CONTEMPORARY ART IN BA

2003.3.31　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Since November 2002 and during the year 2003 the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (Malba) has introduced the series 'Contemporary', which involves five leading curators and multiple emerging artists of the...

BERLIN, FEBRUARY 2003

2003.3.31　

Somehow I got an invitation to the Nordic Embassies to check out an exhibition of 23 young designers from Island. The Danish, Swedish, Norwegisch, Finnish and Islandish embassies are all packed together in style in pr...

ARTE REINA SOFIA

2003.3.31　

Video is an artistic medium that has become increasing relevant in Spanish art in the last few years. The number of artist-producers continues to grow and it is about time there was a good review on it. Commission...

2000 LAST PARTY

2003.3.31　

Last night, I saw a movie in the MK2 film theater. This movie was "2000 Last Party", its a "Michael Moore style" documentary about the backstage of the last american presidential election. During all the movie, we...

DON’T THINK, JUST SHOOT

2003.3.31　

From the 15th - 23rd of February this year, the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington, London ran a photographic workshop, exhibition and competition under the title 'Snap Happy Days'. The event was timed to c...

BLIZZARD OF NEW YORK, 2003

2003.3.31　

I have been writing Shift Infoworld NYC since 1999 and there have been very few times that I wrote about something not related to art, design or culture. In fact, the only time that I wrote about such news was Sept...

DATA 10

2003.3.31　

The Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) is an exciting informal forum for artists, technologists, musicians, and academia to promote, explore, discuss, and exhibit art and technology in Ireland and the w...

AMERICALAND PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

2003.3.30　

I'm going to speak to you about my 12 March 2003 evening. First, I began by visiting the vernissage of the Americaland photography exhibition with my friends Kantin and Mat. It was organised in the spacious office ...

OPEN MIND

2003.2.14　

The "Mori Art Museum" will open in the center of Tokyo in October 2003. As a commemorative release of the CD "Open Mind" (the museum pre open plan) the "Open Mind Live Event" was performed at "Roppongi Hills Informat...

THE 6TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2003.2.14　

Prize winning works of "Media Arts Festival for Cultural Affairs" were announced on the 19th of November. This festival had many Japanese top media arts in 2002. It hits its 6th round and has been building as one of...

FUGITIVES

2003.2.14　

Fugitives is a group show that brings together seven artists from diverse backgrounds whose work fuses the formal protocols of graphic design, comics and illustration with the more traditional media of painting and ...

SOUND REPUBLIC 4

2003.2.9　

The fourth round of "Sound Republic" was held at THINK ZONE in Roppongi, Tokyo on the 1st of March under the theme "collaboration with the electro media and creators from various genres." There was a downpour on the ...

BODYSCAPE

2003.2.1　

'Bodyscape' is a new neologism made up from two words, 'body' and 'landscape'. It is also a term used by American art historian Nicholas Mirzoeff to refer to the scenery generated by representations of the body i...

FREDERIC LEBAIN

2003.2.1　

Imperfect, blurred, distorted and non-composed images always present a more infectious emotion. You may not agree with it ... but at least to those Lomo-lovers it does! It is no doubt that Lomography has created...

LOMO WONDERLAND

2003.2.1　

With rising interest and popularity of the LOMO camera, it is no wonder that lomographers from various countries are coming together to exchange their snap shots of their lomographic world. LOMO WONDERLAND, a coll...

FRUITS: TOKYO STREET STYLE

2003.2.1　

The Powerhouse Museum and Sydney Festival are presenting a new exhibition FRUiTS: Tokyo street style - photographs by Shoichi Aoki. The exhibition showcases a vibrant and engaging collection of photographs taken in...

EMILY CARR INSTITUTE

2003.2.1　

A new year has started with us aspiring to great things. Thinking greater than the last year and trying to make the possibility real, I look right up to the broad sky. My steps become powerful as I stand up to the ...