LIKELIKE Online is expanding to the third dimension! Create a cute/repulsive avatar and hang out with friends and strangers in a stunningly realistic virtual recreation of our gallery.

The show will feature six games experimenting with the first person perspective. From diaristic stop motion to abstract soundscapes, all the pieces are playable in just a few minutes and from the comfort of your home.

Works by: Gemma Mahadeo and Ian MacLarty /// Sean S. LeBlanc /// ompuco /// Ansh Patel /// Ramsey Nasser /// Karina Popp

Opening: Friday September 4th
7PM (EST)
likelike3d.herokuapp.com

Browser-based (computer), free and open to the public.

A special live-streamed event featuring four audience-controlled movies from three different generations. Opening the evening is Kinoautomat, a 1967 Czech satire of democracy that holds up surprisingly well today. Following next, I’m Your Man, a proof-of-concept for a future of cinema that never materialized. Representing the era of CD-ROMs is Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Choices, an original piece produced for LIKELIKE and based on a semi-forgotten educational game starring Quentin Tarantino and Jennifer Aniston. Closing the evening is The Immoral Ms. Conduct, a cheeky mix of found footage and animation set in a female prison.

The viewers will be able to vote in real time at every forking path. 

Don’t miss this unique quadruple feature! All the films are hard to find and threatened by different forms of technological obsolescence.

 

Friday August 7, 2020
Starting at 7 PM Eastern Standard Time
On Twitch at: https://twitch.tv/molleindustria

 

Program:

Introduction
Kinoautomat (1967), directed by Radúz Činčera
I’m Your Man (1992), directed by Bob Bejan
Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Choices, directed by Steven Spielberg (1996), remixed by Molleindustria (2020)
The Immoral Ms. Conduct (2011) by Hannah Epstein

LIKELIKE Online is mutating again! This month’s exhibition is taking place in a text-only multiplayer environment and features six works pushing at the boundaries of interactive fiction. Choose your own adventure along with friends and strangers! Party like it’s 1990! But watch out: a mysterious parasite is spreading among visitors…

Works by Liza Daly /// Orteil /// Katherine Morayati /// Nick Walton /// anna anthropy /// Al Donato

Opening: Friday June 26th
7PM (EST)
likeliketext.glitch.me

Browser-based, free and open to the public.
Bring your friends, social interaction is required.

LIKELIKE online is back with a brand new virtual exhibition of tiny games about isolation, existential dread, human touch and lack thereof.

All the works in the showcase are made for PICO-8, a “fantasy console” created by Lexaloffle Games (Joseph White). Like the consoles of the ‘80s, PICO-8 imposes harsh technical limitations in terms of resolution, colors and cartridge memory. An entire community of virtuoso developers, demoscenesters, and retro-remakers thrives in this hyper constrained environment.

The Online Museum of Multiplayer Art will be open as well. Bring your friends for some safe, socially distanced, fun.

Works by: Sean S. LeBlanc and Ian Martin /// Benjamin Soulé /// Remy Devaux /// mcccclean /// Josh Millard /// Various Creators from the PICO-8 demo scene

Friday, May 1st 7PM-11PM
>>> likelike.org <<<
Everything is playable from the browser.

Cover image based on “nCoV” by Michał Rostocki

Join us for the inauguration of the oMoMA, a new wing of LIKELIKE devoted to online multiplayer art. Experience nine playful environments that interrogate our notions of mediated sociality and digital embodiment. The virtual installations, operating at the intersection of art and technology, draw from the tradition of experimental chats, net.art, conceptual language games, and online roleplaying worlds.

Friday April 17,
4PM EST
>> likelike.org <<
Browser-based, free and open to the public.
Bring your friends, social interaction is required.

A message from the trustees:

LIKELIKE’s pivot to online exhibitions has proven widely successful. In the first two weeks since the opening we attracted thousands of visitors from all over the world.
What started as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic is now turning into an unprecedented expansion of our institution in terms of assets and mission. While our signature mid-brow game shows will continue as scheduled, we are adding a series of high profile acquisitions in the new spaces carved out of our easily gentrifiable virtual neighborhood. We hope you’ll appreciate our commitment to transform this local D.I.Y. arcade into a world-class art museum.

