I made this. You play this. We are enemies.
Jason Nelson
http://www.secrettechnology.com/madethis/enemy6.html
The internet is a sketchpad, a webscape of interactive spaces, a complex narrative of cultural texts and odd communal realms. “I made this. you play this. we are enemies” explores major internet portals, supposedly collaborative web 2.0 sites, through a modified and disrupted platform game engine. Using a combination of hand drawn notations, poetic lines, videos and animations, the art/poetry game lets users play in the worlds hovering over what we browse, to exist outside/over their controlling constraints. And while the non-linear poems and messy artwork suggests madness to some, the intention is to reflect the actual condition of these 2-dimensional virtual worlds spinning from our screens with the occasional leak of insanity. Play and explore and read.
Jason Nelson teaches Net Art and Electronic Literature at Griffith University in the Gold Coast’s contradictory lands. 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.