Opening hours:

Sat, March 28th — Fri, April 10th 2015, daily from 16:00 to 20:00

Free admission & at least 16 years old!

Lecture & Talk III:
Intimate games: Intentions, potentials and limitations of playable pornography
Sabine Harrer (Indie Bird Game Collective)

Exhibition:
Robert F. Nideffer: Tomb Raider I + II Nude Patches *** Molleindustria: Orgasm Simulator & Queer Power *** Heather Kelley: Lapis *** Kyle Machulis: SeXBox *** Gazira Babeli: Come to Heaven *** Pierrick Thébault: Cyporn *** Copenhagen Game Collective: Dark Room Sex Game *** Stephane Shibatsuji-Perrin: Porn Hero *** Georgie Roxby Smith: The Fall Girl *** Pippin Barr: Hot Coffee *** Merritt Kopas: Consensual Torture Simulator *** Elizabeth Simins: Manic Pixel Dream Girl *** Yannick Lambelet: Unicorn Pop Porn *** Lea Schönfelder: Ute *** Emmett Butler & Nina Freeman: how do you Do It

Music:
8‑Bit-Sounds by The Horny Plumbers

Two women are standing in a darkened room. Gentle Groaning is heard, interrupted by giggling and clapping sounds. Two blue lights are wooshing around. The groaning is getting louder and louder, a climax is approaching.

We are inside the exhibition PIXELPORNO 0.2. The two women have just completed the first round of the “Dark Room Sex Game”. In this game, released in 2008 by the Copenhagen Game Collective, you have to move around two Nintendo Wii remotes in the right rhythm. The better this is done the more harmonic and intense the groaning will get. By completely focussing onto the auditive level the dominance of pornographic images that usually can be seen in computer games with sexual depiction is broken apart. Furthermore the common sensitive action of the two players on their way to the climax produces a nearly erotic atmosphere.

The “Dark Room Sex Game” is just one out of 16 works from the genre of game art that is shown within the exhibition which is compiled by the art collective qujOchÖ from Linz. Already in October 2013 a first exhibition, entitled PIXELPORNO 0.1, was shown at the former doll museum in Linz which focussed on a critical depiction of common sex games like Samantha Fox Strip Poker, Leisure Suit Larry or Lula 3D.

PIXELPORNO 0.2 covers artistic works which deal with the same topic, e. g. one of the earliest teledildonics works, “SeXBoX” by the US-american artist Kyle Machulis (2006), or the adult flash game “Ute” from the young German game designer and artist Lea Schönfelder (2014). The exhibition will be opened with a lecture by Sabine Harrer from the Indie Bird Game Collective on the topic “Intimate games: Intentions, potentials and limitations of playable pornography”.

Lecture & Talk II: 
Sexualized Tropes: virtual discrepancies of boobies /// 
Rebecca Husemann (herzteile.org) ///

At 18:00 a reading circle will take place in preparation for the lecture & talk.

Samantha Fox Strip Poker, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, Sex Games, BMX XXX, GTA Hot Coffee Mod, Tomb Raider Nude Patches, Bone Craft. For quite some time qujOchÖ works in a reflexive manner on the issue of erotic, sexual and pornographic representations in computer games. In October 2013 a low budget exhibition entitled “PIXELPORNO 0.1 — a short journey through the history of computer*sex*games” was launched in this context in the former doll museum in Linz. It offered a short journey through the history of such computer games between 1980 and 2013, supplemented by media and gender theoretical set pieces.

Now the next development stage is launched: PIXELPORNO 0.2 deals with an more intense examination on the interfaces between science and art. Apart from reading circles and lectures an exhibition with works by international artists which have addressed that topic will therefore be opened on March, 27th 2015.

In a second lecture Rebecca Husemann will talk on virtual discrepancies of boobies. The fixation on boobies and an exaggerated erotic representation is often an indication for objectification in video games – therefore it is a pleasure for many designers which triggers remorse. Why do even game designers which are aware of oversexualization refer to this stylistic means?

Rebecca Husemann is studying communication and industrial design with focus on game design at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) and is a regular author for the game blog “herzteile”.

Lecture & Talk I: 
Digital pornography: visual politics and affective materiality /// 
Doris Allhutter (Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences) ///

At 18:00 a reading circle will take place in preparation for the lecture & talk.

