5 days and 1 empty gallery. This is what we were given to realize our projects for the course ‘Art and Environment Workshop’. I had never worked in a gallery before, so it was a wonderfully new experience. It was a different atmosphere to create something – a recycled space that had seen many different artistic settings. Although it cut into our autumn holidays and we couldn’t be physically present during all of the days, we managed to put together a unique exhibition-type event in Rajatila.

Creating the title for our event was a bit tricky, since we were not sharing a common theme. After an hour of brainstorming, cookies and playing word games, it came down to ‘Fleeting Space’. Lavinia took the photo for the flyer, instructing us to walk around aimlessly and throw the pillows around. It felt silly, but we got the image we wanted!



During the event itself, we presented our works-in-progress and the audience was welcomed to give suggestions and feedback. Our event had a handful of guests, besides our class, and it was interesting to hear their opinions of our pieces.


Jade Vesto created a magazine consisting of photos from her film camera and poetry that she had written, exposing her vulnerabilities and nostalgic moments with her friends. Her written pieces were all in caption and punctuations were left out, giving the viewer a unique reading experience.



Lorenco Soares here is explaining about his installation, a video of leaves falling to a composed rhythm. The piece is meant to be viewed from outside, giving us an insight on nature in different space - and goosebumps for those who went to see the video without a jacket..


Annina Pasanen presented a political, yet playful, painting of a bear having a victory tea party after the defeat of humans.


Konsta Koivisto had a vision to create his own fashion brand made solely from recycled fabrics. His long term plan was to sell his company and use the money to buy a forest. Here he is showing some of his designs..which were pretty impressive considering he had never sewn before!



If you are interested in more about what our class is up to, look us up on one of these social media channels:

Facebook- Art Media TAMK
Instagram- art_media_tamk 


By Alexandra Mitiku

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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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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ARS VIIKINSAARI 2012
Environmental Art at Viikinsaari island outside Tampere
July 4 - August 8 2012
Viikinsaari is a beautiful island 20 minutes from Laukontori market square
Boats on every hour

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The Ice Screen Project exhibition just opened. I don't even try to explain what our international students have done coached by Environmental Art Lecturer Vesa Toukomaa. It is brilliant, awesome, absolutely fabulous.
You have to come to experience it yourself.
The exhibition is open at Spede, 2nd floor daytime still next week.
The modest photos I took with my toy camera just give a foggy idea of the show.
Cai
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   ISP 2012 :: Teaser Trailer from hermaxx on Vimeo.

It seems that in our fast-changing, crowded with new technologies world, everything is so common that there is nothing to amaze us. But the idea of a unique project organized by TAMK is a challenge. During one week of cutting and lifting ice blocks from a frozen lake in Lapland and assembling them to huge-sized custom-shaped ice screens which are being projected on, students are given the opportunity not only to work with ice in terms of large-scale sculpturing but also to explore new ways and possibilities

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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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Disney on ice

Future Film Studies
The Ice Screen project (IceP)
Story and photos: Albert van Zyl

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ARS VIIKINSAARI 10
Environmental Art Exhibition
July 1 - August 11 2010
In July daily, not on Mondays in August
Departure from Laukontori harbor every hour
Boat tickets: Adults 10 €, senior citizens and students 8 €, children (age 4–17) 5 €.

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