"Nothing happens here. Nobody lives here"
The introduction of Filmtext says this itself. And speaks the truth.
When I investogate this piece via Google, I discover that Filmtext is a "hybridized online/offline digital narrative created as a net art site, a museum installation, an mp3 concept album, an artist ebook, and a series of live performances" as proclaimed by the artist himself.
I read this and at once I believe that my digital literacy is failing me! I don't understand this! Mark Amerika is telling me I have 4 personal messages and I can't open them! I hear lazers but I can't see them! A futuristic scroll opens before my eyes and says something incomprehensible !
On the first "level", in the desert, text that appears in the little box when I click one of the white crater things seems to be a series of postmodern rants about the body and art, media terrorists and social hammers, perception and reality.
When I graduate to the next two levels, his prose becomes even more cynical and cryptic. At one point I click something and its this woman's voice leaving a message on an answering machine, telling me about doing laundry and stuff. This keeps playing over and over again and I can't find a stop button of any sort. This is why I'm not entirely sure is there are other levels after this, because this phone message is playing over and over again and I feel increasingly anxious because checking my phone messages always makes me feel anxious like I'm neglecting someone somewhere. I don't know this woman and I don't know what Mark is trying to make me feel!
...Well, Mark Amerika has succeeded in creating a highly baffling digital narrative that makes me feel kind of lonely and kind of stupid because I have no idea whats going on.
Nice fonts, though.
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