General Information

Author/Creator

Amerika, Mark.

Language

English.

Published

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

Physical Description

xxi, 438 p., 10 p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

Leonardo books.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"This collection of writings by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and network-infused language art."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Subject

Art and the Internet.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Mark Amerika.

Title Variation

Meta data

Series

Leonardo

Content

I. Spontaneous theories -- Cyberpsychogeography (an aimless drift in twenty digressions) -- Portrait of the VJ -- II. Distributed fictions -- Grammatron -- This could be the first day of the rest of my life -- How to be an Internet artist -- OK texts -- Memorandum from the director of the office of political and economic insecurity -- 10 comms -- Globalization is ... -- Top ten reasons why Net.Art is dead -- The ... writer ... as ... pseudo-autobiographical work-in-progress -- The insider's guide to avant-garde capitalism : excelling at the fine art of making money -- Natto girls -- The random life of VJ persona (a mobile medium in the form of a fiction) -- III. Academic remixes -- Answers to questions I have been asked : a technomadic journey -- Expanding the concept of writing : notes on net art, digital narrative, and viral ethics -- Teaching high techne -- Anticipating the present : an artist's intuition -- IV. Image ecriture -- V. Net dialogues -- WYSIWYG subjects (with Eugene Thacker) -- Postcinematic writing (with Adrian Miles) -- Stitch bitch : the hypertext author as cyborg-narrator (with Shelley Jackson) -- Dub fictions (with Jeff Noon) -- Active/onBlur (with Talan Memmott) -- Hawaiian net art (with Dee Kine) -- The organizational game (with Amanda McDonald Crowley) -- The animating fluid of cyberspace (with Melinda Rackham) -- Digital hallucinogens (with John Vega) -- The loss of inscription (with Giselle Belguelman) -- On being retro in the zeroes (with Abe Golam) -- VI. Amerika online -- This is all I do now -- Avant-pop manifesto : thread baring itself in ten quick posts -- Hypertextual consciousness : notes toward a critical net practice -- The work of art in the age of virtual republishing and network installation -- Network installations, creative exhibitionism, and virtual republishing : an attempt at conceptualizing the ongoing ungoing story of being in cyberspace -- Cyberspace installations : do-it-yourself narrative composition for the '90s -- Surf-sample-manipulate : playgiarism on the Net -- Copyleftists : form and action in the network environment -- Life is elsewhere : cruising the antipodal trajectory -- Prophesizing infowar : creating expectations in the new media economy -- The private life of a network publisher -- A chair is a chair is a chair : comments at convergence -- The rhetorical gesture -- Triptych : hypertext, surfiction, storyworlds (part one) -- Triptych : hypertext, surfiction, storyworlds (part two) -- Blurring practices : the work of art as public offering -- Sonic upheaval : using mp3 to rip the system -- Para-sites and host connections : an unconditional love -- Writing as hacktivism : an intervening satire -- Designwriting : a postliterary reading experience -- What in the World Wide Web is happening to writing? -- What is a blog? -- Making history up : a serial question mark.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0262012332

9780262012331

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	700.92 AME		Reference	-

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