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 ...

INTERFACE: ART & TECHNOLOGY

2006.3.1　 Text: F. Lennox Campello

"I blame you for low rise jeans," accuses the voice of artist Thomas Edwards, emanating from small speakers below his moving sculpture of a white hand pointing an accusing finger. "I don't think I know what I'm lookin...

HIDEHITO SHINNOU EXHIBITION

2006.3.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Being connected with the cover and the interview in SHIFT, "HIDEHITO SHINNOU EXHIBITION" was held at SOSO in Sapporo during the whole month of February. Undergoing a complete change from colorful and vivid "HUMANS BY ...

TRANSMEDIALE 2006

2006.3.1　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

When the weather had got warmer from the unusually coldest season this year, Transmediale 06 was held in Berlin. Transmediale is an art festival in Berlin, which you can look out over the current media art. The venue ...

A TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH BEUYS ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

2006.2.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Speaking of enjoying modern art in Berlin, first comes the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum. Not only are there 20th century collections of the Western countries from Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg to Anselm...

JEAN TOCHE “BURN BABY BURN”

2006.2.5　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

"Burn Baby Burn" collects a wide selection of the works realised by the Belgian born, American artist Jean Toche as a response and as a political commentary to the current US administration. All the prints presented a...

OUR HISTORY… EXHIBITION

2006.2.5　 Text: Sarah Boisson

Nicolas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans, the co-directors of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris are celebrating their departure by a significant exhibition titled 'Notre Histoire...' (Our History). The Palais de Tokyo opened on ...

NATASHA LAW “HOLD”

2006.2.5　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

Pin heels, pink panty, and silver painted camisole, a girl wearing them are trying to change a bulb. That's the cover illustration of "How to Walk in High Heels" by Camilla Morton, which have been piled up at most boo...

YLEM FORUM: MULTIMEDIA FANDAGO

2006.2.5　 Text: Ammon Haggerty

In the spring of 1981 Trudy Myrrh began promoting a gathering for like minded artists - an event which she dubbed Ylem. "Ylem" is a Greek word used to describe "the material from which the universe emerged". Myrrh wa...

GOWER GULCH

2006.2.5　 Text: Christopher Lenz

At the corner of Gower & Sunset street across from the Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, originally established as the legendary Columbia Pictures Studios, is a small western themed shopping center named "Gower ...

ANDREA ZITTEL “CRITICAL SPACE”

2006.2.5　 Text: Carlos J. Gomez

Last week's opening of Andrea Zittel: Critical Space at the New Museum marked the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective of this influential American artist in her native country. Zittel's work has gained wide a...