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Mark
Amerika can be reached at amerika@altx.com
or via snail-mail at the following address: P.O. Box 241 Boulder, CO 80306-0241 You can order his books here. |
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Mark Amerika | |
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In the mid-Nineties, Amerika was a Creative Writing Fellow and Lecturer
on Network Publishing and Hypertext at Brown University where he developed
the GRAMMATRON project, a multi-media narrative for network-distributed
environments. The opening section to what was supposed to be a novel called GRAMMATRON was published in the Penguin USA Avant-Pop anthology entitled "After Yesterday's Crash" [edited by Larry McCaffery]. By the time this Penguin USA excerpt was published, Amerika was already well on his way to creating an online storyworld that has since been released on the Internet and praised by many media sites including The New York Times, MSNBC's The Site, Time, Reuters International, Die Zeit, Wired, The Village Voice and Salon. GRAMMATRON has been exhibited at over 40 international venues including the Ars Electronica Festival, the International Symposium of Electronic Art, SIGGRAPH 98, the Museums On The Web "Beyond Interface" show, the Adelaide Arts Festival "FOLDBACK" show in South Australia, the Virtual Worlds conference in Paris, and the International Biennial of Film and Architecture in Graz. In Spring 2000, GRAMMATRON was selected as one of the first works of Internet art to ever be exhibited in the prestigious Whitney Biennial of American Art. A familiar presence on the international festival and conference circuit, Amerika gives performances and demonstrations on net art, web publishing, new media art and theory, hypertext, hactivism, and the future of narrative art in network culture. His recent focus has been on translating his practice-based research methods into live multimedia performances that integrate experimental music, live writing and video sampling into the narrative mix. A frequent keynoter, some major events he's participated in include the Brown University Freedom To Write Conference, The Whitney Museum's "Seminars With Artists" program, the Duke University "Assault: Radicalism In Aesthetics and Politics" conference, The German Association of Amerikan Studies Conference on Technology & American Culture, the Lucerne Easter Festival, Transmediale (Berlin), Northwestern University's Center for Writing Arts lecture series on "Electronic Publishing," The Adelaide Arts Festival, the "Interactive Frictions" conference at the University of Southern California, the "Knowing Mass Culture: Mediating Knowledge" conference at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies, the Digital Arts and Culture 2000 conference in Bergen, Norway, the bi-coastal "mal/CONTENT" conferences sponsored by Screamingmedia, the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, and a 16-city book tour for his novel Sexual Blood. |
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GRAMMATRON, the second project in his new media trilogy is PHON:E:ME, an mp3 concept album with hyper:liner:notes commissioned
by the Walker Art Center, the Australia Council for the Arts New Media
Fund, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and the Jerome Foundation.
The PHONE:ME project, which was nominated for an International Academy
of Digital Arts and Sciences Webby Award in the Art category, has been
exhibited internationally at venues such as SIGGRAPH 2000, the Festival
International de Linguagem Eletronica at the Museum of Image and Sound
in Sao Paolo, Brazil, the 13th Videobrasil festival in Sao Paulo, the
Zeppelin Sound Festival at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona,
and at the Centres George Pompidou in Paris as part of the traveling "Let's
Entertain" show. To order the PHON:E:ME CD and support the Alt-X site, click here. Recently Amerika has begun a new research project devoted to what he calls Life Style Practice (LSP). As part of this Life Style Practice, Amerika integrates his life as a nomadic net artist with international VJ tours, DVD with surround sound installations, hactivist performances, and what he refers to a "cyberpsychogeographical drifting." Some of the recent digital traces left behind in this emerging Life Style Practice include CODEWORK, DJRABBI, and SOCIETY OF THE SPECATCLE (A DIGITAL REMIX). Amerika is a profesor of digital art at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he is developing the TECHNE practice-based research initiative. He can be reached at amerika@altx.com or via snail-mail at the following addresses:
University of Colorado Department of Art and Art History
P.O. Box 241 |
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Mark Amerika, who has been named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st century, has had four retrospectives of his digital art work. The first-ever net art retrospective was held in the summer of 2001 at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, and was called "Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika [an Internet art retrospective]". Amerika's first European net art retrospective enjoyed two exhibition runs at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London and was entitled "How To Be An Internet Artist". Both shows covered the years 1993-2001. In 2004, he had two retrospectives, one at Ciberart Bilbao in Northern Spain, and one at the Festival International de Linguagem Eletronica at the Gallerie do SESI in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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