Lives and works in Paris as a video artist and television producer, author and journalist, art and cinema critic, and Professor of Cinema Studies. Has written for the Tribune socialiste (1967-70), Cinéthique (1968-73), les Cahiers du Cinéma (1978-89), Le Monde (1980-82), Libération (1982-83), and presently writing for Art Press and Le Monde. Has published the novel Atteinte à la fiction de l'état (Gallimard, 1978), a work of fictional satire (against the New Right), Les bons à rien (Gallimard-Presses d'aujourd'hui, 1980), the essay Jean-Luc Godard in collaboration with Jean Collet (Seghers, 1974), the monograph Nam June Paik (Art Press, 1989), and various texts within collective works, including Où va la vidéo? which he also edited as well as organised an exposition of the same name (at the Festival d'Avignon, !986).