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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
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