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[rohrpost] SHIFT074 UPDATE JAN. 2003


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   A   H A P P Y   N E W   Y E A R !


   C O N T E N T S


   2002 EDITORS BEST 5

   Thankfully, we could carry out many projects, such as a 
   collaboration project with Abahouse "Bin" and an editorial 
   support for "Web Designing magazine" in 2002.  
   A Shift produced gallery cafe "Soso" has been going well and 
   we had many interesting exhibitions and events there.  Also, 
   a community FM program "Noos" is on once a month now.  
   We believe that we could make great strides to shift the real 
   world.  We appreciate all your big supports very much.  
   In this New Year issue, we would like to look back the year 
   2002 with our staff's comments. With best wishes from Shift. 


   COVER INTERVIEW WITH A'+M

   "A'+M" from Brazil and Venezuela made the first cover design 
   for 2003. Their work was chosen in "Shift Calendar Competition" 
   and their impressive work can be found in February page.  
   Through the interview with them, you would feel their homage 
   to Latin America and an energetic adventurous spirit to accept 
   any challenges. 


   RYAN McGINNESS EXHIBITION

   From "Gasbook" to "Gas". You might have already seen that this 
   new label has already released many titles from talented 
   creators through "Gas Book" and "Gas DVD". "Gas Shop" opened in 
   Nakamegoro, Tokyo with Gas. The "Ryan McGinness Exhibition" 
   has been at the gallery pace on the first floor of the shop since 
   the 18th of December, 2002 under the title of "This Dream Is So
   Life-Like". A mural painting with Ryan's trademarks, icons and 
   signs, join paintings, silk screen works and his work from "Gas 
   DVD" are on display.
   Check out the interview with Ryan McGinness by Taka Kawachi, 
   a curator of this exhibition.  


   OPEN MIND EVENT

   The "Mori Art Museum" will open in the center of Tokyo in 
   October 2003. As a commemorative release of the CD "Open Mind" 
   (the museum pre open plan) the "Open Mind Live Event" was 
   performed at "Roppongi Hills Information Center/THINK ZONE" 
   December 21. The released CD "Open Mind" introduces the recent 
   trend of sound/noise music and media art produced by young 
   Japanese creators. This CD contains sound works by Keiichiro 
   Shibuya, Kozo Inada, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Aoki Takamasa, 
   Miroque, Portable[k]ommunity, Numb, and Ryoji Ikeda, and 
   software works by Ages 5&UP, Ryota Kuwakubo, Exonemo and 
   Portable[k]ommunity. 


   DOT SOSO#10

   Sapporo. Saturday the 28th of December. On one snowy day, a 
   monthly creative event "Dot Soso#10" was held at Soso Cafe. 
   The last guest in 2002 was a musician, Mr Takahiro Chiba's solo 
   unit "Slowly Minute". He has released a CD from Mr. Nobukazu
   Takemura's label "Childisk" and his natural sounds have received 
   a high evaluation from abroad. It was December 2001 when he 
   moved to Sapporo and released the 2nd album "Tomorrow World'". 
   This album will be released in US in 2003. 


   2002 (6TH) MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

   Prize winning works of "Media Arts Festival for Cultural Affairs" 
   were announced on the 19th of November. In this festival, Japanese 
   top media arts in 2002 could be seen. It hits its 6th round in this
   time and has been building up a position as one of the cores in 
   world's media arts like "Ars Electronica".
   It is not too much to say that this year's prize-winning works 
   showed us the state that surrounds the current media arts. 


   ART GALLERY BIN

   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. 
   Featuring 21dish.com by Minha Yang, currently a graduate student 
   at Seoul National University's Faculty of Crafts and Design


   INFO-WORLD 064

   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.
   Check out the report about Joan Morey Exhibition in Madrid,
   Humanfive Exhibition report is from Vancouver, and an open-air 
   live report is from Singapore.  A warm news for a freezing winteris 
   about a new oriental spa from Vienna and an experimental 
   installation "Co-existence Communication Suite" is from Hong 
   Kong and more...


   GRAPHIC IN CASE

   "Graphic in Case" is a new type of design product that contains a 
   graphic magazine and a CD-Rom.  It has been released from a 
   Tokyo-based-design-studio "Artless", which is in charge of the 
   editorial designs for "+81" magazine.
   A graphically designed book and a CD-Rom with photo data, based 
   on photos of Conny Island in Brooklyn, are in this product.


   SEMI-PERMANENT DESIGN CONFERENCE

   There is something like "a conference boom" nowadays. In spring 
   this year, a new one will be formed in Sydney, Australia; "Semi-
   Permanent Design Conference".
   Various creative fields, such as graphic design, web design, 
   broadcast, illustration, film making and graffiti will be 
   investigated at this conference, which is organized by the design 
   site "Design is Kinky".


   IdN VIDEO

   In addition to releasing the magazines "IdN" brought you many 
   conferences in 2002. A video, featuring four creators, is the first 
   good news from IdN in the New Year.
   Episodes of these 4 creators have already been presented on the 
   Internet by using a broadband audio-visual site "NOW", and you can 
   watch them by the 15th of February (Note: this service is available 
   only for those who has already registered NOW). These 4 episodes 
   got together in this "IdN VIDEO" and it strives to meld graphic 
   design and video production to foster a new media concept. 


   DOT SOSO #11 FEATURING GOKU

   Come and have fun with us at Dot Soso on the last Saturday of every 
   month. You can enjoy creative collaborations by creators from 
   various genres of art. The next event will be held on Saturday the 
   25th of January.
   As the first guest of the year 2003, we have a rapper Goku, who has 
   done many performances and collaborations with other artists such 
   as Yukihiro Fukutomi. Goku released his 2nd album "Time" in October 
   2002 by inviting "Pentagon", who is well known as a trackmaker of 
   "U.F.O.", as a guest. His hip-hop-based sound harmonized with jazz, 
   electro and dram base in this album. It has been confirmed that he 
   participates in a compilation album, which will be released in March 
   in USA, with DJ Krush, Takkyu Ishino, Yoshinori Sunahara and others.
   He will give a one-hour-performance in Dot Soso #11. Feel and 
   experience a new music that transcends the genres. 


   PRESENT

   Presenting CD "Open Mind" that was introduced at "Open Mind Live 
   Event", for 5 people. This CD was made as one of the pre-open
projects 
   for "Mori Art Museum", that will be opened in October as a cultural 
   symbol at Roppongi Hills. Eight sound works and four softwares are in 
   this CD. The latest sounds, noise music, digital and media arts of 
   Japanese young creators got together there.
   A graphic magazine + CD-Rom "Graphic in Case," by "Artless" is
another 
   present in this issue for 10 people.
   The deadline for both presents is the 31st of January.



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Taketo Oguchi for Shift Magazine
http://www.shift.jp.org

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