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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. |
In search of the giant axolote by Daniel Mendoza Alafita, 2007
"In Search of the Giant Axolote" is a critical reflection on contemporary Mexican culture. In a country seemingly shipwrecked by the storms of crisis and despotism, I decided to use the axolote as a metaphor for the Mexican. In Aztec mythology this amphibian indigenous to central Mexico is the aqua... more
in_authentic_b (an invisible cities excerpt) by Kenseth Armstead, 2003
invisible_cities is a feature-length, 9 channel installation project that explores the murky gulf of space between African and African-American identity, communication and social history. The video modules that comprise this work are designed to operate in a space together, playing simultaneously... more
Undertow by Marolyn Arsem, 2005
My performances are not conceived until I am actually in the location. In Valparaiso, an active port city on the Pacific, I found the empty refrigerator warehouse chosen for the festival to be most evocative. I selected a small room with a trough running down the center, and informed the organizer... more
Small Artist Pushing Technology by Doug Back, 1987/2005
There have been several versions of this piece. The first had a more Sisyphean theme due to the ox-cart-track mechanism, the repetitive tasking and the mountain of equipment in the background needed to maintain the frail image.
The latest version is much closer to my original drawing from 1983. T... more
Learning From Dynasty by Dave Beck, 1986
Steeped in contemporary American culture, Robert Beck’s work is consequently stark, canny, violent, discrepant, and memorializing. Personal and cultural confabulations ramify in an array of mediums, including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, and video. Misappropriating material excis... more
The C5 Landscape Initiative by C5, 2001-2005
The C5 Landscape Initiative, which has been under development since 2001, debuted at San Francisco Camerawork in May, 2005. During the initial three year development timeframe of the Landscape Initiative, expeditions were undertaken across the globe; as C5 summited Mt. Shasta and Mt. Fuji,traveled t... more
Self-portrait of Paul DeMarinis by Jim Campbell, 2003
Self Portrait of Paul DeMarinis 2003 is an installation in 2 parts; a transmitter and a receiver. The transmit side consists of a low resolution image stored in computer memory feeding an audio speaker. The image is encoded into a sequence of voice tones. A low pitched note represents a black pixel ... more
Opera for a Small Room by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, 2005
For many years our work has been a hybrid between art, theatre and
cinema. In previous installations we investigated the physicality and
transcendence of the cinematic experience. In 'Opera for a Small
Room' we are interested in the traditions and transcendence of
theatrical experience. ... more
Bequeaths, Oaths of Signature by CarianaCarianne, 2004, 2005
CarianaCarianne are a collaborative which believe in occurrences that cannot readily be seen. Within their work they respond through a conscious duality, embracing a shared body that contains two internal selves. They are specifically interested in how the body and the representation of the body are... more
COLLISION II by Richard Clar, 2003
Since the early ‘90s, I have been intrigued by the problem of orbital debris in space. Upon learning that the U.S. Space Command tracks over 10,000 of these orbital debris objects, and that the orbits of each of these objects is known and predictable, I was fascinated by the idea of creating from t... more
Shrink2.demo4 by Tony Cokes, 2002
"Shrink" consists of three video projections synchronized with one musical soundtrack. The finished installation will have 12 sections per channel with a total running time of approximately 60 minutes. "Shrink" takes a structuralist visual approach related to Andy Warhol's film "Empire," or perhaps ... more
Who are you entertaining to? by Anthony delGado, 2002
Since the late 80s, I have explored ideas of displacement, cruelty and trauma. In 1989, I developed a photographic series examining representations of gender, Transformers (1989 – 1995) and L’Androgyne Sexuel (1994 – 1996) where the dynamic interplay between gender roles and the economies of power a... more
Object 8242600 by Anthony Discenza, 2001
Between the relentless spread of consumerism and rapid advancement of technology, we find ourselves exposed to ever-greater amounts of visual stimuli. From television, movies, and the internet, to and endless sea of magazines, billboards, and print media, a steady stream of highly mediated imagery ... more
Bird-Cams by Sam Easterson, 2006
"Bird-Cams features video footage that was captured by outfitting a pheasant, a duck, a falcon, a chick, and a turkey with ‘helmet-mounted’ video cameras. All of the footage was captured in rural locations across the United States with the assistance of bird experts and/or farmers.