Join us for the opening of LIKELIKE ONLINE, the littlest Massively Multiplayer Online World! Choose a fashionable avatar, hang out with pixelated friends, stand awkwardly in the corner of a loud gallery, play obscure games together… just like before the pandemic!

This month we are presenting a selection of works about crises and rebirths. All six games are made in Bitsy, a friendly tool created by Adam Le Doux. In recent years the Bitsy scene has produced a myriad of playable zines, confessional pieces, minimalistic adventures, and interactive poems. Playing and making Bitsy games is a perfect activity for a long day in quarantine.

Works by: Sophie Houlden /// Cecile Richard /// porpentine charity heartscape /// Withering Systems /// Pol Clarissou /// Cephalopodunk

Cover image: World of Bitsy by Mark Wonnacott

Friday, April 3rd 7PM-11PM
>>> likelike.org <<<
Playable with your browser of choice!

As the prospect of a political revolution in America becomes more concrete, we offer a selection of videogames commenting on power, inequality, and radical change.
Play as a secret agent of the French Revolution, as a hypothetical President Sanders, as a subversive witch, or as an inexplicably woke Jeff Bezos. Experience the last months of the Fascist regime and the last seconds of a king’s life.

Works by: We Are Müesli /// Colestia /// Emily Ryan /// Space Backyard /// Molleindustria /// Kris Ligman

Friday March 6th, 2020
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl
205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Persistence of Pong (P.O.P.) is a playable installation by Pittsburgh-based artist and musician Jesse Stiles.

An ordinary ping pong table is augmented with reactive sounds and lights, turning the game into a disorienting synesthetic experience for players and spectators alike. The installation presents players with syncopated patterns of light that play with the illusion known as persistence of vision – the phenomenon that distinguishes between the perception of still images versus continuous motion. These patterns are triggered directly by the bouncing of the ball, which is detected by microphones embedded in the table. Similarly, the installation presents disorienting patterns of sound that teeter between rhythm (individual sounds) and pitch as the speed of the action increases and decreases based on game play. Players may choose to cooperate by trying to keep the ball in play through increasingly hallucinatory levels or may seek to destroy the competition in the most disorienting ping pong environment technology can provide.

Warning: this installation involves intense flashing lights that may cause discomfort or trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

Also featuring: FLOP by Bennett Foddy

Opening:
November 1st, 2019
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl
205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Persistence of Pong will be playable throughout LIKELIKE’s winter break by appointment and during the February 7th gallery crawl.

A show featuring New Urbanist Games for Transit-Oriented Teens. Celebrate public transportation as portrayed / idealized / fetishized by videogames. Take an infinite bus ride! Ride an infinite bus! Master the controls of a handsome Deutsche Bahn ICE 3M class 406! Plan the most efficient subway system! Drive a trolley in a whimsical world! Plan your commute on a future-Pittsburgh transit map!

Works by: Turnfollow /// Dinosaur Polo Club /// Alexander Perrin /// Holly Gramazio /// Dovetail Games /// Stovetop Games

Friday October 4th, 2019
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

A special show featuring videogames that transcend standard hardware. Have you ever played a VHS, an LED strip, or an oscilloscope? Have you ever used your sense of smell in a videogame or strapped a joystick on your crotch? This may be your only chance!

Works by: Gregory Witt & Richard Kolling /// Hannah Epstein /// Robin Baumgarten /// Kurt Bieg and Ramsey Nasser /// Molleindustria & Heather Kelley /// Lea Albaugh, Gillian Smith, Jim McCann, Chenxi Liu, Jen Mankoff, and April Grow

Friday September 6th, 2019
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St.
Pittsburgh, PA

The soccer world cup is over and football season hasn’t started yet, but don’t despair! This exhibition will quench your cravings for any ball sport. Bring your friends or challenge strangers in four multiplayer games that radically reimagine American and unamerican football.

