Opening Reception: Beyond Dark Flow

Join us to celebrate the opening of our first summer show, Beyond Dark Flow: an exhibition that explores games as digital and physical spaces of collective attention, centering on the current landscape of independent gaming communities. For the opening night only, attendees are invited to play—and even co-create—an expanded set of online and physical games from participating artists. Design collective Aging in Play will showcase play boxes, modular parts made from everyday materials that attendees can rearrange to create their own games; artist collective Boshi’s Place offers additional game stations created by their independent developers modeling alternative modes of attention through text, ambient environments, and nonlinear narratives; and researcher and educator Catherine L. Hansen invites us to modify an interactive fiction she developed with University Tokyo students which allows players to “burrow” into an object of choice with close, sustained attention. 

This is a free event. Light refreshments will be provided.

Image courtesy of Boshi’s place.