While mainstream video games engage in a wasteful race for technological superiority and boring photorealism, here at LIKELIKE we celebrate handmade games with a personal touch. The five works in the show complicate the cold computational matter of digital media with hand-drawn graphics and intimate themes. Immerse yourself in the existential dread of silent crowds! Interact with a dazzling flow of consciousness! Experience parenthood during pandemic times with Angela Washko’s forthcoming project “Mother, Player”!

Works by: Jenny Jiao Hsia /// Angela Washko /// Michael Frei and Mario von Rickenbach /// Caroline Robert /// Petri Purho

Friday September 1st, 2023
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Cover image made with Weave Maze Generator by Doug van Hoffen

An evening of X-rated games dealing with sex work, pornography, internet censorship, gay hookup culture and much more.
All the projects in the exhibition, while not pornographic, challenge the notion of games as children’s entertainment, and push at the boundaries of what is thematically accepted in a playable form. Viewer discretion is advised.

Works by: Robert Yang /// Fellatia G /// Lena Chen, Goofy Toof, Maggie Oates, Avatar Lilith /// Pierre Corbinais /// Seemingly Pointless /// Heather Kelley

Friday August 4th, 2023
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Do you have strange dreams?? Do you find yourself moving down a corridor, blindly. In the center of the room there is a fountain, in each corner, a large statue of a mouse. Sweating, you try to press the button. Great! You may have already played a videogame.

Join us for a retrospective of games by underground entity thecatamites.
A Smörgåsbord of bewildering, gory, verbose, handmade delights.

Friday June 2nd + Friday July 7th, 2023
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

What are we talking about when we talk about “Chinese Games”?

A nobody ran into fairy mountains by mistake, gathered five elements, and then ruled the martial art world? A secretly hidden agency rises from a cyberpunk underground and resists the system? A nuanced and metaphorical modern love story between emotionally reserved characters? These stereotypes could be half wrong half right — they were dissolved in a value and aesthetic liquid and have been permeating works in the cultural vessel that is so-called “Chinese.”

By presenting six selected games that were developed by Chinese designers, YouXi Dimsum destructs the stereotypical formulas and shows checkpoints scattered in a culture complex, rendering a more complete interpretation of Chinese Games from perspectives of mythology, spatial cognition, pictographic and symbolic narratives, and rhetoric, etc. At the same time, we acknowledge that this is not an exhibition representing Chinese games as a category or regional circle. Rather we want to highlight that they come together as a dim sum banquet and a collage that provides a rich yet non-exhaustive vertical slice of the fussy virtual cake known as “Chinese Games.”

Curated by Ruixuan Li and Allison Yang Jing

Works by: Qiang Jiadong /// Yi Xie /// BitCA /// Rachel Li /// Optillusion Games /// Team 9

Friday May 5th, 2023
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

It’s hard to maintain a sense of hope about climate change in light of the alarming reports from the IPCC. Against all odds, the videogames in this exhibition aim to shake off apathy and envision systemic change. These recent works tackle climate change from a variety of approaches: an arcade game about the destruction of habitats, an interactive documentary flowing down a river in Argentina, a reverse city-builder about ecosystem restoration, and two card games tracing paths to decarbonization on a national and global scale.

This show is also the release party for The Green New Deal Simulator by LIKELIKE’s sibling project Molleindustria.

Works by Free Lives, Matajuegos, Broken Rules, Francis Tseng and Son La Pham, Molleindustria.

Friday April 7th, 2023
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

We heard you like game exhibitions, so we put a bunch of game exhibitions in this game exhibition. LIKELIKE is ready to outcompete the Carnegie International with a show devoted to virtual museums. Experience digital artworks by hundreds of artists from all around the world from the comfort of our 400 square foot space.

Works made/curated/recreated by: The Zium Society, Moshe Linke, Pippin Barr, MOR Inc, Dim Bulb Games.

Friday October 7th, 2022
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

Sokpop collective has released two games a month since 2018, and it shows no signs of slowing down. The four-piece, Netherland-based outfit has accumulated an impressive catalog of short, experimental titles ranging from physics-based puzzles to wholesome god games.
LIKELIKE is proud to present a “double feature” exhibition with ten works on rotation that will introduce you to the wonky, colorful world of Sokpop.
Come over early, and then come back after 9.30 PM for a new round of games!