Bird-Cams is p... more
Pedestrian by Heidi Eshkar and Paul Kaiser, 2002
Pedestrian projects its imagery directly down onto a city sidewalk or the concrete floor of an art gallery. Conceived as a public sculpture, Pedestrian’s digital projection merges with the rough surface we walk upon. The tiny denizens we see down there wander through a trompe-l’oeil illusion, in a c... more
Stethy by Eric Freeman, 2003
"Stethy" was made during a brief trip to Haystack art center in early Oct 2003. At the time i was building microphone and speaker configurations to amplify minute sounds into time-based installation work. I had a pair of small binaural mics that just happened to fit inside the rubber tubing of a n... more
Hinaus:: In den, Wald. (DVD Surround Mix) by Bernhard Gal, 2004
The electro-acoustic composition and multi-channel sound installation Hinaus:: In den, Wald. is based on the work of Swiss art brut artist and schizophrenic mental patient Adolf Wölfli. In Hinaus:: In den, Wald. (which translates into: ‘Out:: Into the, forest.’, deliberately written with ‘Wölfliesqu... more
Untitled (cubicle) by Jacob Galle, 2005
Work, be it laborious or leisurely, is often a way we like to define ourselves (or not). The video untitled [cubicle] explores elements of agriculture, rural vs. urban, as well as referencing aspects of office life—the temp worker, the home office, remote work sites, and the cubicle. The piece quest... more
Attainment by Christy Georg, December 2002
Attainment is a device going through the motions, using a measured process, to attain harmony, or curb discord. A scientific instrument slowly drips water into a glass, which periodically spins to be "played" by a cork-tipped player arm. Concurrently, a small hammer strikes a tuning fork, indicat... more
Draught Table by Gick Gick, 2003
Charles Gick’s art explores intersections between memory, the body, emotions, and sensory experiences shared with the natural environment. His work is affected by the phenomenal and ephemeral qualities found in the environment—the passing of a cloud, a violent storm, the heat of summer, or the c... more
Tea Party by Anthony Goicolea, 2004
In Tea Party, Goicolea successfully merges both his interest in adolescent angst and his understanding of the symbolism the forest holds, including what critic Jane Harris described as “…the world outside the rational, the mysterious unknown, the realm of sexual imagination.” For Goicolea, video is ... more
Stedelijk Drawing by Pete Gomes,
These works to date comprise a series of plan drawings using white chalk, which manifest, delineate or invent boundaries stemming from different forms of technological signals. I think of these as poetic actions, that resonate against on coming and developing ideas, in and around locative media, mob... more
Un chant d'amour by Gruner Gruner, 2004
Un Chant d'Amour is an installation that reinterprets Jean Genet's movie of the same title. Gruner re-creates some of the most significant scenes of this short film, and appropriates the broad resonance of the title. The projected images presented in the installation play with physical location and ... more
Your Harvey at Work by Harvey Loves Harvey,
"Your Harvey At Work" was created at the request of Oni Gallery in Boston for an 'artists statement slam,' in conjunction with the opening of a salon show in 2003. The gallery wanted Harvey Loves Harvey to create something 'different' in line with the theme, but not a mere reading of text on pape... more
Boop-opp-A-Doop by Sachiko Hayashi, 2004
”boop-oop-a-doop” is an observation and investigation of our daily life and plays with three different elements : creation of identity, media culture, and our desire to be somebody else. By taking up two
prominent figures in mass media culture, namely Marilyn Monroe and
Betty Boop, it focuses o... more
Becoming Roberta, DiNA by Lynn Hershman, 1976-2005
ROBERTA BREITMORE was, for 9 years a private performance of a simulated person. In an era or alternatives, she became an objectified alternative personality, reflecting the values of her culture and penetrating trends such as EST, WEIGHTWATCHERS and most significantly, experienced resonant nuances o... more
3speed 2000 by Ravi Jain, 2002
3Speed 2000 documents the journey of three ‘transportation pioneers’ aboard the first high speed train in America, Amtrak’s Acela Express. The video is part of an ongoing performance based piece in which I strive to be the first to traverse notable large-scale transportation systems. For each of the... more
The Day We Met by Christian Jankowski, 2003
-Choose a song from the book
-Press the number next to the song into the karaoke machine
-Press enter
-Take the microphone
-Read lyrics from the screen
-Sing
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Left Side/Right Side by Joan Jonas, 1972
In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the self and the body. Jonas performs in a direct, one-on-one confrontation with the viewer, using the immediacy and intimacy of video as conceptual const... more
The Memory of Your Touch by Henry Kaufman, 2003
When someone touches you and takes their hand away, what do you feel afterwards? Is that tingling warmth sensation something of them, or is it created in your body? What do you leave behind of yourself when you touch something? If you could see the imprint of your touch, what would it look like? "Th... more
Reverse House Kit by Carole Kim and Jesse Gilbert, 2003
REVERSE HOUSE KIT is a non-linear, spatial interpretation of a 15-part poem by the same name. Peering into a large room through windows that create long, tunnel-like portals through a multi-layered space, a fugue of live voices guides us through the poem, informing us that we have arrived at the cus... more
Reflection by Raquel Kogan, 2006
These installations are projects in process, which investigates user-system agency relations. However, there are times, moments influencing relations which require presence, individuals which are the only one to bestow existence to the intervention. These effects occur when we least expect them, as... more
Home Made by David Lachman, 2004
David Lachman’s work explores the terrain of consciousness where familiar and unfamiliar coexist. He is concerned with creating experiences that encourage viewers to become aware of their own assumptions, ideas, and attention. Often common objects and experiences, like buying and eating some ice c... more
Para verte mejor by Lagunas Lagunas, 2003, 2006
My work deals with the condition of woman in contemporary society, questioning her obsession with body image, beauty, and sexuality. My interest in this subject comes from growing up in Guatemala, a repressive, violent and sexist society.
