jihui presents Mark Amerika, Wed. March 24, 7 PM

jihui - Digital Salon presents Mark Amerika
Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 7 - 8:30 PM
Parsons Design Lab
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
http://agent.netart-init.org

"Digital Personas"
A Presentation by Mark Amerika

Mark Amerika will present a variety of his creative and collaborative works, including his experimental novels, large-scale hypertexts, net art projects, and recent VJ-inspired surround sound installations and collaborative DVDs. He will also discuss how his background as a creative writer informs his digital art practice. Amerika's work plays with constructing fictional identities as a process of creative visualization and disseminates his flux personas across a wide spectrum of digital media platforms.

Mark will showcase a number of his innovative works, including "FILMTEXT" (2001-2002), "CODEWORK" (2003-2004); and his current djrabbi.com collaboration with Colorado artists Trace Reddell and Rick Silva entitled "Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix)."

Mark Amerika, who has been named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" (as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers in the 21st century) recently had two large-scale retrospectives of his digital art work, one at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London and one at the Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo. His epic online narrative, GRAMMATRON, was selected for the 2000 Whitney Biennial and his sound art work, PHON:E:ME, was commissioned by the Walker Art Center and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. The third and final project in Amerika's net art trilogy, FILMTEXT, was commissioned by Playstation 2 for his European retrospective and can be accessed at his website, markamerika.com.

Amerika has recently toured parts of Japan, Europe, Australia, and the USA as a VJ performance artist and out of these performances has produced a DVD with surround sound installation entitled CODEWORK. CODEWORK will be featured as part of his upcoming retrospective at Ciber@rt Bilbao 2004 and was recently purchased by the Denver Art Museum for its permanent collection, where it will be on exhibit from May 8 - August 29, 2004.

Amerika is a professor of digital art and new media theory in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.

jihui is made possible through the generous support from the Digital Design Department and Parsons Design Lab of the Parsons School of Design and from the Rockefeller Foundation

A joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT