[rohrpost] SHIFT066 MAY 2002
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S H I F T 0 6 6 U P D A T E M A Y 2 0 0 2
http://www.shift.jp.org/066/
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C O N T E N T S
C O V E R I N T E R V I E W W I T H P E T E F O W L E R
A Londoner illustrator Pete Fowler made a cover design with
Simon Pike for this issue. Pete has been creating unique
characters, which make even adults want to collect them, in
his original worlds called "Monsterism" and "Fowlerism."
As he has provided his designs to Japanese clothing brand
"Satan Arbeit," he has been participating in many projects in
Japan. I have a good hunch that we will have many chances to
come in touch with his tastes. B
L O N D O N A N D B R I G H T O N G U I D E - D V D
The UK is a country where many creators' talents bloomed and
they enthusiastically have been expanding their artistic
fields. You might be one of them who have been inspired by its
creativity. In this DVD, famous British creators Tomato and
Red Design introduce the city of London and Brighton from
their point of view.
We interviewed with Mr Toru Hachiga, a producer of this DVD.
Find out how he felt about London and Brighton as he were
talking and walking with them.
M / M ( P A R I S)
M/M (Paris), based in Paris, has been dealing with many
projects, such as music, culture and fashion, with various
clients. You might know them as they participated in Gasbook
by designing a T-shirt.
Here is the interview of the designer unit that is the most
notable unit in Paris.
W X III : P A T L A B O R T H E M O V I E 3
"Patlabor" is an animation story that draws the activities of
"the second department of special vehicle" in the
Metropolitan Police Department. The aim of this department
is exercising strict control over the crimes that are
committed by "labors (human robots" in the immediate future.
This story had been presented in comic books, TV, videos and
cinemas, and the third version for the cinema "WXIII" has been
presented after the silence of nine years. Interviewed with
Tori Miki, a scenario writer for this piece.
N U M E R 0 2
Numer organized for the second time from April 19 to April
21 2002, at the Centre Pompidou a set of international
conferences about interaction design. This event is titled
"interaction design - look ahead". It was a place for words,
invention, and communication. it was the crossroads of
theory and practice, it was the sharing grounds of
experiences, questions and insights. I met very different
people such as designers, artists, researchers, teachers,
journalists... etc.
I N T E R A C T I V E A R T O N T H E W E B
The web has limitless potential for getting people together
to create experiments in interactive art and design. The
online world of virtual meeting spaces allows people to take
an experimental concept from idea to reality. The brilliant
1000 Journals, Free Words, and 20 things are three innovative
public art projects that use the web to converge people,
creativity and concepts. Colliding the online and offline
worlds, these experiments allow everyone to share their
creativity.
2 0 0 2 A S I A D I G I T A L A R T A W A R D S
"Asia Digital Art Awards" is a competition with the aim of
sending intelligence and diffusing digital art & design from
Asia to the world. It has been started since last year. The
categories are divided into two: Category A "Digital Art &
Design" and Category B "Entry Class". There are also several
sections in each category. The winner for Asian Digital Art
Grand Prize will receive a certificate of merit, a trophy and
supplementary cash prize 1 million yen. The deadline is
Thursday the 27th of June.
N E X T 0 2
A new form of art & culture event was held at Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu, Tokyo on the
2nd and the 3rd of May. Many people, who concern in
promoting new media in Tokyo, gathered for this event.
The featured artists are: Noboru Tsubaki + Hiroyuki Moriwaki,
Ryota Kuwakubo, Motoshi Chikamori + Kyoko Kunou, minim++,
Sachiko Kodama + Minako Takeno, Atsuko Uda, Phonton, Tomio
Goto, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Hiroo Iwata, Katsura Hattori,
Tetsutoshi Tabata, Kazuna Iida, cell/66b, Kiri Matsuura,
Tetsuya Mizuguchi and others.
S M I L E P O S T C A R D P R O J E C T 2 0 0 2
The postcards set from "Smile Postcard Project 2002", which
was featured in Shift before, has released on the 15th of
April.
