Category : Jason Nelson

An interview with Jason Nelson

February 7th, 2010 by heliopod | 0

Simply thought I would share a recent interview with me in an art and design blog.
Not sure if my thoughts illuminate or muddy the digital poetry waters, but I would be ever interested in your thoughts all the same.  Oh and please do leave a comment on their site, just to let them know that [...]

Respond to NPR about E-Lit.

January 11th, 2010 by heliopod | 0

the following is From Deena Larsen.
“Please pass this out far and wide, as it is a wonderful chance to explain to NPR that yes, Virginia, there IS electronic literature.
In this story at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529, writer Nicolas Carr laments “Over the last couple of years, I’ve really noticed if I sit down with a book, after a few [...]

The Buzz on Electronic Writing: An Article

December 16th, 2009 by heliopod | 0

All,
A interesting introductory article on Electronic Literature in the lovely E-Zine Flavorpill.
Article author Sabrina Jaszi writes, “ Some of the best reads this season are being produced by electronic writers — techies devoted to the life of literature off the printed page. Their experimental fiction and poetry is colorful, cacophonous, animated and interactive — and often mediated [...]

The Future of NetPoetic

December 6th, 2009 by heliopod | 9 comments

All,
I’m pleased, no terribly pleased, no wonderfully pleased to announce that NetPoetic now has over 100 posts and well over two hundred comments.  So it seems the site is working, or at least beginning to work.  Although we can do much, much more. I’d like to encourage those out there, if they haven’t already, to [...]

AG3 Call for Artwork

November 11th, 2009 by heliopod | 1 comment

NetPoetic is co-curating, with the AG3 Conference,  an online exhibition of newly created artworks and poetry that specifically responds to the ideas and theories of Arakawa and Gins.
The first deadline, Dec 1,  is a simple proposal stage, with all works due Feb 1, 2010.    Explore the Exhibition Call for Work page for all the [...]

NetPoetic Google Maps Contest

October 19th, 2009 by heliopod | 1 comment

All,
Mark Sample’s post and subsequent comment about teaching e-lit…reminded me that easy to use tools such a Google maps is a lovely way to introduce e-lit to beginning writers.
With that in mind, I wanted to announce the theme of NetPoetic’s first contest.   Using Google maps, create a small work of Electronic Literature/Fiction/Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction. I’ll [...]

New Digital Poetry Game

September 27th, 2009 by heliopod | 3 comments

All,
Here is a lovely BETA version to my newest digital poetry game. The 3rd (or 4th) in the series.  I won’t be officially releasing it for a bit, so any thoughts good or otherwise are more than appreciated.
Title:  Evidence of Everything Exploding
URL:  http://www.secrettechnology.com/explode/evidence8.html
cheers, Jason Nelson

NetPoetic Twitter and Poet’s Market Mention

September 21st, 2009 by heliopod | 0

NetPoetic Twitter. I’ve created a NetPoetic Twitter account, and will include a Twitter feed on the right.  I’m looking for ten people to add in as authors on that NetPoetic Twitter account (basically just giving you the UN and PW).  So send me, Jason Nelson, an email if you want to be in the Twitter [...]

a tree with managers and jittery boats

September 1st, 2009 by heliopod | 5 comments

A new digital poetry experiment.  Multi-level menus as poetry generator.
I’ve been working,  for my soon to be finished PhD, on various digital poetry interfaces.
A few factors I’m playing with, and would appreciate thoughts on: 1. the menu fade away timing (more or less?) 2. the mixing of various level depths  3. should I have only [...]

new print feature

August 26th, 2009 by heliopod | 0

With so many grand and glorious posts, some of which are as good as any print journal articles, I’d added a new feature to netpoetic.com.
If you want to PRINT a post, you can click on its title (or more) for the single post view, and on the top left corner is a lovely PRINT button.
Do [...]

RITA and tools for the creation of flavor.

August 20th, 2009 by heliopod | 3 comments

As we’ve already touched on here, there are a great many tools for creating lovely digital works. Daniel C. Howe  has created such a tool.  I plan to spend my Australian summer diving into this and making something, anything. I encourage others to play as well.  Jason
From the site: -  RiTa† is an easy-to-use natural [...]

Not all Flash

August 4th, 2009 by heliopod | 1 comment

Although I use Flash mostly, and am forced to tolerate it’s controlling feel and face, there are codes wandering the world that do just as much, purely in the browser.
http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/ the more than lovely site of DHTML Art and code wonders of Gerard Ferrandez is filled with experiments and indeed artworks created entirely in DHTML [...]

The First NetPoetic Exhibition

July 23rd, 2009 by heliopod | 2 comments

I’ll soon be announcing the first NetPoetic exhibition, a net-based, peer reviewed exhibition of interactive works of electronic literature/digital poetry.
Before I make the wider announcement, I’m looking for ideas for a theme, or should we even have a theme, and  expressions of interest to be a judge/reviewer.
A few preliminary details:
* all works will be [...]

Calls for Work and Chris Joseph

July 18th, 2009 by heliopod | 1 comment

Chris Joseph, author, artist, coder, thinker, scholar and collaborator in all things digital literature and art, has a wonderful blog/site to explore. Many of the posts discuss interesting and truly novel ways of using various net technologies to create narratives and/or poetry, particularly useful for those teaching digital literature. I know many of [...]

a few hundred of these

July 18th, 2009 by heliopod | 1 comment

This morning I found the following in my inbox.  I’ve had a few hundred of these “what were you on” emails about my work, and particularly the games. (here and here)
Although I find these hilarious (and somewhat annoying), they do bring up two interesting points. One, that drug use is typically connected with anything slightly [...]