Project Details
Evidence of Everything Exploding is a digital poem and art-game hybrid exploring various historical and contemporary texts. Each level’s poetic content is built from the document’s sub-sub texts and curious consequences. With Bill Gates’ letter to the Computer Brew Club about monetizing hobby computing, we find the seeds of an empire, James Joyce is caught in an infinite loop of changing texts, Fidel Castro’s boyhood letter to the US president praising America and asking for money signals an opportunistic future.
Published & exhibited
Numerous exhibitions, including New River at Virginia Tech University and
Currents New Media Exhibition and Festival in New Mexico.
Select impact
Nt2: le répertoire des arts et littératures hypermédiatiques.
Interview in Cordite Poetry Review.
Interview and Exhibition of my work at MIT’s Leonardo:
http://www.leoalmanac.org/lea-new-media-exhibition-interview-with-jason-nelson/
In Astrid Ensslin's Literary Gaming:
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/3037/chapter-abstract/82967/the-paradox-of-poetic-gaming-evidence-of?redirectedfrom=fulltext
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https://www.dpoetry.com/games/explode/
https://elmcip.net/creative-work/evidence-everything-exploding
Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/wsv_ow3sMwA