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meta data a digital poetics
p 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 amerikas 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 amerikas 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 insiders 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 amerikas most well known and influential works.provocative digressive nomadic and fun to read amerikas 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 .
paperback mit press 2009 isbn13 9780262513142 isbn10 0262513145
abridged n isbn 13 9780262513142 number in series 1 number of pages 460 publisher mit press ma release date 62135769600000 series title leonardo