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,... more » and mediated natural world. These artists effectively employ high- and low- tech transformations and interventions which concentrate the attention of the art world, however temporarily, on the vast world outside of urbanity. Artists and Commentators featured in this issue: SAM EASTERSON: Bird-Cams (7:22, video) Audio commentary by Daniel Incandela, Manager of New Media, and Despi Mayes, Program Coordinator, Indianapolis Museum of Art ERIC FREEMAN: Stethy (4:25, video) Audio commentary by COREY MICHAEL SMITHSON, MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST JACOB GALLE: Untitled (Cubicle) (6:22, performance) Audio commentary by MICHAEL MINELLI, ARTIST AND EDUCATOR PAM LARSON: Untitled (6:53, video) Audio commentary by MEG ROTZEL, ARTS DIRECTOR AND CURATOR CARY PEPPERMINT AND CHRISTINE NADIR: Wilderness Trouble V1.0 (3:30, video) Audio commentary by JOLINE BLAIS AND JON IPPOLITO, ARTISTS, WRITERS, PROFESSORS, AND CURATORS GWYAN RHABYT: 33 Fiddles (6:00, Installation) Audio commentary by HEATHER MCDOUGAL, ARTIST, NOVELIST, AND "CABINET OF WONDERS" KEEPER JENNY ROGERS: Trick Saddle (11:00, video) Audio commentary by SAUL OSTROW, CHAIR OF VISUAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES, CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART MARKUZ WERNLI SAITO: Canal Walks (6:35, performance) Audio commentary by DEBORAH J. MANTLE, EDUCATOR AND JOURNALIST THOMAS TOOMEY: I Know The Way! (2:35, video) Audio commentary by Tim Norris, Poet, Writer, Critic, Curator, Lecturer, and Spoken-word Artist« less