Now available for purchase online!
ASPECT-EZ Volumes 1 & 2: Strangely Funny & Failure are now available on a single DVD, featuring over 25 works in video, new media, and performance art. ASPECT-EZ is an ongoing series of exhibitions, events and limited-run DVDs showcasing work from emerging artists.
Volume 1: Strangely Funny invited artists to answer the questions: what makes something funny? Can something be so absurd that it becomes funny? Where is the line between strange and hilarious, and how can it be used in art-making? Come and see what we discovered in the first volume of ASPECT-EZ.
Featuring work by:
- Zayde Buti
- Ashley Bell Clark
- E. Garcia/A. Nemec
- Katya Gorker
- Maiza Hixson
- Nicholas...
OPEN CALL DUE AUGUST 1, 2011
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD publication, is currently accepting submissions of time-based work for V19: COMMUNICATION.
As the tools of communication continue to evolve, so does language itself. As globalization expands our notion of community and networked culture shrinks the boundaries between public and private, the strategies through which we communicate are thrown into question. In light of this questioning, we are looking for media artworks that address language and communication as their primary subjects. We will review installation, video, performance, sound and any other work best documented in time-based format.
ASPECT asks artist/commentator pairs to submit proposals of time-based work. Commentators may be curators, historians, critics, or educators who can offer a distinct perspective on the work. Criteria for selection will include the qualifications of the commentator and the...
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD publication, is currently accepting submissions of work for V18: EXPORT CHINA.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2011
In recent decades, China has undergone massive social, economic and cultural change, altering its citizens’ view of the world and themselves. China’s artists have rapidly absorbed and reinterpreted the pluralistic styles of Western art, using them to translate the unique realities of life in contemporary China. In turn, Chinese art has become the subject of intense critical and commercial speculation in the West. We seek work from Chinese artists participating in this cross-cultural exchange, responding to it critically from an embedded perspective. We will review installation, video, performance, sound and any other work best documented in time-based format.
ASPECT asks artist/commentator pairs to submit proposals of time-based work. Commentators may...
ASPECT-EZ is a new series of events and DVD publications coordinated by ASPECT to provide support for emerging artists. These events will be under the auspices of the curatorial team at ASPECT, and produced by young interns and guest organizers. FAILURE is the second installment of ASPECT-EZ.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 9, 2011
L’appel du vide is a French phrase used to describe the urge felt by many when confronted with heights, drawing them to or over the edge. This “call of the void” is present in many artistic practices in which risk and experimentation are treated as tools or subjects. In this second installment of the Aspect-EZ series, we are looking for works that explore chance, failure and idealism as generative forces in video, performance and new media.
Volume 16: Lo-tech presents nine artists who work with basic, or in some cases antiquated technology, either as an aesthetic or technical choice. As the rate of technological advancement increases, nostalgia for fleeting technologies swells. The term lo-tech also describes modern techniques and equipment that are no longer cutting-edge. Today’s innovative technology is tomorrow’s lo-tech with the accompanying cultural and psychological references, connotations, and baggage.
In these works, bodies cooperate with electricity to transmit signals, stickers function as pixels, plastic letters and water work wonders, video is addressed as construction paper, anthropomorphic shrimp roam the streets, home movies are transformed, an homage is paid to an iconic drumbreak, the mechanics of the view camera are exploited, and neighbors engage through video.
Featuring work by:
• Shannon Castleman, with...
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ASPECT-EZ is a new series of events and DVD publications coordinated by ASPECT to provide support for emerging artists. Under the auspices of the curatorial team at ASPECT, these events are produced by young interns and guest organizers. We are excited to announce the opening for Strangely Funny, the premier installment of the ASPECT-EZ series.
Aspect-EZ: Strangely Funny
Where: Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, 621 Huntington Ave, Tetlow St entrance
When: Thursday, November 4, 7:00 PM
What: Exhibition opening, video screening and live performance
As its name suggests, Strangely Funny showcases video, performance and new media art that explores humor and the absurd. Originally the word funny was just a...
We are pleased to announce the release of ASPECT Volume 15: Influence & Reference. For the purposes of publishing in ASPECT, the definition of New Media is anything better documented with a video camera than a still camera. However, the broader definition of New Media is still vigorously debated. At ASPECT we believe that there are two definitive qualities of this genre of art: that the materials are in a constant state of flux and evolution, and that artists practicing within this field tend to find their inspiration outside the art world.
In V. 15: Influence and Reference, we highlight artists who build upon the history of art and expand the definition of New Media, as well as those artists who pay particular attention to media and material that is not part of the artistic canon.
Tad Beck’s works, Roll and Stroke, find inspiration in Thomas Eakins and...
V16: Lo-tech—Due May 1, 2010
V17: Hi-tech—Due August 1, 2010
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD publication, is currently accepting submissions of work for V16: Lo-tech, and V17: Hi-tech. Artists have historically co-opted
emerging technology, adapting and expanding complex developments to suit their own goals. Conversely, there is nostalgia for obsolete technology. We seek work that exploits antiquated or sophisticated technology, either as an aesthetic or technical choice. We will review installation, video, performance, sound, and any other work best documented in time-based format.
ASPECT asks artist/commentator pairs to submit proposals of time-based work. Commentators may be curators, historians, critics, or educators who can offer a distinct perspective on the work. Criteria for selection will include the qualifications
of the commentator and the quality of the work. Audio recordings of the...
