We All Go Together
We All Go Together As part of the Return to Dreamphone exhibition, I held a community sharing event borrowing from the unconference format. A significant part of my work, and something that led the work in the exhibition, is gathering. Gathering as a medium for creative exploration and as an important ground for art in […]
The Archive Artifact
The Archive Artifact Prototype The Archive Artifact Prototype (2025) Raspberry Pi 5, TP-Link AC1300 WiFi dongle, open source software (Shareboxx), gifted communal experience At the core of the Return to Dreamphone exhibition was an archive artifact; a digital repository, separate from the internet, preserving knowledge from workshops and discussions held during Nick’s residency. The object […]
Express Dairy Pogs with Titus Barham Slammers!
Express Dairy Pogs with Titus Barham Slammers! Express Dairy Pogs with Titus Barham Slammers! Commemorative milk caps! limited edition slammers! keepsake box! Titus Barham, a local industrialist, left Barham Park and the buildings on it to the custodianship of the local community (some of which is currently in contention as the council is trying to […]
Unconference: We All Go Together
Unconference Unconference: We All Go Together AVACA Barham Park Studios, HA0 2HB Saturday 29th March ~ 11am-4pm Free – Sign up As part of Return To Dreamphone, you are cordially invited to join a branching conversation exploring collective action, community forming and play. This is a space to share ideas – practical and fantastical […]
Unconference: We All Go Together
We All Go Together Unconference: We All Go TogetherAVACA Barham Park Studios, HA0 2HBSaturday 29th March ~ 11am-4pmFree – Sign up As part of Return To Dreamphone, you are cordially invited to join a branching conversation exploring collective action, community forming and play. This is a space to share ideas – practical and fantastical – […]
Exhibition: Return to Dreamphone
Return to Dreamphone There’s a place we’re all trying to reach. Just outside of the digital day-to-day, or just past the physical horizon. There’s a church spire – or is it a radio tower? – marking the way against the sky. Each story we tell, each map we make, each meal shared, gets us a […]
CUTE
CUTE As part of the CUTE exhibition at Somerset House, Nick Murray was commissioned to curate and produce an arcade celebrating cute games, and how cuteness can be used to explore deeper questions. Curating holistically, Nick designed the froggy cabinets and visual identity for the arcade, designed and installed the tech implementation and curated the […]
Virtual Textual
Virtual Textual For Playing Poetry’s second full scale exhibition, Nick Murray curated and produced Virtual Textual, a custom built arcade that combines traditional arcade aesthetics with a speculative future vision of tended gardens. While playing with a dark, cinematic feeling, the technologically-focused curation leans away from the cyberpunk tropes of the future. Instead the exbihition’s […]
Now Play This
Now Play This Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design at Somerset House, showcasing interactive and playful work as part of the London Games Festival. Initially three days, and expanding to nine in 2019, Now Play This runs every spring across Somerset House’s New Wing, River Terrace and Courtyard. Now Play This […]
Poetry Games
Poetry Games Poetry Games, at The National Poetry Library (Southbank Centre), ran from October 21st 2022 to January 15th 2023. Inviting eighteen poets, artists and game-makers from the UK and beyond to exhibit their innovative work, the exhibition presented a selection of interactive poem pieces from landscapes composed of shifting text, to poetry platformers, to […]