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How To Be an Internet Artist
How To Be An Internet Artist is the latest collection of new media writings from Mark Amerika, one of the most celebrated digital artists of our time.
110 pages, Paperback
Published March 11, 2002
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April 13, 2015
There are some interesting ideas in here, and a couple of good chuckles, but most of this collection of short works is the kind of esotericism for esotericism's sake that worked so much better in the late 90's and early 2000's as a protest and counterpoint to the commercialism of dot-com. This might have been cutting-edge thinking at one point, but sadly it comes across as hollow and dated in an age where, for the most part, we know that posthumanism and the cyborg mind are nothing more than a 10-year-old with a smart phone. Meanwhile it flaunts it's own derivative nature and lack of inspiration by touting a futuristic chic that consists of art made by copying/modifying/reposting. This is probably the one prediction it gets right, if ironically. I'm sure if there actually IS a hypertextual consciousness forming out there, it will probably never do much more than post Jackass clips on YouTube and share misattributed, out-of-context inspirational quotes on Facebook.
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