) and which i got to talk to her about a little.

Angela Washko's 'My Sanctuary' in Vaasa

a strange thing happened when i showed her my blog, i included in my sidebar some links to projects i have been involved with and when she saw a link to 'Illuminati Girl Gang' she asked me to go the site, when i did she said she knew about it and in fact her best friend had been in the same issue as that i was published in and her best friend happened to be one of my favourite artists Ann Hirsch - such a strange situation that we even get to meet seeing as she's from the US and I from Ireland, even stranger then that we had people/ situations in common - it's a small world!

Angela has performed her 'My Sanctuary' piece in both Vaasa and Tampere earlier this month. She will have one more performance in Finland taking place in Kiasma March 21 5-7 pm
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Angela Washko (web site)
The event in Kiasma March 21 5-7 pm

Samantha Conlon's Tumblr

The first week they prepared and learned working with video and ice in arctic circumstances.
The second week they did the actual project in north eastern Finland
The third week they prepared and showed the exhibition.

The exhibition was impressive and crowded with a curious audience. At the end of this story you can find links to the videos and photographs of the workshop.

Change - Ice-Art-Nature was the name of this year's edition of the Ice Screen Project, which is part of our Future Film Studies module.


The event on Facebook

Global Change: Ice, Art & Nature page on Facebook (Photographs!)
Seven videos on Vimeo here
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by Laura Carapeto and Rebecca Peters

16 students and 4 teachers from Tampere University of Applied Science did a workshop called Ice Screen Project in February, 2013. This consisted to develop a project that combines media art, environmental art and science, mixing them with animation, filmmaking and light.

This year the workshop will extend towards scientific aspects with the students from the University of Oulu in the Oulanka Research Center.

This project is divided into three parts: preparing, production and post-production
In the first week, the teachers introduced the students to the topic of this year: Global Change. The students had to think about ideas for possible projects. The last days of the week we went to Lake Pahalampi in Tampere and we learned how to handle and use the chainsaw and how to work with ice. Then we packed all the equipment and tools that we needed in Lapland.

Next week on Sunday 10th the class left from Tampere to Kuusamo, Oulanka Research Station. The first days we had to decide the topics of the projects and organize how to make it. After this we split into two groups. One group worked on the lake, and the other group worked in microscope laboratory taking photos of the bugs with the support of two biology students from Oulu University.

Finally we came up with 7 projects: Heart, Fish, Net, Face, Eye, Lens and Microscope. After that we went to a lake near the research station. First we cleaned the working area and then Vesa and Frank cut the ice blocks for the sculptures.

Every day during the course, Frank taught us astanga yoga and meditation to relax our body and to  prepare us for the hard work. On 16th of February we came back to Tampere. In Tampere we started to sort, select and edit the material (images,video…) for an exhibition and web pages.

The exhibition will be in the TAMK Finlaysson campus, Spede (Finlaysoninkatu, 7
 Tampere) on the 21st of February at 14:00-17:00. 



Teachers
Vesa Toukomaa, Juha Suonpää, Jouni Hirvonen, TAMK University of Applied Sciences Art, Music and Media; Olav Huizer, The Netherlands, Frank Kappas, Sweden
Riku Paavola Dep. director, senior researcher, Oulanka Research Station

Students from TAMK University of Applied Sciences:
Laura Carapeto, Catalonia, Silvia de Riba, Catalonia, Robbert Groenendijk, The Netherlands, Eline Jacques, Belgium, Martin Kleinberns, Germany, Emilia Ewa Kwiatkowska, Poland, Giedre Lauciute Lithuania, Rebecca Peters, Germany, Marc Pijoan, Catalonia, Giedre Putramentaite, Lithuania, Paulina Sánchez, México, Oona Seppänen, Finland, Jappe Tooten, Belgium, Robert Vörös, Austria, Lubos Rezler, Czech Republic

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Oulanka National Park
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Global Change is a project that combines ice, art and nature. During the last week several groups of international students developed different kinds of interesting art projects created in the the unique nature of Lapland.

If you are curious about how ice, art and video mapping can be combined in an artificial way, please feel free to join our exhibition at the Finlayson Campus.

Where: Finlayson Campus, second floor, room Spede.
When: Thursday, 21st of February between 2 and 6 P.M.

The exhibition is for free.
Refreshments will be served !!!

