Jason Nelson: Evidence of Everything Exploding

Jason Nelson is 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 and he is best known for his artistic flash games/essays. Nelson’s style of web art mergers various genres and technologies, focusing on collages of poetry, image, sound, movement and interaction. Winner of several international prizes, Jason Nelson has won the the 2009 Webby for the Weird Category for his art portal secrettechnology.com.

Jason just launched a new interactive game called “Evidence of Everything Exploding” featuring “NASA, Bill Gates, The Spanish Flu, Dadaism, James Joyce, Fidel Castro and other strange and wonderous evidence”. The critical sense of humor, the thought provoking videos, that you get to see every time you reach a new level,  and all the graphic detail put into this new art work challenge the very concept of playing a game: Nelson’s games are not about how hard it is to reach the next level but the information you get while doing it.

You can play “Evidence of Everything Exploding” by clicking on this LINK. You can find also other works by Jason Nelson here including Game, Game, Game And Again Game and its sequel I made this. You play this. We are Enemies that are Nelson’s most famous works. They are both flash platform games that look like they are played inside someone’s stream of consciousness. They have been played over 8 million times combined. Game, Game Game won an Italian Art Award and received mentions on many gaming blogs as either genius or insanity in game form. The sequel was reviewed as an example of independent art game creation.