HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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
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...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
THINGS
In Japan, most people are interested in mobile phone and it's been featured in not only business magazines, but also in general and fashion magazines. i-Mode was started by NTT Docomo last spring. This is, in brief, ...
PEOPLE
This is the story of my meeting with dj Oakey Lo, for the four millionth time. It's not everyday you meet a passionate person in Hong Kong just trying to do their own thing, musically that is. In my case however, I am...
HAPPENING
This month I had a chance to compare life in two major cities of Russia: Moscow and St. Petersburg. In many aspects they're two worlds apart. Still, it was pretty easy to find some of the most general tendencies. T...
PEOPLE
With two full-length CD releases within the last year, and numerous design projects to boot, Sydney's Dump Huck / Beat & Squelch collective is becoming a much-needed cohesive force in the town's often fractured el...
PLACE
Hamburg has Germany's biggest harbour. Some people love it so much, that they move into its rough and industrial environment and sometimes they do parties. They did so last Saturday afternoon. The "Brandshof" resident...