Works by: House House /// Nina Freeman, Aaron Freedman, Diego Garcia, and Amos Roddy /// Molleindustria /// Laurenz Riklin, Hang Ruan, Pao Salcedo

Friday August 2nd, 2019
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Nathalie Lawhead (aka AlienMelon) is an artist and independent game designer based in Irvine, CA. Throughout the years she created a bizarro computing world made of decaying operating systems, apocalyptic apps, fascist antiviruses, and friendly virtual pets. Between pixelated revelries and hysterical glitches there are authentic moments of vulnerability. Lawhead’s playable artifacts manage to explore self-doubt, disconnection, and the horrors of our digital life in a challenging and humorous way.

Friday July 5th, 2019
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Dystopias seem to dominate representations of future in videogames. Whether post-apocalyptic or cyberpunk, they provide a perfect backdrop for individualistic fantasies of destruction and survival. As the real world catches up with the most pessimistic predictions, we want to highlight games that prefigure better futures. Join us for a night of eco utopias, afro-futurist visions, cyberqueer adventures, joyful insurrections, and fully automated communisms.

Works by: Hyphen-Labs /// Space Backyard /// Colestia /// Porpentine & Rook /// Molleindustria /// Pixel Pushers Union 512

Friday June 7th, 2019
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

An exhibition of games playing with your perception. Optical illusions, forced perspectives, infinity mirrors, recursive screens, and assorted eye candy.
This is your brain on games.

Works by: Ian Lilley /// Skeleton Business /// Tom7 /// Ian MacLarty /// Kokoromi /// Pillow Castle

Friday May 3rd, 2019
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

The Middle East in videogames is always portrayed as the set of imperialist wars or orientalist fantasies. Two years since the beginning of Trump’s Muslim ban, in a time when game communities are recruiting grounds for white supremacists and mass murderers, we want to offer a counternarrative. This exhibition includes six games and interactive works presenting a nuanced view on the politics, history, and mythology of Iran.

Works by: Mahdi Bahrami /// iNK Stories /// Morehshin Allahyari and DiMoDA /// Kurosh ValaNejad and Peter Brinson

