TAF Klubi offers fresh sounds and vibes

Desert Planet

TAF visitors will be treated with auditory pleasure and interesting live performances at Klubi 15th April. We will be also celebrating graduating students so it definitely won't be your typical Friday night.

The stage will be occupied by electronic group Desert Planet, hip-hop act Timi Lexikon and the indie-flavoured The Friend. There will also be a video jockeying (VJ) performance by Nou & Herkauw VJ group from the Netherlands.

The doors will be open at 20.00. Tickets are available in advance from Epe´s, Swamp Music  and also at the door for 6 euros.

Desert Planet is a band performing electronic music influenced by 8-bit video games, coin operated games and science fiction music movies.

The Friend plays melodic and eloquent indierock music with a purpose of bringing joy and good times to peoples' lives.

Nou en Herkauw is an interactive veejay collective that works at parties and events.

Timi Lexikon is  a energetic rap artist who has an outrageous live show.


See you there!

http://www.desertplanet.com/
http://www.timilexikon.com/
http://www.thefriendband.com/
http://www.nouenherkauw.nl/
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P.S. a pic would be nice

P.S. a pic would be nice
Graduating Exhibition of fine art students of
Tampere University of Applied Sciences
In Mältinranta Artcenter (Kuninkaankatu 2) from 16th of April till 3th of May and
In TR1 Kunsthalle (Väinö Linnan aukio 13) from 16th of April till 15th of May 2011

Dear You, Stranger and Friend alike

I am writing on behalf of the graduating fine art students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Writing a letter or searching for a pen pal is something that connects our generation. This disappearing form of communication makes one feel nostalgic, but then again we have found other ways of communicating.

We would like to invite you to attend to an exhibition to see a variety of proposals that will demonstrate the ability of making ones personal insights visible to another. We call it art. Works are taking the form of  drawings, paintings, photographs and sculpture and video installations. Introducing ourselves through visual art, we are still looking for new friends to share our secrets.

The opening of the Exhibition will be held on 15th 0f April in Mältinranta Art Center at 5-7pm and
in TR1 Kunsthalle at 6-8pm.

Artists in the exhibition are Liisa Ahlfors, Anni Hujala, Mikko Keskiivari, Maija Kovari, Sampsa Kuha, Riikka Kunnari, Tuija Lappalainen, Satu Leppänen, Petra Lukkari, Minnan Mukari, Aapo Nikkanen, Vili Nissinen, Karoliina Paappa, Niklas Pedersen, Jukka Silokunnas, Maria Stereo, Mikko Torvinen, Martta Tuomaala, Kristian Tuomainen, Milena Tähkäaho, Päivi Viinikainen and Juho Viitala.

Refreshments will also be available at the presentation.
No dress code, come as you are and bring who you like.
We would be thrilled by your attendance.

We look forward to seeing you there,
Sincerely,

Päivi

P.s. a pic would be nice

International Week Workshops & TAF: Health Communication Workshop

The workshop is part of the 2nd year Film and television students' health communication project. In the workshop the students create ideas for the project with Tampere City Health Services. In the workshop there will be lot of international examples how short films are used for health communications. The emphasis is on creating ideas for effective messages that are emotionally driven and embedded in stories.

Lecturer: Doe Mayer, the Mary Pickford Professor of Film and Television Production in the School of Cinematic arts at the University of Southern California (USC). Doe Mayer has been working in film and television for over 25 years. Her research and publications in health communications focus on family planning, basic education, health and nutrition promotion, HIV/AIDS prevention, population, and women’s issues. Mayer hasbeen involved in projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations and many major non-governmental organizations.

Participants:
The privileged participants are 12 students in Health Communications Project (2nd year film and television students). Other students interested in attending the workshop contact Leena Mäkelä (leena.makela@tamk.fi).

International Week Workshop & TAF: Cinematographic language of media based on films Russian experimental film director Vladimir Kobrin

 Arturas Bukauskas, Vilnius College of Technologies and Design

Arturas Bukauskas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. After graduating Vilnius University  faculty of physics, he entered animation courses in Lithuanian film studio. Then, studied experimental film directing  in VGIK, Moscow Institute of Cinematography. Now AB works in his studio, directs short films and  commercials, also gives lectures in Vilnius College of Technologies and Design.



