HECTOR AYUSO

2006.7.28　 Text: Eduard Prats Molner

Hector is founder and director of the OFFF festival as well as general director of the inofffensive Agency since 2000. He studied Cinematographic Direction in Barcelona. He has produced five short-films, two feature-l...

HENRIK VIBSKOV

2006.7.28　 Text: Peta Jenkin

The first time I saw a Henrik Vibskov creation was in a grimy club in Berlin. It was late, very late, and a vision suddenly struck me from across the dancefloor. It moved towards me, nothing more than a graphic patter...

RICARDO LINIERS SIRI

2006.7.5　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

"There is a scene in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories where he is complaining about everything bad in the world: evil, destruction, cancer, war. Suddenly some aliens come from a spaceship and Woody asks them to tell hi...

DIMA KOMISSAROV

2006.6.30　 Text: Jacqueline Ste. Croix

If someone says the word "design", Russia doesn't usually come to mind. Dima Komissarov is here to change that. Having drawn since a young age he eventually gravitated to the world of design and has been immersed in ...

REALA

2006.6.30　 Text: Yurie Hatano

This month's SHIFT cover "Dead web triptych and counter" was designed by REALA, a design team since 1998 based in Stockholm and London. Not only designing, but they are also marked as eminent filmmakers producing lo...

SUPERSTUDIO

2006.6.5　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

The Superestudio members are graphic designers, but they are also curious filmmakers who produce their own movies. And they also belong to a punk band. And they play awfully, but they like it so much. They embrace sur...

MOZARTBAND

2006.5.5　 Text: Christina Merl

So you thought the Viennese might have had enough of celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday? Ha! Quite the contrary! The party will go on for a while. Whereas you can still enjoy the famous composer's cl...

CATALINA ESTRADA

2006.5.5　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

Born and raised in Colombia, Catalina lives in Barcelona where she develops many art works at the same time. She is a freelance graphic designer and Illustrator, a teacher in at the Barcelona Design School IDEP...

ANTONI & ALISON

2006.5.5　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

"I should have bought that one." We must have many of these feelings of regret for not buying something at "that time" and at "that place". In my case, the item is a bright colored cotton skirt with two cats printed o...

PETER SUTHERLAND

2006.5.5　 Text: Garry Waller

Peter Sutherland is a New York based artist who moved to the city from Colorado in 1998. After arriving and working at a vegan restaurant to get by, his "big idea" of what to really do here wasn't at first evident to ...

EDVARD SCOTT

2006.5.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

This month's SHIFT cover was designed by Edvard Scott who operates his little one-man-studio from the usually cold country of Sweden. Since he started doing illustrations and design he's been involved in numerous proj...

HEKTOR BY FIELD TRIP

2006.5.1　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The exhibition and installation of the drawing machine "HEKTOR" by creative unit Field Trip was performed at gallery Information in Tokyo. This drawing machine HEKTOR is a bit unusual, incorporating a spray attached t...

VIDYA GASTALDON

2006.4.13　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The Kunstmuseum Thun is presenting the first comprehensive solo exhibition of works by French artist Vidya Gastaldon, who is also the artist participated in "DOTMOV2004" with her film work "Yellowrama". The exhibition...

PERSIJN BROERSEN & MARGIT LUKACS

2006.4.5　 Text: Ania Markham

This month sees the new exhibition 'Next Level: Art, Games and Reality' at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. The show seeks to illustrate the far-reaching influence of game culture in the worlds of art, film and music. Re...

LEONARDO SOLAAS

2006.4.5　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Not so long ago, Leonardo Solaas used to define himself as a multipurpose artifact. He's been an artisan and an artist, a programmer and a designer, a student and a self taught person, a philosopher and a scientist. H...

AER

2006.4.5　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

Aer is an emerging visual communications studio based and founded in Barcelona, Spain in 2002. Principally, Aer specializes in interactive media but have also worked in multiple disciplines. Since they have ...

QUBO GAS

2006.4.1　 Text: Sarah Boisson

On Friday the 3rd of March 2006, I welcomed in my Parisian flat the artist's group qubo gas I discovered their work as they were exhibiting at Anne Barrault Garelly in January 2006. Spotted vert, Courtesy Anne ...