This year diploma films will be finished soon. We proudly invite you to see those films. The screening will be 11th May 5:15 P.M. at Finnkino Plevna 2, Finlayson. Free entry! The producer of the event is Ilona Tolmunen.

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Tunnevammoja (No Heart Feelings) will be one of the movies showed at TAMK film and television students' graduation film show at Finnkino Plevna May 11 5:15 P.M. The film is a part of the final thesis work of the director, cinematographer and light designer.

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American activist art group Guerilla Girls visited Tampere on Tuesday and Wednesday. Students of Fine Art were extremely lucky to have the chance to participate in workshop held by Guerilla Girls. These women with gorilla masks have worked with gender equality for over twenty-five years. Their way of planning the project is to first check the facts and come up with a new twisted and fun way to present the issue to the public. For example they have asked: ”Do women have to be naked to get into the Metropolitan Museum?” and then showed the statistics which show how less than five percent of the artists in modern art section are women but eighty-five percent of the nudes are female. 
Story: Mari Ljokkoi

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Moving Gallery presents the STOP MOTION MINUTE animation screening.


The screening will firstly be on the Moving Gallery web site at movinggallery.net. Later on the exhibition will be presented in front of a live audience in one or more screenings. Currently we are gathering works for the exhibition. The duration of the animation should be no more than 60 seconds. And the animation should be in the web on a public video server. For practical reasons we wish that you would use YouTube.

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Ikuinen Galleria April 22 May 13 2011
Arttu Heikkinen, Wolf Kankare, Eero Lampinen, Veera Moberg, Emmi Nieminen
Ikuiset tissit - Eternal tits (Tattoos and Comics)

Open Mon-Sun 12am - 4pm
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

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In spring 2010 Aino Suni (director, script) started to create a script for her diploma work. Kerttu Hakkarainen decided to be cinematographer as she has co-operated with Aino many times before. The "Sudenveistäjä" short film got also a producer, Ilona Tolmunen. The main actors are Kai Lehtinen and Jaana Joensuu.

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Story and pics: Tia Tuovinen
On Wednesday the fastest and most observant students got their sugar rush from the dozens of chocolate eggs hidden in our school premises. The eggs could be found in all floors, some in more clear view than others. There were also three golden eggs which contained a bit bigger surprise than a toy inside chocolate covers. The event was arranged by Tarina.

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auto_art_screening @Forum-P, Parking Garage, Helsinki
April 15 - 30 Daily 08:08–20:02

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Story: Vladimir Kvasnikov
Last week all web-design students had a chance to study some flash-site building at the Flash Catalyst workshop from Michael Koch.

Some delay because of a canceled flight made this workshop shorter, but there was still enough time to study how to make static pages using this program. Moreover, we’ve discovered that it is so simple that it can be treated as a cheat after all these HTML tags and CSS properties for normal web-coding.

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Polyamoria at Gallery Nottbeck shows art works by students from South-
Korea, Canada and TAMK

The climax of Tampere Art Factory International Week was TAF Open Day on Friday with a seminar, the Kino TAMK screenings, animations, web- and game projects, the TAF Klub, many exhibition openings and much more.

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Story: Laura Rytkönen
Two video works by TAMK students got selected into the film program of European Media Art Festival Osnabrück. The Murder Chairs by Nalle Mielonen and Swallow Your Fears by Laura Rytkönen will be presented in Student Campus film programs on the weekend of 27.4. - 1.5. The program holds film screenings, performances, opportunities to meet the artists and Transit – European Young Talent exhibition. This is the 30th time the annual festival is held. There were over 2200 contributions to the film program from all over the world.

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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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Maria Kärkkäinen
P e k i n r i n n e – a place for growth (Photographs)
April 5 - 24.2011

G12 Gallery, Töölöntorinkatu 3, Helsinki
open Tue-Fri 12 am to 5 pm, Sat-Sun 12 am to 4 pm

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“The Murder Chairs” is an experimental film made by Nalle Mielonen in 2010. This spring it can be seen in international festivals.

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The graduating artists were adorned with flowers at the vernissage last night

P.S. a pic would be nice
Graduating Exhibition of fine art students of  Tampere University of Applied Sciences

Mältinranta Artcenter (Kuninkaankatu 2) 16.4.-3.5.
TR1 Kunsthalle (Väinö Linnan aukio 13)16.4.-15.5.2011

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Tampere Art Factoryn open doors today: you can be familiar with the creations of  the students of degree programmes in Fine Art, Film and Television, Media. Also results of the International Week workshops and works of our exchange students are shown.

