mark.amerika@colorado.edu
303-492-4489
office: N287
website: www.markamerika.com

Teaching and research interests include Internet art, digital narrative, experimental audio art, multi-media performance, new media theory, history of digital art, artist ebooks, telepresence, hypertext.

Education

MFA, Brown University, 1997
BA, University of Florida, 1985

Selected Exhibitions

Seoul Net Festival. Seoul, South Korea. May 1 - September 8, 2005.
Syntax.Root: Loop. Eventnetwork. London, UK. June 17 - July 15, 2005.
ARCO 2005 Madrid. Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I. Madrid, Spain. February 10 - 14, 2005.
Techno-Sublime. CU Art Museum. Boulder, Colorado. February 4 - March 18, 2005.
BASICS. Transmediale International Media Art Festival. House of World Cultures. Berlin, Germany. February 4-8, 2005.
"Mark Amerika: METADATA": Retrospective Exhibition. Gallerie de Art do SESI, Sao Paulo, Brazil. November 22 - December 12, 2004.
Akademie der Kunste. Berlin, Germany. November 18, 2004 - January 9, 2005.
Ya Heard. Rhizome.org. New York, NY. November 15 - Ongoing.
Digital Interconnection 2004. Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. Tokyo, Japan. November 1 - 15, 2004.
Canariasmediafest. Las, Spain. October 21-28, 2004.
Design In Progress Festival. "Society of the Spectacle" - Solo Exhibition. Openbare Bibliotheek Eindhoven. Eindhoven, Holland. October 16-26, 2004.
back_up Festival. Festival of New Media in Film. Weimar, Germany. October 7-10, 2004.
2004 Premio Internazionale Dino Villani. Galleria del Premio Suzzara. Suzzara, Italy. September 16 - November 14, 2004.
2004 Experimental Party Unconvention and Disinformation Center. Luxe Gallery. New York, NY. August 21 - September 11, 2004.
Sydney Film Festival. Sydney, Australia. June 11 - 29, 2004.
Anthology of Art. Zentrum fur Medienkunst (ZKM). Karlsruhe, Germany. June - August 2004.
Scene Colorado / Sin Colorado. Denver Art Musuem. Denver, Colorado. May 8 - August 29, 2004.
Machinista 2004. Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art. Glasgow, Scotland. May 7 - 9, 2004.
Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity. Ciber@rt Bilbao 2004. Bilbao, Spain. April 23 - April 30, 2004.
pathiharn electron. switch media_art festival [supernatural]. Chang Mai, Thailand. April 6 - April 30, 2004.
Biennale De Paris. Batofar. Paris, France. February 20 - March 15, 2004.
Fly Utopia! Transmediale International Media Art Festival. Berlin, Germany. January 31 - February 15, 2004.
The Conquest of Ubiquity. Centro Parraga. National tour beginning October 16, 2003, with exhibitions in Murcia, San Sebastian, and Canarias, Spain.
CODEWORK: a digital installation. Rule Gallery. Denver, Colorado. May 2 - June 14, 2003.
Digital Art and Culture. Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, May 2003.
American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, New York. February 2003.
Filmwinter: Festival of Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany. January 14-19, 2003.
SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California. September 17 <ETH> November 2, 2002.
International Biennial of Art - Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. November 7 - December 8, 2002.
International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2002. "Orai." Nagoya, Japan. October 27-31, 2002.
United Field. Aspen Institute in conjunction with the Western States Art Federation. October 4-6, 2002.
7th International Festival of New Film Split 2002, Split, Croatia, September 21-28, 2002.
Festival International de Linguagem Electronica, Palace De Arts, Sao Paulo, Brazil. August 8-25, 2002.
Zeppelin Sound Art Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, February 13-18, 2001.
Art in Motion (The Second International Festival of Time-Based Media). University of
Whitney Biennial 2000. New York, NY. March 23-June 4, 2000.
Through the Looking Glass. Beechwood Arts Center, Beechwood, OH. April 15-30, 2000.

Selected Publications

Artist E-Books:
cinescripture. Institute of Contemporary Arts (London). 2001.
How To Be An Internet Artist. Alt-X Press. 2001.

Novels:
Sexual Blood. FC2/Black Ice Books, 1995. Translated into Italian as Sangue Sessuale (shaKe Editions: Milan), 1998.
The Kafka Chronicles. FC2/Black Ice Books, 1993. Second printing 1994. Third printing 1995.

Anthologies Edited:
Co-Edited with Lance Olsen and Introduction. In Memoriam To Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop. San Diego State University Press, 1996.
Co-Edited with Ronald Sukenick and Introduction. Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category. FC2/Black Ice Books, 1995.

Essays:
Anticipating the Present. New Media and Society (London, UK: Sage Publications). February 2004.
Expanding the Concept of Writing: Digital Narrative, Net Art, and Viral Ethics. Leonardo Magazine: M.I.T. Press (Boston, MA). February 2004.
Hypertextual Consciousness. In Close Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Literature," edited by Jan Van Looy and Jan Baetens (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2003).
The Artist Is The Medium Is the Message. In Musing the Mosaic edited by Matthew Roberson (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003).
Copyleftists and the Networked Environment: Does Content Want To Be Free. Open Beats, Bezigrajska Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenija, November 2003.
Literary Ghosts. Culture Machine: University of Leeds (Leeds, UK). Issue 5. March 2003.
'Excerpt from Oz Blog.' Kairos (Volume 8 Issue 1), Spring, 2003.
Who Wants To Be An Internet Artist? Arts Entertainment Network. February 2000. Walker Arts Center.

Selected Honors and Awards

Visiting Professor of New Media and International Artist-in-Residence at the University of Technology, Sydney. Sydney, Australia. July - December 2005.
The Belmar Award for Achievements in Art and Design. Denver, Colorado. May 2004.
International Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Professor. University of Bremen Department of Informatiks. Bremen, Germany. April - July 2003.
International Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Professor of Cyberculture and Cyberarts in the Honor Programme. National University of Singapore. July - August 2002.
International Fellow. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Melbourne, Australia. January - May 2002.
Time Magazine 100 Innovators. February 19, 2001.
Nominated for an International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Webby Award in the Art category. 2000.
New Media Arts Grant for New Work, Australia Council For The Arts, 1998-9.
Artist-in-Residence. Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria. 1997.

Current Projects

METADATA: A Digital Poetics. Forthcoming. MIT Press.

"My Autoerotic Muse," feature-length work of HD cinema.

TECHNE, a practice-based research initiative investigating the most efficient and rewarding ways to augment the creative process as it relates to a digital arts practice in an unfolding network environment.

Links

FILMTEXT
(commissioned by Playstation 2 for exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London)

PHON:E:ME
(commissioned for a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis)

GRAMMATRON
(selected for the Whitney Biennial 2000