Stereoscope by Blinkenlights: Extended
It was certainly one of the crowd favourites at last weekend's Nuit Blanche 2008 in Toronto. Enthusiastic crowds gathered at City Hall and used their cell phones to play classic arcade games like Pong on the building's facades.
Time-lapse video by syncros.
There's good news for those who didn't have a chance to see the awesome interactive light display. Stereoscope by German artists Blinkenlights will continue to blink away tonight, until 7am on Sunday morning.
To play games on City Hall's East tower, participants need to call:
Invaders: 647-259-8560
Mole: 647-259-8543
Breakout: 647-259-8563
To play games on City Hall's West tower, participants will have to call:
Tetris: 647-258-1674
Pong: 647-259-8559
Snake: 647-259-8557
Photo: "encounter at city hall" by Barbara Stumm.
Comments (8)
would it be difficult to install this permanently, like the CN tower lights? it would be awesome skating with that in the bg
I wouldn't think the City would want to pay for the added electricity costs to keep the installation up and running permanently.
@pants
This would certainly be difficult to make permanent. I don't think the folks working in City Hall would be too happy about the view!
I'm sure if they program in some funky logos they could keep this going year-round... I'd love to see more of this kind of artsy tech initiative.
City Hall might permanentize the display, perhaps if Herrn Blinkenlights made a large contribution to some local favoured crony, in the form of kreuggerands,placed in a plain paper bag, delivered by a brown-shoed square in the middle of the night...
The city should seriously look into commissioning a permanent installation of this piece. The city hall towers are deserted after 6pm anyways, I'm sure they can find a way to not interfere with the normal business.
The carbon footprint of this piece will be minimal since you can easily control the percentage of pixels that are lit up at once. On the weekdays they can limit it to no more than 30% of the lights before midnight, and only 5% after midnight (ie. just a simple centipede screensaver or a clock/temperature display).
The Toronto city hall has a major piece of tourism attraction literally staring them right in the face. I hope they have the presence of mind to seize the opportunity and run with it.
Totally agreed, Donny... like the CN tower light show (but less mediocre, with far greater possibilities)
This should totally be permanent - it was amazing! Would be great for the city. Anyone know if this is seriously being looked into?
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