Absolutely excellent panel at @qpbookfest.bsky.social with @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social and @cassettewitch.bsky.social chaired by Jamie Sutcliffe. RPGs, ludic art making, and “weird hope”.

A few snaps from my show Return To Dreamphone. (I've never really used to checking/posting to bsky. This is a little tidbit to stay present.) Shown at Barham Park in March, and August as part of the Brent Biennial.
A ring of towers, connected through their root system, chirrup signals into the room.

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Wonderful to see that philome.la is still up and running!

If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.

my painting of British lads hit each other with chair …

A wonderful world building workshop hosted by @cassettewitch.bsky.social 🤩😍 @amazefest.bsky.social

This is an incredible use of Bitsy. It's a messy and scrappy document of a brilliantly unexpected jamming method. I think watching the process was the best part of this, to the point where I reckon with a bit of production it could make a really cool audience event.

What are the video game equivalents? Flatgames comes to mind as something with similar rules/goals. Or maybe Overboard/Expelled?

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

This is a very cool idea! It's Iike geocaching but for stories.

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.

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I'm excited to announce my new game: Treeplanter 💚

Discover the magic of trees! Create a peaceful interactive woodland! Watch as it evolves through the changing seasons 🌱🍃🍂🌳

As time goes by, an ecosystem of animals, plants and insects will make your creation their home 💚

Right?! It's followed me around for a while so I wanted to bring it into the show.

I'm testing a local server prototype as part of the show. It's a chance to play around with digital archiving and sharing experiences without being tied to the internet.

If you'd like to come and see the show. It's on from the 26-30 March at ACAVA Studios Barham Park, Wembley Central. nickmurray.horse/return-to-dr...

I have a little work-in-progress show on next week. It's the culmination of a socially-led residency with ACAVA. Here's a little video where I say a bit about what's on.

Thanks @futureeverything.bsky.social for putting on the workshop!

Inspired by @miss-sammie.bsky.social's incredible temporary archive workshop, I had another go at my local-only digital archive AND IT FINALLY WORKS! Running a program called Shareboxx, it's a local WiFi network for sharing and archiving digital stuff during real space meeting.

It's a work in progress show of some of the things I've been thinking about while artist-in-residence at ACAVA, Barham Park. It's also a spiritual sequel to my narrative game Dial 55555 (formerly Dreamphone). I'm still looking for that place just past the horizon. www.acava.org/news/nick-mu...

I'm putting on my first solo exhibition!
A mix of interactive installation, game-making and poetry, Return to Dreamphone continues my collaboration with the tributaries of the River Brent and the communities living alongside.

It's called Return To Dreamphone and is about rivers, community action, and how we make a more caring internet. As part of it I'm having an unconference event, so if you'd like to come and share literally anything with some receptive folks, that could be a nice time. nickmurray.horse/unconference/

All of this is leading up to my latest project, which is a huge personal milestone. My first solo show! I've been lucky enough to have an arts residency recently, and I am wrapping it up with a small show of some of the in-progress work. nickmurray.horse/return-to-dr...

If any of this sounds interesting, I've been trying to keep fairly up-to-date with my website. nickmurray.horse
And if this stab at visibility goes well, I'll put a bit more on here.