Tuesday, 25 March 2014

EXHIBITION AT IKUINEN GALLERY: Timo Höyssä ja Ilai Elias Lehto - PIXELIVES

Timo Höyssä
Ilai Elias Lehto

PIXELIVES

1.4.-11.4.2014
Ikuinen Galleria
Finlaysoninkuja 3
33210 Tampere

Opening on Mon 31th April 16-18

Pixels, extra lives and self-portraits.
The works in the exhibition derive their content from the bitmap graphics of the gaming world, the childhood spent beside the screen and the identity problems of a growing player. They consist of drawings, plastic bead mosaics, prints and a game installation.

Timo Höyssä is a draftsman whose self-portrait series examines the player's identity – to which extent the internal world of games is able to merge with the physical aspects of life?
Ilai Elias Lehto multimaterialist interested in installations. His constructed game world includes pixelated aspects of reality and fantasy, and exposes the player to think about the preconditions and absurdities found in the gaming world and in life.

Both artists are TAMK Fine Arts second year students.




Ikuinen gallery is a contemporary art project space located in the old factory complex Finlayson in central Tampere. The gallery is run by a board of fine art students in Tampere UAS School of Art and Media as part of their study program. Ikuinen gallery’s main focus is in presenting interesting and high quality student work, whereas work from other art school students and teachers as well as visiting artists are regularly also at show.


Ikuinen Galleria
ma-pe 12.00-16.00
Finlaysoninkuja 3
33210 Tampere
ikuinengalleria@tamk.fi

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Sunday, 23 March 2014

Smile, you are on CCTV

About three month ago I have packed my flat in Tampere and flew to the land of everlasting rain. The official reason for this trip was my Erasmus studies in the University of Salford and a job at the web design agency BLISS. The truth is, that I was sent to verify if it is true that all the residents on the British island oddly adds milk into their tea (they are, mission accomplished).

Tea with milk. Do not try this at home.

A few days before christmas, I have landed in Manchester, the home of the finest English football, the BBC and unpleasant bus drivers. It occurs that (as I have understood myself in a short delay), England is (still) a christian country, and seems not to operate so well during the christmas and new year’s time. So we had to spend our first few weeks here without an Internet connection, while experimenting other communication platforms (did you know you can still use your phone for calling?)

I feel so much safer right now.


Bliss is a digital agency specialized in web and mobile design and development. It is located In the northern quarter, the place which accommodates most of Manchester’s hipsters. The great people at Bliss welcomed me with tea (guess with what) and a couple games of Foosball. They were also kind enough to let me experiment with the monstrous CMS Drupal, which is the main platform we are working with, in order to create awesome and powerful websites.

Just another day at work.

University of Salford is a huge institution. It is quite popular among TAMK students as an exchange destination, mainly because it has a lot of digital animation and computer games courses. In contrast to my work at Bliss and to my classmates in TAMK, I have decided to try something else in my exchange university, so I took the Illustration pathway in the graphic design program. This study pathway is very traditional and encourage print and hand drawn projects rather than digital or interactive designs.

Stencil pictograms experiment

Myself in a traditional English pub, with former head of TAMK
 media program Cai Melakoski and two drunk Englishmen
 Richard Vickers and James Field (University of Lincoln)


Nevertheless, Manchester has a lot more to offer rather than studying working and ales. Music scene is huge compared to the tiny Tampere, on a nice day you can have a walk in the old industrial buildings or even take a 30 minutes train for a one day hike in the green hills of the peak district.

Old-school bridge between Manchester and Salford.




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Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Pre-task results for Media and Arts

The pre-task results for this year's application round at the TAMK Degree Programme in Media and Arts have been sent by letter on Friday the 14th March 2014 to all applicants. We were surprised by the high quality of the applications!
There were 447 first-choice applicants, which means about 10 times as many applicants as we can take in as students. This year, though, we can take in 48 new students, compared to last year's 30.
There have been other changes as well. Our name has changed, as you may have noticed. Fine Art will be from now on our third study path, in addition to Interactive Media and Music Production. The pre-tasks we received from the applicants were divided quite evenly between these three study paths.
The exact dates and times (23.-24.4.2014) for the entrance exam in Tampere are included in the invitation letter. We (the teachers & staff of Tamk Media and Arts) want to congratulate those of you who receive the invitation letter this year. We also recommend you to be at the exams on time.
If you were not invited to the entrance exam now, do not despair. We would very much like to take every student who wants to study here, but there is a limited number of places. Many of our media students have applied several times, so while waiting for next year, we recommend you to get more skills and experience relevant to your interests.


- Timo Kivikangas, Head of the TAMK Degree Programme in Media and Arts,
and all the other teachers - 

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Monday, 17 March 2014

Roll Up! Art competition

 During the past year, the value and state of art has aroused a lot of conversation and maybe it’s time to wrap things up a bit:

Image has suffered an inflation. Cameras are cheap, everyone knows how to use one and the enormous amount of visual irritants in our cityscape is more than overwhelming. The hectic, effusive level of image and information builds an atmosphere where the most important thing is to make your time count and maximize profits. The jammed mind might find it hard to hold still, reflect, ponder and face feelings and so often these needs are neglected.

Maybe instead of setting expectations that must be fulfilled before we can accept something as art, we should face it as it is and see what it has to say. After all, the need to experience and produce art has existed as long humankind and the role of art as the mirror of its time and society wont change.
Roll Up! Art to Tampere- project believes that the role of art in culture and the city of Tampere is inevitable. The people of Tampere get a chance to vote which piece they want to be set up a huge wall on Satakunnankatu. The graduating Fine Art program students and local business Anetcom orchestrated the project, where Anetcom picked the top three works and now the final winner is up for voting on the Aamulehti webpage.
Iina Myrsky: Kilppariprinssi (The tortoise prince)

Sanni Weckman: Suudelma (The Kiss)

Ilai Elias Lehto: Tenkkapoo


Vote for your favorite on www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri
Text: Riikka Enne 2014

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