Interview with Mark
Amerika
Mark
Amerika is
author of two literary novels, "The Kafka
Chronicles" and "Sexual Blood" (1995), and also the
Founding Director of the
Alt-X
Online Network
(started 1993). Mark Amerika's project
GRAMMATRON
is one of the most widely accessed art sites on the
World Wide Web, has been exhibited internationally
including the Whitney Biennial 2000. Amerika's most
recent project,
PHON:E:ME,
an mp3 concept album with an accompanying
"hyper:liner:notes," was released at the Walker Art
Center's Gallery 9 web site in 1999. Roberto
Simanowski talked to Mark Amerika about his works,
authorship, 'Avant-Garde Capitalism', and New Media
Writing competitions.
