New Media artist Mark Amerika blogs under the name Professor VJ and describes his blog works here (links in the original).

1. The 24 Hour Count is a multi-media blog band made up of Colorado artists Mark Amerika, Rick Silva, and Nathaniel Wojtalik. For this 24 hour online blog performance, the artists will use a variety of media including the Internet, mobile phones, digital video and photo cameras, mini-disk recorders, musical instruments, and many computer software programs to improvisationally remix, interpret, and respond to current events while filtering their "digital readings" through the prism of Count Lautréamont's "Songs of Maldoror," a classic French text written in the 19th century and whom the Surrealists adopted as the progenitor of their significant 20th century movement.

2. From June 16 through August 27, 2006, I created a Passagen-Work, as part of the "Decades of Influence" show in Denver. The work investigated daily blog performance as a proactive writerly practice where my mission, should I choose to accept it, was to apply a literary methodology to net art composition. I called this kind of "art-making" wild blogstyle and used Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as a tutor-text. Here is what Benjmain wrote in one of his Arcades Project files on methodology:
Method of this project: literary montage. I needn’t say anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse - these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.
When I introduced my own Passagen-Work remix, I said:
Of course, he [Benjamin] contradicted himself in the best of possible ways and actually said a lot - and so one can imagine that I will attempt to do this too, whether I want to or not. Another difference between Benjamin's approach and mine is that "the rags, the refuse" that I want to make use of are easily sampled from the vast library of information waiting to be aestheticized (performed with, manipulated) on the Internet - and I also have a lot of material I myself have contributed to the electrosphere, material I intend on recontextualizing for this 10 week performance.
Now that I write this entry, I can see how these performance-oriented, even time-based writing projects, mashing up images and text while porting them through customized artist-apparatus filters I am always tweaking, are somehow yet further expansions on my Expanded Concept of Writing.

3. MANP is another net art work that is not quite blog, but also not quite "traditional" net art either. The exhibition will feature a local, stand-alone version of the site that differs from the online version, where "We Take Pictures, So You Don't Have To."
- tom moody 5-21-2007 6:56 pm





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