Thursday, 2 February 2017

The Media and Arts programme’s application period’s 2017 results (part 1/2)

The application period to TAMK’s Media and Arts programme and its study paths Interactive Media, Music Production and Fine Art ended on 25.1.2017. This time, the number of first-choice applicants was 334, which was a really good result in the new application system.

At the moment, our teachers are assessing the applicants' pre-tasks and portfolios. As a result for assessments we will invite about 100 applicants in total to an online interview - no more travelling to exams!. Invitation letters to online interviews will be sent in mid-February 2017. The online interviews will be organized 20.-23.2.2017.

The next application period will be next year, but it's good to start practicing your skills and expanding your portfolio already now in order to be ready for the next year's application. For motivation and more information, please check these student stories about studying in TAMK's Media and programme and it's study paths.

Interactive Media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIA-FaSTtuY&t=27s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoWKyh0fRe8


Fine Art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWutbGWsogE&t=26s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZZQqAw89A


Music Production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj9kIZN6zY&t=30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZuUNYw-IEk&t=14s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxlQTG3JyV0

Check also these new success stories (these are in Finnish only at the moment)

http://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/suosikkibandi-antoi-kenkaa-johtohahmolleen-maailmankiertue-alkaa-perjantaina-tampereelta-24239117

http://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/battle-beastin-noora-louhimo-nama-ovat-viisi-tarkeinta-asiaa-jotka-ammattimuusikon-pitaa-tietaa-24223710

http://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/tamperelaiset-niko-ja-marcus-jahtaavat-maailman-isointa-pophittia-tekevat-satatuntisia-tyoviikkoja-24223702/

More stories will be published from each study path in future to give you a good insight to our studies. Hopefully these will also give an extra motivation to all who will be invited to online interviews and also for those who may not be invited to interviews this year. Stay tuned to follow latest news and our students’ stories!

Timo Kivikangas
Head of Degree Programme in Media and Arts

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Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Gezelligheid, Tam Tam, and Zuid Holland

It has been 41 days since the May Day spring celebration in Finland, Vappu, which is also the day I began my internship with Tam Tam and the adventures in The Netherlands.

The first week was rather exciting as I experienced the nomadic living without proper accommodation arrangement, due to working permit issues. It involved many camping nights and hostel searching, but nonetheless first week at Tam Tam has been wonderful and I was warmly welcomed by many friendly faces and cozy receptions. It is a good reminder for all TAMK Media students with non-EU citizenship to look into visa requirements way before your internship and exchange studies starts in another EU country to save yourself from unexpected troubles.


First day at Tam Tam / My mobile home at Amstelveen’s beautiful camping site
Tam Tam is a full service digital agency based in The Netherlands. Its open space atmosphere, abundant portfolio and spontaneous working culture with more than 120 people working in three offices has been fascinating. Clear table policy, self-service lunch buffet in Dutch style, friendly Tammos and their straightforwardness and curiosity are amongst the cultural discoveries of my adventure in The Netherlands. There are always happenings in the office, such as series of Mobile First sessions presented by the Mobile design team sharing their thoughts and updates on the digital content design field focusing on mobile platform with all Tammos during lunch time. I especially admire such culture of sharing within an organisation and gets everyone (even HR and finance department) on the same page on digital design direction in the field.



Waternet available in app store / Tam Tam visitors from Lillebaelt Academy!
I have been learning much from my coach buddy, Barry and the design team on interaction design in mobile apps helping with building wireframes and animating mobile prototype with Origami, besides doing other visual tasks like motion animation and online ad concept design. Amongst my favourite Tam Tam projects is this award-winning mobile app, Waternet which helps Amsterdammers navigating their ways on canal water. Colleagues at Tam Tam are generous with sharing their cultures with foreigner, as knowing that I am a big cultural observer. Several gezellig lunches made by colleagues are lekker and lunch time has always been interesting to make my own sandwiches. Here I also learnt much about empathy from the people orientated culture portraying from the slight gesture from team leaders with their greetings, HR ladies who have been tremendously helpful with practical matters such as work permit and insurance.

