Jason Nelson
Acesulfame K, Stereo, Australia, 2018
Born in Oklahoma, Jason Nelson is a creator of digital poems and fictions of odd lives, builder of confounding art games and all manner of curious creatures. He professes Net Art and Electronic Literature at Queensland’s Griffith University in subtropical metropolis of Brisbane. explore: dpoetry.com
The work of American-Australian digital artist Jason Nelson confronts us with an abstract and puzzling array of avant-garde surrealist game art, where play becomes a paradoxical criticism of its own egocentrism, formulaicity, and obsession with stylized, hypersexualized bodies.