ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a DVD publication, was founded in 2003 when artist and educator Michael Mittelman became frustrated with the lack of access to time-based art to show his students. After speaking to leading local curators, the first issue, Artists of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, was born. To date, ASPECT has published more than 7 volumes on various themes including "On Location" and "Joie de Vivre." Each issue features work by 5-10 artists and optional audio commentary by distinguished curators and critics. ASPECT can be purchased online and can be found on museum store shelves, academic libraries, and in more than 40 educational intuitions around the world.
Mittelman serves as Editor and Publisher, along with a staff and volunteers who are a veritable "who's who" of new media art in greater Boston: Liz Nofziger, Assistant Editor; Meghan Tomeo, Production; and Jennifer Hall, Education Director. All are either graduates of, or professors, at Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA). Together they have exhibited at venues such as Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA), Art Interactive (Cambridge, MA), and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln, MA).
Pamela Allara has been a member of the PRC since 1985, when her friend Siegfried Halus introduced her to the center. Allara was a PRC Board member until 1999, serving as President in the late 1990s. Holding a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), she has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA), and Tufts University (Medford, MA).
Allara recently retired from her post as Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA), where she specialized in modern and contemporary European and American art, history of photography, among other areas. Her recent research has been on activist art in South Africa. In 2003, she organized the exhibition, Co-existence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa for the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis and the South African National Gallery in Cape Town.
