October 13, 2000

Project #2 due. Class crit.

Guest artist: MARK AMERIKA

Mark Amerika: Based in Colorado, Amerika is the publisher of Alt-x, which he co-founded in 1993. He was a Creative Writing Fellow and lecturer on Network Publishing and Hypertext at Brown University where he developed the Grammatron project, a multi-media narrative for network-distributed environments. Grammatron was selected as one of the first works of Internet art to be exhibited in the prestigious Whitney Biennial of American Art. Amerika is widely recognized as an innovative leader in the rapidly transforming field of on-line creative writing. His own writing and publication projects have forced the boundaries of "the book" and related notions of audience reception and intellectual property onto new unstable ground.

He is the author of the novels, The Kafka Chronicles & Sexual Blood. Amerika has contribituted to the first two issues of ebr include Notes from the Digital Overground and On Netscape, Virtual Slaves and Making Moolah: Alt-X On The Verge (of selling out...). He teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

On-line Interview by Steve Dietz
Amerika Ink by Joe Tabbi
Comments on PHON:E:ME

Links to his Web projects:

Amerika On-Line Mark's popular internet column

GRAMMATRON - web project is being featured in many exhibitions and festivals including Ars Electronica, the International Symposium of Electronic Art, the M.I.T. Media Lab, and the International Biennial of Film and Architecture in Graz.

PHON:E:ME - web project hosted by theWalker Art center