[rohrpost] Shift Magazine Mail News February Issue 2005

Timo Linsenmaier timo.linsenmaier at gmx.net
Sam Feb 12 11:06:44 CET 2005


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   Shift Magazine Mail News February Issue 2005 updated
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   Shift Magazine Mail News delivers you the latest issue digest on
   the day of Shift update (every 10th).

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   This month's cover: MARCOS WESKAMP
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   FEBRUARY ISSUE 2005 CONTENTS

   01) COVER&INTERVIEW: MARCOS WESKAMP
   02) WHAT'S GOOD? CONFERENCE
   03) ART MEETS MEDIA
   04) PERFECT HEAT
   05) ME MAGAZINE
   06) EVOLUTION CAFE
   07) SEMI-PERMANENT 05
   08) ANDERSEN
   09) RESFEST 2005
   10) TOMOAKI RYUH EXHIBITION 11) INFO-WORLD
   12) PRESENT

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   01) COVER&INTERVIEW: MARCOS WESKAMP

   Loads of information come and go through every day. Marcos
   Weskamp has created some projects, which visualize such
   unseen information with academic and interesting concept and
   technology. We interviewed him and grabbed interesting talk. 

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   02) WHAT'S GOOD? CONFERENCE

   From the 8th to the11th of January, the "What's good?
   Conference" was held in Hong Kong. It was an Art & Creativity
   festival coordinated under the auspices of the Hong Kong
   Artcenter and organized by the design office "AllRightReserved"
   and SK Lam, the former general manager of "IdN".

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   03) ART MEETS MEDIA

   Working on the theme of what "Media Art" is, which is hard to
   define in spite of its genarally wide use, a highly motivated
   exhibition titled "Art Meets Media: adventures in perception" is
   being held at NTT InterCommunication Center starting on the
   21st of January.

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   04) PERFECT HEAT

   Miska Draskoczy is a New York based designer and filmmaker. His
   latest film, 'Perfect Heat', is premiering this month at the San
   Francisco Independent FIlm Festival and his previous short, 'Golf
   Xpress' played at TromaDance in Park City, Utah at the end of
   January. 

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   05) ME MAGAZINE

   Claudia Wu is a New York based graphic designer and art director.
   She got her start doing art direction and design at Visionaire and
   V Magazine followed by stints at Harpers Bazaar and Prada
   Beauty. I spoke with her about her latest project Me Magazine. 

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   06) EVOLUTION CAFE

   On the 18th of February, an exhibition "Evolution Cafe", whose
   theme is "the arts of new generations that develop life-styles in
   the 21th century", will kick off as the opening exhibition for the
   huge art-space "BankART Studio NYK" made in collabolation
   between Yokohama city and a NPO for the arts.

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   07) SEMI-PERMANENT 05

   Following last year's event, Semi-Permanent 05 will be held in
   Sydney on the 18th and 19th of March. This event is presented by
   the Sydney based design group, "Design is Kinky". This will mark
   the third time this event will be held. 

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   08) ANDERSEN

   Following "Grimm", and in commemoration of the 200th birthday
   of Hans Christian Andersen, Die Gestalten Verlag is publishing
   "Andersen - The Illustrated Fairy Tales of Hans Christian
   Andersen". The book contains the original stories written by
   Andersen and is combined with contemporary visuals illustrated
   by 14 artists. From around the world artists were selected, and
   in a similar style as Grimm. 

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   09) RESFEST 2005

   "RESFEST", the biggest digital film festival in the world, is
   seeking the world's most innovative short films, animation
   design films and music videos for its 9th annual tour!
   The early deadline for submission is April 15, 2005 ($20
   submission fee) and the final deadline is May 12, 2005 ($25
   submission fee). 

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   10) TOMOAKI RYUH EXHIBITION

   Tomoaki Ryuh is a Japanese designer living in London. He creates
   works, with his own unique sensibility, in the various fields of
   graphic design, graffiti, web and fashion design. He has a wide
   body of work, and thinks that the approach to creating is
   important and leads to powerful works. Tomoaki Ryuh is one of
   the artist we should pay attention to now and in the future. His
   first exhibition in Japan is to be held at SOSO Cafe. 

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   11) INFO-WORLD

   What's happening around the borderground? Correspondents for
   Shift dwelling on the edge of the world contribute monthly to
   Info-World.
   New York - SUPER MARIO MOVIE
   San Francisco - ORBIT : CCA SPUTNIK DESIGN EXHIBITION
   Amsterdam - MENNO
   Vienna - LOMO SHOP
   Vilnius - BUMSTEIN & GARBSTEIN
   Singapore - BACKYARDS AND BOTANICS
   Tokyo - NO MUSIC, NO LIFE.
   Sapporo - MINI KYUTE 

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   12) PRESENT

   This issue's presents are "Me Magazine", a newly-made magazine
   in New York, a DVD of Perfect Heat and a ticket for
   "Semi-Permanent 05" that will be held in Sydney in March. Each
   item will be given to 3 people. The deadline is on February 28th.

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