TRIMARCHI DG 2005

2005.12.1　 Text: Pablo Gonzalez Diaz

Latin-American design finally found a meeting point and TRImarchiDG has proven it once more. 1 stadium, 3 days, 15 conferences and 4000 assistants made it happen again this year. With popularly acclaimed conferences a...

ANRI SALA “THE LONG SORROW”

2005.12.1　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

"The Long Sorrow" is the first major personal show of the Berlin-based Albanian artist Anri Sala (Tirana, 1974) in Italy after being present with his work in three consecutive Venice Biennali in 1999, 2001 and 2003. ...

DESIGNEDGE & EXPO 2005

2005.12.1　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

DesignEDGE Conference & EXPO 2005 was held in Singapore from November 10th to 12th. This was the kick off to Singapore's national project Singapore Design Festival. A Hon Kong based design magazine IdN was in char...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 22

2005.12.1　 Text: Yuhei Kikuchi

The hot 2 days in the east most island country. Asia's biggest international art event Design Festa, which is in its 11th year and the 22nd this time, was hold on the 26th and 27th of November. The number of exhibitor...

POETRY IS NOT OVER

2005.12.1　

"Poetry Is Not Over" reunites young international artists who find or suggest poetry or a kind of oneiric expression in the algorithms, the codes, the complexities of the networks, or more generally the aesthetics of ...

RESFEST JAPAN 2005

2005.12.1　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The biggest video festival in the world Resfest had come to Japan again. Resfest go all over the world on the tour. This is the 7th time this year for this event in Japan. Compare to the first time in 1999, digital fi...

SAPPORO DESIGNERS WEEK 2005

2005.12.1　 Text: Yukiko Tokugi

Designer's Week began 20 years ago, in Tokyo. Last year, they hosted it in Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya as well. The fever has caught, and this year they Designer's Week will occur in Sendai and Sapporo too! In Sapporo, t...

TOKION CREATIVITY NOW TOKYO

2005.11.4　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

I found it was already a chilly day when "Tokion Creativity Now Tokyo" took place at Laforet Museum Harajuku on October 23rd. Last year, there were many interesting hosts and panelists, including, Yuuya Uchida, Hirosh...

THE PRO-TEST LAB

2005.11.4　 Text: Emanuelis Ryklys

The pro-test lab was initiated by VILMA (Vilnius Interdisciplinary Lab for Media Arts) at the cinema Lietuva in Vilnius and was testing the understanding of possible and/or impossible forms of protest. Protest,...

CHILDREN AND DIGITAL MEDIA

2005.11.4　 Text: Christina Merl

Illustration: Femke & Inge Do you have children aged between 0 and, say, 10? Are they into 'traditional', i.e. offline, games? Do they still draw on paper and read books or do they prefer to play with their elect...

KATHARINA GSCHWENDTNER “DAS ERSTE MAL”

2005.11.4　 Text: Jorg Heikhaus

Bagpipes for a welcome: when entering the opening of Katharina Gschwendtner current exhibition in Hamburg, visitors were greeted by live-music and a massively huge eye, cut, pasted and painted onto the window of Galle...

BERLIN ART FORUM 2005

2005.11.4　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

In Berlin, there were four art fairs held from the end of this September to the beginning of this October - Berlin Art Forum, which will be the 10th anniversary this year; Berliner Kunstsalon, which has been started s...