With a minimalist approach, in these silent video-perform... more
The Hand by David Lamelas, 1976
Invited in 1976 to teach at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada, David Lamelas produced his first video, The Hand, for the local public channel.
He invented the fiction of a 'Newsmakershow,' a mixture of newscast and talk show, as a commentary on the structure and procedu... more
Untitled by Pam Larson, 2007
Untitled, 2007 is a sequence of establishing shots taken from a series of nature programs produced for television. Their majestic perspective, the lack of visual signs of animal life and the smooth camera movements that carry us through the landscape as if floating in a capsule, like a visitor from ... more
Robin Red Breast / Smile by Tony Latour, 2004
In Robin Red Breast, animal behavior acts as a metaphor for human
socialization and art world posturing. While imitating the robin,
Latour offers a satirical look at boastful inclinations and a desire to be seen.
Smile depicts Latour in her motivator costume, smiling contantly for
seven mi... more
More Man by Erik Levine, 2005
More Man lays bare the contradictions between adult projections, fears, and fantasies, and children’s realities in the world of youth football. Sports play an influential and clear role in childhood growth and education. In addition to developing physical coordination and a kinesthetic relationship ... more
Folly Series by Rob List, 2000-2003
In my work I want to create an elementary theater removed of all psychological elements, a performance space which evokes a more basic moment in human communication - one without text, characters, or socially coded gestures - and which affects the audience in an emotional way without their quite bei... more
Involuntary Reception by Kristin Lucas, 2000
Involuntary Reception is a double-imaged, double-edged report from a young woman contaminated with an EPF (electro-magnetic pulse field) that pegs the needle. Lucas’ character has a story to tell, though paradoxically the conventional tools that she would use to convey her story would be instantaneo... more
Evidence Locker by Jill Magid, 2004
I bring things that are far away in closer to my body.
Drawing over things is a way to get inside them.
I like secrets, not in their exposure but in their very existence.
To enter a system I locate the loophole.
If my subject is made in clay I will work in clay.
If it is text I may wr... more
Detritus / Bisected by Denise Marika, 2002-2004
"Detritus" is a video projection in which the nude figure is crouched amidst the turbulence of demolition. Within a deteriorating urban landscape, the jaws of a crane grab at the body stirring up clouds of dust and debris. The figure, occasionally obscured by the haze, remains unaware of the surroun... more
Intercities Performance by Artur Matuck, 1988
Intercities São Paulo/Pittsburgh, was the outcome of a series of tele-communication events connecting a group of Brazilian art researchers in São Paulo with American colleagues in Pittsburgh.
