Join us this weekend for
Saturday, August 17 – Sunday, August 18
Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago
Select your Tickets
We're showcasing a selection of 50+ handpicked games from around the globe
Many of these works push the boundaries of the interactive medium. Some are not commercially available, or were designed specifically for our event. We hope you can experience them here for yourself.
Our big ol’ summer festival is back, and bigger and better than ever!
We’re hosting TWO DAYS of unique interactive experiences, tabletop games, live performances, field activities, and art works that celebrate the world of interactive art – at the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere.
Tickets include museum entry!
| Tickets include museum entry! | General | Kids |
|---|---|---|
| Single-day Online | $25 | $15 |
| Two-day Online | $40 | $30 |
| Single-day At-Door | $31.95 | $22.95 |
Saturday, August 17
| 9:30am | Family Preview |
| 11:00am | Doors Open |
| 5:30pm | Night Party / Museum Closed |
| Midnight | Everybody go home |
Sunday, August 18
| 9:30am | Doors Open |
| 4:00pm | Bit Bash + MSI Closed |
BIT X BASH
Bit Bash is teaming up with Bit X Bit to bring you a night of live audio visual delights from some of Chicago’s premiere underground electronic talent.
Come enjoy a night of Live Chiptune, Vaporwave, VGM, Techno, Juke, and More!!!
Saturday STARTING at 8PM
Here's our lineup of 80+ Interactive experiences:
Gigantic Mechanic
Three teams square off with each other in this turn-based game of foam-sword fighting.
Pietro Righi Riva
Asta Grande is a drop-in, drop-out crowd game for 30 people where you experience a pretend auction of legendary items.
Compass
Aaron Goodwine
Die Gute Fabrik
A no-graphics, digitally-enabled playground game designed for motion controllers dictated by the pace of the music.
The Completely Surrounded, The Adventure Society, & Mason Gross School of the Arts
A quest to snap pictures of pocket monsters.
VGA Gallery
A screening of series of machinima shorts that report on the current state of Machinima and to illustrate what the medium can report on in the world and culture at large.
Glenn Essex
An audio-visual meditation, meant to be experienced in a dark, quiet room, on a large screen featuring a multi-touch panel for input.
Amanda Hudgins, Matt Hudgins
Embody the punk attitiude with a new game from Amanda Hudgins that features actual guitars as controllers you smash.
Gigantic Mechanic
Grab your smart phone and jump into the biggest arena shooter ever. Pilot a space ship that can only move by firing its guns. For 2 - 100 players.
Robin Arnot
You use your voice to explore a hypnotic world of sounds and visuals that feel like they are emerging directly from your body.
Pete Vigeant & The Completely Surrounded
Dodgeball where you need to watch your step.
🎉 Play 80+ games. Participate in live interactive performances. Run around outside. Party with your friends. Look at a whole dang science museum.
“Bit Bash at MSI” is brought to you by:
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