Alessia Giugno presentation

Hello everybody!

I´m Alessia Giugno, an Italian student who came in Tampere for an exchange experience.
I came here in August and I was supposed to stay only six months but considering that I like living in Tampere, I have extended for other three months, so that I´ll be studying here till May. Tourism and events communication are the two fields of study I´m really interested in and I have chosen the first like my major subject.
In March I started my work placement in Tamk University of Applied Sciences,under the supervision of the Professor Cai Melakoski, the Head of the Media Degree Programme .
My role is to take care about the external communication of the International Week that will take place in May (from the 3rd to the 7th) and to manage all the practical staff concerning hotel arrangements, how to reach Tampere, what you can do in your free time and so forth.
I´ll be very happy to help you and to answer to all your questions.

See you soon.

International Week&TAF Workshop: How to Create Tension in Fiction Film

Cristina Perales and Rosa Pons hosted a workshop at our school also September 2009

The last but not least of the seven International Week workshops we present is hosted by Cristina Perales and Rosa Pons from University of Vic, Barcelona. They illustrate the workshop:

The  workshop we will offer at International Week 2010 of TAF, How to Create Tension in Fiction Film, will be focused on the relation between shooting and dramatic tension.

Frequently we work on large or short shoots and its value inside the story, and sometimes the result of this combination has nothing to be with the idea or aim written in the script. Our proposal let us to study and define vectors inside the scene following the intention of the script-writing and this brings up to a coherence in the audiovisual narration using cinematography visual expression possibilities.
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Read about the previous cooperative project of our two universities, the Doble Click Festival

TAF Programme Published ||| TAFfin ohjelma julki

Click on the "TAF '10 Programme" menu above; you'll find what TAF includes this year. There will be more programme and new information frequently, so it's a good idea to come back every now and then.

Also the "International Week May 3-7" is now loaded with information, updates will follow.

Klikkaa "TAF '10 ohjelma" -valikkoa yllä, ja näet mitä TAF tänä vuonna tarjoaa. Sivulle on vielä odotettavissa lisäyksiä ja uutta tietoa, joten Sinun kannattaa käydä katsomassa silloin tällöin.
Myös kansainvälisen viikon valikon "International Week May 3-7" alta löytyy nyt paljon tietoa kansainvälisestä viikosta.

International Week Workshop&TAF: Fiat Lux - Let There Be Light

„Availabe light is any kind of light I can get my hands on“ (W. Eugene Smith)

Using additional flash light in photography is one possibility to divide light from darkness. It can be a tool to alter the appearance of the scene being photographed in different ways. For example can it be used as main light, as fill light or it can even mimic the behavior of ambient light. But before we are able to use flash light in a way that adds to instead of destracting our picture we have to discover the different applications and qualities of it.

Using supplementary light is not merely a matter of adding more illumination to the scene. There are questions raised that go beyond technical considerations. Additional Flash light can have a profound effect on a subjects behavior. All eyes will turn towards us after we intrude to a scene and just fire a flash. We have to be aware of this fact. The presence of the flash can be even conspicuous to the point where it actually becomes an actor.

The workshop "Fiat Lux" is meant as a practical and theoretical introduction to flash photography and we will learn more about its unique properties. Students have the possibility to discuss images made by different photographers and different concepts of flash photography and they can apply their gained knowledge toward shooting assignments to perform with Digital SLR and additional flash units.

Light is all around us. Let's start exploring !

The workshop is given by Diplom Media Designer and freelance photographer Alexander Lembke who is teaching photography at the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus – University in Weimar.

International Week Workshop and TAF: Nou&Herkauw

The result of the workshop will be experienced at TAF Party May 7

Nou&Herkauw@TAF'09

Nou&Herkauw is a collective of artists and students who work in several disciplines such as media art, graphic design, illustration, and theatre. In collaboration with students of the Academy for Popculture they develop all kinds of interactive VJ performances for cultural events and dance events through out Holland.

The setup of Nou&Herkauw is most similar to an OpenLab. The basic idea of a performance is that it starts with totally nothing and that all the visual content is created on the spot during the event. This can be anything! What starts with nothing evolutes to one big dynamic composition of animations, looped sketches, errors, mobile phone streams, live paintings, and so on. Projected on screens or walls in the rhythm of the music of the DJ’s or musicians. The visitors of the event are invited to participate and become makers in this collective creative process.

Idea for TAF
In the workshop during the international week of TAF, Nou&Herkauw will develop a live performance for official TAF party at Friday the 7th of May. The Lab of Nou&Herkauw is a collection of different low-tech/high-tech techniques and modules, that all together form the setup in which artists and visitors can create their visuals. 
Examples of different modules are: Animation tools, cameras, twitter based vj tools, etc. The objective of the workshop is to develop a collection of modules and techniques, which combined form an OpenLab at the TAF party. The students will develop and also perform their concepts.


