Category: Publications

Living Books About Life: Mark Amerika’s Creative Evolution

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 …

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Video Book Trailer for remixthebook

  The video above is an experimental “book trailer” that plays with source material from remixthebook, Mark Amerika’s forthcoming publication on remix culture, new media art and literature, and theories of digital performance. The book, now available for order here, is being published by the University of Minnesota Press. Here’s what the YouTube site says: …

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META/DATA: A Digital Poetics

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META/DATA: A Digital Poetics collects the writings of pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika who 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 …

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29 Inches: A Long Narrative Poem

29 Inches is a 21st century tour de farce that traces the nomadic wanderings of a group of online characters whose contemporary lives are driven by technosexual lust. Everybody has their RIMMjob (a personal digital assistant that does it all), including Bram and Kendall,  who have recently escaped from the new age religious brainwash of …

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