SONIC ACTS 2006
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 arts fe...
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 arts fe...
More and more young galleries are popping up in Hamburg. One of the latest to start showing emerging art is the Gallery Oel-Frueh, which opened December 2005. It is a rather small three-storey intercept of a typical 6...
One of the winter highlights in a cultural city Berlin, "Lange Nacht Der Museen" (Long Night of Museums) was held on 28th of January. This is the 19th edition, having been held twice a year since 1997. From ...
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 un r...
© Tino Sehgal 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 someo...
Public art that's engaging, thought provoking, and socially energizing is, unfortunately, rare. Often cities contract big name artists for public art projects resulting in self important works out of touch with the...
Anarchy to Affluence: Design in New York, 1974 -1984 is an exhibition currently hosted by Parsons school for Design. It takes a glimpse at a time in which New York spawned a creative community that has left an endelli...
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 ...
"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 lookin...
Being connected with the cover and the interview in SHIFT, "HIDEHITO SHINNOU EXHIBITION" was held at SOSO in Sapporo during the whole month of February. Undergoing a complete change from colorful and vivid "HUMANS BY ...
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 venue ...
Speaking of enjoying modern art in Berlin, first comes the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum. Not only are there 20th century collections of the Western countries from Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg to Anselm...
"Burn Baby Burn" collects a wide selection of the works realised by the Belgian born, American artist Jean Toche as a response and as a political commentary to the current US administration. All the prints presented a...
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 Histoire...' (Our History). The Palais de Tokyo opened on ...
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 boo...
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 wa...