COLOPHON 2009

2009.3.31　 Text: Akira Nishitake

International Magazine Symposium Colophon. The second edition of Colophon took place in Luxembourg from the 13-15th March 2009. Casino Luxembourg, a museum was chosen as the main venue for Colophon. Colophon'...

FUTURE FOODS

2009.3.31　 Text: Waiming

"YES" OR "NO" - WHAT'D YOU SAY? The introduction started with, “One billion people in the world go hungry every day. But is genetically modified (GM) food the answer?” © Science Museum Science Museum London...

PRE ORGANIC COTTON PROGRAM

2009.3.25　 Text: mina

© Photo by Hideyuki Sudo T-shirts made under PRE ORGANIC COTTON PROGRAM produced by Kurkku was introduced for the first time in last February 2009. On the front of the t-shirts dates that we all remember ...

FESTIVAL/TOKYO 09

2009.3.24　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

Real(adjective): something that is real exists and is important; something that is real is actually what it seems to be and not false or artificial (by Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English) What is real? What...

THE WORLD OF ROGER RAVEEL

2009.3.23　 Text: Filip De Haes

"Man before door with bolt", 1969 Roger Raveel (born in 1921) is a contemporary Belgian painter, linked with the Pop Art movement. He was born in Machelen-aan-de-Leie, and still lives and works there. Overvi...

DIAGONALE 2009

2009.3.12　 Text: Daniel Kalt

Now in its eleventh year, Diagonale is the festival of Austrian film and attracts everybody who is somebody in Austrian film-making to the the country's second biggest city for five days. One can only agree with the n...

JAPAN CARS – DESIGNS FOR THE CROWDED GLOBE

2009.3.5　 Text: Waiming

"LET'S MAKE REAL MINIATURE CARS", SAY JAPANESE CAR MAKERS. Nissan Pivo 2 The Japanese has always been regarded as the "Godfather" of automotive industry, and now they have taken another quantum leap to promote...

CHI PENG X KENSUI PARANOMIA

2009.3.4　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

"Balinghou" means people who were born in the 80’s, labled a new generation. They were first generation of China's One-child Polity after the Cultural Revolution. After nearly thirty years, the politics and economy ha...

FISCHLI & WEISS: PARTS OF A FILM WITH A RAT AND A BEAR

2009.3.2　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

Exactly one year after the beautiful Palazzo Litta in Milan has been used as the location for the important retrospective Altri fiori e altre domande (“Other flowers and other questions”) of the conjunct work of Peter...

CHITOSE-LAKE SHIKOTSU ICE FESTIVAL

2009.2.26　 Text: Tatsuhiko Akutsu

It is the middle of Feburary 2009, and we are at midwinter here in Sapporo. The roads are walls of piled snow and sidewalks make every look like poor skaters. To me, it is quite impressive and fantastic scenery - snow...

HUSSEIN CHALAYAN: FROM FASHION AND BACK

2009.2.13　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

In spite of the snowiest days London has witnessed in last eighteen years, The design museum has been crowded with people with slightly red faces. Not only because of the cold weather. They all are so excited to see t...

TRANSMEDIALE 2009

2009.2.12　 Text: Shintaro Miyazaki

Each year at the end of January Berlin gets for some days the center of the international media art scene. "Deep North" was the theme for this years Transmediale 2009 for "art and digital culture", which was held at "...