EXHIBIT CURATION

I am always willing to bite off a chunk of pop culture to study, and have a deep love for museums and the form of in-person, physical exhibits. At the Chicago Gamespace video game museum, co-curator Jonathan Kinkley and I mounted an exhibit exploring one of the world's most enduring video game icons. "Nom Nom: 40 Years of Pac-Man Design and History" let visitors play through the history of Pac-Man in many different arcade and pinball machines, consoles, and handheld games. We also explored the game's origins in Chicago and Japan.

As part of the exhibit, we curated an extensive collection of Pac-Man merchandise through the decades, showing how the hit game also became a licensing juggernaut, paving the way for modern cross-media marketing. The exhibit ran four months and gained extensive media coverage throughout.

Additional photos courtesy of Nathan Keay, Erin Hooley at Chicago Tribune, and Jonathan Kinkley.