Jason Nelson is an author of digital poetry and fiction, surreal and political art games, and digital creations.
He encourages his students to explore, experiment, and transform creativity using all available technologies. His work has been exhibited worldwide in galleries and festivals, including FILE, ACM, LEA, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, and ELO, as well as in numerous international publications. Nelson is a member of prestigious committees such as the Australia Council Literature Board and the Electronic Literature Organization. He has received significant scholarships, including the Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Bergen and the Moore Scholarship at the National University of Ireland, as well as other international awards. In the digital space, the central field of his work, one thing matters most to him: the millions of visitors who visit his art and digital poetry portal http://www.secrettechnology.com (external link, opens in a new window) every year.
E-mail: dimas@uni-regensburg.de
Telephone: +49 941 943-5966 (Sekretariat)
Publications
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2020: “The False Unlimited”, ICIDS 2020 Bournemouth, Digital Writing Exhibition the 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, UK.
2020: “Poetic Playthings: poetry, interface and video game engines”, Book Chapter, Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities, Bloomsbury.
2019: “Acesulfame K”, published/exhibited: Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology Exhibition, University of Alberta, Canada; New River Journal of Digital Writing and Art, Virginia Tech University; Runner-Up Prize, Videomedeja digital art exhibition, Serbia; Finalist, Turn-on Literature Prize, Denmark and Norway.
2018: “The Wonders of Lost Trajectories”, Digital Writing Research and Exhibit, Queensland State Archives, Brisbane; Finalist, Queensland Literary Awards, Digital Writing Category; Finalist, New Media Writing Prize, IF:Book and Bournemouth University.
2017: “Nine Billion Branches”, HyperRhiz, New Media Cultures, North Carolina State University; Winner, Digital Writing Prize, Queensland Literary Awards, Brisbane (15,000AUD); Winner, Woollahra Library Digital Poetry Prize (5,000AUD), Sydney, Australia; Finalist, New Media Writing Prize, IF:Book and Bournemouth.
2016: “Cube Cryptext and Nomencluster”, Cube Space, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Council of the Arts, Literature Board grant recipient (125,000AUD). This highly regarded work is regarded as the world’s largest interactive art-game, reviewed in Engadget, The Australian, Brisbane Times, Engage Arts, Arts Hub, The Writing Platform and others.
2015: “The Bafflement Fires”, New Binary Press, Ireland, Cork University; Turn-On Literature Prize Touring Exhibition, Denmark, Norway, Romania; reviewed on Boing Boing and discussed by the Author Neil Gaiman.
2013: “Digital music and media creativities”, Book Chapter, “Developing Creatives in Higher Music Education: International perspectives and practices”, edited by Burnard, Pamela, Routledge, UK.
2013/14: “Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise”, Turbulence New Media, Commission, New York City, New York; National Library of France, Paris; widely reviewed in academic and popular press, including Language and the Interface, SetSubSet, SuperNaut, Destrutoid, The Guardian, Huffington Post and others.
2011: “Sydney’s Siberia” Electronic Language International Festival exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Newcastle Lock-Up Literary Grant; re-published as Messages for our Future, Digital Poem on the tsunami. Collaboration with the Media Response Team, Tohoku, Japan Foundation; re-published as Flood Mosaic Artwork, Floodlines Exhibition, State Library of Queensland, funded by a 12,000 AUD Grant (75,000NOK).