He argues that our technologyladen consumer culture allows for innovation but kills creativity, forcing artists to approach selfexpression in a new way. The isarithm remix is sourced from the 184 sections of mark amerikas sentences on remixology 1. It is an experiment in composition and cultural creativity that defies the expectations of a book with its closed structure and pre. New social media, hyperlinks, and cutandpaste techniques have changed the way we write. Mark amerika is a leading digital media artist, author, and educator. The work is described as an autotranslation remix of the french novel locus solus. A pioneering media artist and acclaimed cultural theorist, amerika offers a series of philosophical essays that trace the art of the remix to previous forms of avantgarde and modernist art through mashups of deftly sampled phrases and ideas. Referred to as a provocative textual performance that is at once a dazzling model of the literary remix and a stateoftheart reflection on remix culture, the video includes beautiful images of scrolling text and nature shots mashed up with some kind of 3d text apparatus and a soundtrack by chad mossholder that reminds. Many of these polemics make allusions to dj culture in their titles. According to the books afterword, amerika, who does not read or write in french, composed the work using online translation programs. Amerika was appointed professor of distinction at the university of colorado boulder, where he is the founding director of the doctoral program in intermedia art, writing and. Ebooks, which allow us to carry entire libraries with us, are bringing new browsing. While combining elements has always been a common practice of. A compelling riff on the classic platonic dialogue, amerikas remixthecontext features walt whitman benjamin, a professor of creative urgency who intellectually jams with an assemblage of characters that resemble the actual artists, poets, and.
Aug 06, 2011 the new video book trailer for mark amerika s remixthebook is out. One of the main reasons remixthebook is more than a print book. In 2017, his largescale exhibition of digital art, glitch mix. Remix has amazing cover artin particular, the way the back cover copy is arranged is a thing of beauty. Remix culture, sometimes readwrite culture, is a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new creative work or product. This remix essay by janneke adema is in response to mark amerikas remixthebook. A remix culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of holders. An imaginary digital media object from the ontotales of the digital afterlife. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. I love that remix is, at its core, about the best friendship between two girls. This remix is first of all a cocommentary on the paradigm within which remixthebook is situated. The remixes in remixthebook, mark amerika develops a model of contemporary theoretical writing that mashes up the rhetorical styles of performance art, poetry, and the vernacular associated with 21st century social media and networking culture. Creativity has been hijacked by the artists by remix thebook.
Litch remix a conversation with mark amerika editors note. Regardless of where you find inspiration, or from whom you steal your source material, amerika is unequivocal. Mark amerika author of remixthebook publication date. A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking. Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy is lawrence lessigs fifth book. The book was made available for free download and remixing under the cc bync creative commons license via bloomsbury academic. Mark amerika s new art project, a speculative form of artificial creative intelligence aci, is titled fatal error and was recently accepted for performance andor installation events at both chi 2020 in honolulu and werobot 2020 remixing persona. Amerika composes his digital art for in many digital art categories icluding hypertext, net. It details a hypothesis about the societal effect of the internet, and how this will affect production and consumption of. In 20092010, the national museum of contemporary art in athens, greece, hosted amerikas comprehensive retrospective exhibition, unrealtime. How the folk process works in the 21st century geoffrey f. 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 into the 21st century, is an influential media artist, novelist, and theorist of internet and remix culture.
A pioneering media artist and acclaimed cultural theorist. Source material everywhere the alfred north whitehead remix mind bank network the allen ginsberg remix artist, medium, instrument the nam june paik remix the renewable tradition extended play remix why video games suck the ad reinhardt remix mark amerika nature. It is, in the words of mark amerika, more of a hybridized publication and performance art project that appears in. Jun 08, 2011 this remix essay by gary hall is in response to mark amerika s remixthebook.