Friday April 5th, 2019
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

An exhibition of games and playthings exploring the aesthetics of computer errors and data corruption. In an increasingly digitized world happy accidents can contami̵n̵a̴t̷e anything: gli̵t̸ch music, glic̷h̸ ̶p̴a̸i̷n̶t̸ing, ̷g̵l̷i̷t̶c̸h̷ ̸k̸̛̰n̴͔̂i̶̭̿t̸̟͝t̵͍̐ḯ̶̳n̶̥̆g̷͉͂,̷̺̌ ̸̖͑g̴͔̒l̶̟̊í̸͜t̶̘̑c̸̨̀h̶̗̑ ̶̖̀ả̵̪̹̀̂͝r̵̳̹͓̟̓͊̄̕̕c̷̟̈́̐̕h̸͔̲͍͚͔͐͆͛̎̇i̴̲̊t̴̺̋͋͗e̷̺̒̐̓̉̆c̸̻͊̿̉͘ͅṫ̸̯̙̜̖̲ṵ̸̂̍̚r̸̡͈̪̫̐̓e̴͕̣̼͍̱̓́̍͒̕.D̵̼̬͎̞̍̒͝ò̸͔̫̬͔̜n̵̢̨̳͗̍̎’̴̲̒̔̏̚͝t̶̠̤̅̒̀́̚ ̵̠̆͆͌͠͠m̷̮͖̙̰̂͊̄̈́͠ị̶̻̱̱̪͂̅̅̇s̵̯̟̎͒̕̚ș̴̚ ̷̢̧̋ṱ̴̙̆h̶͔̃ẻ̵̞̪͒ ̵̹͉̜͍̯̔͂̈́̈̚l̸̛̰͎̮͚̝ȃ̷̜͒͋̚s̸̞̯͔̤͋͌̒̍͜t̵̢̛͐̒̿ ̵͎̝̜̠̺̄̇L̶̨̩͈̺̝̀̍Î̴͙́K̵̛̙̈̏Ė̸̟̭̃̽̈́ͅL̷̟̝͖͑͜Ḯ̷̦̳͆̔̃̚K̵͉̞͇̓͛͛͜͝E̶̺̮̤̊͜ṡ̷͙͉͍͓̟̳͓̥̱̿̈́̈́̑́̔͊͌̈́̆̏̆͋̃̿̃̈̓̒̆̇̏̈́̽́́̚ḩ̶̛̲͚͚͉̬̲̼̫̩̥̻̫͔̇̋̈̓̉͗͋̽́̈́͗͆̀̏͒̏͛̐̆͐͗̏̔̈́̏͆͠ơ̸̡͙͍͕̜̯̼̬̠͉̙̥͓͙̦̮͕̬͎̗̘͙͉̰̤̣̹̱̞̘̞̱͔̊͑͐̒̋̂̓͐̔̿̑́́̾͒͑̀̎̕̕͘̕͘͠ͅw̵̡̨̡̨̛̛̗͍͍̞̞̣̗͍̯̲͙̙͖͎͇̤̦͇̫͙̗̯͙̬̬̬̞̮̉̍̿̽͂̌̈́̎̓̆̌̈́̌͊̄̎̀̉̀̓̅̂̔͑͐͊́̀̽̀͋͂͝͠ͅͅ ̷̧̛̜̬̤̥͈̠͕̻͎̠̹̙̳̣̆̎̐̇̈́͑͗̍́͊͊͊͒̇̈̒̈́́͐̄̂̀́̚͘͠͠o̶̧̹͕̹̘͕͉̝̻̻̐f̵̢̨̡̢̛̟̠̙͚̬̟̹̭͍̺͙̳͚̟͚͖̖̥̲̼͓̠̺͕̻͈̜̜̳̗͈̀̉͆́̐̈́̾͑́͐̒̅̍̓̑̈͛̋̏͋̔̀̈́̐͊̕̚̕̕̕͝͝͝ ̴̡̢̧̡̛̛͚͓̠̤̠̣̹̝̘̺̻͈͈̠̦͚͍̥̲̜̙͉̪̻̭̬͖̦̀̉́̿̈̎̔̎̔͊̈͛̇̄́͊̎̑̊̃̄͐͂̔͘͘2̶̡͆͊͋͒ͅ0̸̧̧͍͈̦̰̝̤̺͚̭̣͎̹̘̞̳̯̰̞͈̞̰͎̘̞̙̿̾̋̋͑̀̅̓͝͝͝͝1̷̡̨̡̛̹͍̻̜͖̜̠͙̖̩͍͙̜̣͚̩̳͉̮͚̤̣̖͉̤͖͙̠̉͑͐̇̓̽͑̽̔̓͋͌̂̀̓̽̔̒̿̓͌́̂̔̓͌̄̀͘ͅ8̴̛̛̛̛̠͛̅̅͋͒̇̂̀͋̍́̈́̎̈́̂̋͛̍̐͊́͜

̴̪̪̣̯͇͚̪͓̥̤̦̲͚̩̯̮͔̱͙̼̭̳̠͙̖̼̟̭͔͍̰̫͉͂̒̈̃̂̑̍̈́̔̌͒̒̇̋͐̔͗̇͛͘͝͠ͅ

Works by: Andi McClure /// Michael Brough /// XRA /// Farbs // Rachel Simone Weil /// Molleindustria + Infiknit Loop

Friday November 2nd, 2018
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Leave your nostalgia at the door: the artists and gamemakers in this show mischievously appropriate, revive, and subvert decades of electronic entertainment for their own millennial goals. Get swept up by a whirlwind of forgotten games! Shoot a porno with Sonic! Explore a dreamscape of pixelated sprites! Struggle with a flaccid Mario! Warning: New Retro may corrupt your memory.

