Digital Technology and Culture

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ELO 08

In the spring 2008, the DTC will host the Electronic Literature Organization's annual conference. Close to 200 electronic artists will particpate in the conference and its accompanying media arts show.

The keynote for the conference is Mark Amerika, named a "'Time Magazine 100 Innovator.'" His work "has shown at the Whitney Biennial, the ICA in London, the Walker Art Center, and the Denver Art Museum. He has had four early career retrospectives including the first-ever net art retrospective in the summer of 2001 at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, Japan ("Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika [an Internet art retrospective]"). Both retrospectives covered the years 1993- 2001. In 2004, he had two new retrospectives, one at Ciberart Bilbao in Spain, and one at the Festival International de Linguagem Eletronica at the Gallerie do SESI in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A cult novelist, media theorist, web publisher, and VJ artist who has performed has performed internationally, Amerika is the author of many books including his recently published collection of artist writings entitled META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press)." He is "founder of the Alt-X Network, publisher of the electronic book review, and a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder."

Mark will be hosting a workshop for conference participants as well as DTC students on Thursday, May 29, 2008. More details will follow. In the meantime, check out his website: markamerika.com

--Dene

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