Friday August 5th, 2022
and
Friday September 2nd, 2022
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

As Spring tentatively returns, we launch a new season of LIKELIKE with a collection of games that defamiliarize gardening and the Kingdom Plantae. Discover horny ecosystems and hidden mycelial networks, rewild broken planets, play with sound synthesis and photosynthesis.

Games by: Henry Driver /// Phoebe Shalloway /// Coal Supper /// Robert Yang & Eleanor Davis /// Gamewhys /// Milan Koerner-Safrata

Friday May 6th and Friday June 3rd, 2022
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

*poster image from a model by Violeta Raffin

LIKELIKE concludes the 2021 season with a show dedicated to Pittsburgh-based artist/gamemaker Colorfiction. Get lost in abstract landscapes! Explore impossible cities! Fall through the cracks or reality! An evening of visual cortex stimulation ranging from relaxing hallucinations to noisecore horror.

Friday October 1st, 2021
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

As the infrastructure bill reconfirms America’s bipartisan love for roads and cars, we propose a showcase of six games dealing with traffic jams, highway engineering, spaghetti junctions, and self-driving madness. Come out and play, love, fight and survive on virtual asphalt.

Games: Need 4e+9 Speed by Kalonica and Jason Bakker /// Sayonara Wild Hearts by Simogo /// Freeways by Justin Smith /// Tokyo Highway by Itten Games /// Neocab by Chance Agency /// Sebil Engineering by FrogStore

Friday September 3rd, 2021
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

The Olympics are back and they are more controversial than ever: a juggernaut displacing communities, wasting public money, superspreading diseases, and imposing outrageous rulings… LIKELIKE celebrates the ancient competition in its own way with an exhibition of outlandish sports videogames. Play some made-up disciplines with friends and strangers! Experience athletic ecstasy without breaking a sweat! No skills required! Come vaccinated, or mask up!

Games: Drink more Glurp by Catastrophic_overload /// My Exercise by Atsushi Wada, Ryoya Usuha & Playables /// What The Golf? By Triband /// Realistic Summer Sports Simulator by Captain Games /// Super Pole Riders by Bennett Foddy

Friday August 6th, 2021
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

LIKELIKE is back IRL with an exhibition of works by Paloma Dawkins and an international network of collaborators. The Montreal-based cartoonist/animator is known for her immersive landscapes populated by whimsical characters and hand drawn fractals.
Embark in a psychedelic odyssey through the highest clouds to the ocean deep, from Kafkian gardens to mind-and-body virtual playgrounds. There is no better way to return to “normalcy” and “reality”.

Works: Museum of Symmetry /// Palmystery /// Gardenarium /// Alea /// Songs of the Lost /// Ocenarium

Friday July 2nd, 2021
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA

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: If We Were Allowed To Visit by Gemma Mahadeo and Ian MacLarty /// Sepulchre by Sean S. LeBlanc /// I AM NOT WHAT REMAINS by ompuco /// Meditative Anxiety by Ansh Patel /// Dialogue 3-D by Ramsey Nasser /// 10 Mississippi by 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: The ballroom by Liza Daly /// Nested by Orteil /// Human Errors by Katherine Morayati /// AI Dungeon by Nick Walton /// Queers at the end of the world by anna anthropy /// Administer Naxalone by 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: STRUNG OUT in heaven’s high by Sean S. LeBlanc and Ian Martin /// Hybris by Benjamin Soulé /// Embrace by Remy Devaux /// Get Comfortable by mcccclean /// Ennuigi by 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: Our Damned Machine by Sophie Houlden /// Continental Drift by Cecile Richard /// Almanac of girlswampwar territory (…) by porpentine charity heartscape /// spiral house by Withering Systems /// Moss as Texture as Space Folding Onto Itself by Pol Clarissou /// The Last Human Touch by 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: Venti Mesi (20 Months) by We Are Müesli /// A Bewitching Revolution by Colestia /// Secret Agent Cinder by Emily Ryan /// Statues by Space Backyard /// Democratic Socialism Simulator by Molleindustria /// You Are Jeff Bezos by 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: 4Ever Transit Authority by Turnfollow /// Mini Metro by Dinosaur Polo Club /// A Short Trip by Alexander Perrin /// Future Finger Commute by Holly Gramazio and LIKELIKE /// Train Simulator 2019 by Dovetail Games /// Snakeybus by 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: Vector Kite by Gregory Witt & Richard Kolling /// Cock Fight by Hannah Epstein /// Line Wobbler by Robin Baumgarten /// Swordfight by Kurt Bieg and Ramsey Nasser /// Guilty Smells by Molleindustria & Heather Kelley /// Threadsteading by 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: Push Me Pull You by House House /// Grass Stains by Nina Freeman, Aaron Freedman, Diego Garcia, and Amos Roddy /// Three Sided Football Arcade by Molleindustria /// AnyBall by 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.