A brief outline of presentation:


The topic of the lecture will be - How to create a Time Fetishes in the cinema and how to perform rituals with them. A prayer in cinematographic language. Ritual killing of Time to make it be reborn it in New Media. The lecture is based on the films by experimental film director Vladimir Kobrin (1942 - 1999).


International Week Workshop & TAF: Website designing for devices and Internet

Michael Koch (sitting) teaching at TAMK in October 2010

Academy of Professional Higher Education, Multimedia Designer
 Michael Koch, lecturer and Technology and design Evangelist at the BA Webdevelopment and Multimedia Designer educations in Denmark is hosting the workshop.
Michael is on a daily basis working with subjects as Mobile design and development in Flash, dynamic Flash websites and database, Flash design and coding, Vue and Maya, 3D animation, Motion Capture, Arduino and Unity 3D Visualizations.
In this workshop the lecturer and students will explore how to create Flash websites based on Adobe Flash Catalyst.

For many art students there is an urgent need to get better tools for creating close to finished website design without the need for too much coding.
This is today possible by using Photoshop and/or Illustrator as a starting point to create stunning designs and then importing these designs into Flash Catalyst to create finished websites.
There is also a need to create dynamic data websites in Flash Catalyst and to incorporate elements from Flash, which communicate with servers and the workshop will also show examples of this.
The objectives of the workshop are:
- To understand how you should build the Photoshop psd files (An example file will be provided for students)
- How to setup the Flash Catalyst Flash file based on the provided Photoshop file.
- How to build the website itself
- How to incorporate Video
- How to incorporate Sound
- How to incorporate dynamic Flash files talking to server .swf/.as
- To understand the Photoshop/Catalyst/Flash/Builder workflow offered today by the Adobe Suite

Kuvataiteen lopputyönäyttely - Fine Art Graduation Show

P.S. Kuva ois kiva. P.S. A pic would be nice.
Kuvataiteen lopputyönäyttely - Fine Art Graduation Show

Taidekeskus Mältinranta
Mältinranta Artcentre
Kuninkaankatu 2
16.4. - 3.5.2011

TR1 Taidehalli
TR1 Kunsthalle
Väinö Linnan aukio 13
16.4. - 15.5.2011.

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International Week Workshops

The list with the workshops during the International Week is now online.

Check it out...

(Note that there will be some additional information within the next few days.)

International Week Workshop & TAF: /Experimental studio for //streaming 3-D TV as an immersive live cinema/*

 Workshop held by Mg.art Jänis Garancs, Liepaja University

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Development of several experimental modules that can function and be integrated as interactive TV, multimedia Karaoke, 3-D VJ-ing, immersive gaming environment.

GOAL:
It is intended as a hybrid (modular) environment that shares physical and virtual spaces for distributed groups of people, eventually collaborating over a longer period of time.
The modules can range from (in its simplest form) a laptop with a web cam, or to a specially equipped ‘info-kiosk (box/booth), to a large immersive multimedia installation e.g. using 3-D stereoscopic projections and multi-channel (surround or 3-D) sound, Internet database components. The modules hopefully would be capable to be integrated into a larger, inter-connected system.

METHOD:
After the establishment of basic common module principles and mapping of interests, we would work in small parallel groups (2-5 people) and share the results in series of mutual presentations.

TECHNOLOGY & REQUIREMENTS:
We could experiment with any hardware/software platform that allows involve multiple video cameras, game pads, Xbox Kinect Sensor, Wii Remote, MIDI capable video-mixers, sensors and controllers - and can share audiovisual and MIDI data to other intended modules.
Software components could be students' preferred programming environments (on their own responsibility), but the workshop tutor can offer expertise and assistance in VRML/X3D software programming.

International Week Workshop & TAF: 24-hours.in Tampere – interactive documentary workshop

In this interactive documentary workshop participants will explore new opportunities for participation, collaboration and the potential democratisation of documentary production. Utilising mobile device cameras, participants will produce a collaborative, participatory, experimental documentary project centred on 24-hours in Tampere. With reference to Dziga Vertov’s 1929 documentary film ‘Man with a Movie Camera’, we will aim to document the city of Tampere, the people that live there and their daily lives in a 24-hour period. Participants are encouraged to embrace Vertov’s pioneering avant-garde approach to filmmaking, utilising cameraphones and mobile devices to capture “life caught unawares”. Moving beyond the user-generated content model, the project will build up a database of location specific documentary material and aim to create a new system for collaborative documentary production and user-curated content. The resulting project will be presented as part of the International seminar and published online.

