Publications
Mark Amerika is a critically acclaimed artist, novelist and new media theorist who has been referred to as "a digital jack-of-all-trades." Amerika's novels have been published with some of the most well-established literary presses and his innovative artist theories that challenge traditional forms of scholarly writing and production have been published with mainstream academic presses such as MIT Press, the University of Minnesota Press, Stanford University Press, Routledge and the University of Alabama Press. As the Founding Director of the Doctoral Program in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance in the College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) at the University of Colorado, Amerika has successfully eluded most conventional academic contexts. In 2017, he was the first artist appointed Professor of Distinction. A selection of his most prominent publications is listed below:
Books
My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence
Remixing Persona
Locus Solus
Sexual Blood
The Kafka Chronicles
Selected Writings & Interviews
Mark Amerika was one of the first writers and artists to regularly post his thought, articles, essays and even long-form literary works on the Internet. In 1994, before there were blogs, Substack, and social media posts, Amerika launched his Amerika Online column. The list below contains links to selected writings composed over the last three decades.
- Posthuman Otherness: The Language Artist as Language Model - A*Desk (2023)
- My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence: an interview with Mark Amerika - electronic book review (September 4, 2022)
- nfttime - Curatorial statement, First Dibs (2021)
- Planet Corona (A Novella) (2020)
- 3 Poems from Fatal Error - Burning House Press (2020)
- Operational Presence with Otherworldly Sensibility - the digital review, Inaugural issue (2020)
- Fatal Error: Artificial Creative Intelligence (ACI) - CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2020)
- This is My Pedagogical Moment - Textshop Experiments (2019)
- There's more to life than tasty drugs - Alienist Magazine, Volume 3 (August 2018)
- How You Too Can Write Certain of My Books - 3:AM Magazine (2013)
- remixthebrand (a theoretical fiction) - thresholds 1, Inaugural issue (2012)
- Seminar - Ctrl-Z: Journal of New Media Philosophy, Inaugural issue (2012)
- remixthebook - University of Minnesota Press and online collaborative writing performance (2011)
- Creative Evolution: natural selection and the urge to remix - Coventry University Living Books About Life Series / Open Humanities Press (2011)
- Source Material Everywhere: [[G.]Lit/chRemiX]: A Conversation with Mark Amerika - Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture and the Politics of a Digital Age, ed. Ted Gournelos and David J. Gunkel (Continuum, 2011)
- Becoming a Remixologist: Art, Theory and Sound Practice - Centre international d'art contemporain de Montreal Magazine (2010)
- Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and Factions - WYSIWIG collaborative website built with undergraduates (2002-2010)
- The Renewable Tradition (Extended Play Remix) - Fibreculture 15 (2009)
- Source Material Everywhere: The Alfred North Whitehead Remix - Culture Machine (2009)
- The Postproduction of Presence: A Director's Notebook (2009)
- Professor VJ Blog (2006-2017)
- Literary Ghosts - Culture Machine (2003)
- net.dialogues - Interviews with net art scenesters, Rhizome (2001-2002)
- Amerika Online - Amerika's popular Internet column (1993-2000)