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From the Abandon Normal Devices web site announcing my new commission, The Museum of Glitch Aesthetics: The Museum of Glitch Aesthetics (MOGA) is the latest work in Mark Amerika’s collaborative series of transmedia narratives. MOGA tells the story of The Artist 2.0, an online persona whose personal mythology and body of digital artworks are rapidly …

Micro-Cinematic Essays on the Life and Work of Marcel Duchamp dba Conceptual Parts, Ink, is a collaborative “conceptual art” album featuring my own writing and vocals (much of it recorded using my iPhone Voice Memo app) and the sound design of electronic music composer Chad Mossholder. The work consists of nineteen experimental tracks that we …

Mark Amerika’s latest experimental publication is Creative Evolution: natural selection and the urge to remix. The work is part of the new “Living Books About Life” series of titles published by the Open Humanities Press in conjunction with Coventry University and sponsored by the JISC in the United Kingdom. The freely accessible, multimedia “book” is …

Mark Amerika recently toured throughout Australia presenting his latest book, remixthebook, and continued developing new creative work as part of his virtual artist-in-residency at the new Centre for Creative Arts at La Trobe University. Amerika, who has been a Principal Research Fellow at La Trobe, is creating a new body of work in collaboration with …

“Think of remixthebook as DJ Tool made from rhythms downloaded, ripped, mixed, spliced, diced, and burned into our collective hard drives, then re-uploaded. It’s a piece of conceptual hardware that exists somewhere between how we experience information and how information aesthetics has transformed the human condition. It’s that deep.” —Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, …

UNCONTAINABLE: Hyperstrata was held at the Kasa Gallery in partnership with ISEA2011 Istanbul and is part of the Official Parallel Program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial. The exhibition was curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Özden Şahin and took place from September 14 to October 20, 2011. The opening night reception had over 300 people in …