Innovative Leisure

I’m curating an exhibit of new Atari games at Babycastles, which opens this Sunday, November 13th.

It’s called Innovative Leisure (a term I lifted from an early Atari slogan) and will take place

at a new art games arcade at Death By Audio.

The show exhibits games by Sonny Ray Tempest, Ed Fries, and Simon Quernhost. The event starts at 6:30 and is free to the public. There will be informal talks by Ian Bogost and Sonny Rae Tempest.

Here are the three games we’re showing:

Calm, Mute, Moving by Sonny Rae Tempest, an Atari game poem, played using a breath-controlled cigarette controller.

Halo 2600 by Ed Fries, a new game interpretation of Halo by the former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft.

Kite by Simon Quernhost, a game dedicated to and supported by the german kite company Elliot.

We’ll be selling a small number of copies of Halo 2600 cartridges, and I’ll also have some copies of A Slow Year there.