MOVING-REMIXING THE ECONOMY OF MOTION BY MARK AMERIKA
Txt: Mark Hancock / Img: Courtesy of Mark Amerika Mark Amerika has been a prolific and creative force exploring the worlds of net art and writing (both offline and online), while developing a theoretical and creative response to the changing media and potential opportunities that those create. He loves to call himself a "digital jack-of-all-trades", and it is true that his online networking has always been focused on the collection and the remix of images, texts, codes, sounds, multimedia, in terms of literary, theatrical and pedagogical and psychogeography theories. From his early novels, including, "Sexual Blood" e "The Kafka chronicles" novels, which explore a free-flowing exploration of thought processes channeled through experimental wordplay and crashing narrative disjunctions, to his various net.art projects that expand on what it means to be a writer in the digital/post-digital age (among which we remember "How to be an internet artist" [1], "Expanding the concept of Writing" [2], "Becoming a remixologist" [3], "Portrait of a VJ" [4], "Meta/Data a digital poetics" [5]) it's quite impossible to tells about all his artworks. Furthermore, it's useless to do it because of the many online interviews he did and the completeness of his website The following interview took place via email, while Mark Amerika was in the middle of promoting another project "Remixthebook", somewhat representative of his entire oeuvre. A book, published by Univeristy of Minnesota Press, which relies on a website (remixthebook.com) as a hub with the aim to digitally remix some of the theories expressed (by authors such as Janneke Adema, Beiguelman Giselle, Julie Carr, David Gunkel, Gary Hall, Frieder nake, Craig Saper Darren Tofts, Gregory Ulmer, Chad Mossholder, Michael Theodore, Michelle Ellsworth, Rick Silva, Will Luers, Yoshi Sodeoka, Mark McCoin, Curt Cloninger, Kate Armstrong, Maria Miranda) in the book. http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2181 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
