FRANCISCO LóPEZ

2008.4.9　 Text: Shintaro Miyazaki

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the experimental music scene. His latest live immersive performance in Berlin at "märzmusik 2008" was for the interviewer one of the most ex...

GIULIANO FUJIWARA

2008.4.8　 Text: Naoko Wowsugi

In 1986, Mr. Yoshiaki Fujiwara debuted the Fashion Brand giuliano Fujiwara in Milan. After his death, Mr. Masataka Matumura became the designer when he was just twenty-five. His collection debut was a year later. That...

OKI

2008.3.31　 Text: Yurie Hatano

OKI DUB AINU BAND is a progressive roots band led by OKI. OKI is well known for reviving the "Tonkori", a traditional stringed instrument of the Karafuto Ainu. He boldly electrified this ancient instrument and plays d...

ROBERT SEIDEL

2008.3.31　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Robert Seidel is an experimental filmmaker and projection artist based in Germany. His works have been appeared 3 times in the selected list of DOTMOV FESTIVAL, 2004, 2006 and 2007, and received high marks from guest...

CARLOS J. GóMEZ DE LLARENA

2008.3.28　 Text: Kyoko Tachibana

This month's Shift cover was designed by Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena. Carlos has been pursuing his creative activities under the name, med44. Gómez works on a variety of media from web-based art work to public instal...

COMANECHI

2008.3.27　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

Comanechi is one of this rare but amazing things that happend to you when you are surfing the Internet and suddenly you get blast and captured. Comanechi is a band that its really hard for me to introduce because I wa...

MICHAEL YOUNG

2008.3.26　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

Michael Young is an internationally established product designer who was sited by Terance Conran as the "most inspiring British designer" in 1995. His works span across various genres. After studying Furniture and ...

ANNTIAN

2008.3.21　 Text: Gudrun Rau

When you think of summer, what comes to your mind? Do you think of the early morning, when the air is still cool and refreshing? Or do you think of the afternoon, when it’s so hot that everything you can do is laze in...

ARY KAPLAN NAKAMURA

2008.3.18　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

We could say Ary Kaplan Nakamura’s world is a multicultural spot in the middle of this world. His grandparents came from Japan and Russia, which fragments and ancient stories are somewhat reflected on his face, house ...

RINA NAGANUMA

2008.3.14　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

Rina Naganuma is a film director in Sapporo, was born in 1981 in Sapporo. She started filming in her first year of high school, and now is working for advertising agencies and filming with students in workshops. Bes...

FARM

2008.3.13　 Text: Fann ZJ

FARM is a collective, a new generation of designers, who evocate cross disciplinary exploration, championing the spirit of sharing and of bringing together. Started off as the organisers of Rojak, it is since grown in...

ROMEO GALDáMEZ

2008.3.11　 Text: Erika Saca

Hollywood superstars, soldiers, and indigenous people live in perfect harmony among bar codes, lotería cards, and sweatshop sewing machines. This is the world as seen through the eyes of Romeo Galdámez, the Salvadoran...