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Evelyn Urm (left) has produced a unique and absolutely amazing exhibition on
Soviet Estonia poster and plastic bag art. Chris Hales' (right) Horror Worshop
results will be shown tomorrow noon at Deneb, 5th floor

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CAU Woosung Sohn - Intimate Strangers
Polyamoria
Galleria Nottbeck
16.4. – 15.5.2011
Open: everyday from 12am to 6pm

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Story: Emma Kiiski
This annual comic event was arranged near TTVO, around Finlayson. Cosplaying was popular this year (dressing a character from for example a comic, usually manga or anime) though its popularity seems to be pretty high always in these kind of events. Tampere Kuplii was arranged from Thursday to Sunday with lots and lots of events for people interested in comics.

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During the 30th and 31st of March, a team of staff and students paid a visit to the beautiful Spanish town of Vic, just a few clicks north of Barcelona. The reason was to attend the 2nd annual event of DobleClick, a European inter-university audio visual workshop. The workshops, or "Clickshows" were led by students and ex-students from the participating universities. TAMK was represented by the wonderful Mr Robert Niva who discussed marketing student projects. The recent "Ice Screen Project" was showcased (on a lovely hot spring day) by Mr Antti Kareinen and Mr Neil Hopkins.


A big thank you has to be given to the staff and students of UVIC for their warm and friendly hospitality, and an extra big thank you to the Spanish weather and cheap produce. One euro for a bottle of damn fine red wine...I mean, how good is that?!

You can view some nice sober pictures at our blog

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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TAF Magazine 11, edited at the Journalism course, is out. Some stories in English too. Read at the TTVO cafe or on the net (pdf).


Story and photos: GuanJun Liu
Saturday morning of 2nd April, 9am, in University of Vic campus, there were a number of students with red T-shirts bustled around, as well as numerous visitors walked up and down amongst teaching buildings—This is the Open Day Of UVic.

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11.4.2011 Monday

The aim of the course is to invent and create some kind of horrifying performance which audience can participate in a way or another. The day started by telling stories that have frighten us. We collected a huge pool of spooky things which come handy when we actualize our act later on this week.

No one in the group admitted to have seen a ghost but fairly many phobias were presented. Hales said he has been afraid of only one of his student's work and he has had hundreds of students in his workshops. It's very hard to come up with anything that scares people. I find it hilarious that we are so individualistic when it comes to being afraid of something and at the same time we have a collective opinion that the horror films sucks.

I must admit that creating horror stories is hard work. After seven hours of thinking and trying to catch the scariness of life in our safe little school I feel totally exhausted. I don't blame Lovecraft for being depressed and wrecked after too many years of writing horror stuff. It ain't easy.

From left Sabrina Seidl, International Week project manager and
registering Lenno Veerhoog, Utrecht School of Arts
and Zsofia Ruttkay, Moholy-Nagy University
of Art and Design Budapest

The fourth edition of Tampere Art Factory kicked off this morning with the International Week. TAF is a demonstration of the skills of TAMK art and media students. The International Week hosts 50 guests from South Korea to USA and Kanada and all over Europe.

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Tampere Art Factory 2011 (TAF11) will present culture entrepreneurs graduated from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in its seminar Highway to Entrepreneurship – People Behind the Statistics. The seminar is a part of TAF’s international week.

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From 'Close your eyes to the bad things'

Graduation exhibition of TAMK Specialization Studies on Photography students
Tessa Ojala and Annu Salminen
April 8 - May 15
Art Worshop Werstas, Mamsell's coffee room

Kanavaraitti 3, Finlayson
Open Mon 12am to 3pm, Tue-Fri 10am to 3pm

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Tampere Art Factory got a new look. Both the TAF'11 logo in two shapes and five colours and  the new look of TAF blog are designed by Camille Romano, student of our international interactive media programme.

Tampere Art Factory kicks off with the international week on Monday.

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A visualization of the project green wall (Miska Wilhelmsson, Danko Pantovic, Antti Kareinen)
Story: Simona Vitalini
During the Design Management course for the second year students, the opportunity to have hands on a real project was truly a challenge. Developed at Demola with the collaboration of City of Tampere, the eco2 projects, were innovative and coherent with the brief.

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Pauli Kopu is one of the speakers

Welcome to Tampere Art Factory 2011 seminar on young entrepreneurship

Time: Friday April 15 9:30-12:00
Venue: TAMK Finlayson Campus café

Language: English

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