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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...
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FASHIONLAB 2000
Produced by Fashion Laboratories for the Environment Inc. in association with the Downtown Arts Festival, Fashionlab 2000 took place on a slightly rainy evening of one Saturday in September. The show was hosted by Eye...
PEOPLE
FAKE ID
This month's cover design was produced by a two-man design unit called Fake ID in San Francisco. They've been working in different fields from performances for art installations to web sites. On their web site, they c...
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HANNOVER EXPO 2000
The world exposition called 'Expo2000' will run through October 31st in the north German town of Hannover, Niedersachsen. The key theme of this year's expo is 'Humankind - Nature - Technology' based on the World Envir...
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ARS ELECTRONICA 2000
Ars Electronica is in its 21st year. Digital media is necessary as an art today. In a dramatic transitional period when electronic music / media art are evolving, the festival showcases the division between a hackneye...
