Tampere Art Factory kicked off

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 yesterday 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.

The first of the ten International Week Workshops started yesterday morning, the series of six seminars will kick off today. The climax of the week will be the open day and opening of the exhibitions on Friday.

The week offers TAMK members and friends a good chance to be familiar with Finlayson degree programmes and many TAMK partner universities and institutions. Below please find a collection of events which wish you warmly welcome:

Seminars at Spede, Finlayson Campus 2nd floor

• Tue, Wed and Thu afternoons 1 to 4 PM Awesome Art&Media seminars 1 to 3. Topical talks about current art and media issues and partner university introductions
• Wed 9 to 12 AM Triple Helix - Innovation and Academic/Public/Private cooperation
• Thu 9 to 12 AM Higher education promoting social development
• Fri 9:30 to 12 AM Highway to Entrepreneurship - People and Stories Behind the Statistics (at café, 2nd floor)

Films, animations, games and web projects:

• Thu 4 to 6 PM Kino TAMK, Café
• Fri 10 AM to 5 PM Demos, games, animations, Donner and Café
• Fri 12 AM to 5 PM 12-17 Cinema screenings, Teatteri and Kuvaopetusluokka

Exhibitions:
P.S. a pic would be nice
Graduating Exhibition of fine art students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences
April 16 - May 3  Mältinranta Artcenter (Kuninkaankatu 2)
April 16 - May 15 TR1 Kunsthalle (Väinö Linnan aukio 13)

• April 7 - 17 Soft Values, installation, Ikuinen Gallery
• April 8 - May 15 Graduation exhibition of TAMK Specialization Studies on Photography students Tessa Ojala and Annu Salminen
• April 12 -15 The outputs of socialist advertising in Soviet Estonia by Evelin Urm (Tartu, Estonia)
• April 16 - May 15 Polyamoria, Gallery Nottbeck featuring works by students from Canada, South Korea and TAMK students

More information following the links:
International Week guest organisations and the workshops
International Week Seminars Tue-Thu
TAF seminar Highway to Entrepreneurship
TAF home

Nature, nature, nature (Greetings from Berlin)

Parasites, 2010, silk flowers, approx. 3 x 2 x 4 m

Skulpturenpark Berlin Centrum is a part-time sculpture park in the very heart of Berlin, on the ancient border of the eastern and western parts of the city. The park consists of two separate lots, one big savannah-like wild park, while the other has piles of old bricks and sand among the grass and trees. Between art exhibitions, the sites wait for a new owner offering the locals a nice place to walk their dogs.

I was invited to participate in a group exhibition in Skulpturenpark Berlin Centrum in June 2010 by Katharina Hohmann, head of the Sculpture department at HEAD - Geneva University of Art and Design where I took part in an exchange program in fall 2009. In Berlin we worked together with a group of students from the Universität der Künste Berlin. The idea behind the exhibition was trying to find new points of view in the relationship between men and urban nature.

We Finns have this sacred relationship with nature. Although our lives no longer follow the rhythm of the day, nor very much even that of the seasons, it wasn't until about 60 years ago that we really abandoned the countryside and moved to the cities. And still, every summer, everyone who has the opportunity will head to the woods for a few months and live a quiet life in a modest house nearby a lake. I guess this is a way to remember the close relationship we used to have with nature.

So now that we spend most of our time in cities, parks are appreciated and we want them to be taken care of. Considering the longing we have for the countryside and forests, I don't see why urban nature could not have a bit more in common with the nature we so badly miss. Instead of wild flowers, we have planted bright arrangements of decorative flowerpots, often meant to guide pedestrians or to separate car lanes from each other. Trees stand in their small holes on the neatly cut grass. Everything is bright, colorful and extremely controlled.

According to me, time is the key element missing in urban nature. In a city, you can't really observe time passing by. Plants have limited areas to grow in, and they're kept neatly inside them. You will see no battle between the species. Nothing takes place unless the city's park department decides so, and nothing really changes gradually. In spring time, flowers appear from nowhere, and when they die, they're replaced. What would happen if we controlled the nature in our surroundings just a bit less ?

One funny story about our twisted relationship with nature is when I decided to help some neighbors to clean the inner yard of our building and prepare the garden for the summer. I asked about the fruits that one of our blooming trees would bear. "Decorative apples" the neighbor said. When I asked why they did not plant real apples, she said the organization had made this decision to prevent people from fighting over the apples. "Ok." This is when I figured something really weird happened to the way we understand nature and its resources.

