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PHON:E:ME (1999)
Amerika calls PHON:E:ME, his first institutional commission
from the prestigious Walker Art Center, an "orchestration
of writerly effects" composed of a loose confederation
of network artists, writers, designers, DJs, programmers
and curators, whose combined efforts were able to create
a transformational narrative environment that, in the
end, tells the story of how net culture is altering
our received notions of authorship and originality,
and how emerging digital artists are helping break down
the boundaries between the virtual and the real, between
art and non-art, and the various disciplines that have
too often led to rigid compartmentalization and weak
critical speculation. The project was promoted as "an
mp3 concept album with hyper:liner:notes" and includes
an elaborate soundtrack, randomly generated hyper:liner:notes
on the history of conceptual art practice through 1999,
and a few not-so-heavily disguised rants against the
culture industry. Collaborative artists included Erik
Belgum, Anne Burdick, Cam Merton, Tom Bland and Brendan
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