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Three music bands from TAMK have been nominated to participate in the EXCITE Project . Loud Lights, Rawbeena and F.U.N.C. are the three bands eligible to participate in the EXCITE Project representing Finland. These three bands have been formed by students of Media and Arts program. The Excite project is a collaboration between nine organizations from nine different European countries that exchange young musical talent across European borders. The participating organizations are all about supporting young upcoming bands, and with Excite, they want to give bands their first European touring experience. This is achieved by working together with a selection of festivals from the participating countries. In that manner, 20 playing opportunities for 12 bands across 9 countries are created, providing the selected bands with an invaluable networking opportunity and a chance to gain experience. TAMK (Media and Arts program) and Lost In Music festival are cooperating in Finland to...

The application period to TAMK’s Media and Arts programme and its study paths Interactive Media, Music Production and Fine Art ended on 25.1.2017. This time, the number of first-choice applicants was 334, which was a really good result in the new application system. At the moment, our teachers are assessing the applicants' pre-tasks and portfolios. As a result for assessments we will invite about 100 applicants in total to an online interview - no more travelling to exams! . Invitation letters to online interviews will be sent in mid-February 2017. The online interviews will be organized 20.-23.2.2017. The next application period will be next year, but it's good to start practicing your skills and expanding your portfolio already now in order to be ready for the next year's application. For motivation and more information, please check these student stories about studying in TAMK's Media and programme and it's study paths. Interactive Media: https://www.yo...

Trip to the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen and Academy of Pop Culture in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands Fine art students Tereza Holubova, Diana Kamaletdinova, Ina Martmann and Julia Räsänen attended the international week Here We Are Everywhere! of Minerva Academy of Pop Art with their teacher Fanni Niemi-Junkola in Leeuwarden in 6.-8.12.2016. It was great to take part of the workshops and good to meet the Friesian colleagues from Groningen too! See you all again next year and welcome to participate TAMK Art, Music and Media International Week in April 25-28 th 2017. http://pop.academieminerva.nl/en/ https://www.hanze.nl/eng/education/art/minerva-art-academy Text & photos by Fanni Niemi-Junkola 2016

We had an exciting workshop in Hong Kong with the students fro m Polytechnic University. During the first day we explored the beautiful Chinese garden of Nan Liang and got to see how the local nature feels like compared to Finland's familiar pine forests.  Thanks to the humid and warm environment the plants were green and bright. The most distinct difference for me, was the smell. Here are some of my favourite pictures I took: Bridge, trees and water. Together they make a nice picture. My favourite Bonsai tree. Some might find small bonsai trees unnatural and trapped, but I think they are cute and all have different story hidden behind them. Bright flowers were easy to find in the garden. In a Finnish forest the smell is fresh and distant, but in this garden it was strong but also soothing. If you closed your eyes and ears and only smelled the garden, you could forget the huge city around you. Old water mill had a nice atmosphere around it. We can see the city all around the ga...

On the 1st of October we celebrated Tampere day in Mediapolis, along with lots of enthusiastic kids and Pikku Kakkonen characters. Mediapolis Campus was open for the public. Many activities were there for the curious that assisted the event. Exhibitions, live music and screenings. Fine art teachers and students collaborate in the making of a painting workshop, we got to experiment and create together beautiful collective paintings with kids. The workshop was divided in three sessions, the first painting included Katti Matikainen from Yle, more than 48 kids and their families participated together to paint every piece. The original photos include very colourful scenarios and situations with the characters The kids were given the tools and the materials to paint. They use the photo reference in order to paint the piece. Here you will see the original image vrs. the painting.                                 ...

The second year of the fine art study path has kicked off with the 'Working in a co-operative' course which gives the students the chance to work directly for clients through different commissions and projects. During the first lesson of the course a few of us decided to take on a project commissioned by the Finnish liver and kidney foundation . The idea is to make an interactive art installation in the centre of Tampere  using a hundred T-shirts designed by one of the best known Finnish fashion labels  IvanaHelsinki .   Being aware of the tight schedule, we started brainstorming immediately and came up with a plenty of ambitious ideas. Taking into account the designated location and the short running time of the installation we had to let go of some of the more complex ideas and stay as realistic as possible. We were lucky enough to receive some scrap wood and other leftover materials from our university, which also made staying on budget much easier. Through trial and e...

It was the time of the year again when a group of students pack themselves with school gear from AV-kioski into a big bus from Matkahuolto and travel all the way (3 hours!) to Nauvo, located in the Turku Archipelago, where all the gear is unloaded and then packed again - this time onto a ferry - eventually reaching the beautiful Seili island. The Seili island is mostly known for it's sad past as the hospital island for the lepracy patients and later on as a mental institute, dating back to the 1600s. Nowadays the old mental hospital facilities are operated by Turku University, hosting the Archipelago Research Institute.  But lucky us, since we get to stay there for a whole week during the end of August!  My first trip to Seili was a year ago in 2015, when the trip was open to everyone in Degree Programme in Media and Arts for the first time (as it previously had been only to the fine art students). I fell in love with the island, so I went again. I agreed to do a behind-t...