The aim of this project is to help women, children and
refugees who are in a grave situation by design. The project
is organised by Hoppe, a Japanese non-commercial
organisation operated by freelance artists. Artists from
seven countries participated in this project. One set contains
45 postcards and will be sold.
S A L M A G A Z I N E V O L. 5
A visual free magazine "SAL magazine" has marked the second
year since it was published. It has been sending you creative
genres from graphic designs, arts, images, music, webs to
architecture and the exhibition was held for the third issue.
And now, the latest issue has just arrived in this April. The
key word for this fifth issue is "Re:Newal".
H Y P E R I S L A N D E X H I B I T I O N 2 0 0 2
Hyper Island Exhibition 2002 will be held in Stockholm,
Sweden. This is an exhibition by the students and for the
students. Hyper Island itself is located on one of 33 islands
in Karlskrona that is the southeastern part of Sweden.
Twenty different prototypes, such as creative processes,
game development, mobile interaction, creating brands and
business models, will be showcased in this exhibition.
D O T S O S O #03
"Dot Soso" is a creative event to collaborate with creators
from various genres. The next event will be held on Saturday
the 1st of June at Soso Cafe that is produced by an on-line
magazine Shift.
It will feature a live performance of an Ainu musician Oki
Kanou from Asahikawa City and an installation of a furniture
designer Nanae Hara from Furniture Design Agra in Sapporo.
We will provide you electronic lounge space with DJ and
lighting installation by Nordform Crew.
Dot Soso#3 will be held on 1st June.
C U T O U T E X H I B I T I O N
"Cut Out" teevee graphics exhibition has been held from
Friday the 19th of April to Friday the 17th of May at Roppongi
Hills Information Center/Think Zone, that has been opened
near Roppongi Hills in this April. Ten new films with the
theme of the peculiar scenery of Tokyo have been presented in
this exhibition. Visitors are directly able to experience
graphics with 16 projectors from the ceiling and the high
quality motion floor system.
R E S F E S T 2 0 0 2
Resfest is a global touring digital film festival that has
started since 1997. It is going to be the sixth time in this
year. As usual, the tour will start from San Francisco in
September to showcase original shortfilms, music videos and
more that are sent from all over the world. The deadline is
the 1st of June 2002.
A R T G A L L E R Y B I N
This month, new gallery space 'BIN' has launched on cooperation
with Abahouse International. BIN is a showcase and repository
for artworks in the digital era. It is intended as a place for
artists to exhibit and archive their digital artworks.
Future plans include compiling contributed artworks on
CD-ROM and in printed catalogues and mounting exhibitions
in galleries worldwide.
Featured 'Progress' made by Carbonatedjazz from Philadelphia
in USA.
T O K Y O C U T I E G I R L S
Featuring street fashion photos in ever changing Tokyo. One
of the popular features, 'Tokyo Cutie Girls' returns!
I N F O - W O R L D 0 5 6
What's happening around borderground? Correspondents for
Shift dwelling on the edge of the world contribute monthly to
Info-World. Shift presents your direct source from the
borderground culture of the world.
G R E E T I N G C A R D
Brand new greeting cards designed by Saas Fee are ready for
you. This service is designed to give you the possibility of
creating a personal greeting page on the internet for any
special person you like. Please give it a try!
S O S O C A F E
Soso Cafe is a gallery-cafe-restaurant produced by Shift. It
is available to purchase the design products, which are dealt
at Shift Factory, in the cafe. Also, an event will be held once
a month as well as displaying works at the gallery space on
the wall. The Internet service is available, too. Of course, you
can order meals at the cafe.
Dot Soso#3 will be held on 1st June.
S E A R C H
Now you can search any contents within Shift through Google.
Where's that article? Where's the information you're looking
for? Try it now!
P R E S E N T
Present SAL magazine, which is featured in this issue, for 10
people. The deadline for both presents is the 31th of May.
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