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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
Beyond Guilt (Part 1) by Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir,
The series "Beyond Guilt" addresses the undermining of the power relation between photographer and photographed, men and women, the public domain and the private sphere, object and subject. As the film's directors, Sela and Amir take an active part in the occurrence. They seduce the interviewees on ... 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 Marilyn 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
Zero Degree by Néle Azevedo,
This video is a free adaptation from the work of urban intervention called Minimum Monument, created by Néle Azevedo. Minimum Monument has taken place in several cities around the world, such as São Paulo, Paris, Braunschweig (Germany), Porto (Portugal). more
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
Natural Car Alarms by Nina Katchadourian,
Natural Car Alarms is a project consisting of three cars rigged with modified car alarms whose typical six-tone siren has been replaced with a similar one made only of bird calls. Some of the bird sounds are shockingly electronic in character; others are very bird-like in the quality of their sound,... 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
Kessler's Circus by Jon Kessler,
Kessler's Circus places the viewer inside the American war machine. An army tent pitched inside the gallery houses mechanical sculptures and barracks stacked with video monitors. The work depicts the American military-industrial complex as macabre circus, traveling from country to country, importing... 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
GPS Diary by Thorsten Knaub,
In GPS Diary (2003), the artist plotted his daily movements for the entire year, blurring ideas of daily life and artistic process and created a kind of abstract, high-tech diary.
In two recent works commissioned by the Miró Foundation Mallorca, Spain, he walked around a natural reserve in orde... more
Deep Wounds by Brian Knep,
The Office for the Arts at Harvard University commissioned Deep Wounds as the culmination of a year-long residency. Walking around the campus, I was struck by the beauty of Memorial Hall and found myself fascinated and moved by the building's history. The hall was dedicated to those from Harvard who... 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 Jessica 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
The Ghost of the Liberty Street Church by Spectres of Liberty,
Spectres of Liberty: The Ghost of the Liberty Street Church is a public memory, site-specific project. The Liberty Street Church is not only significant as a vanished part of Troy, New York’s architectural history, but also as a site in the fight to abolish slavery. Henry Highland Garnet, the first ... 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
Primate Cinema by Rachel Mayeri, 2007
A primatologist I met wondered how to present the soap opera of baboon life, so that their personalities and stories would be as easy to follow as an episode of the sit-com, Friends. This idea got me started on a series of experiments I call Primate Cinema, videos that translate or somehow expose th... more
Busycle by Heather Clark and Matthew Mazzotta,
The Busycle is a 15-person pedal-powered bus that has traveled in neighborhoods throughout the United States. Anyone willing to pull their weight and pedal can be a Busycle passenger. It requires individuals to use their own will and physical strength to come together as a group to go from point A ... more
Sequence of Good Intentions by Park McArthur, 2007
Sixteen voices speak from one mouth in Sequence of Good Intentions as the video's subject (the artist) talks to herself in the mirror. She uses this motley chorus of friends, family, and strangers to describe herself to herself, acting out the process of identifying oneself among the noise of exter... more
365 Performances by Jamie 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 Yucef 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 Sebastián Díaz 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
Bathyscape by Andrew Mowbray, 2007
Bathyscape was a performance and sculptural based installation displayed at Space Other Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, in the spring of 2007. The title was derived from early underwater devices, such as diving bell’s that were lowered over the edge of a ship to explore the undersea. Most often th... 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
Anemophilous Formula for Computer Art by Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy, 2007
Inspired by Jim Campbell's Formula for Computer Art and Tallahassee's annual sea of tree pollen, Mundy and Dietrick created a data-based animation referencing new forms of cross-pollination and re-use. Made to be meditative and aesthetically pleasing, the format parodies computer art that simply cru... more
Wilderness Trouble V1.0 by Cary Peppermint and Christine 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 Julia 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 Juan Fernando 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
Confessions Coming Soon by Roee Rosen,
Confessions Coming Soon is a trailer to the film The Confessions of Roee Rosen. In this commercial, the artist's nine years old son, Hillel, is pitching the work in English, a language he does not speak or understand. This fit of puppet-mastery is attained by having the child read from a teleprompte... more
canal walk by Markuz Wernli 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
Soup Over Bethlehem by Larissa Sansour,
Soup Over Bethlehem (2006) depicts an ordinary Palestinian family, Sansour’s own, around a dinner table on a rooftop overlooking the West Bank city of Bethlehem. What starts as a culinary discussion about the national dish mloukhieh being served from a soup bowl soon evolves into a personal and enga... more
Freund Hein by Elisabeth Smolarz, 2007
Freund Hein is an anachronistic German vernacular expression, ‘Hein’ being the impersonation of Death as an unwelcome ‘friend’ knocking on one’s door. In my latest video installation I conceptualized a performance based film project as an exploration of the question of death. Since the human death i... 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
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
Polar Bear God by Deke Weaver, 2008
Polar Bear God is a monolog set in the disturbing territory of contemporary environmental crises. The work connects polar bears, a drastic increase in the number of children with autism and the numbing frustration of office work. Originally part of Weaver’s The Ghosts of Prague, a full-length solo... 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
excerpts from Untitled (Red); Untitled (Blue); Tell Me; Ned Talking by Suara Welitoff, 2001-2007
For Aspect, she chose a combination of new and older work. The first two find Welitoff working with found footage. Color dominates. The last two are of her friends that she directed, shot, and digitally altered. Lia Gangitano describes her video portraits as elongated fragments of action, extended... 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
Dow by 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
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
