Ok Texts

Ok Texts presents a series of statements as fact in the parlance of popular operating systems. Characteristically, the user has only one option for response: clicking "okay" to move to the next faux alert. The piece's limited chance for interaction gives rise to an effective commentary on the relationship between human cognition and the technological systems with which we (choose to) interface. 

"Mark Amerika is the author of many books including the novels Sexual Blood (1995) and The Kafka Chronicles (1993). In 1993, he started The Alt-X Online Publishing Network. In June of 1997 he launched the GRAMMATRON hypermedia narrative project. Exhibitions of his work have appeared or are forthcoming at the Ars Electronica Center, The International Sympoisum of Electronic Art 1997, the 'Portraits In Cyberspace' online exhibition celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the M.I.T. Media Lab, The International Biennial of Film & Architecture and the 1998 Adelaide Arts Festival. Recent festivals/conferences he's participated in include the Duke University 'Assault: Radicalism In Aesthetics and Politics' conference, the Brown University 'Unspeakable Practices Vanguard Narrative Festival," the 'Crossings: American Authors Festival' in Cologne, and the German Association of American Studies conference on 'Technology and American Culture' in Freiburg. He has an MFA from Brown University where he recently helped design a course called 'Cyberspace, Virtual Reality and Critical Theory.'" -- from frAme, Issue 1, 1999