HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
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In February 11th to 28th, "Interactive Interior" was held at a select shop BEYES Omotesando branch that opened to jammed Omotesando Hills. "A new field that connects an interactive design with interior design" is draw...
COLETTE
Former Aussie and now try-hard Parisien writer Linlee Allen wholly confesses to being the "all-round groupie" of concept store colette, located in the French capital. Having participated in the world-famous boutique's...
HAPPENING
"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 ...
HAPPENING
"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...
THINGS
A motion graphic creator's file with DVD "Japanese Motion Graphic Creators" was released on February from BNN Inc., featuring the expanding whole Japanese motion expression such as PV, CM, VJ, web, animation, art and ...
PEOPLE
This month's SHIFT cover was designed by null*, which operates out of Tokyo and is a project of artless. Its concept is to incorporate Japanese traditional aesthetic feelings. The group creates graphic expressions, fr...
HAPPENING
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 ...
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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 ...
