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...
"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 gen...
"I blame you for low rise jeans," accuses the voice of artist Thomas Edwards, emanating from small speakers below his moving sculpture of a white hand pointing an accusing finger. "I don't think I know what I'm looki...
Being connected with the cover and the interview in SHIFT Feb. 111 issue, "HIDEHITO SHINNOU EXHIBITION" was held at SOSO in Sapporo during the whole month of February. Undergoing a complete change from colorful and vi...
When the weather had got warmer from the unusually coldest season this year, "Transmediale 06" was held in Berlin. Transmediale is an art festival in Berlin, which you can look out over the current media art. The venu...
Olivier Babin - Towards Infinite Freshness, 2005 Nicolas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans, the co-directors of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris are celebrating their departure by a significant exhibition titled 'Notre Histoir...
Pin heels, pink panty, and silver painted camisole, a girl wearing them are trying to change a bulb. That's the cover illustration of "HOW TO WALK IN HIGH HEELS" by Camilla Morton, which have been piled up at most ...
In the spring of 1981 Trudy Myrrh began promoting a gathering for like minded artists - an event which she dubbed Ylem. "Ylem" is a Greek word used to describe "the material from which the universe emerged". Myrrh...
At the corner of Gower & Sunset street across from the Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, originally established as the legendary Columbia Pictures Studios, is a small western themed shopping center named "Gow...
A-Z Homestead Unit (2001-2005) Image courtesy of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Photograph: Christopher Dawson Last week's opening of Andrea Zittel: Critical Space at the New Museum marked the first comprehen...
Mike Mills is a graphic designer who has been taking active part in the graphic and film scene since the 90s, working also for "x-girl", CD jacket designing, and so on. His design project since 2004 "HUMANS BY MIKE MI...
"Producing the most dangerous shows on earth", as SRL (Survival Research Laboratories) state their motto on the official website really says it all. Just by looking at the pictures of their events, you start feeling ...
"Man is the only creature that can purposely make joyful happenings in such a cold place on a cold day." said Takeshi Hosomi of "ELLEGARDEN", one of the live performers of this event. Tens of thousands of spectators w...
"MEETS" is an entertainment project, started in 2005, that introduces the art and culture of Hokkaido to people. A CD&DVD, containing Hokkaido based artists, has also been released and two other related event...
In the cold, winter season, "HIDEKI INABA / NEWLINE 2 EXHIBITION" was held in gallery "information", part of interior shop "TRICO" from the 16th to 25th of December. Followed by the September exhibition at SOSO the...
Next Festival is the independent Vilnius non- commercial film & video festival organized by Movewithmovie. The festival searches for new forms of visual art within it's creators from all over the world. Move...
Playgrounds & Toys is conceived as an itinerant exhibition (It has been hosted, among other cities, in London, Paris and New York) in which contemporary artists, architects and designers give their interpretati...
