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FOCOM 2000
This year the annual Moscow International Festival "Focom" festival took place in the building of the first Moscow electric power-station, which appears now to be one of the most expensive galleries of our city - "New...
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MONTREAL BIENNALE 2000
The second edition of Montreal Biennale was launched on September 28th in an unusual place. What used to be The Palais du Commerce was chosen to be the meeting point for art enthusiasts. The abandoned Palais du Commer...
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SPORTS TO KIBARASHI (DISTRACTIONS)
On October 7th and 8th, the event entitled 'Sports to Kibarashi' (Sports and Distractions) was held at an alternative space Room in Gentilly in the suburbs of Paris. In this small and pure white space originally used ...
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THE DESIGNERS BLOCK 2000
Hello. Let us introduce ourselves, this is Karl and Yasmeen, we have started to write for SHIFT instead of Nick from London. Both of us are Graphic Design students and from our experiences we will update you of ...
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JOHN MAEDA “CODED BLUE”
Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab and Director of Aesthetics and Computation Group of the lab, John Maeda fuses computer science and visual arts to challenge the common understanding of computer aided desi...
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CREATIVE WORKS 2001
On the 2nd and 3rd of October, a fashion event called Creative Works 2001 coordinated by Shift was held in Sapporo. This show attempted to send out the creation of the new generation from Sapporo, mainly by Shift. It ...
THINGS
BLISTER!
The Japanese film 'Blister!' won the Fantaland Grand Prize and got the best reputation from audiences in this year's Yubari International Film Festival. It gives a good picture of the everyday life of so-called Geeks ...
PEOPLE
TUOMO TAMENPAA
We had a chance to meet an artist at the Continent exhibition in Brussels featured in this month's Shift. Tuomo Tamenpaa is a Finnish designer artist who set up a huge advertisment in a corner of the room for a virtua...
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ARCHITETTURA: CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
The film + concert was held at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) in Shinjuku on September 23th and it was really interesting. This event entitled 'Architettura: Contemporary Architecture and Electronic Music' was a...
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FIRE IN OSTANKINO (MOSCOW’S MAIN TV-TOWER)
This month there is few news. Except one - due to the fire in Ostankino (Moscow's main TV-tower), the whole city of Moscow was totally cut off from a supply of television for nearly a month. Something we coul...
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MIX MOVE 2000
Since five years, every September, an exhibition about electronic music is held in Paris, gathering DJ's, labels and technologies that make french vibe. At the beginning, it was more like a kind of meeting for the pro...
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MR. A
A while ago an art e-commerce site called Brit Art launched in the UK. The launch was supported by a brilliant ad campaign, where they labelled everyday objects as entries in an art exhibition catalogue, slightly mock...
