The ninth edition of the Interactive Media Programme made the IMP 2008 DVD premiere. This attractive DVD with a hilarious user interface presents the shortfilms, interactive movies and other art work made by the students over four months of hard work and intense learning.

This year the 17 students came from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the UK.

The Interactive

Come, see and know what people are talking about!
Dark hours!
Tickets 3 euros, doors open at 9 pm.

10.00pm AIDA Finnish melancholy and beautiful rock!
10.45pm JAAKKO & JAY messengers of folk-punk!
11.30pm LII-SAN TUOTE a combination of music, art and performance!
00.10pm MIND’S PRESSURES for heavier taste!
01.20pm THE FRIEND indierock's rising star, seen also at Provinssirock2008!

The event is

A delegation with representatives of Dutch Media organisations and directors of graphics- and media schools pays this week a visit to Helsinki and Tampere. TAMK School of Art and Media hosts and coordinates the programme of the Tampere leg of the visit. The purpose of the study trip is to learn about innovation and higher education in Finland. It is organised by Media Update, a news and

"i did this..or part of it..well, some seconds" is the caption of the photo you see on right side. I copied it from Pekko's photo album at Facebook. Pekko is proud of his contribution to the latest James Bond movie.

Timo-Pekko Nieminen started as a sound design student at Tampere School of Art and Media 15 years ago. He was stunned by the visual effects of film like Terminator 2 and Jurassic

Demola, in one sentence, lets students to do project courses together with students from other universities and companies in Tampere region. TAMK School of Art and Media students are attending in two project courses starting next year. All eyes will be on these two interesting pilot projects.
Learn to fly with Pikku kakkonen is a project for Finnish Broadcasting Company. It utilizes web camera

A new Bachelor's Degree Programme in Media, taught in English, will start in 2009 at TAMK School of Art and Media. The draft curriculum for the programme is now published, and will be sent to partners and friends for comments. The curriculum will be finally approved by TAMK University of Applied Sciences Board in January.

The new international programme will continue education in interactive

Telakka

Second floor:
13:30-15:00:

- ELPIDIO VALDÉS (Juan Padrón, 1979, 80min, animation) The film is presented by Andrea Zapata Girau and Guido Segal.

15:00-16:50
- Noticiero 49 (10 min, News)
- HOMBRES SOBRE CUBIERTA (2008, 50 min, document)

First floor:
- 18:00-20:00
Political speeches on the topic "What is revolution".

21:00-
- Acustic Cuban Night: Alejandro Gutiérrez, Nam San Fong and

(Films subtitled in English)

Telakka:

13:00-15:45, Telakka Theater
- POR PRIMERA VEZ (Octavio Cortázar, 1967, 9 min, document)
- UN HOMBRE DE ÉXITO/ A SUCCESSFUL MAN (Humberto Solás, 1985, 116 min, fiction) The film is presented by Derubín Jácome, Art Director of the film.

16:00-17:40, Telakka Theater
- NOSTALGIA DEL CHA CHA CHA/MEMORIES OF CHA CHA CHA (Miguel Torres, 1991, 17 min, document)

Today at Telakka:

15:30, Telakka 1st floor: lecture on Cuban film by Derubín Jácome and Diana Fernández.
16:30-19:45, Telakka Theatre:
- Noticiero 49 (News, 10 min)
- LUCÍA (Humberto Solás, 1968, 160 min, fiction) After the screening discussion/analysis with Derubín Jácome and Diana Fernández, both have co-operated with Humberto Solás in many projects.

20:00-21:40, Telakka first floor:
- DOLLY

Hannaleena Hauru's "If I fall" won the Grand Prix at Uppsala Film Festival. The jury judged:

"A nordic, but still universal film expressing the search of love in a poetic story of few words. The flawless directing of the film deals with human relations on many levels and with great complexity."

If I fall is Hannaleena Haurus graduation work at TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art

(From the Days of Cuban Cinema event at Facebook:)

"Between the 6th and the 9th of November the first edition of this event will take place in Tampere. It is a unique opportunity not only to watch films, but also to fully discover the cultural and political life of Cuba, almost fifty years after the Revolution. Different representatives of the Cuban art world will come to the city, specially

I've been spending the last few days here taking part in the 10th ELIA Biennial Conference, Independent Forum for the Higher Arts Education Institutions. Represented here are all disciplines in the arts, including Fine Art, Architecture, Dance, Design, Media Arts, Music and Theatre.

This conference does not have a specific title or theme. First of all there have been many talks about

Laurence Davey has been teaching screenwriting to the students of MA in Screenwriting at TAMK School of Art for two weeks. Teaching is not his regular work, but he has agreed to teach screenwriting 20 hours per year at Salford University.

MA in Screenwriting is a joint programme of TAMK and Salford University, so Laureen does his teaching in Tampere this year, like he did already last year.

Score game development club at TAMK School of Art and Media has launched their new website just now. The fresh site is based on WordPress, the open source blog publishing application. There are already some articles about the club's recent activities, and they plan on publishing much more in the future. According to rumors, the current, defaultish visual theme is but a mere placeholder for

Marianne Connor has been teaching script writing for MA in Screenwriting students last week, and will do so over the next week. She will also advice students of the previous MA in Screenwriting course who are now writing their final script. Next autumn she will also advice the students who started MA in Scriptwriting with their final thesis work.

Marianna is screenwriter/producer/teacher from

Backlight 08 Photo Festival artists Giuseppe di Bella and Reiner Riedler keep their two days workshop in the School of Art and Media in September.

Students continued their working after that and results are produced as exhibition in Emil Hall in 25th October to 9th November 2008. Theme of the Photo Festival and workshops was Tickle Attack. All students works under that theme creating their own

For the third year running, students from TAMK School of Art and Media and Okayama University are continuing their cooperation on a game project that started in autumn in 2006. The goal is to create concepts and prototypes for educational training tools used by the chemical industry in Japan. Game elements and interaction are an essential part of the work, as both teams have acknowledged the

Where is Tampere? At the edge of the tundra? Why should one bother to move to Tampere to study or to do business?

Tampere is actually the central spot of Northern Europe. If you want to draw a circle with a radious of 1000 km, including the Baltic sea, Scandinavia, Finland, and northern Russia, your circle will hit the Russian capital Moscow, the Polish capital Warsaw, Rostock in Germany and

The Swanlake Moving Image&Music Award is about visualising music in two contest categories; Animation and Digital Film.

This year Vesa Jokinen and Hanne Zenjuga, students of visual design at TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media, are nominated for SL:MIMA in the Animation Category. There are three nominees in both categories.

Vesa's and Hanne's nominated animation "It

Two films by TAMK School of Art and Media were invited to the VII Open St.Petersburg Festival of film schools "Beginning" end of September.

TAMK student delegation members at the festival were the Flippers team: Director and script writer Jussi Autio, producers Emilia Kiviniemi and Anita Hyppönen, and the Escape team: Director and script writer Helena Yli-Kyyny, photographer Ossi Käki and