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.Provocative, digressive, nomadic, and fun to read, Amerika's texts call to                  mind the cadences of Gertrude Stein, the Beats, cyberpunk fiction, and even The                  Daily Show more than they do the usual new media theorizing. META/DATA maps the                  world of net culture with Amerika as guide and resident artist.

META DATA: A Digital Poetics (Leonardo Books) PDF

The list of books you might like