It's fun to imagine, what a city would look like in, let's say, 10 years, if the nature that finds its way there was considered sacred and every seed that starts to grow would be left in peace. Alright, this might not be a perfect situation either, but I think the least we could do, is to declare all the unsold lots to be natural reserves. Then we, and generations to come, could observe how vegetation and animals would take over it. Sure, it would take time. But it would be a fun reminder of the real rhythm of nature, and the fact that it does not, in reality, care about our expectations, aestethical preferences or our desire for quick results. Possibly we would, in the process, come up with new ways of co-existing.

Story and picture: Maija Kovari

Links:
Maija Kovari
Skulpturenpark
Universität der Künste, Berlin
Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design, Genève
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Part 1: Pirkkala photography exhibition by Douglas Symon is now open!

Photographs that move
Photography Exhibition by Douglas Symon
Part 1: Pirkkala
30th August - 11th September
Metso Library, Pirkankatu 2 Tampere
Opening times:
Mon - Fri 10am - 8pm
Sat 10am - 4pm

The art of making pictures with light is on show at the Tampere Main Library Metso for the next two weeks.  Having just started the Degree Programme in Media at TAMK my project Photographs that move can be seen between today, Monday 30th August, and Saturday 11th September.  The exhibition focuses on work from 2009 documenting my current home town Pirkkala.

One of the most striking aspects is the 7.5 metre panorama on display, something you probably won’t stumble upon every day of the week.  As well as other points to see the technique used is not one typically suitable for documentary photography and as a result may cross a line into art.  I have combined between 2 and 5 bracketed exposures into each image.  In the case of the panorama even more.  Hopefully you can get along to see the prints and find it interesting.  Let me know what you think!!

Story and photos: Douglas Symon

More information about the project
A book of the work is available here or directly from Douglas Symon
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The Small Ones - the official Tampere summer work of art

PIENET - The SMALL ONES
Resin, plastic animals
June 1 - August 31
By Laura Laukkanen and Fanni Maliniemi, the official City of Tampere summer artists 2010
Pedestrian street between the Academic Bookstore and Stockmann

 Tampere Museum of Ciontemporary Art chooses every year the Summer Artist of the year, who then creates an exhibition on the granite pedestal on Tuomiokirkonkatu. This year Laura Laukkanen and Fanni Maliniemi, students of TAMK Degree Programme in Fine Art, are the summer artists.

You can see the sculpture until end of August.
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Read more

TAMK goes Assembly

Next weekend Hartwall Areena is going to be overrun with computer enthusiasts as the summer's biggest computer and video game related event, Assembly, kicks off. And the students of Media and Interactive Design are going to right there among them. TAMK is one of the sponsors at the event, and the school's participation is being done as a student project, where the students plan and implement TAMK's marketing and presence at the event.

We aren't alone, however. We are cooperating with the Computer Engineering students from the main campus as well as other schools in Finland. TAMK is going to be represented along with other schools that offer game education, KAJAK and Turku Game Tech & Arts Lab. We have a common booth, where we will be showing and playing the games made by the students and giving information on the various programmes in the schools.

Even though this is the first post about the subject, we've been working on the project whole summer. We've been designing badges (see pic), fliers, even got ourselves a sponsorship from ASUS in the form of a touchscreen computer that we will use to run our interactive tour of  TAMK Finlayson campus. We're also going to have sweets and other give outs like any good booth.

If you're at Assembly next weekend, come swing by our booth and say hello! If you can't, follow the blog from Thursday to Sunday, we'll be reporting from the event here!


Story: Eevi Korhonen

Assembly Summer 2010

Ars Viikinsaari 10: Fine Art meets nature

ARS VIIKINSAARI 10
Environmental Art Exhibition
July 1 - August 11 2010
In July daily, not on Mondays in August
Departure from Laukontori harbor every hour
Boat tickets: Adults 10 €, senior citizens and students 8 €, children (age 4–17) 5 €.

Welcome to the vernissage Thu 1.7. 5pm

Viikinsaari is a beautiful summer recreation island only 20 minutes boat trip away from Tampere city center. Every summer the Fine Art students of TAMK host an environmental art exhibition on the island in cooperation with the City of Tampere Cultural Office and Suomen Hopealinja (Finnish Silverline). This year the exhibition is called Ars Viikinsaari 10.

The artists are: Liisa Ahlfors, Anne Lehtelä, Jyri Lisowsky, Ninni Luhtasaari, Minna Mukari and Viika Sankila.

The exhibition deals with the relation between the reality of the nature and human created culture using the methods of contemporary art. The features of city culture are brought to be a part of a nature reserve, and the scenery you are used with shift at a closer look. Some of the works are participatory, the viewer is a part of her environment for a moment.
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Viikinsaari Island (City of Tampere)
Viikinsaari Island (Finnish Silverline)
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Ars Viikinsaari 2009
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The Night of Museums tonight!

The Night of Museums
May 15 6pm-12pm

The Night of the Museums takes place tonight in Tampere, with several museums being open from 6 pm to 12 am. In addition to the beautiful exhibitions, the museums and galleries taking part in the Night of the Museums also offer various kinds of special events for their visitors. The Tampere Night of the Museums is part of a European series of events. Welcome on board!!

Entrance fee: 5 €, group ticket 12 € (max. 5 persons/group)

An old tourist bus from 1957 travels all night between the participating museums. Attendees of the Night of the Museums can get on board for the price of the entrance fee. Hop on board!

TAMK School of Art and Media is of course an active part of the event:

Fine Art graduation show "Sold Out" is open at Mältinranta and TR1. In the latter you can also see the Korean Wave photo exhibition by our Korean partners.

The Promoting Changes art exhibition is open at Labour Museum Werstas, you can also see a part of it on ste street outside.

Hysteria Publishing will perform The Great Hunt with you around Mältinranta and TR1.

You can participate in a street art act hosted by our fine art students on Väinö Linna square starting 6pm.

And finally if you're lucky; Megagagaa is open at Gallery Nottbeck, or at least you can enjoy it trough the windows.

The night of museums
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Korean Waves photographic exhibition at TAF

From Alice in wonderland by Kang Seulgi

Korean Wave
Photography Exhibition
May 8 - 30
TR1 Exhibition Centre
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson, Tampere
Open: Tue-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun  11am-6pm (Mon closed)
On Fridays free admission

One of the partner delegations visiting TAMK School of Art and Media International Week is the group of professors and students coming from the Chung-Ang University, the Korean top university for photography.

The guests bring with them the Korean Wave photography exhibition. The exhibition has already been shown last year at Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia and will be seen later this year at Galerie Lampingstrasse, Bielefeld, Germany

Professor Walter Bergmoser, curator of the exhibition:

"Korean Wave is usually connected to popculture and soap-operas. Althought the
expression “Korean wave” might not be known very well in the western part of the world, it had and still has a strong influence in whole Asia like Japan, China and South East Asia.

Nowadays it becomes more and more known to the rest of the world. It has even spreat
further to countries like South America, Russia, Hungary atc. It started in the late 1990s and improved the country‘s image considerably. The impact was so strong that it even caused some backlashes, some countries had difficulties to accept the popularity of the “korean wave”.

Though “Korean Wave” may not so strongly be connected to fine-arts, I see a potential of the same impact in the Korean photography of the new generation as in its original field. The images in this exhibition are made by young photographers from the Chung-ang University, the Korean top university for photography.

The artists are showing us their guilts, fears and hopes in a very personal way. But they also explore the contemporary Korea in a genuine combination of western influence
and Korean identity. Confucianism with its boundaries of inner world and outer shame,
the “losing face” and filial piety are still strong in the Korean society, whereas the technical standards are far ahead from us in daily life."

The artists:

Hong Bonggi
Kang Dayoung
Kang Seulgi
Kim Jihye
Kim Minjeong
Kwon Jihyun
Park Serry
Park Siyeon 

The Exhibition is a part of  TAMPERE ART FACTORY (TAF)

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TAMK students in Shanghai World Expo

Five students of Mechanical and Production Engineering, who are specialising in Industrial Engineering and Management, travel to work in the Shanghai World Expo. The World Expo will be open from the 1st of May until the 31st of October 2010.

The students are Tuomas Oikkonen, Tuomo Liukku, Jarno Lammenaho, Ville-Veikko Virolainen and Rami Iskanius.

The students will work in building services engineering repair and maintenance tasks in the Finnish Pavilion. These include the maintenance and night duties regarding the building’s security devices, communication devices, waste management and logistics.
The Expo area is five kilometres long, and about 100 million visitors are expected to visit the Expo, so there is a lot to do.

”It seems like a big challenge to go, but the biggest challenges are also the most important ones, careerwise. The future usually favours the bold. When thinking about our futures, we feel this opportunity opens up a lot of new doors in the working life, and elsewhere. The atmosphere in the team is really high and enthusiastic”, commented Iskanius.

The students were selected for the World Expo through a vast application process, and the final interviews for the applicants were carried out by the Finnish Commissioner General for Expo 2010 Pertti Huitu.

Arts Council of Finland and AVEK grants for ”Youth as a Refugee” project

Youth from Härmälä group home and Schoool of Art and Media  students in a festival against racism in Tampere 21 March at Kuusela Centre for Seniors

The community art project being made for Europe’s Capital of Culture year 2010 exhibition in Dortmund has received a grant from Arts Council of Finland and R&D grant from AVEK (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture).

Going by the working title ”Youth as a Refugee”, the project is is being made by artist Pekka Niskanen and the art students Anna Knappe, Timo Piikkilä and Jaana Riistola together with young refugees from Lammi reception centre and Härmälä group and group family homes.

AVEK’s R&D subsidy , Vieteri, is meant for the development of new forms of audiovisual expression and narrative potential.  ”Youth as a Refugee” project has also been supported by the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas and Finnish Refugee Council. During the project the team teaches the young to film and edit videos, in which they get to tell about their life in the reception centres. The finished videos will be gathered into a website that opens in summer 2010.

There will be eight art projects by TAMK Fine Art students at Dortmund’s Inter-cool 3.0 exhibition. You can learn more about Intercool 3.0 exhibition from the blog post "Art students join Damien Hirst in an exhibition".

The Inter-cool 3.0 exhibition opens 17 September in Dortmund, after which it will be also shown in Wien, Leeds and Tampere.

Text: Pekka Niskanen and Anna Knappe

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InterCool 3.0
RUHR.2010
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Art students join Damien Hirst in an exhibition

 Producer Kathleen Blumel, exhibition manager Ulla Jaskari, professor Brigit Richard, Head of the Degree Programme of Fine Art Juha Suonpää, curator Pekka Niskanen and artistic director Inke Arns inspect the exhibition plan

Artist, teacher and curator Pekka Niskanen and the Head of the Degree Programme of Fine Art Juha Suonpää visited Dortmund to negotiate about the InterCool 3.0 exhibition. The exhibition will open in September 2010 and will contain environmental, media and social works of art from world-famous artists as well as from TAMK’s fine art students.

The internationally famous names include, alongside Hirst, Isaac Julien, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky and Banksy. InterCool 3.0 is a collaboration project of images and media spaces, where TAMK’s international partners are the Frankfurt University and Hartware MedienKunstVerein. The exhibition will tour Dortmund, Vienna and Leeds, and will arrive to Finland, to Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, in 2011.

 

The exhibition will be executed in the U-culture centre which will be renovated in the centre of Dortmund

In conjunction with planning the InterCool 3.0 exhibition, an Erasmus collaboration agreement was signed between TAMK and Frankfurt University. This enables international mobility for both students and staff.

Text: Juha Suonpää

Inter-cool 3.0 is a part of RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture.
InterCool 3.0
RUHR.2010
Damien Hirst (Wikipedia)

Greetings from Canada!

I have spent my autumn semester as an exchange student in Toronto, Ontario College of Art & Design on The Faculty of Art. Studying in another country has been an eye-opening experience that has helped me to concentrate to develop the content of my artistic work as much as improve technical part of artistic process.

Best part in my exchange has been interaction with the people from different cultures. An exchange has enriched my ways to express myself on the field of photography and refresh my perception through interesting conversations with other students and faculty members.

I have been also lucky enough to get some custom-works to do. That has really improved my financial situation.

Besides working in here I have continued my studies in Finland with art project Route Couture, which was part of AVO – Cotton Wool Revolution in Tampere 24.10- 22.11.09. Route Couture presented a fur-fashion collection made of the fur and skin of the Finnish roadkill. By showing the skin of a roadkill as an expensive piece of high fashion, Route Couture questioned general opinions on beauty, luxury, marketing values and truths, and justification of the use of “common” space.

