Mark Amerika

Mark Amerika’s new media trilogy investigates the connections between networked art, hypermedia narratives, and interactive cinema. The last part of the trilogy, FILMTEXT, 2002, is a hybridized online/offline storyworld experience created as a net art site, a museum installation, an mp3 concept album, a multimedia ebook, and a series of live performances. Subtitled 'MetaTourism: Interior Landscapes, Digital Thoughtography', FILMTEXT investigates the interrelationships between biotech, games studies, digital narrative, and network culture. The work traces the nomadic movement of an alien light form known only as “The Digital Thoughtographer,” loosely inspired by the life and work of Ted Serios. The Thoughtographer wanders through an eerily empty desert landscape that looks like a synthetic rendering but is actually the Haleakala Crater in the South Pacific and other far off destinations. Set in the language of computer games, FILMTEXT’s techno music, eerie alien lifeforms, space travel, and sound collages burdened with static and transmission noises, precariously negotiate the netherworlds between sound and noise, film and literature, human body and networked being.

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