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Christmas is upon us which means the Media and Arts pre-tasks have now been published for the next application round! The application window opens on the 9th January and the applicants will have until the 24th January (3pm Finnish time) to upload their pre-task. The applicants are reminded that they must choose the pre-task designated to their chosen study path and must only submit one. The pre-task is graded out of max 100 points and if successful you will be invited to the online interview! (maximum of 120 applicants with the highest pre-task scores will be invited.) The interview will be done using Adobe connect. More information at http://www.tamk.fi/web/tamken/media-and-arts-bachelor#application If you are interested in applying to one of our degree programmes, check out the following links giving you more of an insight to what we get up to: TAMK Games Academy : http://www.gamesacademy.fi/about/studies/ VR360 concert video productions : http://media-arts360.blogs.tamk.fi/2017/11/2

This blog post is about our trip to Graz, Austria, in order to attend to the European Youth Awards 2017. Tuesday, 28/11 We left Tampere in the middle of the night, on Tuesday the 28th at 3am. We had an early flight to catch in Helsinki and a long way to go before we got to Graz. After two flights, a 3-hour-long wait at Munich Airport and a short train ride, we finally made it to downtown Graz. Our hostel was quite near to the railway station on which we arrived, so that was great! On our first day there, we were all quite tired form the trip, so we did not much in the way of sightseeing. We just went out for a stroll around town and looked for good places to eat. Graz is a lovely town, has about the same size as Tampere, but a rather different “feel” more ancient and “continental”. Also there were Christmas markets everywhere! Wednesday, 29/11 On our second day we had more energy, which was good, cause we had a scheduled visit to FH Joanneum , the applied sciences university in Graz.

As part of the Introduction to Applied Fine Art course with Fanni Niemi-Junkola, first-year students from the Fine Art study path of the Media and Arts programme visited the land artworks in Pinsiö. These works are part of the Strata landworks . Tree Mountain is a site-specific artwork designed by Agnes Denes. It is a steep gravel hill and there are about 10,600 pine trees in the artwork. Climbing to the top takes 2-3 minutes. At the pinnacle, there is space for about seven people to stand comfortably. The huge amount of snow added to the overall magical atmosphere of the work. Up and Under by Nancy Holt involves concrete tunnels and connected earthworks that can be climbed on. One can go inside (under), or climb on top (up), and thus the title. The snow added an extra layer of interactivity and also highlighted the inside/outside areas of the piece. Links: http://www.tamk.fi/web/tamken/media-and-arts-bachelor http://www.strata.fi/projektit.html https://www.facebook.com/artmediatamk/

Me-talo (in English “we-house”) is collaboration project between Me-säätiö (“We-foundation”) and the city of Tampere. Me-talo is created to bring people together to learn new skills and just to have quality time together. The goal of me-talo is to create communality and promote well-being. Peltolammi school started to have workshops and events 28th of October 2017. TAMK´s students of communal-based art course held three workshops in Peltolammi during  the fall. Events were free for everyone to join, but they were especially created for children. Themes for the workshops were communal painting, costume/photography workshop and gingerbread workshop. The children told us stories about how they spend their Christmas and what they hope to get from Santa Claus. There are plenty of toys that I had never heard of! Even I got excited (again) about legos, while listening to their stories! In the communal painting workshop, the children could freely create one big painting together. The theme was