Karoliina Paappa

Read more about the exhibition:

Route Couture (in English)
Article on Fifi (in Finnish)

Picture: Series: Tyttö on kova suustaan, untitled, 2009.

Fine Art Students' Exhibition in Tartu

MAAVARA (Ride Height)
Galleria Ferrodrum
Tartu Kultuuritehas
Pikk 58/62, 2nd floor
Tartu, Estonia

Welcome to vernissage July 24 at 7 pm!

Four TAMK School of Art and Media Fine Art students open their exhibition Maavara (Ride Hight) tomorrow at the Ferrodrum gallery at Tartu Kultuuritehas (Tartu Culture Factory) in the second largest city of Estonia, Tartu.

The exhibition perceives meanings connected to habitation trough e.g. national celebrities, sense of security and political commentary. The works emphasize habitation as staying locally in a space of architecture as well as living in a broader cultural sphere.

The methods used to create the works are photography, drawing and installation.

The artists are Jussi Koitela, Jaana Laakkonen, Tanel Päll and Mia Saharla.

Picture: Sportlased ja linn 13 by Tanel Päll

Galleria Ferrodrum
Tartu

TAMK School of Art and Media Exhibitions and TV shows in July

TAMK is having summer holidays, but the fine art students are busy with exhibitions and the Finnish National Broadcasting Company YLE shows nine School of Art and Media films in July.

ARS VIIKINSAARI 09
Environmental Art Exhibition
12.7.-15.8.2009
In July daily, not on Mondays in August
Departure from Laukontori harbor every hour
Boat tickets: Adults 8 €, senior citizens and students 7 €, children (age 4-17) 4 €.
Read more

Tourist Information art Project
10.7 18 - 9.8.
Galleria Huoltamo
Suvantokatu 4 Tampere
Read more (Only in Finnish)

On TV:

If I Fall (Jos kaadun) by Hannaleena Hauru
TV1 Tuesday 14.7.2009 2:00 - 2:15 pm
Read more


The YLE Documentary Project shows July 22 seven TAMK School of Art and Media documentaries with the title "Tulevaisuuden tekijät" - Makers of the Future.

TV2 Wednesday 22.7.
at 23:00 Expensive Shit - Melko kallista paskaa by Antti Tuomikoski

More

23:45 - 00:48 short documentaries:
Ilkka Rautio: Treasured Waters - Ei vettä rantaa rakkaampaa
Seija Hirstiö: Hiljaisuus
Kristiina Lehto: Asperger syndroomaisen päiväkirja
Jussi Autio: Up with attitude - Askel asenteella
Henna Inkinen: Viimeinen päivä
Helena Yli-Kyyny: Sotilasmuistioni

All the films will be presented in the blog in Finnish of the School of Art and Media starting Thursday July 16.

And the final TAMK film shown by YLE in July is:

YRITÄ EES! Hey Please! by Maiju Asikainen
TV2 29.7.2009 at 22.55
Hey Please!

Ars Viikinsaari 09

ARS VIIKINSAARI 09
Environmental Art Exhibition
12.7.-15.8.2009
In July daily, not on Mondays in August
Departure from Laukontori harbor every hour
Boat tickets: Adults 8 €, senior citizens and students 7 €, children (age 4–17) 4 €.

Welcome to the vernissage Sat 11.7. 19:00-00:30

Viikinsaari is a beautiful summer recreation island only 20 minutes boat trip away from Tampere city center. Every summer the Fine Art students of TAMK School of Art and Media host an environmental art exhibition on the island in cooperation with the City of Tampere Cultural Office. This year the exhibition is called Ars Viikinsaari 09.

The artists are: Vera Arjoma, Anni Hujala, Riikka Kunnari, Tuija Lappalainen, Petra Lukkari, Vili Nissinen, Karoliina Paappa, Kristian Tuomainen and Päivi Viinikainen.

The artists describe their work:
"The reality of the nature and human created culture meet at the Ars Viikinsaari 09 exhibition. Nine artists take in various ways advantage of the means of modern art in their works. The works open a dialogue with the environment and the viewer, inviting to reflect on the human relationship with nature, its meaning and essence.

The works communicate about the tension between the momentary and the permanent, about the effects of deeds and events, and the desire and longing of the human to be close to the nature, although grown away. The methods used include sculpture, photography and installations. In some of the works recycled materials, even waste have been used.

