Overview
Mark Amerika has exhibited his art in many venues including the Whitney Biennial, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ZKM, the Walker Art Center, and the Marlborough Gallery. He is author of thirteen books including his most recent title, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence (Stanford University Press, 2022).
Recent
Classics
GRAMMATRON
Selected for Whitney Biennial of American Art, 2000. Exhibited in over 40 international venues. Featured in the first two Internet art retrospectives ever produced (Tokyo and London).
Immobilité
Shot entirely on Nokia N95 mobile phone in Cornwall, UK. Premiered at Chelsea Art Museum, New York. Solo exhibitions at Denver Art Museum and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. Featured on Tate Intermedia website.
FILMTEXT
Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and Sony Playstation 2. Part of solo retrospective "How To Be An Internet Artist," ICA London. Permanent Collection, CU Art Museum.
Crapshoot
Commissioned by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Germany. Part of the "Art On Your Screen" series.
PHON:E:ME
Commissioned by Walker Art Center and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. In the permanent collection of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Museum of Glitch Aesthetics
Commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices Festival in conjunction with London 2012 Olympics. Exhibited at Harris Museum, Furtherfield, Glitch Mix in Havana, and Marlborough Gallery among others.
CODEWORK
Permanent collection, Denver Art Museum. Featured in "Blink!" exhibition, Denver Art Museum.
CHROMO HACK
Commissioned for "Techno-Sublime" exhibition, CU Art Museum.
Micro-Cinematic Essays on the Life and Work of Marcel Duchamp dba Conceptual Parts, Ink
Featuring Mark Amerika on digitally processed vocals, in collaboration with Chad Mossholder. Commissioned by the Centre for Creative Arts (La Trobe University, Melbourne). Exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, and The Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
Mobile Phone Video Art Classics
Video artwork captured on the first mobile phone with a video camera and starring Salvador Dali, Madonna, Bruce Nauman, Susan Sontag and "Baby Jane" Holzer. The work premiered at E:vent Gallery, London and was included in "UNREALTIME," Amerika's solo retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.
Dream Cum True
Dream Cum True is an 85-minute video art loop that Amerika describes as a "long form meditation" that explicitly refers to an "erotic time" that coats his daily walking practice while traversing the beach near his studio in Kailua, Hawaii. The work has been included in Amerika's solo exhibitions in Seoul, Barcelona, Honolulu and Adelaide.
FATAL ERROR
Live performance with AI Avatar in Paris, Malmö, and Porto.
GLITCH TV Series
Public artwork at Denver International Airport. Displayed on the largest video monitors in a USA airport, the project consisted of a series of four short video artworks during Amerika's "Glitch" period. The works included were "Glitch TV," "Data Falls," "New Aesthetic TV," and "Second Nature."
Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix)
Collaboration with Trace Reddell and Rick Silva (DJRABBI Collective). Exhibited in over 30 international venues.
13
Commissioned by South Korean Ministry of Tourism for Korea Web Art Festival.
24 Hour Count
Commissioned by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), the work featured Amerika's "multimedia blog band" (DJRABBI) in a live 24-hour, distributed performance piece. The artists synchronized their online and video contributions from three different locations with Amerika participating from his remote residency in Sydney, Australia. Created in collaboration with Rick Silva and Nathaniel Wojtalik.
Passagen-Werk
A six-week blog performance for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver's "Decades of Influence" exhibition. The work, a digital remix of the literary montage style invented by Walter Benjamin as part of his own Passagen-Werk or Arcades Project, samples one quote and one image from the internet and that the artist posts from wherever he is traveling in the world. A new version and update of the piece occurred every day of the exhibition.
Lake Como Remix
Part of Museum of Glitch Aesthetics project. In the collection of the New Art Foundation (Reus, Spain).