This interactive exhibition will feature short, playable computer games by media artist yames, live performances, and related 16mm films from the VSW Film Collection. Participants are invited to engage with a media installation/arcade before the screening, and stay for an arcade afterparty. 

yames is an independent computer game developer whose experimental games explore the relationships between biology and belief, and the atavistic nature of horror. Their games are available at https://pantagruel.itch.io/

Content Warnings: body horror, jump scares, depictions of illness, unsettling imagery

Suggested: $10

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This program was curated by Nilson Carroll, nilsoncarroll@vsw.org

The VSW Salon is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and by the ArtWorks program of the National Endowment for the Arts.