Pippin Barr returns to digital water museums with Bitsy exhibition b r 3

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Pippin Barr returns to digital water museums with Bitsy exhibition b r 3Wet Wet Wet

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Grab your wellies, readers. Educator, developer and museophile Pippin Barr has once again dipped his toes back into the world of virtual puddles. Following 2017’sv r 3, Barr’s newb r 3exhibition (official site) once again explores the many ways devs choose to draw their streams, rivers and oceans - this time, through the lens of free game-making webtoolBitsy.

More than you’d think, it turns out. Bitsy’s limitations lead to radically different interpretations of good ol' H2O - whether that’sWhen I Was A Bubble I Could Talk With The Treesusing a shimmering grid to convey a stillness, or howRacing…accomplishes plenty with a waving line, used sparingly. Each exhibit lets you hop into a bespoke room, letting you view each water tile in context alongside a link to the source game.

I’m forever in awe at the momentum the Bitsy community keeps up, even if its overwhelming speed had me tapping out fairly early on. B r 3 isn’t even the only Bitsy museum running at the moment - in lieu of physical meet-ups, Pittsburgh arcade-slash-arts collective LIKELIKE set up their ownbrowser-based Bitsy museum earlier this month.

B r 3 is free to check out over onPippin Barr’s site. If you’ve found yourself (for whatever reason) craving more museum trips during this lockdown period, you can’t go wrong with some of the stellar institutions lined up in mydigital museum dive from last year.

Disclosure: b r 3 contains examples of work from former RPS columnistPorpentineand personal friend Claire Morley.