In our favorite press release of the morning — and setting a high bar for the 100,000 others we’ll get — Las Vegas artist David Sanchez Burr sent word of the imminent opening of his new gallery, Multiplexer, the first local gallery in our memory to deal largely with video art. Located in the Emergency Arts building at 520 E. Fremont, Multiplexer will host exhibits “that focus on the potential of video as a medium, and away from the over-explored, web-based sensationalism, corporate medium and film industry.” The press release says the gallery will deal with all kinds of video-based work, “from the anthropological and scientific to the exploratory and experimental.”

Opening date: Thursday, Feb. 2 — just in time for First Friday.

A short walk from the Fremont Street Experience and its towering video canopy — itself “both a technological inspiration and an unsettling reminder of the power media wields” — Multiplexer will not only display a wide swath of video artwork, but also on “the detritus and artifacts of video technology and its relationship to changes and shifts in history.”

Sounds like a find addition to the local scene.