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Part One: Spontaneous Theories. Cyberpsychogeography (An Aimless Drift in twenty Digressions) -- Portrait Of The VJ --- Part Two: Distributed Fictions. Grammatron -- This Could Be The First Day of The Rest Of My Life -- How To Be An Internet Artist OK Texts -- Memorandum From The Director of The Office of Political And Economic Insecurity -- 10 Comms -- Globalization Is ... -- Top Ten Reasons Why Net. Art Is Dead -- The ... Writer ... As ... Pseudo-Autobiographical ... Work-In-Progress -- The Insider's Guide To Avant-Garde Capitalism: Excelling at The Fine Art of Making Money -- Natto Girls -- The Random Life of VJ Persona (A Mobile Medium in The Form Of A Fiction) --- Part Three: Academic Remixes. Answers To Questions I Have Been Asked: A Technomadic Journey -- Expanding The Concept of Writing: Notes On Net Art, Digital Narrative And Viral Ethics -- Teaching High Techne -- Anticipating The Present: An Artist's Intuition --- Part Four: Image Ecriture --- Part Five: Net Dialogues. WYSIWYG Subjects (With Eugene Thacker) -- Postcinematic Writing (With Adrian Miles) -- Stitch Bitch: The Hypertext Author As Cyborg-Narrator (With Shelley Jackson) -- Dub Fictions (With Jeff Noon) -- Active/Onblur (With Talan Memmott) -- Hawaiian Net Art (With Dee Kine) -- The Organizational Game (With Amanda McDonald Crowley) -- The Animating Fluid of Cyberspace (With Melinda Rackham) -- Digital Hallucinogens (With John Vega) -- The Loss of Inscription (With Giselle Beiguelman) -- On Being Retro In The Zeroes (With Abe Golam) --- Part Five: Amerika Online. This Is All I Do Now -- Avant-Pop Manifesto: Thread Baring Itself In Ten Quick Posts -- Hypertextual Consciousness: Notes Toward A Critical Net Practice -- The Work of Art In The Age of Virtual Republishing And Network Installation -- Cyberspace Installations: Do-It-Yourself Narrative Composition For The 90's -- Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism On The Net -- Copyleftists: Form And Action In The Network Environment -- Life Is Elsewhere: Cruising The Antipodal Trajectory -- Prophesizing Infowar: Creating Expectations In The New Media Economy -- The Private Life of A Network Publisher -- A Chair Is A Chair Is A Chair: Comments At Convergence -- The Rhetorical Gesture -- Triptych: Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Part One) -- Triptych: Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Part Two) -- Blurring Practices: The Work of Art As Public Offering -- Sonic Upheaval: Using Mp3 To Rip The System -- Para-Sites And Host Connections: An Unconditional Love -- Writing As Hacktivism: An Intervening Satire -- Designwriting: A Post-Literary Reading Experience -- What In The World Wide Web Is Happening To Writing? -- What Is A Blog? -- Making History Up: A Serial Question Mark. This rich collection of writings by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and network-infused language art. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory, multitrack "digital sampling" of Amerika's writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells the early history of a net art world "gone wild" while simultaneously constructing a parallel poetics of net art that complements Amerika's own artistic practice. Unlike other new media artists who may create art to justify their theories, Amerika documents the emergence of new media art forms while he creates them. Presenting a multifaceted view of the digital art scene on subjects ranging from interactive storytelling to net art, live VJing, online curating, and Web publishing, Amerika gives us "Spontaneous Theories," "Distributed Fictions" (including his groundbreaking GRAMMATRON, the helpful "Insider's Guide to Avant-Garde Capitalism," and others), the more scholarly "Academic Remixes," "Net Dialogues" (peer-to-peer theoretical explorations with other artists and writers), and the digital salvos of "Amerika Online" (among them, "Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism on the Net," "The Private Life of a Network Publisher," and satirical thoughts on "Writing as Hactivism"). META/DATA also features a section of full-color images, including some of Amerika's most well-known and influential works
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