Richard Vickers, University of Lincoln

Richard Vickers is a principal lecturer at the Lincoln School of Media, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. In 2006 (in part inspired by a visit to Tampere) he developed 15x15 (www.15x15.org), a project that utilised user-generated mobile phone video content and explored the democratisation of art in the age of digital production, with reference and homage to Warhol. The project won the Flashforward Film Festival art category in Austin, Texas and has been exhibited extensively around the world

International Week Workshop & TAF: Workshop Nou&Herkauw

Nou&Herkauw and Academy for Popculture
Adri Schokker and Michel Pitstra, two teachers at the Academy for Popculture and creative artists at Nou&Herkauw will host the workshop.

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! Last on the TAF party in the Klubi, Nou&Herkauw created a film set in which participants could shoot their own Sweeded movies, make animations, and use there tweets as typo-visuals. All the footage were mixed by the Veejays of N&H

Return of the Living Digital @ TAF
What is the relation between the real tangible world, as we know her, and our digital empire? Where are the physical, tangible roots of our digital, graphical user interfaces? And how did they transform to the digital? What is the relation between Me and my ‘Facebook ME’? Is the mediated ME a part of our consciousness, or just a collection primal data?
What would the world look like if we transform all the digital back to the tangible? What would the Klubi look like if you apply the architecture of Facebook on the architecture of the Klubi?

These questions are the starting point of the development of an interactive visual performance for the official TAF party at Friday… The public is invited to participate as much as possible.
During the workshop week, we will explore interesting, absurd, provocative, and funny ways to bring the digital back to the land of the living. All means are allowed as long as the results can be presented in an interactive of performative form.

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

N&H at Northern Dutch Film Festival, November 2009

TAF international guests: Kevin Pontuti, UW-Stout

Kevin Pontuti is one of the 50 TAF International Week guests. He comes from the Department of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA.


Kevin wrote a story for our Art&Media blog introducing himself and his degree programme. About the International Week he says:


"I am pleased to be participating in the TAMK School of Art and Media International Week. One of the main goals for my trip will be to explore exchange opportunities and to look for ways to foster collaboration between our respective universities. I’m also very excited to see what the students at TAMK School of Art and Media are up to and learn about their creative interests, as well as, the interests of the faculty. This will be my first trip to Finland and I greatly look forward to visiting Tampere."

Read the story 
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International Week Workshop & TAF: The Horror of Interaction

 Dr Christopher Hales

Chris has run many successful workshops around Europe, including several at TAMK Art and Media which have resulted in memorable results. Interactive films involving sauna culture, the streets and pubs of Tampere, a murder mystery, and even Santa Claus, have emerged from Chris's workshops, which often take inspiration from the unique location of Tampere.

This year, Dr. Christopher Hales will be back with the workshop The Horror of Interaction. In this workshop, participants will examine why interactive installations, films and narratives are rarely scary, and will come up with a concept for an interactive experience (in the form of a narrative-based installation and/or live performance involving new media technologies) designed to invoke genuine fear, repulsion or shock in the user.

The methodology of the workshop is to identify narrative themes that could successfully convey horror, look at suitable technologies and installation formats for surprise and shock, and to find ways to combine these two into a final implementation. Participants will be given an introductory lecture, will be asked to briefly conduct background research to gather examples of interactive scariness, and will discuss which kinds of things make them scared. From this source material a plan of one or more interactive horror experiences will be designed, with the intention to at least make a quick prototype that can be tested on a group of users - although this is dependent on available time and resources.

In advance of the workshop, participants should think of personal experiences, films or stories that have truly scared them, and be prepared to discuss this on the first morning of the workshop.

Group size: 5 - 10

International Week Workshop & TAF: Creative Editing

 Elie Yazbek, responsible of cinema studies at Saint Joseph's University, Beirut

The workshop Creative Editing, held by Elie Yazbek, 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.