From July 28th to August 13th in midsummer, "MATZU-MTP EXPO" was held at a Gallery SPEAK FOR. MATZU, who was born in Hida-Takayama, grew up in Orange county, and now lives in New York, is a valuable Japanese artist st...

TARO OKAMOTO “MYTH OF TOMORROW”

2006.8.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

During the boom of summer vacation in Japan, "Myth of Tomorrow" by Taro Okamoto will be "released" in the Shiodome. Although it was painted in the late 1960s, just about the same time in which he created "Tower of the...

60 FOOTBALL VISIONS

2006.7.28　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

On June 9th, the first day of 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, "60 Football Visions" by 60 groups of creators started at KDDI DESIGNING STUDIO in Harajuku, Tokyo. At the reception on the preceding day of June 8th, the ...

RYUTA IIDA EXHIBITION

2006.7.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

From June 13th until July 2nd, in the middle of rainy season, "Ryuta Iida Exhibition" was held in the Gallery (g). The work of Iida, in which he focuses single-mindedly on cutting books with a paper cutter, has won t...

TOKYO LIVEPAINT SHOWCASE “HUOVA”

2006.6.30　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

At the end of Golden Week on May 6th, a live-painting event called "HUOVA" was held in Gallery Conceal in Shibuya. The Chinese word for "torch", HUOVA is a show for those who compete for the title as "the fastest" pai...

FOOTBALL THE PASSION

2006.6.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

This continuous rainy season from May 20th to June 4th, "FOOTBALL THE PASSION" is being held at Speak For, a gallery in Daikanyama. It is an exhibit on the works of the 60th issue of Big Magazine, a culture magazine f...

MERRY EXPO IN TOKYO

2006.3.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

There was an exhibition called "Merry EXPO in Tokyo" at Ginza Mikimoto in the middle of winter from Feb 2nd to 14th. This was the memorial exhibition for the release of a visual book "Merry EXPO - Book of global exch...

THE 9TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2006.3.1　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

Have you heard about the "Japan Media Arts Festival"? Shift has featured it in the past several times. As the name tells you, it is a media art festival the Japan Media Art Plaza holds every year. This year is the 9th...

ELECTRICAL FANTASISTA 2006

2006.3.1　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

"My dream is to make a bar with media art.", "I'd like to live in a room which has usually media art to always play with." Now it's usual to have a desire of living to be enclosed by an art and design for computer ...

DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO 2005

2006.1.1　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

Inviting young international artists through the NHK television program "Digital Stadium" (Digista), Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2005 (DAF) took place in the Panasonic Center Tokyo and National Museum of Emerging Scien...

X-COLOR / GRAFFITI IN JAPAN

2005.12.4　

The exhibition "X-COLOR / Graffiti in Japan" was held from October 1st to December 4th at the Art Tower Mito. About 40 "bombers" met at the so called 'first large-scale exhibition showing Japanese graffiti art'. Some...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 22

2005.12.1　 Text: Yuhei Kikuchi

The hot 2 days in the east most island country. Asia's biggest international art event Design Festa, which is in its 11th year and the 22nd this time, was hold on the 26th and 27th of November. The number of exhibitor...

RESFEST 2005

2005.12.1　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The biggest video festival in the world Resfest had come to Japan again. Resfest go all over the world on the tour. This is the 7th time this year for this event in Japan. Compare to the first time in 1999, digital fi...

TOKION CREATIVITY NOW TOKYO

2005.11.4　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

I found it was already a chilly day when "Tokion Creativity Now Tokyo" took place at Laforet Museum Harajuku on October 23rd. Last year, there were many interesting hosts and panelists, including, Yuuya Uchida, Hirosh...

SAL VANILLA “+813”

2005.10.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The performing art unit Sal Vanilla provides very unique spatial art. They recently held a live performance event "+813" and a sound media event ".JP" at BankART Studio NYK, in a former postal administration building ...

TOKYO NIGHT CURUSING

2005.9.2　 Text: CAVAI

At Gallery Speak For in Daikanyama, there was an exhibition "Tokyo Night Curusing!" The word "curusing" is a combined word from curation and cruising. The exhibition was curated by Yen. He is a graffiti artist and a t...

TOY SAVES CHILDREN: REBIRTHED MUMMY THE RABBIT

2005.8.2　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The exhibition for the charity project "Toy Saves Children: Rebirthed Mummy the Rabbit" took place at Lapnet Club in Harajuku and at COMME CA COMMUNE in Shibuya. For this project, a total of 28 artists were united fro...