Superlekker couscous on a Friday lunch / Cozy girl-power-pancakes lunch

The first month of internship at Tam Tam had flashed by quickly as time flies. At the same time I have been exploring much of the Dutch culture settling in south of Holland in a beautiful canal city named Leiden. Cycling is a pleasure here and discovering various food and fresh ingredients from outdoor markets are thrilling, too. The Netherlands is located below sea level which formed interesting landscape: you simply cannot see the water as it is higher than you!

Leiden, a city with 120,000 populations / Dutch delicacy, Haring (herring fish)
The multicultural scene and openness of the Dutch people means plenty of topics to talk about over beers and outing sessions especially summer is here. Another month and a half to go before internship ends, and I look forward to more adventures and discoveries in the land of not just cheese, windmills and tulips!
Dutch favourite bread topping, Hagelslag / Exploring Rotterdam with two wheels

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Sunday, 20 April 2014

IMP at the future of web design

Last Monday afternoon I grabbed my bag, bought an infamous £3 Tesco meal-deal and headed to the Manchester’s bus station for a 5 hours megabus ride, to attend the annual Future of Web Design conference in London.




Future of web design is a world class conferences about web design, but not only. Some satellite subjects such as UX design, system design, animation and web development were widely covered by the 28 speakers. The conference was held at the brewery, a fancy conference hall in a great location in central London.

Something I personally really liked at this conference in general was its balance. From one hand, you could get great technical talks about web design (debates about CSS frameworks and why we hate them), web development (great Javascript tools and libraries introduced) and new technologies (CSS Masks, anyone?). From the other hand, there was plenty of conceptual talks about the role of web designers, what design is and new great ideas about what we can all do with it.


Simplicity in design and other great insights 

A very interesting session I’ve quite enjoyed was a talk by Stephen Hay from the Netherlands. He talked about simplicity in UX design, and gave some bad examples for how many web systems make a crappy experience just by complicating everything for no reason.

Bonny Colville-Hyde's talked about using comics in UX reports. She has an interesting theory (which I very much agree with) that nobody likes to read a boring 40-pages report. So instead of boring her clients, Bonny writes her UX reports in a comics format. According to her, this method is always very successful even with the most unexpected clients.

Robin Hawkes’s data visualisation talk was quite inspiring, talking about how to make data visualisation work and how to do it in practice with d3.js. He showed some amazing examples showcasing the power of d3.



Overall, it was an awesome experience. Hundreds of professionals from all around the world attended Future of web design, it had a chilled and friendly atmosphere and above all, it included great food, free booze and a great after party!

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Thursday, 10 January 2013

The global ubiquitous media competition NUMA2013 open!

The 7th annual international ubiquitous media competition, NUMA2013 (Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2013), seeks for novel ways to combine ubiquitous computing to media.
The interactive plant interface, Botanicus Interacticus, won NUMA2012

We are looking for disruptive artistic visions as well as clever near-to-market solutions off the beaten tracks! This includes any range of innovative ubimedia, pervasive, or ambient products and services. NUMA2013 is a highly interdisciplinary competition and we invite equally Designers, Computer Scientists, Artists, Economists and Engineers to take a stand on the following questions with their entries:

  • What is the particular aesthetic experience opened up by the rise of ubiquitous and ambient media?
  • What constitutes the specific intelligence that drives future media environments?
  • How will location- and context-aware media services change our social life?
  • How will our future lives look like in the era of ubiquitous computation, and how can society benefit from these advanced technologies?
The ambient audio navigation service Oh Music, Where Art Thou
won the second price 2012

The total award sum for the NUMA2013 is 6 000€. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.
Valid competition entries include:

  • Pervasive and ubiquitous games
  • Ambient installations
  • Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
  • Business models and management strategies
  • Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
  • Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
  • Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
  • Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
  • Software, hardware and middle-ware framework demonstrations
  • Ambient television
  • Any other inspiring work in the broad context of ubiquitous media
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NUMA2013 is organized collaboratively by TAMK, MindTrek, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing (Hermia), Entertainment & Media Management Lab. (EMMi Lab, Tampere University of Technology), Nokia Oyj and the Ambient Media Association (AMEA).
The flying running companion Joggobot got
the third price last year



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Saturday, 28 May 2011

The last DETVET meeting in Tampere

DETVET family photo

TAMK hosted the last meeting of the DETVET project this week at Finlayson Campus. DETVET (Development of Educational Techniques in Vocational Education and Training) is an EU funded partnership programme. TAMK's role in this project is to share its expertise in using SOcial Media in Education. TAMK is represented by ist Educational Technology Center and Degree Programme in Media. Other project partners come from Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Lithuania and Sweden.

The project has had six meetings, all partners have hosted one meeting. After the Tampere meeting partners finish their reports. An electronic book will share the project conclusions with everybody interested.

Links:
DETVET home
Previous posts about DETVET|||

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Monday, 18 April 2011

The face of fear

Story and photo: Tia Tuovinen
On Friday the 15th many of our students as well as international guests came face to face with their fears.

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Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Interactive film workshop output

The film by Neil Hopkins and Vaidotas Ambrozaitis in action
Story: Chris Hales
Four interactive film projects were completed during the recent one-week workshop led by Chris Hales. Three of the films were designed as interactive installations, whereas the remaining work was an educational film about gravity designed for children.

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Sunday, 13 March 2011

Playful Sensing in Demola



Story: Johanna Peltola
Cool and challenging projects, that’s what the students get to do here in TAMK. The spring semester of International Media Programme is reserved for an interactive media –project, worth 30 study credits, which may be used for one big project or several smaller ones. Every student is however expected to carry out a project connected to industrial life.

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Thursday, 18 March 2010

International Week Workshops: Design Spam

Interaction designer and lecturer Pawel Pokutycki from the the Design & Communication department of the Hanze University Groningen (Academy Minerva) will host a one day workshop on day two of our International Week (May 3rd) titled:

Design Spam - workshop on conceptual and experimental approach to interaction design

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Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Mobile Route Service: Iida, the Children’s Church Route

Story: Mia Hämäläinen
Iida, the children’s church route is mobile route service which helps you to explore with children’s eyes Tampere in the 20th century.  The route starts at Väinö Linna Square and guides you through about ten targets to the end of the route at Amuri Museum of Worker's Housing.

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Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Combining interaction design with agile methods

TAMK’s interaction design student Vappu Leinonen has studied in her final thesis “Interaction Designer in Agile World” how the shift from traditional waterfall process models towards agile methods in software development affects the work of interaction designers.

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Thursday, 4 December 2008

Hello from Europrix, Graz!




Story Riikka Hiekkaniemi and Kaisa Hakala

The Operaatio Hurrikaani women team headed off to Graz, Austria 27.-30.11.2008 to present the project and TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media.

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Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Curriculum for New International Media Programme


A new Bachelor's Degree Programme in Media, taught in English, will start in 2009 at TAMK School of Art and Media. The draft curriculum for the programme is now published, and will be sent to partners and friends for comments. The curriculum will be finally approved by TAMK University of Applied Sciences Board in January.

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Thursday, 18 September 2008

Operation Hurricane Nominated for EUROPRIX


Operation Hurricane is nominated for EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards in the category for Interactive Television. The team will meet all other 22 EUROPRIX nominee teams at the EUROPRIX Top Talent Festival in Graz November 27-29. The highlight of the festival is the EUROPRIX Awards Gala.

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Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Visit from Japan today


A group of Project Design students from Miyagi University, Sendai City in Japan, guests of Pirkanmaa University of Applied Sciences, visited today the Finlayson campus of TAMK.

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