Jason Nelson

An odd creature with eyes, bodyparts and more. It is destined to die.

InterbaseDataface • Ongoing

A collection of smaller works. Some interactive, some are odd, and all of them are short experiences.

Colorful vines and small, glowing lights. The title
Entirely Every Forever is written on top, each letter is growing lines of their own.

Entierly Every Forever • 2024

A tale told by an all-seeing magpie who is outside of the realms of time. The story is set in Meanjin, or Brisbane, Australia, and this magpie has seen this place throughout time. AR work.

A colorful vizual, droplets of rain and a lighthouse in the distance.

Diffracted Hemispheres • 2023-24

This work explores the timeless power of light, with the lighthouse lens in focus.

An AI generated image.
The visuals are an amalgamation of machine and human parts, drawn in an old looking, cartoon style.

Ultra-Large Digital Narrative and Poetry Research Project
• 2022-ongoing

These animated and interactive works explore how AI can be used to create new forms of digital writing.

A photo of the former printery building. A colorful, watery image is projected onto one of its walls.

A permanent, digital artwork at Queen's Warf Precinct, Brisbane, Australia, that uses climate, weather and other historical environmental data from the Brisbane Commandant's Cottage in the early 1850s and '60s.

Three separate phone screens that depict impossible animals. One of them is a
mix between a butterfly and a squid, a second one depicts a mix between a snail and a squirrel, and the third one depicts
a mix between a crab and a mouse. They are all drawn in an oldschool style.

Impossible Creatures
(Curio Creatures) • 2022-23

Impossible Creatures is a locative art-game, satirical of locative games such as Pokemon Go, that explore the idea of speculative and imaginative zoology.

A front page that reads The Many Occasions of Moving. There are two, red trees with
grey leaves connected by a red pipe. Three black arrows are placed in between the title text.

The Many Occasions of Moving
• 2022-23

The Many Occasions of Moving investigates the intersection of video game engines/ interfaces and the creation of digital narrative and poetry.

Colorful text fills the dark display of squares outlined in white.

Cheat Codes for Hinterland WalkThroughs • 2021

This digital poetry game replicates a journey through the SE Queensland hinterland changed by bush fires.

White text on red reads'The false unlimited'

The False Unlimited • 2020

An interactive digital poem/art-game hybrid exploring the dangers inherent in the death of truth in political/social language.

An image of a hand touching a projector screen, with the projected image on top of them both.

The Wonders of Lost Trajectories Project • 2018-20

An exhibition of 6 different interactive and screen based digital writing works, inspired by or directly informed from materials in the state archives.

A bleeding skeleton that is colliding into a box of chicken tenders.

Acesulfame K • 2019

You get the chance to control a skeleton falling, smashing into objects. Inspired by an industrial sweetener by the same name.

The words 'Nine Billion Branches' are written in white text, placed above a red,
hexagon shaped tunnel.

Nine Billion Branches • 2018-19

Nine Billion Branches is an interactive digital poem and fiction hybrid. It explores the unexpected beauty hidden in the seemingly mundane objects and places around us.

An image of William Jolly Bridge, with projections of red, white and black arrows

Directions for Ziggurats
to Scale • 2018

This work is a giant-scale site specific work of video-based digital poetry projected across a car highway bridge (William Jolly Bridge) in the middle of Brisbane City, Australia. It is attached to the Wonders of Lost Trajectories project.

A collection of four images. One depicts a snowy landscape with a chair and a
projector screen. Another is looking upon a dark city landscape, with a projector screen in front that reads POETR.
The last two images is a building, taken on the inside and the outside of a large window with a white sheet.
Letters and buildings are projected onto it.

The Bergen Trilogy • 2016-17

The Bergen Trilogy is a series of video-based electronic literature and digital poetry works taking place in and around Bergen, Norway. Created by Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth

Three images showcasing a wooden box covered in colorful buttons and
wires. The box stands in a barren room, and there are images projected on the wall.

The Impossible Box • 2016

The Impossible Box is a satirical look at interactive game controllers, using an impossibly difficult box of buttons with which to control the work.

A hexagon shaped, red, gameboard covers the screen. There is a dice in one of the corners.

The Bafflement Fires • 2015-17

The Bafflement Fires is an interactive game-based artwork that attempts to create a new genre of digital poetry by using a quiz game engine as the method for writing and reading the work.

People stand in front of a large screen. On the screen you can
see old documents and a large locking mechanism. There is a podium visible as well, with a line of text that reads cryptext.

Cryptext • 2015-16

Cryptext is a Sci-Fi art-game touted in the media as the “world’s largest Sci-Fi video game”, located at QUT’s The Cube.

An image of a person interacting with a large touch-screen. On the screen you can
see colorful letters.

Nomencluster • 2015-16

Nomencluster, a digital poetry art-game, was built for one of the world’s largest, most advanced touch screen spaces, located at QUT’s The Cube.

A white and red spinning wheel is overlaid by a text that
reads: Your brain, your fingers, are so damn rare and alarmingly amazing. Parts of a hand drawn skeleton is behind the wheel.

Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise • 2013-16

Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise is an art/ poetry/ adventuring game, a playland for exploring our ever-present desire for constant and over-blown rewards.

An old pixel-art sprite of a colorful samurai standing in a doorway. A red text reads
'Blades for removing heat and reveal' and 'Heatblade'.

Mysterious Basement Machines of the Prairie • 2013

This piece navigates through sections of new power, mysterious and unreachable and yet entirely engrossing, by having interactive elements that responds to cursor and swipe movement.

Red, black and yellow boxes in a grey landscape. Some of them has text inside.

They built friction and tables • 2012

An artwork/digital poem in response to papers and presentations at the Electronic Media/Spaces of Encounter Conference.

White, bold letters reads 'With Love, from a Failed Planet'.
In the background you can faintly see a globe covered in logos.

With Love, from a Failed Planet • 2011

An interactive logoed world populated with 45 strange and fantastical stories of the societal/cultural failure of influential net portals, fast food giants, newspapers, airlines, manufacturers and other oddities.

A blue cityscape with red, big stars and yellow text on top of it.

Scrape Scraperteeth • 2011

Scrape Scraperteeth is an interactive-art/ digital poetry game exploring the societal obsession with real estate investment.

A green and blue cube drifts into one another and merges. The words 'Six Sided Strange'
is written in black, bold letters.

Six Sided STrange • 2011

A net-artwork series built from unsolvable Rubik's cubes and hidden narratives, from pixilated game character collages to abstract streams of color and lines.

An old document overlayed by windmill-faces,a colorfull arrow, and a
red text-box that reads in white, bold letters: 'YOU WILL EXPLODE, BUT DAMNIT KEEP RIDDLING TO REACH THE REACH'

Evidence of Everything
Exploding • 2010

EoEE is a digital poem and art-game hybrid exploring various historical and contemporary texts.

A collage of tiny images. It is hard to decipher what it depicts, though it looks
like a close-up image of a rug.

Sydney’s Siberia • 2010

Sydney’s Siberia is an infinitely zooming interactive work understood in the field of electronic literature to be of the form ‘combinatory poetry’.

A colorful rubiks cube cube floats in darkness. Text is overlayed on top of it.

Birds Still Warm from Flying • 2010

Birds Still Warm from Flying consists of interactive poetry cubes allowing
multi-linear/dimensional play and reconfiguration.

An image of train tracks, with the title written in
white and grey above it. Yellow text is seen below.

Wittenoom: Speculative shell
and the cancerous breeze • 2008

This responsive poem focuses on the Australian ghost town Wittenoom, abandoned due to toxic dust caused by asbestos mining.

A white title page with black, bold letters that reads
'I made this. you play this. We are enemies'.

i made this. you play this. we are enemies. • 2008

This is an art game, interactive digital poem which uses game levels built on screen shots from influential community based websites/portals.

A confusing, exploding pattern. White text reads 'The peanut declared all sexy ideas are advertising'.

Evil Hypnotizing Mascots • 2008

Evil Hypnotizing Mascots features algorithmic driven mascots. This is both humourous threat, and creepy absurdity.

A black void with colorful lines and a text that reads 'Uncontrollable Semantics'
and instructions on how to play.

Uncontrollable Semantics • 2007

Uncontrollable Semantics pulls together over fifty dramatically different sound, image and interactive environments, all through the simple mouse follower.

A black and white landscape reminiscent of threes overlayed by
two images of a boy eating a sandwich.

Between Treacherous Objects • 2007

Between Treacherous Objects explores the space between various contemporary items/ideas. It features [m]ulti-dimensional layering within an interactive depth interface.

A festive slot machine placed inside a furnace. Red christmas stockings decorate the machine.

Holiday Disaster Generator • 2007

Holiday Disaster Generator is a Flash work that allows the user to create their own terrible holiday by pulling the lever of a festive slot machine.

Alarmingly these are not lovesick zombies • 2007

An almost unplayable shooter, art game. Each level is built to be both won and lost.

A handrawn landscape of two large boxes, and a sun at the bottom.
Some text and scribbly lines overlays the landscape.

game, game, game and again game
• 2006-14

GGGAG is an art-game, digital poem, and anti-design statement. This game attempts to
re-introduce the hand-drawn, the messy and illogical into the digital, via a retro-game.

An image of a theater, taken from the scene, looking
into an array of empty seats in borad daylight. The same png of a seagull overlaps the environment.

Pandemic Rooms • 2006

Pandemic Rooms highlights the fact that the modern world is consumed with fears, with paranoid coverage of both real and hypothetical disaster and pandemic.

Pieces of text arranged in a line as if it was a roulette wheel.
The roulette itself is put in old, wooden frames. The text tell you how you will die.

This is how you will die
• 2006 & 2012

A re-combinatory electronic literature and art-game hybrid with 15 five-line death fictions/poetics.

A yellow page with the words 'The Bomar Gene' written on it.

The Bomar Gene • 2005

Within every human there is a singular gene, unique only to that individual, which gives each human a singular ability, The Bomar Gene.