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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Temitayo Ogunbiyi grew up in the US with monkey bars. Now she builds playgrounds with some risk left in on purpose. "Play is not play without risk." If kids never meet it, how do they learn to manage it as adults? My free newsletter: killscreen.com/go/bsky

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Temitayo Ogunbiyi watched a kid walk one of her playground bars like a tightrope, heart in her throat. He decided he was done and climbed down. The adults, she says, look hopelessly clumsy. My free newsletter: killscreen.com/go/bsky

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A museum in Naples asked Temitayo Ogunbiyi to post rules for the kids climbing her playground. She wrote a poem. The kids ignored it and were fine. "The kids always know what to do." My free newsletter: killscreen.com/go/bsky

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Temitayo Ogunbiyi was pulling up to her gate in Lagos when she clocked what the security partition was made of: galvanized steel bars. Cheap, local, everywhere. Now it's what she builds playgrounds from. My free newsletter: killscreen.com/go/bsky

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Modernist plazas became skateboard terrain. Does brutalism do the same for parkour games? Danny Snelson's read on VHOLUME: speed through concrete, chasing paperwork. Kafka on crack. Episode 36.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just how Stephen Gillmurphy drew it up

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

She's allergic to curtains. One of many tiny details Stephen Gillmurphy built into his lead character, mostly unplanned. He calls it building constellations, rotating pieces until the policeman coming back just feels right. Full thing: killscreen.com/stephen-gilmurphy-anthology-of-the-killer/

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Guys with buzzsaws whose shirts just say the economy. That's the horror in Stephen Gillmurphy's games: not a metaphor hiding under the story, it IS the story. Whole thing here: killscreen.com/stephen-gilmurphy-anthology-of-the-killer/

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Artist Nikima @imtwelve never had to tell their own high school story to make work about it; they filmed collaborators instead, letting each carry a slightly veered version of something true. A way to identify with an experience without handing over the real thing.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Artist Nikima @imtwelve filmed inside Basically, a made-up world they built as a live performance, for six years, following six characters, shooting documentary-style. Then it became clear: the world was already built like a game, so its record had to be one too.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"They have these rules that they then have to navigate" — artist Nikima Jagudajev on the one structure every performer returns to across a six-hour piece: Walk in the Park.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Artist Nikima Jagudajev just compared making art inside an institution to sneaking around the rules in high school: passing notes, burn books, carving your name into a bathroom stall. They call it frivolous. Nikima also calls it anti-capitalist.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Two ways to use technology on a body. One treats the process as extraction. The other treats the people inside it as collaborators.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We can die physically. We cannot die digitally. Lisa Jamhoury arrived at that line while making Lossy, her installation about what we lose when we live through our captures. And it came from Vonnegut.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We grew up thinking better always meant more realistic. That instinct is changing. There's a growing literacy, especially with younger people, that imperfection and compression carry their own value. Lisa Jamhoury made an interesting case for AI slop that I liked.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We've gotten so used to identifying with our photos and videos that we've started to substitute them for our actual presence. Artist Lisa Jamhoury calls it "living through capture." Her installation Lossy is a memorial to the physical body in the age of the digital one.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

For 200,000 years, your body was the only interface you had. Now you experience yourself through data. Through a version of you, shaped by systems that weren't built with you in mind. Artist Lisa Jamhoury calls this "living through capture." Her installation Lossy just premiered at SXSW.

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Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Nobody asks if a novel is fun. Games somehow inherited a rule that literature never had: they have to be enjoyable or they've failed. UCLA professor Danny Snelson says that's a burden the medium never needed.

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