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ASPECT is a biannual DVD publication. Our mission is to distribute and archive works of time-based art. Each issue highlights artists working in new or experimental media, whose works are best documented in video or sound. |
Daniel Mendoza Alafita
Daniel Mendoza Alafita was born in Mexico, D.F. in 1957. He holds a degree in Photography in the Faculty of Plastic Arts of the University of Veracruz, and studied with the Master Nacho López. In 1987 he founded the first agency of photographic information in the State of Veracruz, Imagenjarocha, a... more
Kenseth Armstead
Kenseth Armstead is an artist. He completed the BFA program at the Corcoran College of Art & Design (1986 - 1990.) While still an undergraduate, he participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Summer 1989.) After graduation, Armstead moved to New York City to attend the Whitney M... more
Marolyn Arsem
Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, ranging from solo performances to large-scale works incorporating installation and performance. She has presented work throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America.
In her recent performances, Arsem has focused on creating site-specif... more
Doug Back
Doug Back has been making art works by collaging electronic systems together with computer programs since 1979. He has shown in Germany, France, Holland, Mexico, Italy, the USA and throughout Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, where h... more
Dave Beck
After graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
with a B.A. in filmmaking, Robert Beck studied art making at The
Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. Both his videotapes and
artworks have been exhibited in the US and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art, New ... more
C5
C5 Corporation specializes in cultural production informed by the blurred boundaries of research, art and business practice. Focus is on the development of tactical strategies involving information visualization, databases and distributed networks. C5 projects have been featured at institutions such... more
Jim Campbell
Jim Campbell was born in Chicago in 1956 and lives in San Francisco. He received 2 Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT in 1978. His work has been shown internationally and throughout North America in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum... more
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Cardiff and Miller have been collaborating since 1995 although they sometimes present solo works. The duo represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 2001 with ‘Paradise Institute’. In 2002-3 a major survey of their works toured to PS1 Contemporary Art Center of the Museum of Modern Art in New Yor... more
CarianaCarianne
Cariana received an MFA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and Carianne received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Their installations, objects and videos have been exhibited extensively across the United States, as well as in Croatia, Hungary, Ger... more
Richard Clar
Richard Clar is a native Southern Californian Interdisciplinary Artist now based in Paris. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts) and has exhibited his work in museums, universities, and galleries in California, New York, and Europe. His work can be found... more
Tony Cokes
Tony Cokes is a post-conceptualist whose practice foregrounds social critique. His video, installation, and other works recontextualize images, sounds, and text quotations to reflect upon and contest our lives as subjects under capitalism. Cokes' works have appeared in group exhibitions and media fe... more
Anthony delGado
After gaining a diploma in photography in Valencia, Spain, delGado came to study Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster, London. He completed his postgraduate in Media Arts in 2001. Over the past decade, he has produced an extensive body of work - combining photography, install... more
Anthony Discenza
Anthony Discenza was born in New Jersey in 1967 and currently resides in Oakland, CA. He received his undergraduate degree in Studio Art at Wesleyan University in 1990 and an MFA at the California College of Arts and Crafts in 2000. Since the late 1990’s Discenza’s work has focused primarily on ou... more
Sam Easterson
Sam Easterson has been making video art for over 10 years. Included among the art museums that have exhibited his work are the Whitney Museum of American Art “Biennial Exhibition” (New York), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the International Center of Photography (New York) and the Indianapolis... more
Heidi Eshkar and Paul Kaiser
Eshkar and Kaiser are long-term collaborators whose artworks explore human motion and identity by means of motion capture, a technology that digitally captures the kinetics, but not the physical likeness, of human action. The bodies, spaces, and motions themselves are radically recomposed to create ... more
Eric Freeman
Eric Freeman is a multimedia artist and musician living and working in the Boston area. He holds a BFA in Photography from the Mary Myers School of Art and a MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in the Studio for Interrelated Media.
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Bernhard Gal
Bernhard Gál (a.k.a. gal) is a composer, artist and musicologist from Vienna, Austria who creates electro-acoustic music as well as compositions for acoustic instruments. In his inter-media art installations Gal combines sound, light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts.
Born in Vienn... more
Jacob Galle
Born in Maine, Jacob Galle was raised on a sheep farm where he learned about the land, animals, plants, and hard work. In undergraduate Galle studied art history and photography at Plymouth State College earning a BA in 2001. In 2005 he graduated with an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College workin... more
Christy Georg
Christy Georg has been called “a sculptor of wit and ingenuity, clearly in the tradition of Jean Tinguely and Bruce Nauman, but brilliantly original and fearless in the use of existential humor” by Rob Fisher, sculptor and ISC board member.
