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Fort Paladin is a medieval computer castle automaton trained to kill and master the American army‘s recruitment training game “America’s Army” using elecro-mechanics and a custom written expert…
During the Tekken Torture Tournament performance, 32 willing participants received bracing but non-lethal electrical shocks in correspondence to the injuries sustained by their onscreen avatars. Players wore shocking…
Video Game in a box is an electronical side-scrolling vdeo game featuring Mario. Mario is controlled with a knob on the side, as time advances the game gets…
Runners is a networked computer installation presenting three projection screens, each depicting a character borrowed from and operating within the virtual space of EverQuest. Using a custom made…
Granary Squirt is an app that turns your smartphone into a fountain remote control unit. But it’s also a game of Snake where pixels are replaced by water jets….
Pong Experiment is a game of Pong for two players. It is played with two paddle controllers similar to the Atari 2600 ones but displayed on LEDs sewed…
A physical interface for Pac-Man that turns the single-player arcade classic into a cooperative drinking game for 4-5 players. Each player is assigned to a direction (up/down/left/right), and should…
A physical interface for Bennett Foddy’s Sun God made of two shirts. The idea was to complement the erotic core of the game by having players embrace each…
This installation is probably the biggest Game & Watch in the World. Instead of pushing buttons, the player has to run on the marked spot to move his…
In their performance, Daniele Hopkins and Kyle Duffield use their own bodies to challenge exaggerated representations of the human body in the fighting game, Dead or Alive (PS1),…
UnoJoy x Assassin’s Creed is a custom made stabbing controller for Assassin’s Creed. It has one thumb stick to walk around, and a retractable blade to stab enemies…
As its name suggests, this is a Minecraft virtual-reality simulator. It is played with an Oculus Rift running Minecraft and a cardboard Minecraft sword with sensors and arduinos….
The installation couples a number of computer games, controllers and physical artifacts into a self playing machine. The project expands upon Paidia Laboratory: Feedback realizing a Rube Goldberg…
Life Sequencer is a game in the Illucia suite – it uses falling Tetris blocks to build step sequencer patterns (it is also remixable by Conway’s Game of…
Super Mario Spacetime Organ is a Super Mario Brothers ROM played and live-glitched with a Soundplane (multitouch surface instrument) and an illucia (patchable videogame system). The X-axis of…
Paidia Laboratory: Feedback is an ongoing series of games playing themselves through controller modifications. It examines computer games as closed feedback systems, as servomechanisms or control chains that…
Patch&KO is a mix between Street Fighter 2 and a Pachinko. Players drop metal marbles at the top, and the rails they touch trigger the fighters’ movements on…
PainStation is a two-person console that dishes out physical pain to unsuccessful players. It comprises a box structure housing a horizontal screen over which the two players face…
The Legshocker is an alternative controller built for the PlayStation 2 and designed to play EA Sport’s FIFA 2002 and FIFA World Cup 2002. The game is played…
MadNES is a modified Nintendo NES+screen hung to the ceiling. Here, the games aren’t played with a controller, but by manipulating the screen itself. The physical implication thus…
Pentapong is a Pong arcade machine, except it is made for 5 players and thus has five sides. In this version of Pong, the players are able to…
Hyper Olympic is a device designed to play the 1983 Konami arcade game Track & Field, especially the 100m race. Usually, this mini-game is played by moving the…
Super redraws most of video game genres (beat them all, race, puzzle, rpg, platform, etc.). Although the controllers are different, the player or players must fend for themselves….
Rhetoric can break bricks is a version of Tetris played with a vintage phone where you can use speech commands to move pieces. Basic commands are Left, Right,…
A piano that plays the game of Doom while still being a piano. Different sections of the white keys control the different directions while the black keys are…