The ‘Instituto de Pesquisa em Arte e Tecnologia’ (IPAT), an institute for research in art and technology... more
365 Performances by Kelly McMurry, 2005-2006
On September 23, 2005, I began a work in which I would do a performance action everyday for 1 year. In preparation for the project, I tattooed the date of the first performance on my left forearm to remind myself of this daily obligation. Once the project was completed I had the date of the last per... more
Super atari poetry by Yusef Merhi, 2005
Super Atari Poetry is a multiplayer game installation consisting of 3 Atari 2600 consoles,joysticks, self-manufactured cartridges, and TV monitors. Each cartridge holds a group of verses that are constantly changing colors which can be manipulated using a joystick. The reading of the 3 verses printe... more
Making God Happy by Christopher Miner, 2003
“Making God Happy” is part of an 8-piece body of work entitled “This Creature, I Am.” Inspired by Elvis’ rendition of the old time spiritual “Peace in the Valley,” the videos explore the dual nature of a convicted heart, longing for transcendence and clarity amid the desires of the flesh. Elvis si... more
Ring by Morales Morales, 2006/2007
Ring (The Means of Illusion) (2006/2007) begins through the eyes of the artist. Its cinematic thread meanders through a disjunctive chain of images, delimiting a metaphorical shift between two states of consciousness, that of the real as symbolized by the neutral emptiness of the desert, and of a me... more
1 Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate) by MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates) MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates), 2004-2005
We, M.River & T.Whid, ask that you view a 1 year performance video, to begin today. We shall seal images of ourselves in images of our studio, seemingly in solitary confinement inside seemingly identical images of cell-like rooms measuring 10ft x 10ft x 10ft. We seemingly shall not converse, listen ... more
Wilderness Trouble V1.0 by Nadir Nadir, 2007
“Wilderness Trouble” is inspired by William Cronon’s article entitled “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” which argues that the concept of wilderness is a historical and cultural construction and that the preoccupation with conserving “natural” spaces untouched by hu... more
Bambini by Liz Nofziger, 2004
I am fascinated by what we overlook. I examine and excavate the layered pasts of a space and/or object, reorganizing in light of contemporary culture and current events. Sparked by religion, politics, pop-culture, and personal experience, these site manipulations are comprised of familiar, benign el... more
Pull, Dagger, Night Spider, Scuttle by Jilia Oldham, 2005 & 2006
Insects and other invertebrates engage in enthusiastic, although often inelegant, dances for purposes of mating and communication. Humans are similarly inclined to dance in order to invite sex or express ideas. In her videos, Julia Oldham uses dance to bridge species. She translates invertebrate ... more
Black or White by Marisa Olson, 2006
In "Black or White" (2006), Marisa Olson performs the act of listening to Michael Jackson's song of the same name. The song's audio signals trigger shifts in the appearance of the video of this performance, thanks to the help of a "wobulator" built by Name June Paik and used by Olson during her perf... more
Numeros by Ospina Ospina, 2005
Juan Fernando plays a very obsessive ethnographic game with his city, composing songs, poems, lists and equations with the color of facades, signs, marks on the urban floor, t-shirts, taxis, buses, everything that is part of Medellin’s popular culture.
In numbers he is counting from 1 to 100 and ... more
Crossingover by Tanya Ostojic, 2001
In August 2000 I started the “Looking for a Husband with EU Passport” project: www.cac.org.mk/capital/ostojic. After publishing an ad with this title, I exchanged more than 500 letters with numerous applicants from around the world. After a correspondence of six months with a German man K. G. I arra... more
Spinout by Tony Oursler, 1983
Spinout is an apocalyptic tale of a world spinning out of control to nowhere. Space travel, astrology, spirals, the universe, catastrophe and madness are recurring visual and narrative themes in this expressionistic theater. "Of course we're all a little scared of the dark," says Oursler in his drea... more
Project for Extra- terrestrials No.9 Fetus Movement II by Cai Guo Qiang, 1992
The land which was provided for this project to be taken place, is a piece of land in the military base. The project starts with recreating "??: feng shui" (the geomantic condition) of this land, which is, to create a line of stream to lead the water, as nature, from the river faces the military bas... more
33 Fiddles by Gwyan Rhabyt, 2007
33 Fiddles is an investigation of the rhythms of landscape. In the American West, these are experienced through the dominant human gesture on the rural hills – the country road – and through the corresponding cultural manifestation of Country and Western music, embodied particularly in the fiddle. ... more
Trick Saddle by Jenny Rogers, 2003-2004
Trick Saddle
Created as a site-specific drive-in movie, Trick Saddle, sets a Spaghetti Western underwater to critique the absurdity of gender roles— “masculinity” staged as a synchronized underwater cowboy ballet. Set in a ghost town at the bottom of a swimming pool, the film features “th... more
canal walk by Saito Saito, 2007
AT YOUR SERVICE
Two months of daily, playful interventions in urban places of Kyoto meant as 'conversation pieces' contributing to the discussion on the social potential of the public sphere. Documented as commented short film (11:04 min.)
