game, game, game and again game
Jason Nelson
Project date: January 2008
submitted 2009-01-13 17:37:34
Call: After the Net
Description:
Game, game, game and again game is a digital poem, a retro-game, an anti-design statement and a personal exploration. Much of the western world’s surroundings, belief systems, and designed culture-game-scapes, create the built illusion of clean lines and definitive choice, cold narrow pathways of five colors, three body sizes and capsule philosophy. Within net/new media art the techno-filter extends these straight lines into exacting geometries and smooth bit rates. This game, while forever attached to these belief/design systems, attempts to re-introduce the hand-drawn, the messy and illogical into the digital, via a retro-game style interface. Hovering above and attached to the poorly drawn aesthetic is a personal examination of how we/I continually switch and un-switch our dominate belief systems. Moving from faith to real estate, from chemistry to capitalism, the user triggers corrected poetry, jittering creatures and death and deathless noises. In addition each level contains short videos from my childhood, representing those brief young interactions which spark out eventual beliefs. "
Format: Adobe Flash, html
Genre: Net Artwork, Art Game, Digital Poem
URL: http://www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/gamegame.html
Artist Bio:
Jason Nelson teaches/researches/experiments at Griffith University on the Gold Coast of Australia. He so misses the snows of the north and south. His artworks are odd mixes of playthings, poetics and absurdist explorations. And they've appeared in far more places than he has ever been. Explore his other works: http://www.secrettechnology.com/works/everything.htm