Marlborough Barcelona hosts the work of Mark Amerika, pioneer of electronic art

Marlborough Barcelona presents Mark Amerika. Remixing Reality. 1993-2023, a journey through the work of a pioneer of electronic art. The exhibition will show one of net.art's first works, his most outstanding works around glitch art and some of his most recent creations.

The Marlborough Barcelona gallery is hosting, for the first time, a digital art exhibition where a journey through the work of Mark Amerika (Miami, 1960) will be shown, covering three decades of research and experimentation around electronic and digital creation. Since its beginnings, Mark Amerika has had a very advanced vision of electronic and digital art, moving ahead of its time and the use of communication technologies applied to art.

His career has been complemented by his theoretical works and an important teaching task that has promoted research around the most emerging artistic practices. His most iconic work, GRAMMATRON (1993-1997), a work included in the exhibition, was selected in 2000 as one of the first net.art works for the Whitney Museum Biennial in New York. In 2009, Amerika began showing Immobilité, considered the first feature film shot with a mobile phone and exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York.

Since 2019 he has been experimenting with the creative possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, showing his interest in the so-called "artificial neural networks" and his relationship with what the Surrealists called "the first opportunity to be able to contemplate his works in the city of Barcelona. Mark Amerika (Miami, EE:UU., 1960) is an artist, theorist, writer and teacher and graduated in Fine Arts from Brown University.

He has held solo exhibitions at venues such as the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 international collective exhibitions on five continents and in 2009-2010 the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens hosted the exhibition entitled UNREALTIME. Other exhibitions took place at The Power Plant (Toronto), the Eli and Edith Broad Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the ZKM in Kalrsruhe, and the Montreal Biennale. The UK's Abandon Normal Devices Festival, in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympics commissioned Amerika for the large-scale transmedia artwork, Museum of Glitch Aesthetics [MOGA] which was shown in a solo exhibition in Manchester .