Works: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK /// ARMAGAD / Tetrageddon /// F2OGGY (Only One Survives) /// Electric Zine Maker /// various Potatoware 

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: NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism by Hyphen-Labs /// Like Roots in the Soil by Space Backyard /// POST/CAPITALISM by Colestia /// STICKY ZEITGEIST: EPISODE 2 by Porpentine & Rook /// Lichenia by Molleindustria /// Tonight We Riot by 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: Mirror Drop by Ian Lilley /// Vignettes by Skeleton Business /// Entire Screen in One Game by Tom7 /// The Catacombs of Solaris by Ian MacLarty /// SUPERHYPERCUBE by Kokoromi /// Museum of Simulation Technology (now Superliminal) by 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: Farsh + Engare by Mahdi Bahrami /// 1979 Revolution: Black Friday + Blindfold by iNK Stories /// She Who Sees the Unknown by Morehshin Allahyari and DiMoDA /// The Cat and the Coup by 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

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Works: Become a Great Artist in Just 10 Seconds by Andi McClure and Michael Brough /// Glitch Tank by Michael Brough /// Memory of a Broken Dimension by XRA /// ROM CHECK FAIL by Farbs // Track + Feel II by Rachel Simone Weil /// Glitch Scarf by 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: Black Room by Cassie McQuater /// Multi bowl by Bennett Foddy + AP Thomson /// Jelly Mario by Stefan Hedman /// Justice Duel by Mega Cat Studios /// Sonic Dreams Collection  by Arcane Kids /// Pixel Ripped 1989 by 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: Fuck Everything by Lena NW /// Cobra Club by Robert Yang /// Wrestling with Emotions by Team Lazerbeam /// The Game: The Game by Angela Washko /// Slave of God by Increpare /// Ultimate Flirt Off by 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: Elegy by Joseph Delappe /// Lost Wage Rampage by Jane Friedhoff /// Blind Drive by Lo-fi People /// Enviro-Bear 2000 by Justin Smith /// Wheels of Aurelia by Santa Ragione /// Stick Shift by 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.

Works: Strawberry Cubes /// Beads of Orange Glass /// Luminous Corridor 0 /// The Worm Game /// Skeleton Flower /// Cellular Automata experiments

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: Luxuria Superbia by Tale of Tales /// The Whole World [Tiny Travelogue] by Nick Crockett /// Bellular Hexatosis by Neotenomie and Porpentine /// Feed the Head by Vectorpark /// Plug and Play by Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei /// Swordfight by Kurt Bieg and Ramsey Nasser /// The Ills of Woman  by LIKELIKE

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: Goldstation  by Eddo Stern ///  Perfect Woman by Peter Lu & Lea Schönfelder ///  Two Interviewees by Mauro Vanetti /// Job Simulator by Owlchemy Labs /// I Get This Call Every Day by David S Gallant /// It is as if You Were Doing Work by Pippin Barr /// Lost Wage Rampage by 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: Doggins by Brain & Brain /// Bad Corgi by Ian Cheng /// Russian Subway Dogs by Spooky Squid /// Oikospiel Book I by David Kanaga /// Dogness by Molleindustria /// Woof3D by SK Louie /// Flea City by LIKELIKE

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: The Fallen by Gold Extra /// End of Light by Cassie McQuater & Jono Mi Lo /// FPS by Aram Bartholl /// Joy Exhibition by Strangethink /// &maybetheywontkillyou by Akira Thompson /// The American Dream by Samurai Punk

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: Breakup Squad by Catt Small /// Fingle by Game Oven /// Consentacle by Naomi Clark /// Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by Asteroid Base /// Don’t Make Love by Maggese /// Triad by anna anthropy + Leon Arnott + Liz Ryerson.

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

205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA