HAPPENING
Good news for film freaks: An exciting selection of innovative and multi-faceted European films is presented at the Crossing Europe film festival, which for the second time takes place in the Upper Austrian capital Li...
HAPPENING
On the back streets of Whitechapel, one enters into the confusing boundary of the Elastic Residence. Blurring the setting in which one views art between the domestic and the public gallery, we are then confronted wit...
HAPPENING
Maybe you think as these guys do. Maybe you are one of those trying to enjoy a night out and hoping that your evening is not spoiled by "the DJ", that guy that has raised his work to levels one couldn't even think pos...
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"Little Boy" is an exhibition showcasing a selection of ten Japanese artists who have risen to fame, apparently to cult status by exploring the idea of 'Otaku'. The meaning of 'Otaku' refers to the visual culture surr...
COLETTE
In addition to being the DVD selector at colette in Paris, Australian writer Linlee Allen also claims her fame as the store's 'all-round groupie'. Having participated in the world-famous boutique's range of events acr...
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Flash conference FITC 2005 was held on April 9th through 11th in Toronto, Canada. There were over 60 guest speakers from all over the world. The familiar faces like Yugo Nakamura, Collin Moock, and Joshua Davis, and b...
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Motivated by their affinity towards Japan, six years ago seven students in Frankfurt, Germany formed Nippon Connection. By last year, the festival had grown to have more than 16,000 visitors and by some estimates is n...
HAPPENING
The exhibition at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], "Open Nature" has been taking place. ICC has made many plans, which are based on various themes and illuminate relationships between art and technology with vario...
PEOPLE
This month's cover is designed by TAKORA Kimiyoshi Futori, who is a visual creator and well-known to SHIFT for his collaboration with Chisato Shinya. He has offered his visuals to a picture book Andersen (Die Gerstalt...
HAPPENING
There might be many surprised people when they find out that Masataka Kurashina, a custom painter, who collaborates with heterogeneous creators such as musicians and modern artists, has made a picture book. We cannot ...
PLACE
Not long ago, West Kowloon was just the name of an area-the Western part of Hong Kong's Kowloon peninsula, to be exact. Today, however, those two words mean so much more, as they have become a short-hand for the contr...
HAPPENING
One of the most memorable shop window displays I have ever seen was the one for the book, Exactitudes. The Atheneaum book store in Amsterdam had a stunningly simple idea of images from the book decorating their window...
