Yesterday I dragged myself up to AU to see Mark Amerika's talk - I'm glad I did. Here's a quick list of stuff I jotted down while he was talking - indiscriminately, either stuff he said, stuff I misheard, or stuff I thought:

• Computers are fertile ground for interdisciplinary production - the meta-tool.
• MA's background is in literature - his approach to writing is akin to improvisational or athletic performance. His attitude to creative performance strikes me as a little incongruous with the 21st century [pleasantly so] - an artist [or athlete] is an instrument through which the non-self is channelled; when not making art the artist is the average of all possible selves/personas [sounds a little like quantum theory - possibilities cancel themselves out until there's only one possibility left,] and the way to access them is to remove the self... trance states at the keyboard?
• Consider personae [avatars] as shareware.
• Pictures should be shareware. Pictures are potential engines.
• Maybe that's why I'm not comfortable with IRCs, Second Life, avatars, role playing - I can't let go of 'I' to allow other possible personae.
• Plot [literary] = codeword for 'grave.'
• I totally forgot about using the 'refresh' tag to 'push' pages, as a slide presentation.
• Nanoscript
• Grammatron's meaning is holographic - it resolves itself as the user traverses multiple screens - any screens.
• UI - an alternative to clicking: hover over a hot spot until the focus tunnels into that spot. [Akin to spring-loaded folders on Apple GUI.]
• Thought-ography
• The Most Imperfect Union
• Terrorized Body | Weaponized Body
• UI - similar to I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives, a flash tool for VJ-ing: each key on the keyboard triggers an image | sound | loop, after an item has been triggered; then a triggered key preloads a new image so that the performance could have unlimited samples; samples could be in pre-designated folders - one folder per key - and named sequentially to control order, this way all a user needs to do is swap out samples in the folders to create new performances without re-writing the FLASH code.
• [Adrian, you should have been there - great discussion of vj/performance possibilities.]
• Ended the presentation with Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix) - Koyanisquatsi for this century. A great piece but I think the title is a little too explicit - kinda namedropping.