The event on Facebook
Global Change: Ice, Art & Nature page on Facebook

Global Change: Ice, Art & Nature is the 2013 edition of our Ice Screen Project.
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Professor Liu Xuguang, Vice-Director of Fine Art Department of Beijing Film Academy and Director of the New Media Art Lab of BFA paid a visit to our school on Friday, right before the opening of his Video Art Exhibition at the Vooninki-hall of TR1.
Our guest discussed the possibilities different forms of cooperation with our Film&Television and Fine Art programmes.

From left: Juhani Alanen from Film Festival (producer of the exhibition), Tianyun Jin-Kuusirinne helped with translations, Professor Liu Xuguang, Head of Film&Television Pertti Näränen, Lecturer of Fine Art Tiiu Baldwin

The reason for Professor Liu Wuguang's visit to Tampere was the opening of the China Experience exhibition, part of Tampere Film Festival programme. Here's some information provided by the Film Festival:

FestArt: China Experience
TR1, Vooninki-sali Feb 16th–March 17th.
Chinese Video Art.
TR1 KUNSTHALLE, VÄINÖ LINNAN AUKIO 13
Tue-Fri 9am–5pm, Sat-Sun 11am–6pm
Tickets 5/1€, free admission on Fridays!

Glimpses of the countless realities of modern China are projected in Vooninki-sali at TR1. The Chinese society is changing fast, but the exhibition still quietly echoes the ancient cultures and Taoist philosophy and spiritualism. In the works of Liu Xuguang, the director of the New Media Art Lab. at Beijing Film Academy, ancient beliefs and myths come alive. Xuguang is inspired by the relationships between human and nature and environment art.

The works by the curator of the exhibition, Tan Tan, create parallel time-space realities, in which the past, present and future are interlaced. The works of both artists share poetic aspects as well as the abundant use of symbolism. In the works of both Xuguang and Tan Tan, ink, the symbol of the entire Chinese society, is a central element.

Liu Xuguang has started his artist's career in the mid-1980s, studied at Universities of the Arts in China and in Japan and is nowadays the director of the New Media Art Lab. at Beijing Film Academy. The curator of the exhibition, Tan Tan, creates parallel time-space realities, in which the past, present and future are interlaced.

Tampere Film Festival

By Minna Suoniemi
Strange Walls –screening in The Finnish Institute in Berlin was very successful last Thursday. There was a full house and The screening was picked out in Die Tageszeitung.

In discussion interpreter Lauri Peltonen,intern at the institute, student Elina Ylhäisi, senior lecturer in fine art Minna Suoniemi, student Hinni Hiltunen and Mikko Keskiivari, graduate in 2011, came to the screening from Vienna.

The evening began with speeches of The Director of the Institute, Anna–Maija Mertens and our senior lecturer in fine arts Minna Suoniemi. Both were very pleased with the collaboration and talked about the importance of cultural exchange. After the screening followed an active discussion about the work.

The project will continue next fall with the second screening, and also before that, as Strange Walls has raised interest in other co-operators in German-speaking Europe. The project will be joined in Finnland .Cool website, which is a satellite project of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014. Finland as the guest of honour in the Book Fair, there will be a buzz in the cultural field in Europe, with emphasis Finland.

http://finnland-institut.de/cool/
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Read the previous Strange Walls story
About the exhibition (in German)
More about the exhibition (in German)

The exhibition on Facebook
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by Emilia Kwiatkowska
GLOBAL CHANGE is the theme for Ice Screen Project, workshop which is now arranged for the third time.

Ice Screen Project 2011. Photo: Alexander Lembke

The workshop combines media art, environmental art and science, mixing them with animation, film making and light. The two workshops focused on art and environmental art. This year the workshop will extend towards scientific aspects with the students from University of Lapland and University of Oulu in the Oulanka Research Center in Kuusamo.

The workshop is led by sculptor Vesa Toukomaa and other great artists like for example Olav Huizer from Holland who teaches us about video mapping.

The first week of the workshop is already behind us. During that week we made preparations for a trip to Lapland which will take place between 10.02.-16.02. and will end with exhibition of our works.
We have brainstormed a lot about what we can make out of the ice and what can be projected on its surface. Very important thing which we learned during this week (except video mapping :) were safety rules when working on the ice.

It is 1/50 of the huge amount of equipment which we have to take to Lapland

Students are trying on warm overalls which are important to keep warm in cold environment

Vesa and Olav helped us to find the most suitable equipment

Challenging Thursday 07.02. We went on the Pahalampi lake where we could learn how to work with ice

Beautiful piece of ice from the Pahalampi lake, Tampere

Vesa teaches on of the students how to cut the ice

Safety first!

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The author is a student of TAMK Degree Programme in Media
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