Mark Amerika

Mark Amerika is an American artist, theorist, novelist and Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado. He is a graduate of the Literary Arts program at Brown University where he received his MFA in Creative Writing in 1997.

Amerika’s work has been exhibited internationally. In 2000, his net art work GRAMMATRON was selected for the Whitney Biennial of American Art. Other exhibitions of his work have taken place in venues such as the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Walker Art Center. In 2009-2010, The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, hosted Amerika’s comprehensive retrospective exhibition entitled UNREALTIME. In 2009, Amerika released Immobilité, generally considered the first feature-length art film ever shot on a mobile phone. He is the author of many books including The Kafka Chronicles (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 1993), Sexual Blood (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 1995), META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press, 2007) and remixthebook (University of Minnesota Press, 2011 -- remixthebook.com).