Nature does not consider which social class humans belong to, it is the same for everyone. And the human traces are ultimately the same."

Viikinsaari island
Photos "Making of Ars Viikinsaari" by Vili Nissinen

TAMK goes green

TAMK goes Green this spring! Are you?

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We warmly welcomed hundreds of visitors to our Go Green event which was held on the 23^rd of April at the Teiskontie campus. Our exhibition was filled with fifteen tables in which numerous sponsors came to talk to student, display their products and participate in our event.

The participating companies were; UPM, Pirkanmaan Porakaivo, Pirkanmaan Jätehuolto, Suntrica, Vegaaniliitto and Runsaudensarvi, DODO, the Green Party and the Ikimono Creative Agency. The areas of expertise were; organic goods, recycled fashion, solar energy and thermal heating and much more.

We had three lecture hours, the first was ‘Material and Energy saving through Engineering Mechanics’ presented by Gerd Mühlenbeck from Germany, Sanna Huikuri of DODO, Helsinki and a series of mini-lectures; ‘Aspects of Change’ focusing on and presented by, the Green Party, the Carrot Mob, Solar Technology and Ethical Business/Customer Decisions.

We had two documentaries shown; one being ‘Garbage: the Revolution Begins at Home’ and ‘Recipes for Disaster’. Both documentary screenings were accompanied by free popcorn and soda.

Our fair item was an organic cotton shopping bag which we sold for one euro at the event. TAMK was very satisfied with the success of this environmental fair and we are looking forward to doing it again next year.

Tampere Art Factory Soon Ready for You

The second edition of Tampere Art Factory (TAF) is taking shape. You can already find the basic programme information at TAF website, and shortly there will be loads of more.

TAF is above all a demonstration of the skills and talent of the graduates and other students of the School of Art and Media at TAMK University of Applied Sciences, and their friends. This year also the music and media students of Pirkanmaa University of Applied Sciences contribute to TAF programme.

The main structure of both festival days, May 15 and 16 is the same, there will be:

• Screenings of fictional short films, documentaries and animations. There are seven sets of screenings, each with its own titel like "This Story is True - Documentaries", "Escape or Decision - life is a set of choices" and "Tobacco, Booze and Wild Ladies - Music Films". A schedule of the screenings will later be published also in English.
• Diskurssidisko – Fine art students' graduation exhibition at Art Centre Mältinranta and TR1 Exhibition Centre. Diskurssidisko has a website which will soon be published in English.
• Games and web media at Demola
• TAF lounge – music videos, animations etc. all day long
• Clubs at restaurant Laterna both nights
• much more

Also the workshops of the International Week of the School of Art and Media will present their results at TAF. Some 40 teachers and students from our international partner universities will attend the international week and TAF.

On Saturday there are two other events TAF is going to cooperate with, the Night of The Museums and the Markets of Possibilities of Tampere Social Forum. TAF will contribute to both with dance shows and performances.

Tampere Art Factory
The Night of the Museums
The Markets of Possibilities
Demola

Read all stories about TAF in the School of Art and Media blog

TAMK Goes Green on Thursday

Students, teachers and staff are warmly welcomed to discover ways to work and live green.

'Go Green' examines the future of green business and research; in addition to introducing ways to get involved in green actions both locally and globally. 'Go Green' presents lectures and challenging films to spark dialog.

Schedule on Thursday April 23

09.30 Material and energy saving through Engineering Mechanics, Dr. Gerd Mühlenbeck (Room D1-02)
10.30 Aspects of Change, mini-lecture series (Room D1-02)
11.30 Lunch break
12.00 Garbage: The Revolution Begins At Home, Documentary Film (Auditorium D1-04)
13.30 Green in Everyday, Sanna Huikuri (Room D1-02)
14.30 Recipes for Disaster, Documentary Film (Auditorium D1-04)

10.00-15.30 Exhibition area open for all

All lectures and films will be presented in English.
Free popcorn for movie-goers!

Lectures

Material and energy saving through Engineering Mechanics, Gerd Mühlenbeck (45 min)

Dr. Mühlenbeck demonstrates what we can achieve by using engineering mechanics to save material and energy in addition to explosion protection in accordance with European Standards such as ATEX.

