BERLIN, FEBRUARY 2003
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...
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...
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. Commissioned ...
From 15th to 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...
I have been writing Shift 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 September of 2001. An...
I'm going to speak to you about my 12th March 2003 evening. A few drinks and a quick Chinese lunch later, I assisted the Jimi Tenor Show in a famous Parisian jazz club the New Morning. Jimi Tenor is a Finnish ...
Bathers in Wave Pool, Orlando, FL, 1999 © Alex MacLean I visited the venue of the photography exhibition titled "Americaland" with my friends Kantin and Mat. It was organised in the spacious office of the BET...
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 Information...
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 t...
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 co...
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 ev...
Kim Atta, Museum Project- Series of Holocaust #26, 1997 '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 ...
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 a uni...
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 WONDERLAN...
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 To...
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 vas...
Always open to new and potentially humorous opportunities, I recently accepted an invitation from Amoeba Corp. New Media Designer Neil Collyer to attend "Monster Jam" at the Sky Dome. Having just finished a grueling w...
Four young designers were the winners of "New Talent Contest", which was organized during 4th edition of Buenos Aires Fashion Week (BAF Week). In September 2002, they showed their first collections and today, three mo...