MATMOS
A few years ago I picked up a copy of Matmos' self-titled first album at Aquarius Records in San Francisco. Or was it Amoeba? I can't quite recall. I bought the album at a time when I was indiscriminately buying ridic...
A few years ago I picked up a copy of Matmos' self-titled first album at Aquarius Records in San Francisco. Or was it Amoeba? I can't quite recall. I bought the album at a time when I was indiscriminately buying ridic...
French graphic designer, Genevieve Gauckler created the cover design for this issue. She creates images by "sampling" different kinds of things into an image such as pictures, characters or everyday items. Her most un...
First impressions can be deceiving and nowhere is this more evident than in the work of Aico Dinkla. He creates beautiful clothes but to call him just a fashion designer would be a disservice. To call him an artist is...
On one Friday night, I get a phone call from a friend asking me if I want to stop by a gallery opening. I ask him what the show was and he tells me, "Oh, some drawings and illustrations." Nothing particular to do that...
Yoshi Sodeoka from C404, featured in this issue, is an artist based in New York who creates multi media art and music using digital noise. He contributed the cover design for this issue and is going to do a performanc...
Die Gestalten Verlag is a publishing company that has a meaning "creating things" in German. Since it has started since 1997, it can be said that this is a young company but many artists have released books from DGV....
Have you ever thought about what it might be like to live with all your friends in one big house? Or what it would feel like if your hobby was your living? Well, DJ Edzon could well be living the dream. A genuine A...
Chris Ware is my neighbor. I've never met him, but when I heard that the famous cartoonist recently moved from the city's North side out to our sylvanian, sub-urban borough, I was compelled to no longer put off a thor...
"Should you ask us today, who we are, we shall say: We are the people you don't see. The people from the woods. The people with short arms and short legs. The people that visit you at night, that pull the cover ove...
I spent my summer holiday in Amsterdam. There I met Austrian mosaic artist Tina in her studio. Ok, I know I'm supposed to report about what's going on in Vienna. However, Tina originally is from Vienna but moved t...
In a serene, light-filled apartment close to the Artis sits Garrett Chow, one third of the Amsterdam-based street-art crew known as The London Police. Their purpose? "To put up art in cities for the public to see. We'...
Syrup, based in New York and Helsinki in Finland, made a cover design for this issue. It might be the first time to hear their name but Syrup is a group of talented people that deal with many projects with top compan...
Abake is a design studio that consists of four members with different nationalities. In this May, they held the first exhibition, GAS in Japan at GAS SHOP in Tokyo. In this issue, we introduce their interview that was...
John Currin's paintings, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago through August 23rd, present an encyclopedia of formal elements from the stylebooks of Courbet, Manet, Boucher, Tiepolo, El Greco, and Cranac...
The project exhibitions "Tokyo Art Frontline" will be held for four months at Soso Cafe in Sapporo from this month. We will invite artists in the forefront every month in order to let visitors feel creators' worlds cl...
Limiteazero is an architecture and media design studio based in Milan, Italy. Limiteazero's areas of expertise include: digital identity design, interactive design, exhibition design, sound design, media in architectu...
First of all I would like to thank to Shift crew for the invitation to contribute monthly with some news about Brazilian cultural scene. If you have any specific curiosity related to Brazilian culture or if you have a...