HAPPENING
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...
THINGS
A well known publishing company for artistic books, Die Gestalten Verlag had released "Hidden Track - How Visual Culture Is Going Places" in this October, which shows how contemporary visual culture is breaking out of...
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"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 ...
HAPPENING
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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
PLACE
Back in the autumn of 2003, I reported on the sad forced relocation of Amsterdam's 'laboratory for cultural production', SMART Project Space. Following a 3 year battle to save their home in the former Swammerdam Insi...
PEOPLE
A small group of artists got together to create a virtual gallery for more and more people whose goals are to make connections through art, and to make art possible for everyone. This people have opened a new door not...
HAPPENING
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...
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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...
HAPPENING
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...
