Meta/data : a digital poetics /

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"...

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Main Author: Amerika, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series:Leonardo books.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Spontaneous Theories. Cyberpsychogeography (An Aimless Drift in twenty Digressions)
  • Portrait Of The VJ
  • - Part Two: Distributed Fictions. Grammatron
  • This Could Be The First Day of The Rest Of My Life
  • How To Be An Internet Artist OK Texts
  • Memorandum From The Director of The Office of Political And Economic Insecurity
  • 10 Comms
  • Globalization Is ...
  • Top Ten Reasons Why Net. Art Is Dead
  • The ... Writer ... As ... Pseudo-Autobiographical ... Work-In-Progress
  • The Insider's Guide To Avant-Garde Capitalism: Excelling at The Fine Art of Making Money
  • Natto Girls
  • The Random Life of VJ Persona (A Mobile Medium in The Form Of A Fiction)
  • - Part Three: Academic Remixes. Answers To Questions I Have Been Asked: A Technomadic Journey
  • Expanding The Concept of Writing: Notes On Net Art, Digital Narrative And Viral Ethics
  • Teaching High Techne
  • Anticipating The Present: An Artist's Intuition
  • - Part Four: Image Ecriture
  • - Part Five: Net Dialogues. WYSIWYG Subjects (With Eugene Thacker)
  • Postcinematic Writing (With Adrian Miles)
  • Stitch Bitch: The Hypertext Author As Cyborg-Narrator (With Shelley Jackson)
  • Dub Fictions (With Jeff Noon)
  • Active/Onblur (With Talan Memmott)
  • Hawaiian Net Art (With Dee Kine)
  • The Organizational Game (With Amanda McDonald Crowley)
  • The Animating Fluid of Cyberspace (With Melinda Rackham)
  • Digital Hallucinogens (With John Vega)
  • The Loss of Inscription (With Giselle Beiguelman)
  • On Being Retro In The Zeroes (With Abe Golam)
  • - Part Five: Amerika Online. This Is All I Do Now
  • Avant-Pop Manifesto: Thread Baring Itself In Ten Quick Posts
  • Hypertextual Consciousness: Notes Toward A Critical Net Practice
  • The Work of Art In The Age of Virtual Republishing And Network Installation
  • Cyberspace Installations: Do-It-Yourself Narrative Composition For The 90's
  • Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism On The Net
  • Copyleftists: Form And Action In The Network Environment
  • Life Is Elsewhere: Cruising The Antipodal Trajectory
  • Prophesizing Infowar: Creating Expectations In The New Media Economy
  • The Private Life of A Network Publisher
  • A Chair Is A Chair Is A Chair: Comments At Convergence
  • The Rhetorical Gesture
  • Triptych: Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Part One)
  • Triptych: Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Part Two)
  • Blurring Practices: The Work of Art As Public Offering
  • Sonic Upheaval: Using Mp3 To Rip The System
  • Para-Sites And Host Connections: An Unconditional Love
  • Writing As Hacktivism: An Intervening Satire
  • Designwriting: A Post-Literary Reading Experience
  • What In The World Wide Web Is Happening To Writing?
  • What Is A Blog?
  • Making History Up: A Serial Question Mark.