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Anna is available to exhibit her works, both digital and tabletop, and curate exhibitions, as she has done in multiple collaborations with the NYC arcade collective Babycastles.

Letters that Will Never Arrive, an epistolary game, being played at the Flow Gallery, St. Louis, in September 2019.

In this game, participants fill out a postcard, writing a letter to a lover who fled a war from the perspective of one who stayed behind. They then open an envelope, taking the previous player's letter and leaving their own for the next player to discover.

Photo by Tim Hutchings.

Empathy Game (and scoreboard) on display at Babycastles in New York, 2015.

In this parody of the "empathy game" discourse that had grown attached to games about marginalized people in the 2010s, the player wears an original, worn pair of my shoes with a pedometer attached while exploring the gallery space. They are scored in how many literal miles they can walk in my shoes.

Photo by Emi Spicer.

Extended list of exhibitions participated in:

  • Bad Bitches. Babycastles Arcade (New York), 2011.
  • Harpy Diem (with Babycastles). Secret Project Robot (New York), 2012.
  • The Road to Empathy (with Babycastles). Babycastles (New York), 2015.
  • Filthy Pixels. Bit Bash (Chicago), 2017.
  • Hey! Play! Chicago Design Museum, 2017-2018.
  • It’s Complicated. Likelike (Pittsburgh), 2018.
  • Indiecade Presents: A Decade of Game Design. Museum of the Moving Image (New York), February 2018.
  • I Was Raised on the Internet. Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), June-October 2018.
  • Design / Play / Disrupt. Victoria & Albert Museum (London), September 2018-February 2019.
  • Chicago New Media 1973-1992. Gallery 400 (Chicago), November-December 2018.
  • Polymorphism: Queer Encounters of Intimacy in Games. VGA Gallery (Chicago), January-April 2019.
  • Bit Bash. Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago), August 2019.
  • Rules to Play By. Flow Gallery (St. Louis), September 2019.
  • Pink Screens Queer Film Festival. Cinema Nova (Brussels), November 2019.
  • Indie Game Revolution. Museum of Pop Culture (Seattle), 2023-present.

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