In addition to kinetic sculpture, she has been developin... more
Gick Gick
Charles Gick, Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts, received his M.F,A, from Northwestern University in 1993 and holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute (1989). Professor Gick offers classes in drawing, painting and installation. His recent work is interdisciplinary in nature,... more
Anthony Goicolea
Anthony Goicolea was born in 1971 and grew up in a Cuban-American household in the suburbs of Marietta, Georgia. He earned an MFA from Pratt Institute and currently lives and works in New York City. He was accepted into the AIM program at the Bronx Museum of Art and has received the Joan Mitchell F... more
Pete Gomes
Pete Gomes is a Writer Director and Artist. His work has been screened internationally in galleries, festivals and lectures including Tate Modern, Institute of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Gimpel Fils London, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Culture, Architectural Association, Stedelij... more
Gruner Gruner
Silvia Gruner was born in Mexico City in 1959, where she lives and works. She is an installation and video artist who combines photography, video and sculpture in works employing repetition, gesture and simplicity. She received the Media Arts Fellowship funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1999. ... more
Harvey Loves Harvey
Since 1992, artists Jason Dean (Brooklyn) and Matthew Nash (Boston) have collaborated under the name Harvey Loves Harvey. Calling themselves 'media concept artists,' they have created works in nearly all media, including painting, photography, video, film, sound, installation, interactive digital me... more
Sachiko Hayashi
Sachiko Hayashi is a visual artist who primarily works in video and
interactive art. Hayashi's works exhibit various degrees of digital
image manipulation while focusing on conceptual ideas as their
foundation. Through them she explores co-relation between image,
conceptualisation in art... more
Lynn Hershman
Ravi Jain
Ravi Jain’s work celebrates the notion of a “larger than life” persona. He uses emerging and unconventional media to explore, develop and extend a spirit of adventure.
He was the winner of the Bromfield Art Gallery’s 2001 Solo Show Competition, for his installation piece ‘The Museum of Transpor... more
Christian Jankowski
New York based artist, Christian Jankowski was born in 1968 in Gottingen, Germany. Schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Jankowski gained international recognition in the 48th Venice Biennale curated by Harald Szeemann in 1999. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions throughout Europ... more
Joan Jonas
An acclaimed multi-media performance artist, Joan Jonas is also a major figure in video art. From her seminal performance-based exercises of the 1970s to her later televisual narratives, Jonas' elusive theatrical portrayal of female identity is a unique and intriguing inquiry.
Trained in art his... more
Henry Kaufman
Henry Kaufman brings his broad experience in computer-graphics and technology-based exhibits as well as an eclectic variety of non-technical interests to his production of interactive art. As Director of Engineering at Nearlife, Inc., he lead the creation of several award-winning interactive exhibi... more
Carole Kim and Jesse Gilbert
Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her primary focus has been on performance-based installations that often utilize digital and new media technologies combined with the human touch. She is engaged in making video a more plastic, responsive medium. Some of the question... more
Raquel Kogan
Raquel Kogan investigates interaction and agency of space in digital media. She graduated with a degree in architecture, and has exhibited her work internationally. She won the Rumos Transmidia Itau Cultural prize in 2002 with her installation, Reflection#1, and Cybernetic Rumos in 2007 with the pr... more
David Lachman
David Lachman earned his MFA in painting from Northwestern University and an undergraduate degree in Art and Art History from Oberlin College. He is an interdisciplinary artist who currently works primarily in Video and Installation Art, but also in drawing, painting, and conceptual projects. Hi... more
Lagunas Lagunas
Born in Nicaragua (1971), Jessica Lagunas grew up in Guatemala, and currently lives in New York City. Through various media her projects use a minimum of elements for expressing her concerns about woman’s condition in contemporary society.
