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AVANT-POP MANIFESTO:
THREAD BARING ITSELF IN TEN QUICK POSTS (Circa1992-3)
In the late eighties Amerika took over as the editor
of an experimental literary journal called Black Ice.
Their handle was "Not For Everyone" and they
meant it. Of course, that didn't stop a widely distributed
network of underground culturati from wanting to read
it. Black Ice opened up a whole new audience to experimental
work that was at once deeply connected to the literary
and artistic sensibilities of the 20th century avant-garde
as well as the ever-influential viral effects of the
instrusive digital pop culture. Out of this unlikely
marriage of self-aware artiness and media literacy grew
what came to be known as the Avant-Pop phenomenon. At
one point in his Avant-Pop manifesto (itself a gesture
back toward a more demonstrative Modernist tactic),
Amerika self-reflexively asked: "What would the
Futurists have done with an information superhighway?"
He helped answer that question himself and was soon
dubbed "The Marinetti of the Internet." |
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