Shift 2008 includes live concerts, DJ-sets and performances, an exhibition, video-screenings, panel discussions, artists' talks, students' projects, a family program and workshops with the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society.
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Thursday 23.10.2008
Concert Hall
19:00-20:00 Shift Opening
22:00-23:00 Fennesz and Lillevan (A/SE)
Exhibition Space
18:00-24:00 Exhibition
20:00-23:00 DIY Makeaway Workshop
21.30-22:15 Guided tour (German)
Videokultur VJ-Lab
Small Hall
21:00-22:00 Special Screening: Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us (GB)
Freight Wagons / Containers
18:00-24:00 Exhibition Shift in Progress
Kids' Tent
18:00-22:00 Shift Kids, electronic instruments for kids by Michael Bradke
Friday 24.10.2008
Concert Hall
20:00-20:30 Yan Duyvendak (CH)
20:30-21:30 Vicky Bennett aka People Like Us (GB)
22:00-23:00 Larytta (CH)
23:30-00:30 Plaid (GB)
00:30-03:00 Junction SM / Sonja Moonear and Dandy Jack (CH/D)
Exhibition Space
11:00-24:00 Exhibition
13:00-13:45 Guided tour (German)
14:00-15:00 Performance ETOY.CORPORATION
17:00-23:00 DIY Makeaway Workshop
21:00-21:45 Guided tour (German)
Videokultur VJ-Lab
Small Hall
12:00-13:30 Screening 1: compiled by Nikola Dietrich und Simone Neuenschwander
14:00-15:30 Screening 4: compiled by Katrin Mundt
16:00-17:00 Screening 3: compiled and presented by Oliver Laric
17:30-18:30 Screening 5: Seth Price, with introduction by Daniel Baumann
19:30-21:30 Screening 2: Jonas Mekas, with introduction by Alice Koegel
22:00-23:00 Headphone Concert: Bloom (CH)
23:00-00:30 Headphone Concert: b°tong (CH)
00:30-03:00 Headphone Concert: The Interdisco Livesquad (CH)
Festival Center
13:00-13:45 Shift Talk: ZHDK Cast
15:00-15:45 Shift Talk: Maia Gusberti / Nik Thönen
16:00-16:45 Shift Talk: Videokultur.ch
17:00-17:45 Shift Talk: Laurent Schmid
18:00-18:45 Shift Talk: Valentina Vuksic
19:00-20.15 Shift Talk: Lecture-Performance Agnes Meyer-Brandis
20:30-21:15 Shift Talk: Michael Riedel
21.30-22.15 Shift Talk: Alejo Duque
Freight Wagons / Containers
11:00-24:00 Exhibition Shift in Progress
Kids' Tent
11:00-22:00 Shift Kids, electronic instruments for kids by Michael Bradke
Saturday 25.10.2008
Concert Hall
20:00-20:30 Frédéric Post (CH)
20:30-21:30 Strotter Inst. & Flo Kaufmann
22:00-23:00 Philip Jeck (GB)
23:00-00:00 Goldfinger Brothers (CH)
00:00-01:00 DJ Q-Bert (USA)
01:00-01:30 Goldfinger Brothers (CH)
01:30-02:30 Birdy Nam Nam (F)
02:30-04:00 Goldfinger Brothers (CH)
Exhibition Space
11:00-24:00 Exhibition
13:00-13:45 Guided tour (German)
14:00-15:00 Performance ETOY.CORPORATION
14:00-23:00 DIY Makeaway Workshop
21:00-21:45 Guided tour (German)
22:00-23:00 Performance ETOY.CORPORATION
Videokultur VJ-Lab
Small Hall
11:00-11:30 Conference: Introductory lecture by Georg Christoph Tholen
11:30-13:30 Conference: Panel 1 / The Power of Archives. Yesterday and Today.
14:30-16:30 Conference: Panel 2 / Memory and Medial Transformation. On the Appearance and Disappearance of Archives.
16:30-18:30 Screening 1: with introduction by Nikola Dietrich und Simone Neuenschwander
19:00-20:30 Screening 4: with introduction by von Katrin Mundt
21:00-22:00 Screening 3: compiled and presented by Oliver Laric
22:00-23:00 Headphone Concert: [sic] (CH)
23:00-00:00 Headphone Concert: Les poissons autistes (CH)
00:00-01:00 Headphone Concert: Hopen (CH)
01:00-02:00 Headphone Concert: Monpetitponey (CH)
02:00-03:00 Headphone Concert: Everest (CH)
Festival Centre
15:00-16:00 Shift Talk: Lucien Samaha
16:00-17:00 Shift Talk: Aleksandra Domanovic / Oliver Laric / vvork
17:00-18:30 Shift Talk: Performance-Lecture Kristin Lucas
19:00-20:00 Shift Talk: Media Art between book covers
Freight Wagons / Containers
11:00-24:00 Exhibition Shift in Progress
Kids' Tent
11:00-22:00 Shift Kids, electronic instruments for kids by Michael Bradke
Sunday 26.10.2008
Concert Hall
16:00-17:00 Huzi (CN)
17:00-18:00 8GG (CN)
Exhibition Space
11:00-18:00 Exhibition
11:00-18:00 DIY Makeaway Workshop
13:00-13:45 Guided tour (German)
16:00-16:45 Guided tour in English
Videokultur VJ-Labor
Small Hall
12:30-14:30 Conference: Panel 3 / Record and Sample: The Use and Abstraction of Archives.
15:00-16:30 Screening 2: Jonas Mekas, curated by Alice Koegel
17:00-18:00 Screening 5: Seth Price
Festival Centre
13:00-14:00 Talk: Videokultur.ch
14:30-16:00 Talk: Media Art in China
Freight Wagons / Containers
11:00-18:00 Exhibition Shift in Progress
Kids' Tent
11:00-18:00 Shift Kids, electronic instruments for kids by Michael Bradke