[Nettime-bold] Mark Amerika Retrospective

[Kristine Feeks <kristine@altx.com>]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE


ACA MEDIA ARTS PLAZA IN TOKYO ANNOUNCES LARGE-SCALE RETROSPECTIVE OF NET
ART WORKS CREATED BY AMERICAN INTERNET ARTIST MARK AMERIKA

BOULDER, Colorado, July 2, 2001 -- Digital artist, novelist and web
publisher Mark Amerika, Founding Director of the Alt-X Online Network,
will have his first Japanese retrospective at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in
Tokyo, Japan. "Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika" showcases much of
the early work Amerika pioneered during the dot.com Nineties. The
exhibition will launch on July 1, 2001 and run through September 10, 2001.

Amerika, who was recently 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 the
creator or principial investigator of many Internet art projects including
GRAMMATRON, PHON:E:ME, HOLO-X, ALT-X, and the recent How To Be An Internet
Artist, all of which will be featured in the "Avant-Pop" exhibition in
Tokyo. A complete catalogue of essays and interviews with Amerika will
appear online in both English and Japanese translation.

According to Amerika, "The notion of an Avant-Pop cultural practice
evolved from my early work with artists, writers and critics in both
America and Japan, so it's only fitting that my first major show in Tokyo
would reflect this transnational cultural phenomenon and its effect on
both digital art and literature."

As part of the "Avant-Pop" exhibition, Amerika will be invited to Tokyo by
the Graphic Arts Society of Japan where he will present his work to the
general public.

Tracing Amerika's rapid emergence into the contemporary art world, web
mavens, art critics, historians and web surfers the world over have seen
his multi-media narratives work their way into various art and writing
scenes while being distributed through a wide array of formats including
hypertext, 3-D VRML environments, mp3 concept albums, ebooks, Palm Pilots,
live digital dramaturgy, and highly-acclaimed published novels.

His GRAMMATRON project (http://www.grammatron.com) was developed while he
was a Creative Writing Fellow and Lecturer on Network Publishing and
Hypertext at Brown University. Released in June 1997, it is one of the
most widely accessed art sites on the World Wide Web and in 2000 was one
of the first works of Internet art to ever be selected for the prestigious
Whitney Biennial of American Art.

Amerika was recently appointed to the Fine Arts faculty at the University
of Colorado at Boulder where he has been developing a cutting-edge Digital
Art curriculum. He is presently producing a new cross-media narrative
project, FILMTEXT, that will be a hybridized online/offline "story
experience" created as a net art site, a museum installation, a multimedia
ebook, and a series of live performances. One version of FILMTEXT will
appear in another upcoming retrospective of his work at the ICA in London
later this year.

The "Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika" exhibition will be available
to the public at http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/amerika.html, as of July 1st, and is
sponsored by the Computer Graphics Society of Japan and the Agency for
Cultural Affairs in Japan.

The show is being curated by noted Net Art curator You Minowa.

For more information on this retrospective exhibition please send email to

mcmogatk@po.sphere.ne.jp

For information on Mark Amerika or to schedule interviews please send
email to

Kristine@altx.com








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