How to transform dog/horse pron/hump lovers into art patrons

Jason Nelson

Artist Statement

The net world is filled with holes. Security is never complete and with the proper tools and knowledge anyone can break/hack into any website. Unfortunately (and ultimately fortunately) a few years ago one of my art portals was the victim of hackers and their redirect codes (HTML pages used as bouncing off points for illicit web traffic).

But instead of simply removing the pages and complaining to my host provider, I resolved to use the hackers' tactics against them and replaced their code with redirects into my net artworks. What resulted was a strange journey of legal complaints, increased traffic and, temporarily, my site being one of the top google results for a variety of terrible search strings, altogether creating an alternative, subversive net art gallery experience -- an entirely unexpected adventure where my odd art found its way into the seedy underbelly of the net.

::: START transforming :::

Biography

Born from the computerless land of farmers and spring thunderstorms, Jason Nelson somehow stumbled into creating awkward and wondrous digital poems and interactive stories of odd lives. Currently he teaches Net Art and Electronic Literature at Griffith University in the Gold Coast's contradictory lands.

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 in New York, Mexico, Taiwan, Spain, Singapore and Brazil, at FILE, ACM, LEA, ISEA, ACM, ELO and dozens of other acronyms. But in the web based realm where his work resides, Jason is most proud of the millions of visitors his artwork/digital poetry portal http://www.secrettechnology.com attracts each year.