FOCOM 2000
This year the annual Moscow International Festival "Focom" festival took place in the building of the first Moscow electric power-station, which appears now to be one of the most expensive galleries of our city - "New...
This year the annual Moscow International Festival "Focom" festival took place in the building of the first Moscow electric power-station, which appears now to be one of the most expensive galleries of our city - "New...
The second edition of Montreal Biennale was launched on September 28th in an unusual place. What used to be The Palais du Commerce was chosen to be the meeting point for art enthusiasts. The abandoned Palais du Commer...
On October 7th and 8th, the event entitled 'Sports to Kibarashi' (Sports and Distractions) was held at an alternative space Room in Gentilly in the suburbs of Paris. In this small and pure white space originally used ...
Hello. Let us introduce ourselves, this is Karl and Yasmeen, we have started to write for SHIFT instead of Nick from London. Both of us are Graphic Design students and from our experiences we will update you of ...
Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab and Director of Aesthetics and Computation Group of the lab, John Maeda fuses computer science and visual arts to challenge the common understanding of computer aided desi...
On the 2nd and 3rd of October, a fashion event called Creative Works 2001 coordinated by Shift was held in Sapporo. This show attempted to send out the creation of the new generation from Sapporo, mainly by Shift. It ...
The film + concert was held at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) in Shinjuku on September 23th and it was really interesting. This event entitled 'Architettura: Contemporary Architecture and Electronic Music' was a...
This month there is few news. Except one - due to the fire in Ostankino (Moscow's main TV-tower), the whole city of Moscow was totally cut off from a supply of television for nearly a month. Something we coul...
Since five years, every September, an exhibition about electronic music is held in Paris, gathering DJ's, labels and technologies that make french vibe. At the beginning, it was more like a kind of meeting for the pro...
A while ago an art e-commerce site called Brit Art launched in the UK. The launch was supported by a brilliant ad campaign, where they labelled everyday objects as entries in an art exhibition catalogue, slightly mock...
Produced by Fashion Laboratories for the Environment Inc. in association with the Downtown Arts Festival, Fashionlab 2000 took place on a slightly rainy evening of one Saturday in September. The show was hosted by Eye...
The world exposition called 'Expo2000' will run through October 31st in the north German town of Hannover, Niedersachsen. The key theme of this year's expo is 'Humankind - Nature - Technology' based on the World Envir...
Ars Electronica is in its 21st year. Digital media is necessary as an art today. In a dramatic transitional period when electronic music / media art are evolving, the festival showcases the division between a hackneye...
This month I had a chance to compare life in two major cities of Russia: Moscow and St. Petersburg. In many aspects they're two worlds apart. Still, it was pretty easy to find some of the most general tendencies. T...
Titled Urbanworld Flim Festival 2000, this was a "film festival solely dedicated to redefining and enhancing the role of minority films in contemporary cinema." Over a course of 5 days, the festival featured...
From July 20th to September 10th, a huge art festival entitled Echigotsumari Art Triennial was held in Niigata, Japan. This festival was spread over 6 cities, covering an aread about 762km2, for the first time in Japa...
Usually in Paris, July is a month of summer, sun, light-dresses and vacations. The town is getting really pleasant to live in and that is the best time to go for a stroll in the city. Unfortunately, the weather is ter...