About Jason Nelson
I’m Jason Nelson, a digital poet. I’ve been lucky enough to have published over 50 digital poems around the world in places such as ACM, ISEA, AWP, SIGGRAPH, ELO, FILE and dozens of other acronyms.
I was born on the Oklahoma prairie, part of my youth spent wandering the storm drains of suburban Oklahoma City, and the other watching thunderstorms lurch closer across the wheat fields of my grandparents farm in South-Central Kansas. Evidently early teachers reported I would rather "sing for the class, than with the class", and I grew up floating in the space between gifted and troubled (a space I continue to occupy).
Abandoned buildings and pathless woods appeal far more than crowded festivals or tourist anythings.
Generally, I find the organization of the world, its right angles and forever taxonomies to be
baffling, and most of these systems we've built aren't real in a ... well ... real sort of way.
If I controlled the world's resources I'd explore space travel, as the most human of
endeavours is to explore.
And my grandfather's last word was "gizmos".
Additional bits and pieces
Featured in
Fingleton, Therese, Christy Dena, and Jennifer Wilson. 2008. The writer's guide to making a digital living: choose your own adventure , pp.84-87. Sydney, Australia Council of the Arts.
Fulbright Australia. 2018. "Digital Poetry- Jason Nelson".Minds & Hearts. Issue 06, pp.51-55.
Nelson, Jason. 2021. "Poetic Playlands: Poetry, Interface, and Video Game Engines." Bind 30 in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities, Context, Forms & Practises, edited by Dene Grigar & James O’Sullivan. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Nelson, Jason. 2021. ”Aim, fire and explode: the dangerous languages of the false unlimited”. Bind 1 in Texts of discomfort. Play Story Press: Pittsburg, PA.
Nelson, Jason. 2016. "What Is an Interface and Why Does a Digital Poet Care?". Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism. Volume 23, pp.136-144. https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/gramma/article/view/5408
Stuart, Keith. 2011. "Basquiat meets Mario Brothers? Digital poet Jason Nelson on the meaning of art games".The Guardian, 13. September, 2011.
Archive of old webpages
Jason Nelson Digital Oddities and Creatures: https://www.secrettechnology.com/
Jason.nelson's.digital.poetry.interfaces: https://heliozoa.com/