net.dialogue
Through the backwaters of the wired world Mark Amerika stalks the lonely net artist. These are his "net.dialogues," a special Rhizome web diary featuring one-on-one conversations with the Net's creative fringe.

net.dialogue.7—The Animating Fluid of Cyberspace
MARK AMERIKA IN DIALOGUE WITH MELINDA RACKHAM
<excerpt> "Very early on I realised that the net has an energy system of its own...it is a living entity and I think it feeds off us as we sit in front of the screen. We become the animating fluid of cyberspace..." </excerpt>

net.dialogue.6—Digital Hallucinogens
MARK AMERIKA IN DIALOGUE WITH JOHN VEGA
<excerpt> "A good example of what has influenced me lately would be the generative (and multi-user) work of Mark Napier as well as the ambient-generative work of Joshua Davis. With Davis's Praystation, we see the 'player' and 'movie' dissolve as the art is recursively grown, three dimensionally displayed, and distributed to the user's mind via the phosphor screen..." </excerpt>

net.dialogue.5—Hawaiian Net Art
MARK AMERIKA IN DIALOGUE WITH DEE KINE
<excerpt> "Should I sell Alt-X for a measly quarter of a million bucks because that's what someone can afford? Too many artists do that nowadays. Especially net artists. But that's my soapbox this month—so don't get me started!" </excerpt>

net.dialogue.4—On Being Retro In The Zeroes
MARK AMERIKA IN DIALOGUE WITH ABE GOLAM
<excerpt> "There's quite a bit happening at Alt-X in the near future, all of it pinned to our mission, to our net art meets literary art meets conceptual art curatorial vision. We are just now releasing a variety of free 'conceptual net art' and net.fiction ebooks. It's part of our strategy to help clean up the air a little bit." </excerpt>

net.dialogue.3—Dub Fictions
MARK AMERIKA IN DIALOGUE WITH JEFF NOON
<excerpt> "I just came back from a gig in Lucerne, Switzerland, a beautiful town surrounded by the Alps. The festival was called Surf-Sample-Manipulate, after a theory I've been developing over the last few years wherein the writer-cum-netartist uses all the available data on the web as source material to further inflect a narrative environment." </excerpt>

net.dialogue.2—Postcinematic Writing
MARK AMERIKA IN DIALOGUE WITH ADRIAN MILES
<excerpt> "The web suffers from TV envy, but then again, it's pre-TV. It's almost as though it were in its imaginary stage of telecommunicational development." </excerpt>

net.dialogue.1—WYSIWYG SUBJECTS
MARK AMERIKA IN DIALOGUE WITH EUGENE THACKER
<excerpt> "Are sites like jennicam and amandacam works of pure performance art or are they more like Reality TV? Sometimes I wonder if net art isn't becoming more like Temptation Island." </excerpt>