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A screenshot from the virtual space. Virtual Gallery is a virtual experience designed for VR headsets and will be shown during the exhibition HOT FUTURES in Himmelblau Gallery which you can read more about in the previous post. It presents artworks of graduating students and lets users examine, interact and experiment with art in a virtual space. The Virtual Gallery will also be available during the International week at Mediapolis campus between April 24th to April 27th. The gallery is a part of TAMK’s Smart Art project and started as an opportunity to show young artists and their artworks to a wider audience. Students from different study paths combined their knowledge to include not only art but, music and sound design for the different environments to create the best possible result. Virtual Gallery is a way for traditional art to exist and develop in new media formats such as VR. It gives the chance to immerse yourself in a different world and experience the works, perhaps in a...

WHAT: Degree show of TAMK's graduating Fine Art students WHERE: Grafiikanpaja Himmelblau WHEN: 19.4.-9.5.2018 The class of 2014 from Tampere University of Applied Sciences Fine Art path is reaching the end of their studies. Together they have arranged an exhibition where everyone’s thesis works will be displayed. This degree show will be available for the public between the 19 th of April and the 9 th of May in Himmelblau’s gallery. Himmelblau is the leading art gallery and graphic studio in Finland. After being founded back in 1989 they have helped and collaborated with over a hundred artists. They help with the journey of an art piece by exhibiting it and selling the productions of the artists. The works that will be featured are done by (from left to right) Veera Nelimarkka, Juuso Kuivila, Julia Matinniemi, Nicolo Arnoldi, Isa Hedez, Khalid Imran, Anniina Puiras, Alexandra Mitiku, Lavinia Nuvola, Konsta Koivisto, Riina Haapakallio, and Mikael Seidler. Our graduating year has p...

WHAT: TAMK Art, Music and Media 11th International Week WHERE: Mediapolis campus Tampere WHEN: 24.4.-27.4.2018 It’s time again for the annual International Week and we’re hitting the 11 th consecutive year of the event. As usual we have exciting workshops to share with you and this time we come to you with a lot of interesting workshops about trans-media, Virtual Reality, Film & television, awesome performances and exhibitions and many many more great programmes. And all of this for free! As the tradition dictates the TAMK Art, Music and Media International Week has gathered over 150 partners and friends from 30 countries to Mediapolis in Tampere to share their experiences and knowledge. Our teachers, students, partners and friends all work together to bring you this amazing opportunity. The main point is for everyone to learn from each other during these four intensive days. A picture from last year’s iWeek featuring some of the participants and people who were involved in mak...

We have class meetings once a week to coordinate, follow up on budget plans, divide tasks and plan the layout of the exhibition.   It is that time of the year when things start heating up. And not just the weather. The class of 2014 from the Fine Art path are blazing a trail as they leave TAMK and enter the art scene/world. Every student has been putting their projects together during their final year. It is time to display the assorted collection of works. Our topics range from endangered species to cultural challenges; our techniques from paintings to virtual reality; our moods from heavy to light; and our tones from melancholic to ironic. The exhibition will last until the 9th of May and the opening will be on the 19th of April, in the Himmelblau Gallery at 17:00 . Everyone is warmly welcome to join! Follow our website for regular updates and a closer look at each artist and their works:  www.hotfutures2018.co m Text & photos: Alexandra Mitiku 2018 The before picture. ...

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. ...