Welcome to the second screening of Dream Emulator’s very own LSD Season, a season of screenings + rave celebrating Osamu Sato’s cult classic (not)game, LSD: Dream Emulator, alongside the many pieces of art/film/video games that it inspired directly and indirectly as part of its lasting legacy in our digital imaginations. 

After an introduction to 90s Digital psychedelia through Osamu Sato, Peaking is a screening of Euphoric psychedelia from throughout internet and digital history in its all its kaleidoscopic majesty. 

Your trip has begun in earnest, you’re now soaring through fractal heavens aplenty, tongue melting into the air, the fizz of every byte raining into your eyes is intoxicating. Its in this state that you witness a collective hallucination projected onto/into a globally accessible network, each page, sentence, image, word, pixel hitting you at once. You are now Peaking. The legacy of digital psychedelia is one of expression in its purest sense through the pixelated lens of Acid Culture. The sheer amount of information accessible to most eyes has lead to a specific brand of new psychedelic maximalism, one that relishes in being dreamt up through software, soaked in the impossibility of its mediums. From objects clip through walls in 3d modelled environments, sounds saturated with digital artefacts through low bitrate mp3, to images pockmarked with telltale signs of jpeg compression; these visions of beyond the digital veil are generational answers to the same question that was once answered with tie-dye and liquid light shows in 1960s counterculture. 

We will be celebrating and screening everything from direct game successors to LSD: Dream Emulator (such as Disillusion ST, Gabal Screen), psychedelic walking simulators (Tales from Off-Peak City, Slave of God, 2:22AM), Dreamcore compilations, Digital Video art, Music Videos, Internet Art, to more experimental entries into both game and film recent canon (Cruelty Squad, Juice Galaxy, John Rafman).