Jason Nelson

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Jason Nelson is a digital artist and cyber poet. Born in Oklahoma City in 1970, he currently teaches and researches digital writing and poetry at Griffith University in Australia. Jason Nelson's digital creations represent the third wave/generation of digital poets/writers, mixing higher levels of interactivity and often blurring genre lines.

[edit] Work

Examples of his Digital Poems:

Vholoce: Weather Visualiser [1]

This artwork uses RSS weather feeds to generate a series of aesthetic visualizations.

The Poetry Cube [2]

A interactive poetry cube, where users can enter a sixteen line poem and that poem is then transformed into a multi-dimensional cube. Writers such as Charles Bernstein and Andrienne Rich have poems included in the cube's saved database.

This is how you will die [3]

A slot machine for predicting death, using the stripped down code of an online pokie game, and 15- five line death fictions/poetics. You can win death videos and free spins. This work won the First Panliterary Award for Web Art from the Drunken Boat Literary Journal

Uncontrollable Semantics [4]

While net-art becomes increasingly more complex, more database and programming centered this project was designed simplicity. Utilizing the basic mouse-follower, uncontrollable semantics pulls together over fifty dramatically different sound, image and interactive environments, all through the simple mouse-follower. Each environment offers four directions to four terms, four semantics, four named creatures.

The Bomar Gene [5]

From the site: Within every human there is a singular gene, unique only to that individual. And with that gene comes a singular ability, a rare, mostly never realized capacity for interacting with the world. “The Bomar Gene” explores this mythical gene, through a series of ficto-biographies, with each story being re-translated and spatialized through interactive interfaces and embodied animations.

Hermeticon: Pop Spell Maker [6]

1980s kids commercials combined with 16th century hermetic texts. After cutting out the hooks, the most compelling spells of our toy and cereal fueled world, the videos were compressed and coupled with mysticism and our new alchemy. Also uses a keyboard driven interface. This artwork is also part of a larger series of works called Entanglegrids, each of which uses the same interface. [7]