In an effort to ignite our streamlined, hyper-function... more
Deep Walls by Scott Snibbe, 2002-2003
Deep Walls is inspired by architect Christopher Alexander's "Pattern Language". His admonition to architects is to build the walls of homes thick, so that cabinets, drawers and windows can perforate the interior space, providing areas to store, display, and slice through and ultimately provide more ... more
Alternate Interfaces by Stelarc, 1992-2003
e-motion by Survival Research Laboratory, July 6, 2002
Survival Research Laboratories engages new vocabularies by integrating machines, theatrical sets and props, with dramatic visual metaphors, bringing to life, large-scale mechanical performances for audiences that rival other popular cultural events. By taking things to extreme ends SRL attempts to ... more
Dow by The Yes Men The Yes Men, 2002-present
In 2001, Dow became the uncontested world leader in industrial accidents with the legacy of the Bhopal catastrophe. Only on the 20th anniversary of the disaster, did Dow finally announced that they were going to compensate the victims and clean up the mess in Bhopal, but still disavowed any liabilit... more
I Know The Way! by Tom Toomey, 2007
“I Know The Way!” was created by Thomas N. Toomey to take the beauty of the woods and draw the viewer in as if they themselves were walking through the woods, relaxed and comfortable, assuming they “know the way”. The journey continues to the exact same spot it started…Only when this journey started... more
Irrigation by Peter Tucker, 2002
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing on the sea-shore, diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton
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Text Rain by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv, 1999
Text Rain is an interactive installation in which viewers play with the falling text of a poem. The text responds to motion and can be caught, lifted and released to fall again. If participants accumulate enough letters along their outstretched arms, or along the silhouette of any dark object, they ... more
For Lucien by Erica Van Natta, 2003
I create formal building blocks of ideas, characters, and concepts, layering them and interrelating them until I have built up a concise vision of the whole. I don't write the story, any more than I actually direct in the traditional sense. I am an orchestrator, or a conductor of situations, somet... more
Making Changes by Lee Walton, 2004
By wandering the streets aimlessly- shifting, tipping, leaning, flipping, balancing, crumpling and re-position things, I am questioning my ability to "make changes".
After a day of consciously altering the objects and structures of my
surroundings, I was completely confident that things were dif... more
Screen by Noah Wardrip-Fruin et al, 2003-present
"Screen" was created in the Cave, a room-sized virtual reality
display. It begins as a reading and listening experience. Memory
texts appear on the Cave's walls, surrounding the reader. Then words
begin to come loose. The reader finds she can knock them back with
her hand, and the experience... more
Thrift Store Tape #3 by Brent Watanabe, 2001
For the last several years I’ve been working on a “Thrift Store Tape” series. These videos are created from footage found on discarded home videotapes. On these tapes are fragments of the lives of people I’ve never met and most likely will never encounter. I’m fascinated by the fact that these memo... more
GSG Office Project by Douglas Weathersby, 9.18 - 10.24.2004
PRODUCT PROJECTS ART
Environmental Services brings the conceptual focus of art making to the many cleaning and repair projects I offer for your home or place of work. It is my aim to provide you with fresh perspectives on your living and working space. I am for hire and available to perform... more
Language Extension#4 by David Webber, 2001
The two blenders sit on top of a TV and mimic the speech of the people in the soap opera video. Blender noise becomes a vocal extension of the TV character that relays the sibilance of speech manifested in mechanical form. The voices pitch and loudness control the speed and intensity of the blender... more
whenever on on on nohow on | airdrawing by Peter Welz, 2004
whenever on on on nohow on | airdrawing is a five screen video installation and related photographs and drawings by Berlin-based sculptor Peter Welz (b. 1972) that features world-renowned choreographer William Forsythe (b. 1949). Forsythe’s performance lasts five and a half minutes. This is screened... more
The Veils of Transference by Adrianne Wortzel, 2004
The Veils of Transference is a non-interactive pre-scripted film produced in 2001 at StudioBlue at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, with support from Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, National Science Foundation (Grant No.DUE 9980873), NSF Gateway Engineering Educa... more
Don by Nina Yuen, 2006
My work as a filmmaker engages with the production of false personal memories, and with stirring disagreements about the past in the accounts of my family and friends. I regard myself primarily as a passive artist; my work is created at the intersection of a recorded document and a lifestyle that I ... more
