SONIC ACTS XI

2006.3.5　

The annual arrival of SonicActs in Amsterdam is always greeted with anticipation and this year was no exception. Held between the 23rd and 26th February at the Paradiso and De Balie, the international computer art...

LANGE NACHT DER MUSEEN

2006.3.5　

One of the winter highlights in a cultural city Berlin, "Lange Nacht Der Museen (long night of museum)" was held on 28th of January. This is the 19th edition, having been held twice a year since 1997. From 18:0...

RICCARDO PREVIDI

2006.3.5　

Riccardo Previdi's first solo show offers the opportunity to welcome Francesca Minini's new space in Via Ventura, the area of the town characterised by the most rapid increase in art galleries' density. "C'etait...

TINO SEHGAL EXHIBITION

2006.3.5　

Have you ever been asked, "What do you think, 'progress' means?" by a kid, 10 years old? I have. At first exhibition room of ICA. If you go to the entrance and get a ticket, the lady calls someone's name. Then a ...

BLACK ROCK ARTS FOUNDATION

2006.3.5　

David Best's "Temple" at the Hayes Green Public art that's engaging, thought provoking, and socially energizing is, unfortunately, rare. Often cities contract big name artists for public art projects resulting i...

ANARCHY TO AFFLUENCE

2006.3.5　

Window display of exhibition Anarchy to Affluence: Design in New York, 1974 -1984 is an exhibtion currently hosted by Parsons school for Design. It takes a glimpse at a time in which New York spawned a creative com...

THE 9TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2006.3.1　

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

2006.3.1　

"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...

INTERFACE EXHIBITION

2006.3.1　

"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...

HIDEHITO SHINNOU EXHIBITION

2006.3.1　

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...

TRANSMEDIALE 2006

2006.3.1　

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...

OUR HISTORY… EXHIBITION

2006.2.5　

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...

NATASHA LAW EXHIBITION “HOLD”

2006.2.5　

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 ...

YLEM FORUM

2006.2.5　

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...

FINGERED AT THE GULCH

2006.2.5　

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...

ANDREA ZITTEL : CRITICAL SPACE

2006.2.5　

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...

HUMANS BY MIKE MILLS

2006.2.1　

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...