Meta/data: a digital poetics
This rich 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. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory, multitrack "digital sampling" of Amerika's writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells the early history of a net art world "gone wild" while simultaneously constructing a parallel poetics of net art that complements Amerika's own artistic prac…
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- Full title :Meta/data : a digital poetics / Mark Amerika.
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This rich 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. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory, multitrack "digital sampling" of Amerika's writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells the early history of a net art world "gone wild" while simultaneously constructing a parallel poetics of net art that complements Amerika's own artistic practice. Unlike other new media artists who may create art to justify their theories, Amerika documents the emergence of new media art forms while he creates them. Presenting a multifaceted view of the digital art scene on subjects ranging from interactive storytelling to net art, live VJing, online curating, and Web publishing, Amerika gives us "Spontaneous Theories," "Distributed Fictions" (including his groundbreaking GRAMMATRON, the helpful "Insider's Guide to Avant-Garde Capitalism," and others), the more scholarly "Academic Remixes," "Net Dialogues" (peer-to-peer theoretical explorations with other artists and writers), and the digital salvos of "Amerika Online" (among them, "Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism on the Net," "The Private Life of a Network Publisher," and satirical thoughts on "Writing as Hactivism"). META/DATA also features a section of full-color images, including some of Amerika's most well-known and influential works.
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- Publication Date:©2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 438 pages, 10 pages of plates : : color illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0262012332, 9780262012331, 9780262513142, 0262513145
- oclc:ocm71005866
- LC Classification:NX180.I57
- Dewey Decimal:700.92
Table of Contents
Part One: Spontaneous Theories. Cyberpsychogeography (An Aimless Drift in twenty Digressions) -- Portrait Of The VJ --- Part Two: 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) --- Part Three: 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 --- Part Four: Image Ecriture --- Part Five: 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) -- Acti…
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