ROBODEX 2000

2000.12.4　 Text: Yoshikazu Iyomasa

The world's first exposition of personal human partner robots was held in Yokohama, Japan over the course of 3 days from November 24th to 26th. The exposition entitled Robodex 2000 aimed to encourage and develop the p...

RESFEST TOKYO 2000

2000.12.4　 Text: Aya Funaki

The digital film festival Resfest that finally made its debut in Japan last year, has just come back to the Laforet Museum, Harajuku. In its fifth year as a festival that showcases the works of the world's top digital...

TOSHIO IWAI + BBKY “HAPPY TECHNOLOGY LAB”

2000.12.4　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

"People who continue explorations on the scene where attractive media technologies are created always have interesting ideas, and the technological demonstration itself created from the scene is becoming attractive to...

CONTINENT EXHIBITION

2000.11.30　 Text: Julien Villaret

Brussels, year 2000. The Continent exhibition takes place in the city center, in a building specially renovated for the occasion and dedicated to become a modern art center, iMAL. The event runs from September 8th unt...

FOCOM 2000

2000.11.25　 Text: Sergey Safonoff

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...

MONTREAL BIENNALE 2000

2000.11.25　 Text: Jean-Philippe Beauchamp

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...

SPORTS TO KIBARASHI (DISTRACTIONS)

2000.11.25　 Text: Aki Ikemura

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 ...

THE DESIGNERS BLOCK 2000

2000.11.25　 Text: Karl and Yasmeen

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 ...

JOHN MAEDA “CODED BLUE”

2000.11.25　 Text: Kanya Niijima

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...

CREATIVE WORKS 2001

2000.11.1　 Text: Genki Sawazaki

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 ...

ARCHITETTURA: CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC

2000.10.25　 Text: Jiro Ohashi

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...

FIRE IN OSTANKINO (MOSCOW’S MAIN TV-TOWER)

2000.10.25　 Text: Sergey Safonoff

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...