MARK AMERIKA: GRAMMATRON




GRAMMATRON is a "public domain narrative environment" created for the World Wide Web that presently consists of over 1100 text spaces, 2000 links, 40+ minutes of original soundtrack delivered via Real Audio 3.0, unique hyperlink structures by way of specially-coded Javascripts, a virtual gallery featuring scores of animated and still life images, and more storyworld development than any other narrative created exclusively for the Web. A story about cyberspace, Cabala mysticism, digicash paracurrencies and the evolution of virtual sex in a society afraid to go outside and get in touch with its own nature, GRAMMATRON depicts a near-future world where stories are no longer conceived for book production but are instead created for a more immersive networked-narrative environment that, taking place on the Net, calls into question how a narrative is composed, published and distributed in the age of digital dissemination.


Mark AMERICA

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 Network (http://www.altx.com). In June of 1997 he launched the GRAMMATRON hypermedia narrative project which has been exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival, the International Symposium of Electronic Art and SIGGRAPH.

amerika@altx.com
http://www.altx.com