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COMPUTER FAIR “CEBIT”
This year the biggest computer fair in germany took place in what will be the biggest fair in the coming millinium, Expo 2000. Actually, CeBit is always held in the industrial town of Hannover but one could see th...
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SLEAZE NATION
When I used to read in school history books about religious wars spanning centuries, I could never understand how anyone could care about anything enough to want to get that hurt. Since the last great wars we haven't ...
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MATT OWENS
Matt Owens, who is known as a gifted graphic designer as well as a skillful web designer in New York, contributed the cover design to SHIFT. Working on a great deal of web designs, print works, motion graphics etc, h...
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THE 1ST JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
The first ceremony of the Media Art Festival that is organised by the Agency for Cultural Affairs was held at Opera City in Shinjuku. The festival was set up in order to support and develop game software, CGs, animati...
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MARK BORTHWICK EXHIBITION
In Japan, this was the first photo exhibition by Mark Borthwich who photographed for fashion magaines such as I-D, Self Service and an advertising campaign for Parco. Mark Borthwich who had initially worked a...
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LAMMA ISLAND
These days, finding access to the Internet is not difficult to say the least. If it's not a local ISP, then it's your cybercafe down the street. The scenario is not any different here in Hong Kong. Imagining a ful...
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LE BAL
Tonight is the night. Every two weeks people my age meet at L'Elysee Montmartre a concert hall in Pigalle. The place usually closes down around eleven p.m after pop-rock shows are over. But for over a year L'Elysee Mo...
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KARL HYDE
Considering I see Underworld more often than I see my Mum, I know precious little about them other than the obvious.A year off after their seminal success with Born Slippy and Second Toughestin the Infants, they are o...
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NEST “CIRCULATION MODULE”
Nest has been fascinating audiences by its powerful danceing to the beat of Techno sounds since 1991 when it presented "Never More". After a year from the successful performance "UT" in Slovackia, Nest has just perfor...
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DEREK JARMAN “GLITTERBUG”
Dedicated to the glitter. The Life, love and work Derek Jarman went though. "Why I like this film is that everyone just laughes in there, feeling no pressure at all" - Derek Jarman Glitterbug includes a lot of ...
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TAKESHI KITANO “HANA-BI”
HANA-BI (Fireworks), 1997, Takeshi Kitano HANA-BI (Fireworks) directed by Takeshi Kitano won the grand-prix at the last Venezia Film Festival. Prior to the roadshow in Tokyo, Takashi Kitano Gallery was held featu...
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MAYA MAXX “COME HERE, LOVE IS HERE”
Known as a painter who drew the cover of 'Junior Sweet' by Chara and Honey Moon by Banana Yoshimoto, MAYA MAXX, the originator of the recent boom of cute and punkish illustrations, through this exhibition. "The...
