Passagen-Werk was 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, attempts to take one quote and one image that the artist selects from wherever …
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The world’s first feature-length mobile phone art film. A story about a future world where the dream of living in utopia can only be sustained by a nomadic tribe of artists and intellectuals, Mark Amerika’s Immobilité mashes up the language of “foreign films” with landscape painting and literary metafiction. The work was composed using …
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At Mark Amerika Nature Photography We Take Picture So You Don’t Have To. From the site: Here at Mark Amerika Nature Photography we think that you yourself are an image. We call that an embodied image. You don’t even have to take a picture of yourself to convince us of your absolute likeness. You are …
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Mark Amerika’s Mobile Phone Video Art Classics (2007) is part digital video installation, part PowerPoint presentation, and part blog performance. Amerika’s MPVAC reedits art history using low-tech mobile phone technology and simple iMovie software. MPVAC investigates the emergence of digitally constructed identities, theoretical fictions, Amerika composts various art personas and classic 20th century artworks into a …
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