Glitch art and arcade games shared a weekend in Chicago
Bee Nix's Glitch'N'Games ran Oct. 2 and 3 across three venues, then streamed its talks to the Fubar biennale in Zagreb.
Glitch'N'Games ran Oct. 2 and 3, 2026, in Chicago. It was the second edition. Artist and curator Bee Nix organized it.
Friday night at Logan Arcade. Video: Bee Nix and contributors, via Instagram
Friday night was an exhibition at Logan Arcade. Glitch art, experimental games and circuit-bent hardware sat among the cabinets. A glitch game competition ran on a circuit-bent DRUGS™ console. Rob Sheridan made an appearance.
Saturday moved to Night City for talks. They included jonCates on glitch art at the heart of Kentucky Route Zero, Allen Riley on video as a social medium and RezidualVizualz on ProjectOBJ for the PlayStation 2. That evening, Chicago Game Space hosted a gathering around the work of Jamie Fenton.
Fenton lives in Chicago and made Digital TV Dinner on the Bally Astrocade. The organizers call it the first glitch artwork.
The talks were streamed to MaMa in Zagreb, where they opened the discussion program of the Fubar biennale, Oct. 3 to 9. Two days later, Daniel Temkin taught an esolangs workshop there. Killscreen wrote about Temkin's esolangs in September.
Nix posted a recap after the weekend.
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