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TAMK collaborated with four different companies to bring a special opportunity for the students to work with VR using the sprint method. The idea was to see whether this kind of setting could be used in an university environment and provide students with unique experience with working in a multitalented team and with virtual reality. I was one of the students participating in the sprint week and here is my story of how the week unfolded. Before the actual sprint week we had a common session to meet up with our fellow students to establish an understanding of what was going to happened during the actual sprint. We also played a game to divide us into teams. Each of us was given 20 points to administrate to different skills based on our personal abilities and experiences. Then we tried to match people with opposite skills within teams. This way we were able to create fairly equal teams so that in each team there would be people with different skill sets that were required f...

Video installations  Breath  and  Protection  by our Fine art lecturer Fanni Niemi-Junkola in the Finlayson Art Area  exhibition 9.6.-27.8.2017. The videoworks are located in Gallery Himmelblau 2. floor. Cinematography by Film and TV lecturer Tommi Moilanen.  The film crew included graduates from TAMK: Ville Hakonen , Sanni Hujanen and Jyrimatti Holm .  The camera for Protection, Mira Rasi.  The music was composed by Pekko Käppi. The installations were first exhibited in Berlin in 2016. http://finlaysonartarea.fi http://finlaysonartarea.fi/faa-2017-taiteilijat / https://www.facebook.com/finlaysonartarea/?fref=ts Text: Fanni Niemi-Junkola  Senior Lecturer / Head of Fine Art Study Path Degree Program in Media and Arts Tampere University of Applied Sciences  (TAMK) Mediapolis, Tohlopinranta 31 33270 Tampere FINLAND email: fanni.niemi-junkola@tamk.fi Tel. +358 50 3562803 www.tamk.fi

Eeverest started as a trio formed by two music production students Niko Mansikka-aho and Marcus Tikkanen in 2014 and it got introduced for a bigger audience by participating on UMK15-song contest.  However, journey ended at 2nd semifinal and gradually after that the group made changes for Eeverest line-up and started building up a new brand. Nowadays, Niko Mansikka-aho is presented as the main guy in Eeverest. Marcus Tikkanen is also involved in the project, but is hitting from the back and co-writing songs with Niko. On summer 2016 goals and deadlines were set for Eeverest and they started to create a portfolio of songs to be presented. The school has been also a major help pushing this project forward by organizing annual songwriting camps in Leeuwarden , Netherlands. Of course you need to really show dedication and skills, but also have a bit of luck to gain success from there. Niko and Marcus both got some of their contacts through the songwriting camp and it really...

Interested in seeing what Alexandra Mitiku , Veera Nelimarkka,   Elina Pasanen and Anniina Pasanen have been working on this semester? In the first months, the girls have been learning about managing an exhibition, and since April, they have had the chance to create the artworks. Come and see the results! Last Friday they arraged a pop up –exhibition in Pyynikki’s Trikootehdas. If you didn’t have time to go see the works, fear not! The exhibition opens up again, this time at a cultural centre called Uulu, in 2.6. The exhibition opening will be held at 17-19. The exhibition will be in Uulu for three weeks, so if you cannot make it to the opening, there is a lot of time to go and visit the gallery later. Welcome!

Last week we finished with one of the workshops of the Platinum Project! We had supervising teachers and project team members visiting us from Beijing and Hong Kong. Last time in Hong Kong we had formed four groups, and recently we had also received new team members from an university in Beijing and the university of Tampere. All in all the teams were formed from at least four different study paths! Within the teams we had many roles, and managed to split the work for everyone. The different team roles included programmers, UI designers, web designers, project coordinators, sound designers and of course, 3D artists.  In all the teams we had made our own plans on how to merge virtual reality and nature elements together in a way that we could improve the player's well being. In total we have now had three different Platinum workshops. Last time in October we focused on designing the game concept while visiting Hong Kong, and this time we had an intense developing workshop here in Ta...

Every year, students from Music Production study path at Degree Programme in Media travel to music festivals and conferences to learn networking skills and to promote their own projects.  This student-made short documentary follows  Mark Malyshev , Karri Mikkonen and Simeon Puukari as they work on their music and travel to Brighton’s The Great Escape Festival to promote their projects. It’s a story of working hard and learning from ups and downs. The next batch of music production students are heading to Brighton again next week, as The Great Escape Festival launches on Thursday, 18th of May. Filmed and edited by: Sami Lindfors Ida Tokola

Moe Mustafa WHEN A RAINBOW IS BLACK.  The performance tells three stories of physical and sexual assault that happen to homosexual people. However, the performance looks at these experiences from family and social point of view. It is an episodic performance that only focuses on the traumatic part of the story and the social perception. Personally, the process of directing WHEN A RAINBOW IS BLACK has been hard and rough, every day I had to come up with solution, decision and most of all visualizing the heavy material that I had written in the script, in which one of the story is my own experience. Working with professional actors, without knowing them beforehand, is challenging, but the key is to build trust between the director and the actors. As a director, I must assure the actors that I’m there for them and I won’t put them in danger. I have to let them know that they can rely on me when something happens. All sorts of ...