Background
Mr. Amerika was born in Miami, Florida, United States, in 1960.
Mr. Amerika was born in Miami, Florida, United States, in 1960.
He is a graduate of the Literary Arts program at Brown University where he received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 1997.
Mr. Amerika was a novelist, editor of Black Ice Magazine, and member of Fiction Collective Two. Musician and lecturer on electronic publishing and Avant-Pop. Instructor at Brown University and the Naropa School of Writing and Poetics.
Mark Amerika is the publisher of the Alt-X Online Network, a website of online art, literature and new media theory that he began as a Gopher site in late 1992. The site includes the Alt-X e-book press, early versions of the electronic book review, Alt-X Audio, the Hyper-X net art gallery, and an assortment of interviews with both mainstream and alternative literary writers from the late 20th century. His widely translated Avant Pop Manifesto was first released on Alt-X in 1993.
In late 2013, he was the Labex Arts-H2H International Research Chair at the University of Paris 8. Prior appointments include Visiting International Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the Honors Program at the National University of Singapore, University of Technology Sydney, and Falmouth University.
In 2015, Amerika was appointed the Founding Director of a new doctoral program in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado.
(Tells the stories of young artists, the drug underworld, ...)
(Blending artist theory, personal memoir, satire, and fict...)
(Sexual Blood is a wild, cybersexual trip through the dark...)
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(META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (Leonardo Book Series) by Ma...)
(Degenerative Prose is outlaw writing with a terrorist hea...)
(Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. ...)
(remixthebook by Mark Amerika (2011-07-26) [Mark Amerika])
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