
Video Data Bank Happy holidays from the Video Data Bank! Our offices will be closed to the public from Thursday, December 24 through Friday, January 1. See you in 2010!

Video Data Bank The current homepage of Canvas Magazine hosts an audio recording of the Miami Basel panel discussion "Gender, Wars, and Chadors." The event featured Akram Zaatari, Ghada Amer and Kader Attia in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Video Data Bank For his first show with Brussels' Xavier Hufkens Gallery, VDB artist Sterling Ruby enters into a creative dialogue with the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe.
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10 December 2009 - 14 January 2010

Video Data Bank George and Mike Kuchar, together in person, present their 8mm films at SFMOMA tonight. At VDB we'll take "Tootsies in Autumn" over "Charlie Brown's Christmas" any time!
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Video Data Bank Actor James Franco cites Guillermo Gómez-Peña as inspiration for his current performances on General Hospital . Come to the VDB and find your inspiration!
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The Milk and Spider-Man actor explains why he loves performance art—as a spectator as well as a practitioner.

Video Data Bank VDB artists Teri Yarbrow and Max Almy open a new exhibition titled "Ascent" at Gerbert Gallery this Friday. The show features installation works "that seamlessly blend painting, digital imagery and video projection."
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Video Data Bank Cineaste Magazine calls VDB's Surveying the First Decade box set a "magnificent achievement!"
www.cineaste.com
Cineaste, America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema.

Video Data Bank LA's Visual Communications is an organization dedicated to honest and accurate portrayals of Asian Americans. VDB work by Kip Fulbeck and Valerie Soe will screen at a Dec 10th event.
www.vconline.org
Join us here at Visual Communications' headquarters in Los Angeles Little Tokyo as we continue MOVIES THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE: The Living Room Series

Video Data Bank VDB Director, Abina Manning recently spoke with artist Mike Hoolboom about his current work and influences. The thoughtful conversation appears in full on the Conversations at the Edge blog.
conversationsattheedge.org

Video Data Bank The wonderful NEXUS Foundation in Philadelphia presents SUPERGIRL! an exhibition of video art heroines.
www.nexusphiladelphia.org
The female superhero is elusive and constantly evolving.She battles her adversaries, her environment, her preconceptions as well as herself. She is not only super heroic but is an uber-woman, meca-warrior, and transformer. ...

Semiconductor's newest work Black Rain will be installed in the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, Earth: Art of a Changing World, 3rd December 2009 – 31st January 2010. ...














