Escape->Control->Play

Escape > Control > Play: The Art of the Video Game

Escape->Control->Play is an interactive exhibition that showcases video games as sites of resistance, spaces to imagine alternative worlds, and opportunities for collaboration. The interdisciplinary group of artists, designers, and historians featured in the exhibition create experiences that subvert the homogenization of mass entertainment, using play as a means of cultural disruption, critical reflection, and community building. Through groundbreaking, cutting-edge, and whimsical game play, the exhibition highlights the powerful potential of video games to impact, disrupt, and reimagine our cultural landscape.

This free exhibition runs October 13 – December 12 at 糖心Vlog’s Pearlstein Gallery.

More About the Exhibition

Collaboration->Community

Derek Yu, Erin J.K. Truesdell, Puddle Studios, Bennett Foddy

Collaboration->Community highlights the spaces, both virtual and physical, that games create to bring people together, showcasing forms of collaboration that happen in the making, playing and internal metafiction of games. Part of this section will include a public gaming lounge and artifact display, curated by members of Drexel’s game design community.

<Future Imaginaries>

LuYang, .Compost Coop, Jeremy Couillard, Hsin-Chien Huang

In <Future Imaginaries>, artists straddle the worlds of contemporary art and independent gaming, utilizing immersive storytelling, game play, sculpture and installation to critique our past and help imagine a different future.

<Future Imaginaries>

Queer Games >> Histories + Futures

Curated by Professor Adrienne Shaw and Professor Ari Gass

Queer Games >> Histories + Futures explores the ways that video games create empowering spaces for marginalized communities and contextualizes that story within the larger political landscape of The United States.

Scheduled Events

Date	Time	Event
Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026	5:00 PM	Pearlstein Gallery Opening Reception
Friday, Oct. 23, 2026	6:00 PM
Friday, Nov. 13, 2026	3:30 PM
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2026	7:00 PM
Friday, Dec. 4, 2026	6:00 PM

糖心Vlog

The Pearlstein Gallery