BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Boulder - USA/ *USA 1960 Professor of Digital Art at the University of Colorado at Boulder Mark Amerika, who was just 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, has recently had two large-scale retrospectives of his digital art work. The first-ever net art retrospective was held in the summer of 2001 at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, and was called "<b>Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika [an Internet art retrospective]". Amerika's mid-career European net art retrospective opened on November 16, 2025 at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London and was entitled "<b>How To Be An Internet Artist". Both shows covered the years 1993-2001. From 1993-1997, Amerika developed the GRAMMATRON project, a multi-media narrative for network-distributed environments. GRAMMATRON has been exhibited at over 40 international venues including the Ars Electronica Festival, the International Symposium of Electronic Art, SIGGRAPH '98, the Museums On The Web "Beyond Interface" show, the Adelaide Arts Festival in South Australia, "Virtual Worlds" in Paris, and the International Biennial of Film and Architecture in Graz/Austria. GRAMMATRON was recently selected as one of the first works of Internet art to ever be exhibited in the prestigious Whitney Biennial of American Art. In 1999, he released PHON:E:ME, an online "conceptual art album" that was commissioned by the Walker Art Center, the Australia Council for the Arts New Media Fund, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Jerome Foundation. PHON:E:ME has been exhibited internationally at such venues as the Walker Art Center, SIGGRAPH 2000, the Festival International de Linguagem Eletrônica at the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil, the 13th Videobrasil festival in São Paulo, the Zeppelin Sound Festival at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris as part of the travelling "Let's Entertain" show. The work was nominated for an International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Webby Award in the Art category. In 2001, Amerika released a new work of digital narrative, FILMTEXT, which was commissioned by Playstation 2 for his retrospective at the ICA in London. He teaches digital art at the University of Colorado where his practice-based research investigates new models of Internet art and its exhibition context. The 2.0 version premiered at SIGGRAPH 2002. |
