[2] Until 2020 he was a lecturer on Cyberstudies, digital writing and creative practice at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.

Nelson's style of Web art merges various genres and technologies, focusing on collages of poetry, image, sound, movement and interaction.

Some critics[5] cannot see past the "characteristic messiness" or "strangeness" in his approach, with the Wall Street Journal calling his work "as alienating as modern art can get".

[9] And many of the artist's works are exploring the intersection of interface and technology and how it impacts digital writing and art.

Some of his works include Between Treacherous Objects, The Poetry Cube, The Bomar Gene, Pandemic Rooms.