Mark Amerika
Mark Amerika has exhibited his art in many venues including Whitney Biennial, Denver Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ZKM, Walker Art Center, and American Museum of the Moving Image. Amerika has had five early and/or mid-career retrospectives including the first two Internet art retrospectives ever produced (Tokyo and London).
In 2009-2010, The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, featured Amerika’s comprehensive retrospective exhibition entitled UNREALTIME including his groundbreaking works of Internet art GRAMMATRON and FILMTEXT as well as his feature-length work of mobile cinema, Immobilité.
In 2012, Amerika released his transmedia narrative, Museum of Glitch Aesthetics (MOGA), a multi-platform net artwork commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games for AND Festival 2012. The MOGA project has since been remixed for Amerika’s 2013 solo exhibition “Glitch. Click. Thunk” at the University of Hawaii Art Galleries and, in 2017, for his survey exhibition of digital art, Glitch Mix: not an error, which took place in Havana, Cuba, at the Estudio Figueroa-Vives and the Norwegian Embassy to Cuba.
He is the author of many books including remixthebook, META/DATA: A Digital Poetics and remixthecontext. His novels include The Kafka Chronicles, Sexual Blood, and 29 Inches. In 2014, Amerika published his “auto-translation / remix” of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus.
Amerika has presented and performed throughout the world including the “Disrupting Narratives” symposium at the Tate Modern, the Electronic Literature Organization “Visionary Landscapes” conference in Vancouver, the “Misunderstanding” festival for the International Network of Performance Artists in Zurich, the Digital Interconnections festival in Tokyo, transmediale in Berlin, the “Buddhism and New Media” conference in Seoul, the Ciber@rt Bilbao festival in Spain, and the Seminário Internacional de Cinema e Audiovisual in Salvador, Brazil. He has given visiting artist presentations in scores of museums, universities, and contemporary arts centres including the visiting artist series at Whitney Museum of American Art, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in Tokyo, Australia Center for the Moving Image in Melbourne, and Microwave Festival and Videotage in Hong Kong.
Selected as a Time Magazine 100 Innovator, Amerika’s work has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, Die Zeit, El Pais, The Wall Street Journal, The Observer and The Art Magazine of the Tate Museum.
Amerika is the first artist ever appointed Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is the Founding Director of the new Doctoral Program in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance in the College of Media, Communication and Information and a Professor of Art and Art History. Prior appointments include the Labex-H2H International Research Chair at the University of Paris 8, Principal Research Fellow at La Trobe University’s Centre for Creative Arts and Visiting Professor and International Artist in Residence at the National University of Singapore, the University of Technology Sydney, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Falmouth University in the UK.
Amerika is the Founding Publisher of both the Alt-X Online Publishing Network (1993-Present) and the electronic book review. In 2017, the 20-year anniversary of Amerika’s groundbreaking work of net art and electronic literature, GRAMMATRON, was celebrated in London at a two-day international symposium at the British Computer Society titled Beyond GRAMMATRON: 20 years into the Future.
Photo credit: Laura Shill