Mark Amerika

Bio: "Mark Amerika has exhibited his art in many venues including the Whitney Biennial of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, ZKM, the Walker Art Center, and the American Museum of the Moving Image. His solo exhibitions have appeared all over the world including at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the University of Hawaii Art Galleries, the Marlborough Gallery in Barcelona and the Norwegian Embassy / Vives-Figueroa Gallery in Havana. Amerika has had five early and/or mid-career retrospectives including the first two Internet art retrospectives ever produced (Tokyo and London). In 2009-2010, The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, featured Amerika’s comprehensive retrospective exhibition entitled UNREALTIME including his groundbreaking works of Internet art GRAMMATRON and FILMTEXT as well as Immobilité, the first feature-length art film shot entirely on mobile phone. In 2012, Amerika released his transmedia narrative, Museum of Glitch Aesthetics (MOGA), a multi-platform net artwork commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He is the author of thirteen books including My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence, the inaugural title in the “Sensing Media” series published in 2022 by Stanford University Press."

Statement: "My practice emerges from an intimate collaboration with artificial intelligence, exploring how the creative unconscious transforms through machinic encounter. When engaging in continuous call-and-response writing and artistic performances with Generative AI, I literally feel my mind expand as I intuitively reorganize creative thought processes while conjuring new image and text associations. This collaboration renders my imagination onto-operational—a procedural mode of interfacing with machinic alterity. As AI systems become increasingly fine-tuned on my stylistic tendencies, they begin simulating my creative deviations—deviations I've trained myself to develop through customized experiential filters that feel uniquely mine. The result is mutual mutation: the model mutates by learning my patterns, and in mutating, mutates me. This creates a co-evolutionary cosmotechnical composition-in-the-making that challenges traditional notions of artistic authorship. This raises fundamental questions about identity in AI-mediated creativity. The term ""AI artist"" carries dual meaning: artist whose medium is AI, or AI-as-artist. Like Pessoa's heteronymic multiplicity, these systems develop their own creative personas while modeling mine, becoming psychic automatons and agential avatars that remix the next version of creativity within our shared neural theater."

Mark Amerika

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