VARIOUS GALLERIES IN BERLIN

2007.1.30　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

This month, I will introduce some art works that caught my eye at various galleries I visited. First, is a young Brazilian video artist Marcellvs L. When I stepped in the middle of the exhibition I saw a huge scr...

ALAN FLETCHER :50 YEARS OF GRAPHIC WORK (AND PLAY)

2007.1.27　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

It can happen on such a small space, like post card size, rather business card size paper. It is consisted by line, shape, color and space. what a simple matter it is made of. When you think of graphic design, you may...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 24

2007.1.27　 Text: Jo Phirip

"Design Festa! vol.24" was held on December 2nd and 3rd at Tokyo Big Sight. This big event with more than 6,000 artists and 2,600 booths has been introduced several times on Shift. This time, I would like to introduce...

MOTION AWARD 2006

2007.1.27　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

An innovative animation tool, Flash already marks its 10th anniversary now. Flash has been developed especially in the web field, and now there are not many websites which don't have Flash. Also, it doesn't stay only ...

DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2006

2006.12.27　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Aiming to discover unknown talented creators and to provide an opportunity to show their works, "DOTMOV" is a digital film festival SHIFTorganizes, which has been held during the whole month of November every year sin...

DESIGNTIDE 2006

2006.12.27　 Text: Yurie Hatano

DesignTide in Tokyo 2006 took place at an empty building and various galleries in Tokyo from November 1 through the 5th. About 100 groups of designers gathered for this event from all over the world. This year’s theme...

BEYES “SNOW WISHES”

2006.12.19　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Snow will fall at BEYES Omotesando Hills. "Snow Wishes". The falling snow will be your messages. Please send messages for your significant other from the web page to the environmental equipment "EDIT WALL", of BEY...

FIX MIX MAX !

2006.12.5　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

Recent years in Sapporo, we have many art's events in November. If you are interested in art and planning to visit Sapporo, it might be also good to choose this season because there are many opportunities to enjoy lo...

WORM HOLE EPISODE 4

2006.12.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

The magical, ARTROOM in Roppongi is a new gallery opened early in 2006. We already cannot take our eyes off this gallery. Because all exhibitions they offer are enormously attractive with the delicate and superb sou...

THIS LAND IS MY LAND

2006.12.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

I have had a vague sense that, since I came to Berlin, there are so many people who relatively freely cross the border here in Europe, as if there are no borders. It was the exhibition “This Land Is My Land” that supp...

DRAP ART INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE RECYCLING FESTIVAL 06

2006.12.5　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

Founded in Barcelona in 1995, Drap Art is a non-profit organisation which promotes the artistic use of recycling as a tool of transformation and a more reflexive way of consume by respecting the environment and taking...

PAOLA PIVI “MY RELIGION IS KINDNESS. THANK YOU, SEE YOU IN THE FUTURE”

2006.12.5　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

With cryptic and welcoming title like this makes it's hardly surprising to find in the first room of the Old Warehouse of Porta Genova station a selection of white and singularly quiet animals: lamas and horses, dogs ...