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 – […]

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 […]

Playing Poetry

Playing Poetry In February 2023 Nick founded Playing Poetry, an organisation that champions playful and interactive literature, through exhibitions, workshops and tailored events. The goal is to present a platform for game-based writing and provide an inclusive network for writers and game-makers. Playing Poetry has emerged from many years in poetry publishing, producing live literature, […]

The Grannies

The Grannies “ the glitchy event horizon of Rockstar’s virtual-western epic” – The Guardian A documentary short film. A group of players venture beyond the boundaries of the videogame Red Dead Online (Rockstar Games, 2018). Peeking behind the curtain of the game’s virtual world they discover a captivating and ethereal space that reveals the humanity […]

Interview for the San Clemente podcast

For the launch of Poetry Games, I was invited to talk to Grace Shackleton about curating the exhibition and championing interactive writing for San Clemente Magazine’s podcast.  Listen to the episode below. Somehow the conversation led to discussing watching Hamlet in real time, making The Queue: The Show and petting the dog in games! Turns out […]