She participated in the Tirana (2005), Caribbean (2001) a... more
David Lamelas
David Lamelas was born in Argentina in 1946. He studied at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and at St. Martin’s School of Arts in London. Lamelas is best known as one of the pioneers of the Conceptual Art practice that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. Over the last thirty years... more
Pam Larson
Pam Larson received a diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2000 and is currently working towards her MFA in film and video at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Prior to art she studied environmental economics at Mount Holyoke College and subsequen... more
Tony Latour
Toni Latour is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. Her practice humorously examines the drives, desires and anxieties associated with art making, often in reference to her position within contemporary art.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1994 and has ... more
Erik Levine
Erik Levine was born in Los Angeles, California in 1960. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. His work includes sculpture, drawings, and most recently video, and is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Ar... more
Rob List
Rob List [1946] is a performer and choreographer working in Europe for the last twenty years. In the early 1980's he toured internationally in the avant-garde theater and film productions of Ping Chong and Meredith Monk, as well as performing his own movement theater work at La Mama and the Kitchen ... more
Kristin Lucas
Kristin Lucas is a multidisciplinary artist working with video, installation, performance, and interactive media. Her improvisational video monologues are informed by an on-going interest in mediated communication, evolutionary mutation, compliance and compatibility. Using herself as a test subject,... more
Jill Magid
Jill Magid engages the disciplining systems in current society, such as police, CCTV, and forensic artists, among others. Exploiting the latent possibilities of their services, her work evokes questions of presence, memory, and subjectivity rather than success-rate or functionality. Weaving narrativ... more
Denise Marika
Denise Marika has an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles and is represented by the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston. She has exhibited across the US and internationally for over twenty years, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, MASS MoCA, Worcester Art... more
Artur Matuck
Artur Matuck has been teaching Visual Arts, Communications and Literature at the University of São Paulo since 1984. In Brazil, Europe, United States and Canada, he has worked as writer, visual artist, researcher, video producer, performer, designer of teleart events and interactive sites and more r... more
Kelly McMurry
Jamie McMurry has been creating original works of performance art and presenting them all over the world for more than 10 years. He co-founded and directed the Rite! Performance Art Troupe (Seattle) and Powderkeg Contemporary Performance (Seattle and Los Angeles) from 1992-1997 and then continued wi... more
Yusef Merhi
Yucef Merhi was born in Caracas in 1977. Since 1985, Merhi has been developing and exhibiting New Media Art based in poetry and hacking. His career includes a world wide exhibition record in museums and galleries, such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Bronx Museum, Ne... more
Christopher Miner
Christopher Miner grew up in Mississippi and studied photography at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He began making videos in the photo program at Yale University, where he received an MFA in 2000. His video work has been shown at the Tate Britain in London, The New Museum of Contemporar... more
Morales Morales
Sebastián Díaz Morales experiments with various cinematographic genres, modes of expression and stylistic approaches in his videos, and takes social constellations, literary models, and culturally coded images as the hook and starting point for an intricately woven, wide-ranging series of images. Bo... more
MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates) MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates)
MTAA have presented work nationally and internationally with pieces included in exhibitions and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; The Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, CA; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum's ArtPort, New York, NY; Eyebeam Ateleir,... more
Nadir Nadir
Cary Peppermint is a conceptual and performance artist working with digital technologies. Cary teaches the theory, practice, and history of digital and networked art at Colgate University. His networked performances can be found at restlessculture.net, and his work is in the collections of the Walke... more
Liz Nofziger
Liz Nofziger is a Boston-based multimedia artist who received her MFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media department at Massachusetts College of Art. Raised in a Mennonite community in rural Indiana, she lapped up the vulgar, showy world as soon as she caught a glimpse of what she might be missin... more
Jilia Oldham
Julia Oldham received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2005.
Her videos have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; the Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, Massachusetts; Three Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois; and INPORT, International Video-Performance Art Fes... more
Marisa Olson
Marisa Olson's work has most recently been presented by the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Side
Cinema-Newcastle, the New York & Chicago Underground Film Festivals,
the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, New Langton Arts,
Southern Exposure, Pond, Debs ... more
Ospina Ospina
Juan Fernando Ospina is a self-taught photographer and multimedia artist from Medellin, Colombia. His work has been shown extensively around Colombia and other Latin American countries and his photographs have been published in a variety of magazines around the world. more
Tanya Ostojic
Tanja Ostojic was born in Yugoslavia in 1972 and studied art in Belgrade and Nantes. She is independent interdisciplinary artist and cultural activist based in Berlin. She has been active in the art scene in the former Yugoslavia since 1994 and internationally since 1997.
