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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. |
2008
Arte de las Americas, Vol 11, Spring 2008
"What about an issue on Mexico?" came the suggestion from a frequent contributor. We realized we had never published a work from South or Latin America. At ASPECT we continuously push ourselves to expand the breadth of our publication, and Arte de las Americas became our way to begin to represent ... more
2007
Rural, Vol 10, Fall 2007
Exploring the pastoral, ASPECT shifts the concept of urban as center in Volume 10: Rural. Proving that bucolic concerns are equally vital, this issue features nine artists who challenge and investigate the real, imagined, and mediated natural world. These artists effectively employ high-and low- tec... more
Performance, Vol 9, Spring 2007
Performance has been an integral part of the mission of ASPECT since our inception, and we are proud to present this broad interpretation of the practice for our ninth volume. In this issue, ASPECT focuses on the broad spectrum of performance art—from traditional interpretations of performance to t... more
Early Works, Vol 8, Fall 2006
New media art shares an important trait with all other genres: it builds upon the work that precedes it. By studying the work of other artists and the progression of their careers, the next generation builds and expands upon the field of new media art. The ground-breaking artists included in ASPECT... more
2006
Personas & Personalities, Vol 7, Spring 2006
This volume of ASPECT features artists working with issues of identity and personality. For some, a constructed identity is an opportunity to explore personal or cultural issues of gender, accountability and culpability. Other artists make their own personality an integral part of their work and p... more
2005
On Location, Vol 6, Fall 2005
Without a fixed physical or temporal locus, Aspect Magazine
maximizes the fluidity of its ephemeral site in Volume 6:
On Location. Extending from the momentary to the
monumental, terrestrial to celestial, micro to macro, and
personal to cultural, this issue explores the vast concept of
locat... more
Joie de Vivre, Vol 5, Spring 2005
The morose trend that seems to have pervaded ASPECT for the first four issues needed to come to a conclusion. To that end we asked for artwork that expressed a lightness of heart, a sense of humor, or the joys of life. Joie de Vivre explores levity and humor in art and demonstrates how broadly tha... more
2004
Text and Language, Vol 4, Fall 2004
Since the early days of conceptual art, text and language have played an important role in the creation and content of new work. Given the digital nature of much contemporary new media art, it is no surpirse that text has made a resurgence in recent years. Being the basic element of computers, text ... more
The Artist as Content, Vol 3, Spring 2004
THE ARTIST AS CONTENT started out as a survey of self-portraiture in new media. It quickly became apparent, however, that the role of the artist in new media has gone far beyond that of simply subject or even creator. The body, actions, ideas and personas of the artist can now be expressed and explo... more
2003
Artists of the West Coast, Vol 2, November 2003
From San Diego to Seattle, the West Coast of the U.S. is an environemnt that has long fostered the growth of new media. Numerous educational and cultural institutions act as epicenters around which artists, technologists, and experimenters can coalesce and interact. The works in this issue of Aspe... more
Artists of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Vol 1, Spring 2003
The 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival is an international biennial festival that brings together artists in all media who are using computers to advance traditional artistic disciplines and to create new interactive worlds. The Festival will take place at museums, galleries, theaters, educational insti... more
