Mark Amerika, who has been named a “Time Magazine 100 Innovator” as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers, and philosophers into the 21st century, has had two large-scale retrospectives of his digital art work. The first-ever net art retrospective was held in the summer of 2001 at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, and was called “Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika [an Internet art retrospective].” Amerika’s first European net art retrospective enjoyed two exhibition runs at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London and was entitled “How To Be An Internet Artist.” Both shows covered the years 1993–2001.
