This from Nothing Official.

M21--The Museum of 21st Century Art and The Scope Foundation proudly inaugurate their first exhibition, Helios Oceanus. Featuring award-winning multi-channel video artworks of Janet Biggs, Andrea Juan, and Christina McPhee at the Gansevoort South, located at 2399 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. There will be complimentary valet and entrance on 24th street. The reception will take place on Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 7 pm – 11 pm and will be open through December 10th.

Art Video Lounge Art Basel Miami
[PAM] is very proud to announce that the project has been chosen along with 17 featured video artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2006.

«Art Video Lounge»: A new way to look at video art
curated by Michael Rush of the Rose Art Museum

The Art Video Lounge offers an extensive overview of video art. «Art Video Lounge» is open daily (December 6 to December 10) from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m.

This from Isabel Arvers news letter:

Conference In Brussels + presentation & screening of a documentary about art & games : "8bit: the movie" by Martin Ramocki.
Art + Game: performances, exhibit and talks of Jodi, Angelo Vermeulen & Louis Blackburn, //////////fur///, Toshio Iwai, Julian Oliver, Walter Langelaar, Xavier Lardy, Régine Debatty (we-make-money-not-art), DMG Plantlife, _djèz_, M-.-N,...

Le 3 décembre, j'introduirai le documentaire "8bit: the movie" de Martin Ramocki par une présentation sur la relation art et jeux vidéo dans le cadre de l'événement Art + Game qui réunira Jodi, Angelo Vermeulen & Louis Blackburn, //////////fur///, Toshio Iwai, Julian Oliver, Walter Langelaar, Xavier Lardy, Régine Debatty (we-make-money-not-art), DMG Plantlife, _djèz_, M-.-N,...

More infos on: http://www.imal.org/Art+Game

Nothing Official did this film of the opening of the new Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College. Check out her full blog on blip.tv

malachi ritscherNew Media Artist Kanarinka posted on the Netbehaviour list about Malachi Ritscher's act of self immolation in protest of the Iraq War in Chicago on Nov. 3rd, 2006. He burned himself to death on the side of the Kennedy Expressway near downtown Chicago during the morning rush hour. He was a part of the arts and music community, and people who knew him told me that he was quiet and affable, but did not seem a person who would "go that far". Malachi was one of fewer than ten US citizens to protest in such a way, and it barely brought a blip on the radar.

In 1969 Gene Youngblood wrote a book called expanded cinema. The cinematic experience has influenced all our lives. The meta-narrative of film has become our collective mythos. The components of film, their parts and the manner in which meaning is constructed shape the way we perceive the world. Video, is an extension of cinema as a communication medium. Digital video has staked out it’s own hybrid area that has it’s own rules.

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The best young collaborative interface for video art is [PAM] Perpetual Art Machine. http://perpetualartmachine.com

Many are aware that the creative activities and conceptual shifts of todays contemporary artists, are not easy to define as art in the traditional sense. Especially when much of the cross-cultural, relational contexts, canons and definitions of art are re-shaped by these two individuals, Kate Rich & Kayle Brandon. Who seem to effortlessly break through paradigms like there is no tomorrow.

Han-Su Lee

Leandro Erlich

Matilde Ter Heijen

It REALLY feels dated to critique anything that contains the word Media Art nowadays. There is absolutely no reason that one can continue the ever-lasting debate on the step-daughter Media Art and why she - arguably- is yet not emancipated enough to be fully adopted into the rest of the family of all "new" Fine Arts disciplines. However, it is a boomerang question that has traveled from the West to the East. Media Art Biennials and fairs are mushrooming - and here in Seoul strongly present. ...