The "BIX Entertainment System" is an adoption of the famous computer game PONG, played directly on the BIX media façade of the Kunsthaus Graz.

The installation opens on 2^nd of May and is part of the Lendwirbel 2011. You may want do join the opening ceremony including the first game around 9pm CET. The game console will be placed opposite to the façade and is open for everyone to play during the whole week.

This public game installation is a project of Matthias Esterl. Any questions to ask? Try inventor@madcity.at for an answer.

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Liveview

Liveview is active everyday between 7:30pm and 1:30am CET.

Images for the Liveview are taken from the BIX Cam.

The "BIX Entertainment System" is a project of Matthias Esterl, an austrian based developer and designer of fine interactive media and light installations.

It was created as a major part of his bachelor thesis at the University of Applied Science, FH Joanneum Graz. The process and publication of this thesis is supervised and supported by Orhan Kipcak and the realisation is based on a great cooperation with the team of the Kunsthaus Graz and John Dekron.

A special thanks also go to Alexander Schmidt, who contributed to this project by finding and eliminating critical bugs and writing the code for the 'Liveview'-scraper.

Links

Matthias Esterl
John Dekron
Alexander Schmidt

Lendwirbel
FH Joanneum Graz
Kunsthaus Graz
BIX Cam

Press

BIX Entertainment System, Kunsthaus Graz
Kunsthaus-Fassade wird Pingpong-Tisch, ORF.at
Ping-Pong am Kunsthaus, Soundportal