A theorist and artist, amerika takes source material everywhere as his mantra, and in remixthebook he weaves together works by everyone from ralph waldo emerson to stephen colbert into a quasipoetic theory of remixology. This remix essay by gary hall is in response to mark amerikas remixthebook. An artist, novelist, media theorist, web publisher, and vj artist, his work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the whitney biennial, the walker art center, and the. Mark amerikas remixthebook, kirby fergusons video essays and website everything is a remix, arram sinnreichs mashed up. Running bit by mark amerika, 51 gertrude stein remix by dj runon, 53 a brief aneurysm by holly vale, 54 alphacontagion by abe golam, 55 dickrelated by cynthia kitchen, 59 postadolescence by susan shapiro, 62 the insiders guide to avantgarde capitalism.
The politics of information edited by marc bousquet and katherine wills. Mark amerika captures the unique and continually shifting digital moment in which we live and situates the remix as an art form and literary intervention. It is an experiment in composition and cultural creativity that defies the expectations of a book with its closed structure and prepackaged creative potency. The museum of glitch aesthetics moga is the latest work in mark amerikas collaborative series of transmedia narratives. In remixthebook, mark amerika explores the mashup as a defining cultural activity in the digital age. Giselle beiguelman, university of sao paulo plato created written dialogue as interface to introduce oral people to literate reasoning. Mark amerikas remixthebook university of minnesota press, 2011 is a both print, digital, and performance art hybrid publication and online.
Digital artist, novelist mark amerika to visit uhv. Creativity has been hijacked by the artists by remix. Mark amerika s web site grammatron, was selected as one of the first works of internet art to ever be exhibited in the prestigious whitney biennial of american art. A book, published by univeristy of minnesota press, which relies on a website as a hub with the aim to digitally remix some of the theories. He is a graduate of the literary arts program at brown university where he received his mfa in creative writing in 1997.
Mark amerika delivered the keynote performance at this years glitchy textures conference in paris. This remix essay by janneke adema is in response to mark amerika s remixthebook. Glitchmix mark amerikas first exhibition in havana march 24 may 31, 2017 grammatron animated gif remix upfor gallery portland, oregon july 1 september 30, 2017 immobilite denver art museum, october 20, 2010 january 31, 2011. Mark amerikas remixthebook university of minnesota press, 2011 is a. Mark amerika born 1960, miami, florida, usa is an american artist, theorist, novelist and. Roussel originally published his novel exactly 100 years ago in 1914. During the performance, amerika featured an encore presentation of his glitch ontology manifesto in conjunction with his lake como remix video art work and launched his new music video, whats the glitch. Ocean of data remix by mark amerika original version published in may 2009 these unconscious ontologies that permeate my every aesthetic becoming are being remixed, postproduced andor creatively processed by my body as part of some ongoing desire to philosophically speculate what it means to be human in digitally networked culture.
To coincide with the publication of remixthebook, amerika will launch a companion. Referred to as a provocative textual performance that is at once a dazzling model of the literary remix and a stateof the art reflection on remix culture, the video includes beautiful images of scrolling text and nature shots mashed up with some kind of 3d text apparatus and a soundtrack by chad mossholder that reminds me. Mark amerika born 1960, miami, florida, usa is an american artist, theorist, novelist and professor of art and art history at the university of colorado. Mark amerika is a professor in the department of art and art history at the university of colorado in boulder where he is developing the techne practicebased research initiative.
Excelling at the fine art of making money 67 50 ways to market your lover 85. If i hadnt already wanted to read remix after reading non pratts debut, trouble, that back cover would change my mind. Mark amerikas web site grammatron, was selected as one of the first works of internet art to ever be exhibited in the prestigious whitney biennial of american art. Jan 20, 2012 mark amerikas remixthebook university of minnesota press, 2011 is a both print, digital, and performance art hybrid publication and online exhibition. How sexual selection shaped artistic virtuosity as a fitness indicator and aesthetic preferences as mate choice criteria julie copeland. Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture.
