Story by Johanna Peltola
The third year of media studies brought along a moment of epic proportions for two IMPs: Amir Abdi and I had been accepted as student volunteers in Asia’s biggest computer graphics –event – in Hong Kong! It was going to be a smashing trip, and so it was, I tell you.

Last December we were getting ready for an 11,5-hour flight from Paris to the massive Eastern metropolis of over seven million city dwellers. The destination was no less than SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 –conference.

Can you hear? The world is calling!

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University of Salford in Manchester is our oldest international partner. The intense and variform cooperation has however mainly involved film and television studies. But now the cooperation will be broader; the relations were extended to include digital design and game design during the visit by TAMK School of Art, Music and Media Dean Ari Koivumäki and me to University of Salford end of February.

D4DM is in the light and open Centenary Building. old campus

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University of Salford (Manchester, UK) is the oldest international partner we have, we established cooperation in 1995, four years after School of Art and Media started. The cooperation has featured student and staff exchange, a joint MA in Screenwriting, film projects etc.

The Salford students at our main entrance

This spring we host eight students from the School of Media, Music and Performance. They seem well and happy although Tampere wished them welcome with temperatures far below -20 °C. One  of the first things they were introduced with was sauna and swimming in the hole in the ice. Brave exchange students we have!