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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Deadline for World Summit Youth Award submissions is already on Sunday. Online Projects can be entered in one of the six categories, which are directly linked to the eight UN Millennium Goals. Winners will be celebrated in New York in autumn. So if you know any project by people under 30 promoting a better world, ask the producers to register online now.

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The second game from the 5D2 project group was released last Friday! RRR or Rotating Robot Rumble is a sidescrolling shooter in NES style, where you take control of a robot that's on a rampage destroying everything in its path! Just because!

Go try it out!

(Note that you may need to click the screen to start the game)

Dr. Birgit Richard and Dr. Jutta Zaremba from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main arrived yesterday to Tampere for a two day visit at TAMK hosted by our Degree Programme in Fine Art.

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Text and picture: Johanna Peltola
Love can come in an unexpected time and place whereas ideas might sometimes take longer to mature. The animator Amir Abdi had the story in his pocket for five years before he finally got a chance to carry it out. The first year in TTVO’s media programme entailed the course of animation & multimedia when Amir seized the opportunity.

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Pertti Näränen (TAMK) and Artur Lugmayr (TUT), two of the organisers and chairs

The eight edition of the annual conference  on Interactive TV & Video EuroITV started today with the pre-conference workshop day in the premises of TAMK School of Art and Media in the Finlayson.area. The theme of the conference is “web.sharing.TV.content”, reflecting the increasing connections between TV and web services.

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Text and pictures: Johanna Peltola
For some strange reasons I was always bound to believe that flash is something one should avoid in photography. Alexander Lembke’s three-day-workshop Fiat Lux – Let there be light, concentrating on flash photography, took place on international week in May and opened up new spheres for me.

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Five people make five games in five weeks, working five days a week and five hours a day. Impossible? No. Challenging? Yes.

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From Sleep of Reason, directed by Aino Suni
Alkovi Galleria
Screening - 7 video works
28.05. - 03.06.2010
Helsinginkatu 19, Helsinki


Students from Tampere UAS School of Art and Media present their works in a screening in Alkovi Gallery.

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Fanni Maliniemi and Laura Laukkanen. Photo: Heidi Hemmilä
Pienet - mixed media sculpture
Between the Academic Bookstore and Stockmann
Vernissage  1.6. 3pm-4pm

Story: Laura Laukkanen


This summer the streetview in Tuomikirkonkatu will be enriched by a new work of public art.  The very first Summer Artist competition was arranged by the city of Tampere in 2003, the competition got this year 51 entries.  The competition is annually encouraging the artists to plan a site specific work of art for the pedestrian street. Essential part of  the competition is that  the chosen artwork should also communicate with a  stationary black granite pedestal. Pedestal is purchased by the city and was designed originally for a permanent piece of public art.

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