Published in Overland Issue Electronic Overland · Uncategorized Textual skyline Jason Nelson Follow this link to launch the poem. Jason Nelson Born from the Oklahoma flatlands of farmers and spring thunderstorms, Jason Nelson somehow stumbled into creating awkward and wondrous digital poems and interactive stories of odd lives, building confounding art games and all manner of curious digital creatures. Currently he professes Net Art and Electronic Literature at Australia’s Griffith University on the Gold Coast’s contradictory shores. Aside from coaxing his students into breaking, playing and morphing their creativity with all manner of technologies, he exhibits widely in galleries and journals, with work featured around globe at FILE, ACM, LEA, ISEA, ACM, ELO and dozens of other acronyms. There are awards to list (Paris Biennale Media Poetry Prize),organisational boards he frequents (Australia Council Literature Board), and numerous other accolades (Webby Award), but in the web-based realm where his work resides, Jason is most proud of the millions of visitors his artwork/digital poetry portal secrettechnology.com attracts each year. More by Jason Nelson › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 24 April 2025 · The university Why we need the National Code against gender-based violence in higher education Camille Schloeffel, Jessica Ison and Samantha Marshall As leaders in and advocates for the prevention of gender-based violence, we strongly support the National Code as a crucial step to push universities to act. Without enforcement of the National Code to ensure providers comply with its requirements, we are concerned that universities are still not doing enough, and students are bearing the consequences. 22 April 202522 April 2025 · The university Genocide showrooms: universities after Gaza Nick Riemer We should mostly be talking about the genocide in Palestine: the horrifying toll of bodies, the thousands or tens of thousands of amputees, the bereavement at a national scale, the gutting intergenerational trauma. In the face of all this, we should not have to talk about universities in the West. But nowhere in society has the breakdown of liberal institutions under Zionist pressure been faster or more obvious.
