Mark Amerika, named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" in 2001, is an interdisciplinary artist who internationally known for his net art, avant-pop novels, VJ performances, and major museum installations.

His works include the epic online narrative GRAMMATRON, selected for the 2000 Whitney Biennial; the sound art work PHON:E:ME, commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in Western Australia; and FILMTEXT 2.0, initially commissioned by Sony PlayStation 2 as part of a major retrospective at the ICA in London.

He is the author of two novels, The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood. He is also the author of a large collection of artist writings called META/DATA (MIT Press 2007) that remixes spontaneous theories with experimental fiction and personal memoir. In 1993 he became founder and publisher of Alt-X, one of the longest surviving art publications on the Internet.

Filmtext 2.0,2002