Adventures in Transition: Jason Nelson’s Scary Journey from Flash to J-Code and Desk to Hand

Perhaps the mot disturbing and exciting periods of a digital poet’s
creative practice is the transitional period between using one
technology and learning another. For the past eight years I’ve been
predominately a user of Adobe Flash. I say user, because in many ways
the software is a drug, carving response and reward pathways into the
cranium fibers. My creations have been the beneficiary of a tool ideal
for multi-layered/dimensional and interactive artworks viewable on all
major platforms. However, it is this platform issue and Adobe’s losing
position in its battle with the Tyrant Apple that is quickly making
Flash obsolete, unplayable in the fastest growing segment of
electronic devices, tablets and phones. This very well might turn
around and Flash might save itself. But suffice it to say, the
net/portable creative industries have left Flash to fend for itself.

(Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)