The new video book trailer for mark amerikas remixthebook is out. A compelling riff on the classic platonic dialogue, amerika s remixthecontext features walt whitman benjamin, a professor of creative urgency who intellectually jams with an assemblage of characters that resemble the actual artists. Oct 30, 2017 mark amerikas work has exhibited internationally at venues such as the whitney museum, the denver art museum, the institute of contemporary arts in london, and the walker art center. New media a remix of mark amerikas remixthebook is philosopher david gunkels video remix of mark amerikas remixthebook. A compelling riff on the classic platonic dialogue, amerika s remixthecontext features walt whitman benja. The piece traces the life of the artist and his ongoing commitment to a practice of glitch. An imaginary digital media object published with open humanities press. Jun 08, 2011 this remix essay by janneke adema is in response to mark amerika s remixthebook. The isarithm remix is sourced from the 184 sections of mark amerikas. May 21, 2012 ocean of data remix by mark amerika original version published in may 2009 these unconscious ontologies that permeate my every aesthetic becoming are being remixed, postproduced andor creatively processed by my body as part of some ongoing desire to philosophically speculate what it means to be human in digitally networked culture. Amerikas newest book is titled remixthebook university of minnesota press. Source material everywhere the alfred north whitehead remix mind bank network the allen ginsberg remix artist, medium, instrument the nam june paik remix the renewable tradition extended play remix why video games suck the ad reinhardt remix mark amerika. Like all open humanities press books, remixing persona is freely.
Glitchmix mark amerika s first exhibition in havana march 24 may 31, 2017 grammatron animated gif remix upfor gallery portland, oregon july 1 september 30, 2017 immobilite denver art museum, october 20, 2010 january 31, 2011. Remix the book amerika, mark minneapolis, 2011 core. His new book, remixthecontext, will be published by routledge in fall 2017. Mark amerika s remixthebook university of minnesota press, 2011 is a both print, digital, and performance art hybrid publication and online exhibition. In remixthebook, mark amerika explores the mashup as a defining cultural. Named a time magazine 100 innovator, amerika employs new media technology to create emerging forms of art that actively challenge and deliberately transgress established boundaries. A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection. The isarithm remix is sourced from the 184 sections of mark amerika s sentences on remixology 1. A pioneering media artist and acclaimed cultural theorist, amerika offers a series of philosophical essays that trace the art of the remix to previous forms of avantgarde and modernist art through mashups of deftly. I think what i meant was that for me, the idea of preproduction, production, and postproduction are no longer primarily a sequential process but happen, if you will, simultaneously or what mondrian, in a different context, referred to as a simultaneous and continuous fusion. The project began as a series of experimental theoretical writings appearing in amerikas professor vj blog.
Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. Locus solus, mark amerika s autotranslation remix of raymond roussel s novel of the same name has been published by counterpath press. A compelling riff on the classic platonic dialogue, amerikas remixthecontext features walt whitman benjamin, a professor of creative urgency who intellectually jams with an assemblage of characters that resemble the actual artists. New media a remix of mark amerikas remixthebook on vimeo. This remix process is an essential aspect of contemporary art practice and in remixthebook, the artist mark amerika. The title of mark amerikas solo exhibition, there is no rewind button for life, is taken. Glitchy textures took place at ensad lab and was coordinated by university of paris 8. In his 2008 book, remix, lawrence lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Digital artist, novelist mark amerika to visit uhv opinion. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations. Amerika has had five early andor midcareer retrospectives including the first two internet art retrospectives ever produced tokyo and london. Nov 29, 2011 because amerika considers life an onthefly remix of who we are, it doesnt matter whether that source material is emotion, a walk by a lake, or another artists work. A compelling riff on the classic platonic dialogue, amerikas remixthecontext features walt whitman benjamin, a professor of creative urgency who intellectually jams with an assemblage of characters that resemble the actual artists, poets, and scholars. Stream playlist, a playlist by remixthebook from desktop or your mobile device.
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