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Jason Nelson is a digital and hypermedia poet and artist. He is a lecturer on Cyberstudies, digital writing and creative practice at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He is best known for his artistic flash games/essays such as Game, Game, Game And Again Game and I made this. You play this. We are Enemies. Nelson's style of Web art mergers various genres and technologies, focusing on collages of poetry, image, sound, movement and interaction. Nelson's art portal, secrettechnology.com, won a Webby award for the Weird category in 2009. 'This is How You Will Die' won the First Panliterary Award for Web Art from the Drunken Boat Literary Journal; "Countries of a Uncomfortable Ocean (which bundles two of his art games) won the Biennale Internationale des poètes en Val de Marne for Media Poetry in 2009 and "The Bomar Gene" won the 4th International Prize "Ciutat de Vinaròs" on Digital Literature.

 

A Statement of sorts: Videographs build strange worlds through graphs overlaying 80's pop videos. Imagine Pacman pasta meets the Dead Eaters via a videograph.

 

 

 

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