remixthecontext is a cunning and satirical collection of “theoretical fictions” composed by artist, novelist and media theorist Mark Amerika. A compelling riff on the classic Platonic dialogue, Amerika’s remixthecontext features Walt Whitman Benjamin, a Professor of Creative Urgency who intellectually jams with an assemblage of characters that resemble the actual artists, poets, and scholars who …
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Mark Amerika’s new limited edition artist book, Glitch Ontology, is co-produced with Upfor Gallery and focuses on glitch aesthetics, “Google Illusionism,” and what it’s like to see the world the way digital devices see the world. The book is 90 pages with a color interior, gloss black on matte black cover, and is printed and …
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“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, …
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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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