Net Art Spreading and WTFing of WTFers.

What the WTF is WTFING going on here.

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 stops long enough on some else’s screen to inspire. They then write about their experience, rewind the rubber band and release the artwork again out airy web.

And with that in mind, I thought I would share some recent reviews/comments/mentions (and I do so not to be the dreaded and much maligned “tall poppy”, but instead to offer up how strange spreading brings curious results:

From a Japanese blog, about my work Between Treacherous Objects: http://karapaia.livedoor.biz/archives/51742570.html

The games site and magazine Games Radar added my Evidence of Everything Exploding to their list of the top 15 WTF games: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-pcs-most-wtf-games/a-20100721111716868027/p-3

Some guy evidently feels my games determine your lifespan: http://trippygames.blogspot.com/2010/07/game-game-game-and-again-game-also.html

Our Aussie-free-art-mag Realtime was kind enough to take a gander: http://www.realtimearts.net/article/96/9844

A rather long interview in a design magazine:http://joshspear.com/item/spear-talks-jason-nelson/

An odd and honest review from a Professor in NYC: http://carlos-hernandez.net/main/?p=349

And some lovely other decided to do a walk-through video of my game, game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cz4UuTx-Fl

I wish I could list all the more terrible and oddly suss/elicit ways people write about my work. But alas, this is not that form.   cheers, Jason Nelson

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