Samantha Fox Strip Poker, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, Sex Games, BMX XXX, GTA Hot Coffee Mod, Tomb Raider Nude Patches, Bone Craft. For quite some time qujOchÖ works in a reflexive manner on the issue of erotic, sexual and pornographic representations in computer games. In October 2013 a low budget exhibition entitled “PIXELPORNO 0.1 — a short journey through the history of computer*sex*games” was launched in this context in the former doll museum in Linz. It offered a short journey through the history of such computer games between 1980 and 2013, supplemented by media and gender theoretical set pieces.

Now the next development stage is launched: PIXELPORNO 0.2 deals with an more intense examination on the interfaces between science and art. Apart from reading circles and lectures an exhibition with works by international artists which have addressed that topic will therefore be opened on March, 27th 2015.

In a first lecture Doris Allhutter will talk on visual politics and affective materiality. She is working at the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and author of the book Dispositive digitaler Pornografie, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York 2009.

Opening hours: 
Fr, November 1 2013 — Sun, November 3 2013 /// 
Fri, November 8 2013 — Sun, November 10 2013 /// 
Fri, November 15 2013 — Sun, November 17 2013 /// 
from 17:00 to 22:00 ///

Free admission & at least 16 years old!

Sat, November 9 2013, 19:00
Reading group on computer games, sex & gender

Sat, November 16 2013, 19:00
Off-Lan-Battle (teamplayer mode with great prizes!)
Registration at ulcus@qujOchOE.org

Samantha Fox Strip Poker, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, Sex Games, BMX XXX, GTA Hot Coffee Mod, Tomb Raider Nude Patches, Bone Craft. The Linz based art colletive qujOchÖ shows a journey through the history of sexual contents and representations in computer games at a no budget test exhibition. This serves as a starting signal for a more intensive examination with media and gender theoretically questions: What shocked 30 years ago? How did sexist methods of representation develop? Where are imaginary parallels to games nowadays?

Shown are originals, test reviews, game instructions and much more. Furthermore there is the possibility to gamble on exhibited consoles and devices (Atari 2600, Commodore 64, PlayStation 2, IBM-PC and iMac), including within an off lan battle. A reading group is dedicated to the theoretical reflexion. And at the opening on October 31st there is a concert by Zogholy Bros, oscillating between Gameboy sounds and Synthwave.

Bibliography for the reading group:

• James Matson, A History of Sex & Games, September 27th 2007
• Redaktion GamePro, Tabuthema Geschlechtsverkehr, April 13th 2012
• GEE Magazin, Liebesspiele, November 10th 2005
• Sheri Graner Ray, Gender Inclusive Game Design. Expanding the Market, Charles River Media, Hingham 2004, p. 17 — 36
• Dave McCarthry, Sex. A concise history, November 28th 2007
• Matthias Grimm, Von Lara bis Lula: Wer bietet den besten Sex der Spielegeschichte?, May 20th 2012
• Martin Kreischer, Zwischen Prüderie und Hardcore: Warum tun sich Games so schwer beim Sex?, February 27th 2010
• Doris Allhutter, Dispositive digitaler Pornografie, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York 2009, p. 204 — 230
• Christian Stöcker, Virtuelle (Alp-)Träume aus Zweitausendsex, SPIEGEL ONLINE, January 4th 2006
• Bonnie Ruberg, Interview: Developing Sex in Games, Gamasutra, November 15th 2005
• Sex in Games Conference: Organizer Brenda Brathwaite’s Opening Keynote, Gamasutra, June 13th 2006
• Judith Butler, Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter, 16. Ed., Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, p. 15 — 24
• Christian Keichel, Wie weit bist du? Sex im Spiel — eine Zustandsbeschreibung, Retro #17, p. 46 — 49
• Stefan Höltgen, Erfahrung seit 1981. Interview mit Thomas Landgraf über “Sex Games” am C64, Retro #17, p. 56 — 57
• Christian Keichel, Sex doesn’t sell. Hentai-Spiele in Japan, Retro #17, p. 68 — 73
• Sven Lewandowski, Die Pornographie der Gesellschaft. Beobachtungen eines populärkulturellen Phänomens, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, p. 130 — 149