The objectives of the workshop are:

• An exchange of ideas, experience and knowledge between international students.
• Gaining more knowledge of developing and realising interactive performance concepts.
• An introduction to VJ techniques and culture, creative programming (Isadora, Processing, Max/Msp Jitter), and theatre performance.
• Establish a durable collaboration trajectory between the participating students and universities.

Adri Schokker, teacher at the Academy for Popculture and creative artist at Nou&Herkauw will host the workshop. There will also be students from the Academy of Popculture and other international students.

Ghost Ride - Part 1 of Timo Bredenberg's Graduation Work Online

Sold Out - TAMK fine art graduation show 2010
8.-30.5. Exhibition Hall TR1 (Finlayson)
8.-25.5. Art Centre Mältinranta
Lue tämä juttu suomeksi (Read this story in Finnish)

Sold Out is the exhibition of 19 artists who graduate this spring from the Degree Programme in Fine Art of Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). The opening of the exhibition is one of the highlights of Tampere Art Factory festival.

Timo Bredenberg is one of the Sold Out artists. He has published the first part of his final thesis work online. Your comments are welcome.



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Preface by Timo Bredenberg:
In my recent practice I have observed youth cultural phenomena and social attitudes spreading in the Internet. I'm interested in the ways identity is represented in media spaces and how mediated publics affect our social behaviour.
This video is a part of two channel installation observing ghost riding phenomenon.
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Timo Bredenberg's channel Social Media Art on YouTube (Give feedback here)

Tampere Art Factory
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International Week Workshops: Creative Editing

Elie Yazbek hosted the workshop also last year

Elie Yazbek, responsible of cinema studies at Saint Joseph's University, Beirut, will host the Creative Editing workshop of our International Week May 3-7. Elie comments his second visit to Tampere: "I'm very happy to join TAF team again in May 2010 during the international week, TAF students are really full of energy and need to express themselves!"

The workshop Creative Editing will start with a lecture, the first day, about the multiple theories and practice of editing through the history of cinema. This will provide the students the tools for the second part of the workshop: each student will have to create, through testing and experimentations, a video with footage imposed by the lecturer to the entire group. The main objectives are to train the students to be creative in the editing process and to understand the relationship between storytelling and editing.

Parallel to the work on the videos, students will be asked to show some of their previous short films made at TAMK and to discuss the editing choices with the lecturer and the other students.

Saint Joseph University 

There are now seven registered workshops led by our international partners during our international week. We will introduce them all, until now we have presented:
Interactive Cinema Workshop
"Are You Talking to Me?!" -workshop
Design Spam Workshop

International Week Workshops: Design Spam

Interaction designer and lecturer Pawel Pokutycki from the the Design & Communication department of the Hanze University Groningen (Academy Minerva) will host a one day workshop on day two of our International Week (May 3rd) titled:

Design Spam - workshop on conceptual and experimental approach to interaction design

Pawel explains to contents and targets of the workshop:
88% of all e-mails sent worldwide is spam, what gives about 130 billion messages per day, 84 million per minute, 1.4 million per second.

Why waste the potential of this powerful media concept and focus only on anti-spam defense instead of appreciating its beauty, improving its functionality and creating a new on-line communication tool of tomorrow?

In times when new media concepts die as quickly as they are born (and social media, augmented reality, spimes etc, are no exception!), interaction designers should never blindly follow any trends, nor should they entirely ignore the vanishing inventions of the past. Instead, they should experiment more, be critical, question the logic of contemporary communication tools, hack media reality as it is now and prototype unexpected solutions for the future.

We take spam not as a destination, but only a departure point for an inspiring, creative session based on:

• learning efficient methods of concept development for interactive media
• exploring the boundaries and experimenting with various applications of interactive media in the field communication design
• discussing contemporary trends and future scenario's related to the discipline of interaction design
• questioning the functionality and aesthetics of selected communication platforms and media environments

There are now seven registered workshops led by our international partners during our international week. We will introduce them all, until now we have presented:
Interactive Cinema Workshop
"Are You Talking to Me?!" -workshop

"Are You Talking to Me?!" Workshop on our International Week

Alex and Patrick in Tampere May 2009

Patrick Deters and Alex Reuneker, our partner Hague UAS Communication and Multimedia Design Programme lecturers, will lead one of the workshops of our International Week May 3-7.

The decription of this four day workshop on persona's, creative concepts and programming in Processing is like:

"All communication in the world has a purpose. Bringing people together, making sure everybody knows you're mad or just to clarify a point! But how do you communicate specifically to a child, a grandfather, beatnik or goth through interactive media? We'll be using webcams to convey a message... Do you have something to tell?"

Patrick and Alex visited our International Week and Tampere Art Factory festival last year for the first time. We are happy to welcome them back!

Hague University of Applied Sciences
Communication&Multimedia Design Programme blog
Read the report about our visit to Hague UAS
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