MOBILE ART COMPETITION

2007.2.5　 Text: Yurie Hatano

SHIFT holds several competitions aiming to discover fresh creators and support their activities, such as SHIFT CALENDAR COMPETITION and DOTMOV. This time, in collaboration with Crypton Future Media, we had been callin...

TAKE OFF THE HEADPHONE & TURN TO 10

2007.2.1　 Text: Becky Ip

Since 2003, Lona Records has become a mainstay in the small yet burgeoning experimental music scene in Hong Kong. While releasing full-length albums ranging from ambient to post-punk, one could argue that Lona's gems ...

YUMEJUYA EXHIBITION

2007.1.31　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

"Such a Dream was Seen". A sketch "Yume Jyuya" by Soseki Natsume is the ten talks of the dream that Soseki once looked. A story of the woman who says already dies from graceful eyes, and a story of Unkei (A famous...

SANTIAGO SIERRA “NUOVI LAVORI ITALIANI”

2007.1.31　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

Two new projects from the Santiago Sierra: "The Anarchists" (Los Anarquistas) is based on a performance that the Spanish artist had realised in Rome with eight militant anarchists hired to listen to the traditional Ch...

KANJIKI SNOW WALK

2007.1.31　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

In Sapporo, cold is the severest February. I can say at the same time it is the month that is full of events. Scheduled to hold "Sapporo Snow Festival" to enjoy a image in snow, and "Toyota Big Air" which snow-borders...

SHIZUOKA CONTENTS VALLEY FESTIVAL 2007

2007.1.31　 Text: Naoko Wowsugi

The second Shizuoka Contents Valley Festival (SCVF) was held in a calm local city, Shizuoka. This event exhibits and screens high level works by world-leading designers and creators. SCVF is held by Shizuoka Co...

BREAD & BUTTER WINTER 2007

2007.1.30　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

The Tradeshow leader in Europe in modern fashion culture presented the colections for Winter 07 in Barcelona. Once again, the best fashion brands, established as well as upcomming designers, coolhunters, fashion edito...

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...