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

GRAMMATRON

Internet art, grammatron.com
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

Immobilité

Feature-length mobile phone video, 75'00"
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

FILMTEXT

Internet art with digital artist book and CD
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

Crapshoot

Generative art
Commissioned by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Germany. Part of the "Art On Your Screen" series.
PHON:E:ME

PHON:E:ME

Internet art
Commissioned by Walker Art Center and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. In the permanent collection of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Museum of Glitch Aesthetics

Museum of Glitch Aesthetics

Internet art
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

CODEWORK

Digital video / surround sound installation, 8'00"
Permanent collection, Denver Art Museum. Featured in "Blink!" exhibition, Denver Art Museum.
CHROMO HACK

CHROMO HACK

Two-channel digital video / surround sound installation
Commissioned for "Techno-Sublime" exhibition, CU Art Museum.
Micro-Cinematic Essays on the Life and Work of Marcel Duchamp dba Conceptual Parts, Ink

Micro-Cinematic Essays on the Life and Work of Marcel Duchamp dba Conceptual Parts, Ink

Limited edition concept art album
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

Mobile Phone Video Art Classics

Digital video installation with wall text, 5'55"
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

Digital video, 85'00" (2008)
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

FATAL ERROR

AI Performance Artwork
Live performance with AI Avatar in Paris, Malmö, and Porto.
GLITCH TV Series at Denver International Airport

GLITCH TV Series

Four commissioned videos
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

Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix)

Digital video, 9′59″
Collaboration with Trace Reddell and Rick Silva (DJRABBI Collective). Exhibited in over 30 international venues.
13 - Korea Web Art Festival

13

Internet art
Commissioned by South Korean Ministry of Tourism for Korea Web Art Festival.
24 Hour Count

24 Hour Count

Internet performance (2005–2006)
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

Passagen-Werk

Internet performance (2006)
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

Lake Como Remix

Digital video, 9'48"
Part of Museum of Glitch Aesthetics project. In the collection of the New Art Foundation (Reus, Spain).