From July 28th to August 13th in midsummer, "MATZU-MTP EXPO" was held at a Gallery SPEAK FOR. MATZU, who was born in Hida-Takayama, grew up in Orange county, and now lives in New York, is a valuable Japanese artist st...

TARO OKAMOTO “MYTH OF TOMORROW”

2006.8.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

During the boom of summer vacation in Japan, "Myth of Tomorrow" by Taro Okamoto will be "released" in the Shiodome. Although it was painted in the late 1960s, just about the same time in which he created "Tower of the...

60 FOOTBALL VISIONS

2006.7.28　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

On June 9th, the first day of 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, "60 Football Visions" by 60 groups of creators started at KDDI DESIGNING STUDIO in Harajuku, Tokyo. At the reception on the preceding day of June 8th, the ...

RYUTA IIDA EXHIBITION

2006.7.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

From June 13th until July 2nd, in the middle of rainy season, "Ryuta Iida Exhibition" was held in the Gallery (g). The work of Iida, in which he focuses single-mindedly on cutting books with a paper cutter, has won t...

TOKYO LIVEPAINT SHOWCASE “HUOVA”

2006.6.30　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

At the end of Golden Week on May 6th, a live-painting event called "HUOVA" was held in Gallery Conceal in Shibuya. The Chinese word for "torch", HUOVA is a show for those who compete for the title as "the fastest" pai...

FOOTBALL THE PASSION

2006.6.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

This continuous rainy season from May 20th to June 4th, "FOOTBALL THE PASSION" is being held at Speak For, a gallery in Daikanyama. It is an exhibit on the works of the 60th issue of Big Magazine, a culture magazine f...

MERRY EXPO IN TOKYO

2006.3.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

There was an exhibition called "Merry EXPO in Tokyo" at Ginza Mikimoto in the middle of winter from Feb 2nd to 14th. This was the memorial exhibition for the release of a visual book "Merry EXPO - Book of global exch...

THE 9TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2006.3.1　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

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...

BEYES INTERACTIVE INTERIOR

2006.3.1　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

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...

ELECTRICAL FANTASISTA 2006

2006.3.1　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

"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 ...

DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO 2005

2006.1.1　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

Inviting young international artists through the NHK television program "Digital Stadium" (Digista), Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2005 (DAF) took place in the Panasonic Center Tokyo and National Museum of Emerging Scien...

X-COLOR / GRAFFITI IN JAPAN

2005.12.4　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

The exhibition "X-COLOR / Graffiti in Japan" was held from October 1st to December 4th at the Art Tower Mito. About 40 "bombers" met at the so called 'first large-scale exhibition showing Japanese graffiti art'. Some...