New exhibitions at Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art will explore how artists have captured, interrogated, and responded to rapidly changing environments in contemporary society.

The winter program will open on Friday, Feb. 2, with the three exhibitions “Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward,” “Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show,” and “Broadcasting: EAI at ICA.”

The trio of shows will create opportunities to engage with a diverse range of artists who offer views on topical social issues and movements, says Amy Sadao, the ICA’s Daniel W Dietrich, II Director. The wide variety of artworks includes media, video, and performance art, as well as paintings, sculptures, and photographs.

“ICA remains committed to fearlessly engaging with topics that break boundaries, encourage discussion, and promote different points of view,” Sadao says.

The largest exhibition, on display through Aug. 12 in the first-floor galleries, is “Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward,” which was organized by artist Nayland Blake, the ICA’s Katherine Sachs and Keith L. Sachs Guest Curator, with support from Laporte Associate Curator Kate Kraczon. The exhibit explores how the expanding influence of digital and online technologies, fandom subcultures, and artistic discourse has created new possibilities for queer identification. The space is designed to provide a gathering place and platform for the exploration of queer play created by individuals and groups from the worlds of game design and theory, performance, kink, and activism. Artists include A.K. Burns, Arnold Kemp, Savannah Knoop, and Robert Yang.

Featuring new and never-before-seen works, “Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show,” on display through March 25, marks the first comprehensive survey and solo museum exhibition of Leibowitz’s work to date. Organized in close coordination with the artist, the exhibition brings together nearly 350 works that span the breadth of his career, including paintings, ceramics, fabric works, photographs, ephemera, and others created between 1987 and the present day. Leibowitz, known as “Candyass,” creates bold, brightly colored, and comically self-effacing, text-based works, which draw on both gay and Jewish perspectives to address issues of identity, kitsch, modernist critique, and queer politics.

Organized in partnership with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), “Broadcasting: EAI at ICA,” on display through March 25, brings together an intergenerational group of artists whose time-based artworks are produced in concert with their means of circulation, from public access television to social media. Drawing on EAI’s extensive archive and ICA’s 40-plus years of engagement with media art, the exhibit is meant to foster a dialogue between early innovators and contemporary practitioners. The installation will show media across an array of displays, ranging from monitors to projections, and will emphasize the temporal nature of broadcast. The exhibition gallery will double as an interactive events space dedicated to public discussions that will be recorded and broadcast online throughout the course of the exhibition. The exhibition is co-curated by Alex Klein, ICA’s Dorothy & Stephen R. Weber Curator, and EAI’s Rebecca Cleman.

Several programs and events are planned throughout the exhibitions, some in conjunction with local partners, including Philadelphia Community Access Media, International House Philadelphia, and Slought.

ICA’s galleries are closed to visitors in January while the exhibitions are installed, but the Elixr Coffee Bar at ICA is open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.