Because The Cube space offers such interesting new technical territory, Digital Writing Resident Jason Nelson needed some help to unravel all the code and mystery. And luckily he found that help. After a somewhat extensive search, Jason chose Matt Horton to help with the coding and conceptualising on…
Jason Nelson goes to Italy (virtually)
The Cube’s Digital Writer has happily spent the last week in Italy… at least virtually. Jason Nelson’s work was shown at the National Palace in Napoli as part of the OLE Festival of Digital Literature. He also gave an artist talk exploring a range of his works. Jason:…
Cube Artists Short-Listed for the WA Premier’s Book Awards
The Cube’s current artist-in-residence Jason Nelson and former artist-in-residence Christy Dena are both short-listed for the WA Premier’s Book Awards. The Cube now has the distinction of representing two of Australia’s best Digital Writers. The WA Premier’s Book Awards is the only major Premier’s prize for Digital Writing…
Jason Nelson: Look for the artist wearing this shirt
Wandering through the hallways and digital wonderlands of QUT’s Garden’s Point campus will be Jason Nelson, wearing the T-Shirt he designed specifically for The Cube Digital Writing Residency. A touch of oddity, combined with a mass of words, divided by cotton and the human shape equals this new T-Shirt design…
Jason Nelson’s Adventures in Electronic Literature and Art: Part One
Electronic Literature is entering adulthood, having been an exciting and vibrant field for two decades. And yet its expansion into academia and the arts and creative writing communities has been met with various roadblocks and concerns. Jason Nelson, The Cube’s Digital Writer in Residence explores Electronic Literature and…
Jason Nelson’s Adventures in Electronic Literature and Art: Part Two
Part Two of Jason Nelson’s exploration into Digital Art and Writing and its place in academia and creative industries. Filled with tales of grand adventures and curious discoveries so great all manner of stars explode in the literary sky! The intersection of writing and code Sadly, many scholars limit…
Digtal Art Wonderments: Jason Nelson’s Digital Writing Residency
The Cube’s 2014 Digital Writer in Residence, Jason Nelson, introduces his work and plots a way forward. I like to break technology. This doesn’t mean I traipse around searching for microwaves or old CRT televisions to recreate into artworks (although that would be quite fun). Instead, my digital art…