Ostojic includes hersel... more
Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler has been a pioneer of new media art since the mid-1970s. His numerous solo exhibitions include The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000; Introjection (1999-2001), his mid-career survey, at the Williams College Museum of Art, Massachuse... more
Cai Guo Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. The son of a historian and painter, Cai (surname) was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985 and his work has, since the outset, been scholarly and often politically charged. Having accomplish... more
Gwyan Rhabyt
Gwyan Rhabyt is a new media artist and Assistant Professor at California State University East Bay. He has an MFA in Sculpture from California College of the Arts, and a BA in Philosphy from UC San Diego. Rhabyt's focus is on net art and place based installation.
His media-rich sculpture, perform... more
Jenny Rogers
Ms. Rogers’ video work has appeared in “Greater New York 2005” at P.S. 1 / MOMA in New York, at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel, & at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. Her video work Trick Saddle was acquired after the P.S. 1/MOMA exhibition by the Heather & Tony ... more
Saito Saito
Markuz Wernli Saito is an an interdisciplinary visual and conceptual artist from Switzerland working in Kyoto and San Francisco. Fascinated by the dialectics of humans and their environment, he attempts to discard preconceptions, revisit the way we see, and turn the mundane into communal experiences... more
Scott Snibbe
Scott Snibbe is an artist whose output consists primarily of electronic media installations that directly engage the body of the viewer in a reactive system. Snibbe's work has been shown internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art's Artport, Eyebeam, and The Kitchen, New Y... more
Stelarc
Stelarc has used prosthetics, robotics, VR systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. Some of his projects include the THIRD HAND, the STOMACH SCULPTURE, EXOSKELTON, the EXTRA EAR and the PROSTHETIC HEAD. Recently he has performed... more
Survival Research Laboratory
Survival Research Laboratories was conceived and founded by Mark
Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical mani... more
The Yes Men The Yes Men
Tom Toomey
Thomas N. Toomey was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1952. He retired from the U. S. Army in 1991. In 1996 he went back to school using his G. I. Bill and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Graphic Design Management and a Masters of Science Degree in Technology Education at Central Connec... more
Peter Tucker
Peter Tucker was raised in New York and Oklahoma. He has a BA in Psychology from Oklahoma State University, a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently a MFA candidate in the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art.
Peter has exhibited ... more
Peter has exhibited ... more
Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv
Camille Utterback (www.camilleutterback.com) is a pioneering artist and programmer in the field of interactive installation. Her exhibit history includes The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Museum of the Moving Image, Postmasters Gallery, The Kitchen, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New Yo... more
Erica Van Natta
Erika Van Natta was born in Massachusetts in 1973. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2001 and an MFA from Yale University in 2003. Since 2000, Van Natta has been developing a practice in video which has recently culminated into a process of collecting, inventing and constructing e... more
Lee Walton
Noah Wardrip-Fruin et al
NOAH WARDRIP-FRUIN, JOST CARROLL, ROBERT COOVER , SHAWN GREENLEE, AND ANDREW MACCLAIN
Noah Wardrip-Fruin writes for and about new media. He has recently
edited two books -- The New Media Reader (with Nick Montfort, 2003)
and First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (with Pat
... more
Brent Watanabe
Brent Watanabe discovered an interest in art during the early 90’s, designing poster art for punk rock bands in and around Seattle, Washington. He received his BFA in 1995 from the University of Washington, Seattle, with a concentration in Painting. He stumbled into film and video when hired to crea... more
Douglas Weathersby
Weathersby received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking in 1995 from Atlanta College of Art and a Masters of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art in 2002. Upon graduating he formed the company Environmental Services as a means to both support and create his art. For his work in 2003 with... more
David Webber
David Webber was born in 1977 outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Attending a Quaker school for the learning disabled had a profound effect on his life. His differences in learning, and the experience with quakerism have shaped his artwork to what it is today. Often his work deals with multiplicity ... more
Peter Welz
Peter Welz is a Berlin-based artist, born in 1972. He studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland; Cooper Union, NY; and the Chelsea School of Art in London. He has had exhibitions at, among many others, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (2006); MIT, List Visual Art Centre, B... more
Adrianne Wortzel
Adrianne Wortzel creates interactive telerobotic works for both physical and virtual networked environments. She is a Professor of Communication Design at New York city College of Technology, City University of New York. She is a member of the Doctoral Faculty of the Interactive Technology and Pedag... more
Nina Yuen
Nina Yuen was born in Hawaii in 1981. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in at Harvard University in 2003. Her work has been shown internationally and throughout North America in institutions such as the Rijksakademie, the Total Museum, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Institu... more
