Kaiju Ecopoetics and Tamagotchi Seance at GGDC

Kaiju Ecopoetics and Tamagotchi Seance at Glasgow Indie Game Fest I was invited to present my overhead projector poem game, Kaiju Ecopoetics, and a couple of parts of my Tamagotchi Seance series as part of the amazing Glasgow Independent Game Festival. (26/07/24) Tamagotchi Seance was mentioned in this article about GIGF in the Guardian. – […]

Kaiju Ecopoetics

Kaiju Ecopoetics Kaiju Poetics is part poetry sequence, part board game, part old-school presentation. A three chapter poetic performance inviting the audience to create a world as it unfolds. Participants take part in the map-making of a place over hundreds of years.  Using the symbolism of Kaiju, giant monsters like Godzilla, to present an unstoppable […]

Tamagotchi and Death in the Internet Age

Tamagotchis and Death in the Internet Age “Owners of a tamagotchi are affectionately dubbed caretakers, as though, while you might own the plastic housing, you are just looking after the creature inside, until it goes on to its next place… and that next place is death.” Originally devised as a micro-talk for Arcadia (Dundee, 2023) Tamagotchis […]

Cut & Stick Neighbourhoods

Cut & Stick Neighbourhoods “Welcome esteemed guests to this, the planning meeting for our newly founded neighbourhood! You are the planning committee for your neighbourhood, and before you is a map of the area.” Cut & Stick Neighbourhoods is a city-building/place-making game and a cut-up poetry and collage workshop. Through a series of playful prompts, […]

Walk Cycles Water Cycles

Walk Cycles / Water Cycles “REC1: For the next few moments you will be able to witness a moment from another time, from the recent past. Your walking partner is making the shift, but you will be the observer.” Walk Cycles / Water Cycles is an attempt to draw out and highlight the interpersonal, communal […]

Ebbing

Ebbing “When certain conditions (p12) present themselves (p18), forgotten things can be revealed. Geological (p26), political, technological – human. The final condition for this particular situation, is you.” Ebbing: A Primer for Becoming a Fluid Body is a historical walking performance for one, a game manual, a poetry sequence and a speculative fiction. Using light roleplay […]

European Poetry Festival 2023

European Poetry Festival “I consider how my father came over stood in my bedroom as if lost a corkscrew swinging on his thumb like a pendulum in a wall clock.” Nick was invited to take part in the European Poetry Festival 2023 as part of the Latvian Poetry Celebration. Collaborating with Latvian poet Ivars Šteinbergs, […]

Projected Mapping

Projected Mapping As a counter to my film study, A Report of Lights in the Sky, which implies an alien and unsettling world, the installation moment serves as an invitation to partake in joyful shared creation. Presented as a map-making activity, participants are instructed to use the pieces of topographical illustration, snippets of text and […]

Beyond Text

Beyond Text Taking place over three days of workshops, performances and discussion, Beyond Text Innovative Poetry Festival celebrates experimental writing. Present contemporary poetry in a way that is accessible Beyond Text serves all experience levels of the form.  Nick was invited to perform for Beyond Text 2023. Though usually taking place in Folkestone, UK, the […]

Tamagotchi and Death Micro Talk

Tamagotchis and Death: Micro Talk In January 2023, Nick was invited to the Arcadia games festival and conference in Dundee, Scotland. As part of this they gave a microtalk on Tamagotchis and how death is used in the digital pet’s life cycle. This five minute talk led to a full length presentation that Nick has […]