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Net Art Spreading and WTFing of WTFers.

Being a net artist can be a painfully alone experience. The screen is your only light source, and your half-dressed and food stained appearance is at odds with the glorious digital creatures you birth. And yet sometimes, when you released an artwork into the net, its electric propeller spinning fast, rudders chaotically shifting, the artwork [...]

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Building Projections – keep an eye out

If you walk past The Edge at night you may see some words and images spewing out of the projector screens facing the river. Don’t be concerned The Edge has not been hacked… well just a little. We have dubbed them The Edge River Cinema. Drop us a comment if you think you have a [...]

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Experiments

I have created a bunch of flash files and mixed them up into this interface… have a play around, if you like the look of something, or if your curiosity gets the better of you, download the .fla file and take it apart, remix it and enjoy.
It has been uploaded to The Edge Resources Blog [...]

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Why I don’t own a Cellular Telephony Device

I’ve been called crazy for a variety of reasons. My digital artwork elicits ever strange and wondrous reactions, my demeanor and always shifting conversational style certainly inspire words like strange and weird and odd. None of this bothers me. Most choose their fashion from a narrow range of “off-the-shelf” belief/culture systems, so strange is an [...]

Sydney’s Siberia: a new digital poem.

While on a recent arts residency in the curious city of Newcastle, I soaked in enough local lore and culture and hidden secrets to create a large scale digital poem. Sydney’s Siberia is an infinitely zooming, mosaic generating, entirely interactive artwork that explores Newcastle through 121 poetic image/tiles. As with most digital poems there is [...]

Welcome The Jason Nelson Blog @ The Edge

Keep you eyes on this small section of the internet. This will be Jason’s blog space while he is here at The Edge