Mediamatic Magazine 1#3

"Dear artists, dear friends" began a letter sent to the Canadian media magazine Video Guide by the video artist SERVAAS from Hoorn. The letter was an appeal for his foreign colleagues to send...

SIMON BIGGS chose at the Den Haag and Bonn video festivals (both held during September 1986) a number of tapes and one performance, which lend themselves admirably to a theoretical textual approach.

Travelling evokes numerous thoughts and feelings: often exciting because one is facing the unknown, because one thinks about the new destination, and recalls one's previous journeys. At the airport

During the last two weeks of September artists who have extended elements of their work into performances made presentations in the SHAFFY THEATRE in Amsterdam. One of them was the artist MICHAL...

FRANK en KOEN THEYS are staging a WAGNER's Ring des Nibelungen by video: Lied van mijn land (song of my soil/ chant of my country/ air of my earth/ hymn of my home?). Part one, Het Rijngoud , was...

Video art costs time. Thus, it's more frequently presented in other situations than non- time based art forms, for instance: in cinema or theatrical setting. This article is seeking alternatives that...

The Bonn Videonal is a biannual videofestival that took place for the second time last fall. FRIEDEMANN MALSCH describes the set-up of the festival and spots media-specific developments in art video.

At the last World Wide Video festival the Amsterdam artist KEES DE GROOT (1965), together with FRANK MORSSINKHOF presented De Vrouw van het Valtherpad . This installation differs strongly from his...

Video art should be watched in the living room. It's made for televisions, and televisions are made for living rooms. By this we don't mean that it should be broadcasted by one of the networks. That...