Being Green Everyday, Sanna Huikuri (45 min)

Sanna Huikuri (Dodo ry) is an Environmental Engineer (Tamk '03), Master's student in Environmental Sciences/Renewable energy and active in environmental organizations. Huikuri will discuss daily green questions and decisions affecting us all. Huikuri emphasizes how meaningful everyday decisions are to the big picture of environmental issues. Choosing green is a modern responsible lifestyle for everyone, not the marginal actions of environmental groups. Huikuri brings new points of views to what changes in our environment affects, not only climate change but it also causes other issues such as poverty.

Aspects of Change, mini-lecture series (50 min)

• The Green Party (Tampereen Vihreät nuoret- Virnu ry) will discuss how environmental issues can be approached and affected from a political point of view.
• The Carrot Mob (Porkkanamafia) will introduce the activities of The Carrot Mob and the successes they have achieved in environmental areas.
• Elle Yli-Ojanperä, Creative Producer - Ethical business and customer decisions.
• Suntrica - Solar charging goes personal. Suntrica will spark a conversation about utilizing green technology and business practices.

Films

Go Green will be presenting two must-see feature length documentary films which will challenge the viewer to rethink the disposable lifestyle that is draining our environment.

Recipes for Disaster (FIN, 85 min)
This is a film about climate change. About catastrophe. And it's funny, painfully funny. We love to blame the corporations and industries for what's going wrong with the planet, but we are mistaken. It's us, baby. You and me. We're the real bad guys.

This film shows that at the core of the impending climate catastrophe are those little failures that we as individuals make every day, and which are so much a part of human nature. All the everyday stuff that we don't do, or that we can't help doing, that eventually lead to destruction. The film shows thirteen of these little recipes for disaster.
A documentary film, a comedy of errors, about a subject too serious to ignore.
-John Webster, Director and Writer

Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home (CAN, 76 min)
Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home is a feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time.

Concerned for the future of his new baby boy Sebastian, writer and director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it's doing to the world. The McDonalds discover that for every action there is a reaction that affects them and the entire planet.

Everyday life under a microscope has never been so revealing. By the end of this trashy odyssey, you are truly inspired to revolutionize your lifestyle for the sake of future generations.

Exhibition

The Exhibition area will be open 10-15.30, with a selection of green companies, projects and organizations. A variety of tables will be set up around the info café lobby, presenting a variety of goods, ranging from; organic, recycled, fashion, solar energy, thermal heating, etc. Tampere local brand Trad. will be presenting the idea of social design and recycled materials with a gallery of fashion pieces.

Go Green is organized by TAMK Consulting Academy with the support of the Research & Development Department and International Business Programme of TAMK. TAMK Consulting Academy is a group of International Business students working on a variety of projects throughout Finland as well as internationally. The event is produced in cooperation with students from the Finnish Media Degree Programme of TAMK.

Go Green

TAMK Art Exhibition in New York

Pekka Ruuska and Teemu Räsänen - fourth year students of our Fine Arts Programme - made a successful exhibition in Syracuse, New York. They were joined by Inga Mustakallio who graduated last year and works today in Geneva.

The 12 hour exhibition included performances, a workshop in erotic art, community art, drawings and paintings. The local audience seemed to be very interested in Finnish art and artists.

Pekka Ruuska commented: Even though we live an era of globalization, there's still big cultural differences between Europe and the U.S. The different cultural backgrounds generate art forms that stand out from the customary art around us. This brought the audience to experience something they did not expect coming to the exhibition.

Video from the exhibition at Post Standard

TAMK Art Exhibition in Miskolc

Karton Szalon Gallery in Miscolc, the Hungarian twin city of the City of Tampere, shows an art exhibition of young artists from Tampere. All the artists are TAMK Fine Art Programme graduates from last year or still students of the programme.

The exhibition is arranged by the City of Tampere Culture Department in cooperation with the City of Miskolc and the Miskolc Art Museum. The local press and television notized the opening of the exhibition. It is open February 3-22.

The artists of the exhibition are:

Hannamari Matikainen, photographs
Kaija Papu, photographs
Sanni Seppä, paintings
Jere Seppänen, installation
Samppa Törmälehto, installation
Jarno Vesala, installation

Videoworks:
Risto-Pekka Blom
Henna Inkinen
Kaija Papu
Sanni Rajapolvi

There is also a TAMK School of Art and Media corner screening a collection of fine art student's video works.

Story: Minna Suoniemi