[Leonardo/ISAST Network] META/DATA, by Mark Amerika -- Now available from the Leonardo Book Series

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/META/DATA: A Digital Poetics/, by Mark Amerika
 
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.

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.

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.

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 University of Colorado at Boulder. 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.

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