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<i style="">META/DATA: A Digital
Poetics</i>, by Mark Amerika
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This rich collection of writings by pioneering digital
artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art
theory,
fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and
network-infused language art. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory,
multitrack
"digital sampling" of Amerika's writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells
the early history of a net art world "gone wild" while simultaneously
constructing a parallel poetics of net art that complements Amerika's
own
artistic practice. <br>
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Unlike other new media artists who may create art to justify their
theories,
Amerika documents the emergence of new media art forms while he creates
them.
Presenting a multifaceted view of the digital art scene on subjects
ranging
from interactive storytelling to net art, live VJing, online curating,
and Web
publishing, Amerika gives us "Spontaneous Theories,"
"Distributed Fictions" (including his groundbreaking GRAMMATRON, the
helpful "Insider's Guide to Avant-Garde Capitalism," and others), the
more scholarly "Academic Remixes," "Net Dialogues"
(peer-to-peer theoretical explorations with other artists and writers),
and the
digital salvos of "Amerika Online" (among them,
"Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism on the Net," "The Private
Life of a Network Publisher," and satirical thoughts on "Writing as
Hactivism"). META/DATA also features a section of full-color images,
including some of Amerika's most well-known and influential works. <br>
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Provocative, digressive, nomadic, and fun to read, Amerika's texts call
to mind
the cadences of Gertrude Stein, the Beats, cyberpunk fiction, and even
The
Daily Show more than they do the usual new media theorizing. META/DATA
maps the
world of net culture with Amerika as guide and resident artist.<br>
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Mark Amerika, named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" in 2001, is an
interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor in the Department of
Art and
Art History at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Colorado</st1:PlaceName> at <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boulder</st1:place></st1:City>.
His works include the epic online narrative GRAMMATRON, selected for
the 2000
Whitney Biennial; the sound art work PHON:E:ME, commissioned by the
Walker Art
Center in Minneapolis and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in
Western
Australia; and FILMTEXT 2.0, initially commissioned by Sony PlayStation
2 as
part of a major retrospective at the ICA in London. He is the author of
two
novels, The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood. In 1993 he became
founder and
publisher of Alt-X.<br style="">
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