Guest speaker: Mark Amerika
Date: 25 Nov 2006 (Sat)
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
Venue: Y302, 3/F, Y Core, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mark Amerika will present a sampling of his digital art work composed over the last 15 years. The presentation will include a mix of personal narrative, philosophical inquiry, spontaneous theories, and cyberpunk fictions, locating the emerging spaces where new media artists operate when distributing their digital personas.
Bio:
Mark Amerika, who has been named a ʺTime Magazine 100 Innovator,ʺ has had four retrospectives of his digital art work. He is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His net art, DVD surround sound installations, and VJ performances have been exhibited and featured all over the world including the Whitney Biennial, the ICA in London, and the Walker Arts Center. His DVD installation CODEWORK is part of the permanent collection at the Denver Art Museum. He is the author of two novels, has edited three published anthologies, and is the Founder and Publisher of the Alt‐X Online Network, a net art and new media writing site started on the Internet in 1993 (www.altx.com). His forthcoming book of artist writings, entitled META/DATA: A Digital Poetics, will be published by The MIT Press later this year. Mark Amerika is currently directing his first feature‐length film, entitled MY AUTOEROTIC MUSE. His website is markamerika.com.
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He mainly talked about artist as an instrutment and when producing art artists lost theemselves. He mentioned Nam June Paik- electronic superhighway, participatory Tv. william Burrough 's cut up technique and his DJrabbi web site.
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