MECON ’99
This years Mecon, the congress for digital production, brought with it a few surprises along with a slew of new talent. Held in the shadows of the Dome, along the Rhein river in Cologne, the Mecon brought together the...
This years Mecon, the congress for digital production, brought with it a few surprises along with a slew of new talent. Held in the shadows of the Dome, along the Rhein river in Cologne, the Mecon brought together the...
Sonar, billed as an International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, has fast become one of the most vibrant festivals for progressive and experimental electronica in Europe. It's sixth edition had a lot ...
If you think of this show "De La Guarda - Villa Villa" as one of your normal theater experiences, think again. If you haven't seen this show in New York City, go get your tickets right now. "De La Guarda - Villa Villa...
With weather fit for a party Hamburg, had a glorious one for the annual Hamburg Hafengeburtstag (Harbor Birthday). Held from 7th through the 9th of May the annual festival saw the return of the ferris wheel and ma...
Well... we talked about it before but we HAVE to continue about this spot... as we were waiting for this kind of place for quite a long time. The Batofar, firemen boat on the seine, re-morphed in a concert hall,...
With the slogan "Subvert the Future," Faze Festival opened its curtain to a sold-out audience last Sunday. Showcasing fifteen-plus new and exclusive commercials and music videos, some of which are banned from the mai...
The Hong Kong International Film Festival has just ended and during its run from March 31st to April 15th, there were a variety of wonderful films for the masses to get a taste of. One of those was the Hirotsugu Kawa...
About once a year, in Germany, there's a conference for designers to attend. This year I chose to attend TYPO '99 in Berlin which was sponsored by the FontShop. This years theme was image and language, and didn't foc...
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) at Musee d'art Moderne de Paris. It was only the second time that the French audience had the opportunity to penetrate into the minimal landscape work of Mark Rothko and for most of the people...
After several successful showings in the UK, Erotica, a sex themed convention, spent 4 days at Manhattan's Jacob Javits Center. The coming of the convention (excuse the pun) supposedly brought on a lot of opposition ...
A fifteen meter high gigantic figure engulfed in flames. Naked men and women walking proudly. More than ten thousand participants under a burning sun. The spirit of 'No Spectators'. 'Burning Man' is a kind of new fest...
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was recently in Hong Kong to give support to Hong Kong's proposed US $13 billion Cyberport project. The envisioned Cyberport will be an international multimedia and information service ce...
This month Hamburg enjoyed a few warm days and daylight until six at night. Yes, spring is in the air: buds on trees, flowers on lawns that are ever greening and the people are out and about. What went down, was almos...
A bit of techno for this wonderful Month of March (Well people that have ever seen Paris in the first day of the come back of the sun will know what I mean... Back to the cafe's, let's stay outside and drink Pastis or...
There have been countless stories of bankruptcy and buy-ups over the recent years in the world's new media industry. Now it's our turn and it's nothing so dramatic. At the accounts review a few weeks ago a few ...
The American Institute of Graphics Arts (AIGA) ran its first conference on design for film and television, DFTV.001, this past month at the Equitable Center in midtown Manhattan. Directed by Emily Oberman and Bonnie ...
For some past few years, the market for animation/figure, regarded as Otaku-culture is expanding to anti-Otaku people. This maybe created by Takashi Murakami who goes ahead with the fusion of Otaku and Art, 'Ghost in ...