Is Pac-Man art? Is Pong part of history? If they are, Chicago Gamespace wants to be their museum Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune © Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS A resin Pac-Man figure by Richard Olinski is on display at Chicago Gamespace.
On weekend nights, off Western Avenue in Logan Square, on a street so thin it appears squeezed alongside the elevated 606 trail, a curious thing happens: The cubed glass installed in the ground-floor windows of the Bloomingdale Arts Building blinks to life, pixelate then chomp, gathering into a weekly tribute to Pac-Man. Jonathan Kinkley, who worked with a designer in San Francisco to coordinate the animation, imagines the windows eventually becoming a playable video game, controlled by anyone who happens to walk past.
Anonymous donor gives $560,000 to diverse Chicago art spaces via Hyde Park Art Center
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