GLITCH'N'GAMES
A multi-day exploration of glitch art and video games — exhibitions, performances, talks, competition, and installations that took place across Chicago.
October 2–3, 2026
Chicago
The weekend before: Video Sync in Minneapolis, Sept 26–27 ↗
Happening now: /'FU:BAR/ in Croatia, all this week ↗
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SPECIAL APPEARANCE
LIVE EVENTS
FEATURED ARTISTS
ANDY WALLACE
October 3, 2026
DISCUSSION SESSION
Talks · Presentations · Collective Play
SATURDAY EVENING
Community-Focused Programming
A gathering centered around the work, influence, and continued experimentation of programmer and digital artist, Jamie Fenton.
Glitch’N’Games is a multi-day exploration of the shared histories and evolving cultures of glitch art and video games.
This second iteration, which took place across Chicago on October 2–3, 2026, focused on physical engagement with systems, bringing together artists, game makers, circuit benders, and theorists through competition, installations, discussions, performances, and collaborative play.
Chicago is a uniquely fitting home for this project. The city exists at a historic crossroads of both glitch art and arcade culture: from early glitch artists and educators, to Bally, Williams, and Midway, to landmark games such as Mortal Kombat and Defender. It is also home to Jamie Fenton, creator of Digital TV Dinner on the Bally Astrocade, which is widely recognized as the first glitch artwork.
You can read more about the first iteration of this exhibition and the overall motivation in my thesis, Glitch Play. Until a gallery is made for this first event, here is a list of all of the artists that participated.
Here’s a map of the venues and nearby spots.
Please reach out directly with any questions:
sutureblue@gmail.com
The weekend before GLITCH’N’GAMES, September 26th & 27th, Video Sync took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A huge thank you to everyone who made it out to both events!
Video Sync is an ongoing event series created by video artists for video artists, celebrating the toolmakers, performers, educators, and enthusiasts who explore video signals as a performative medium.
Learn more at: videosync.xyz →
Happening right now: /'FU:BAR/’s week-long IRL festival in Croatia kicked off on October 3rd and runs all this week.
FUBAR is the longest running digital arts festival dedicated to unstable media, having over a decade of events, workshops, presentations, and gatherings that magnetize together artists, hackers, and educators from all over the world, both online and offline. This year they’re focused on the topic of COLLECTIVISM, and are releasing their archive!
For more information, check out their website: fubar.space →
Recently, Jason and Debora Bernagozzi of Signal Culture visited to talk about the inner workings and importance of modularity as both technical and community concepts: Signal Culture Talk →