Works by: Cassie McQuater /// Bennett Foddy + AP Thomson /// Stefan Hedman /// Mega Cat Studios /// Arcane Kids /// Arvore

Friday October 5th, 2018
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

An X-rated exhibition of games about the horrors and the awkwardness of courtship. Craft the perfect dick pic, hookup with everyone and everything, speed date with emotional wrestlers, make the first move at a party over and over, be the target of pick-up artists and learn their techniques!
The games in Bad Flirt are safe spaces to exorcise our worst dating nightmares.

Works by: Lena NW /// Robert Yang /// Team Lazerbeam /// Angela Washko /// Increpare /// Diego Garcia

Friday September 7th, 2018
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

On July 19th a stolen car rolled down the hill driverless and crashed into likelike’s front door. We acknowledge this irruption of real life into the art world with a special exhibition of delinquent driving games that are not Grand Theft Auto.
What it is like to make love to a gay car? To be a one-armed bear at the wheel? To steal a car from your boss and drive it through an infinite shopping mall? To escape your past during Italy’s tumultuous seventies? To drive blindfolded against traffic?

Works by: Joseph Delappe /// Jane Friedhoff /// Lo-fi People /// Justin Smith /// Santa Ragione /// Robert Yang

Friday August 3rd, 2018
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA
Enter from the backyard door!

Loren Schmidt is a Pittsburgh-based digital artist and game maker. Their work incorporates complex generative systems into open-ended gameplays. This exhibition is a selection of Loren’s recent releases ranging from enigmatic platformers to mesmerizing cellular automata, from collaborative storytelling environments to biomorphic arcade shooters.

Friday July 6th, 2018
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

 

Enter a world of sensual, infinitely malleable avatars. Healing bodies, metamorphosing bodies, impossible bodies. The games included in this exhibition play with magical anatomies and queer desires, acting as antidotes to the disembodiment of the digital realm.

Works by: Tale of Tales /// Nick Crockett /// Neotenomie and Porpentine /// Vectorpark /// Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei ///  Kurt Bieg and Ramsey Nasser

Friday June 1st, 2018
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Is play the antithesis of work? The games included in this exhibition confront the theme of labor from a variety of perspectives. Solve the gender pay gap with crimes, mine gold on a magical asteroid, revel in white collar alienation, discover new types of emotional labor, shatter glass ceilings and gender bias, fantasize about a post-work society.
Free entry and free play, you have nothing to lose but your chains!

Works by: Eddo Stern ///  Peter Lu & Lea Schönfelder ///  Mauro Vanetti /// Owlchemy Labs /// David S Gallant /// Pippin Barr /// Jane Friedhoff

May 4th, 2018
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Citizen Canine is an exhibition of videogames that look at our society from the eyes of our best friends. Solve a reactionary squirrel conspiracy, create mayhem in a Russian subway station, selectively breed the purest purebred, build a city of fleas and ticks, lead an operatic animal strike…
This is not just memes and cuteness, it’s radical pawlitics!

*Bring your own dog to the show! We’ll have treats, pee cleaning supplies, and a fenced outdoor area.

Works by: Brain & Brain /// Ian Cheng /// Spooky Squid /// David Kanaga /// Molleindustria /// SK Louie

April 6th, 2018
6-10PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

SHOOT NOT SHOOT is an exhibition of games reimagining the First Person Shooter. Guns in heavens, shooting as painting, VR performance and live action roleplay: six projects about aiming at others and be in the crosshair.

Works by: Gold Extra /// Cassie McQuater & Jono Mi Lo /// Aram Bartholl /// Strangethink /// Akira Thompson /// Samurai Punk /// Superhot Team

March 2nd, 2018
6-10PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Join us for a night of Valentine’s Day prepping. IT’S COMPLICATED is an exhibition of games about beautifully complex relationships. Experience tentacular consent, finger kama sutra, praying mantis dating, breakup tactics, space couple therapy, polyamorous tetris…

Games by: Catt Small /// Game Oven /// Naomi Clark /// Asteroid Base /// Maggese /// anna anthropy + Leon Arnott + Liz Ryerson.

February 2nd, 2018
6-10PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA