A live show at the intersection of experimental performance, comedy, and interactive gaming.

I Seem Agical is a showcase/demo of several new interactive games/apps as well as a look into a few new games that may or may not come out. These games may include a gun you can download onto your phone (and use), a device that can (with 100% accuracy) determine someone's sexuality, a physical game that involves dangling a grand piano by a rope and dropping it on the player below, amongst some potential others.
 

Blake Andrews is a game designer and college instructor living in Brooklyn, New York. Blake has published hundreds of short experimental web games, primarily on Glorious Trainwrecks, under many different aliases. In addition, Blake is an active member of the arcade/game gallery scene in New York having done events and installations with Babycastles, Wonderville, Chinatown Family Fun Center, and Boshi's Place, to name a few. Their games frequently mix different elements of performance, installation, and alternative controllers. Frequently their games are shown in different contexts such as arcades, art galleries, and comedy shows (for some reason). Their three current game projects are Motor Away Trip, Smush Bois, and Scrapeboard.

Oddly Satisfying presents a series of audiovisual and performance works by artists who work with video as a physical material. “Oddly satisfying” is a label given to viral looping videos that somehow feel tangible to the viewer, eliciting haptic sensory perception that absorbs perception into the screen. The artists presented in this series recognize that physical participation is the basic condition of experiencing media and they respond by instead calling attention to embodied perception.

Curated by Allen Riley, 2025 Curator-in-Residence