Wii Pong

Wii Pong was inspired by the 1966 Armory exhibition 9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering piece by Robert Rauschenberg titled Open Score. 

I just updated the tennis racket with a Wiimote controller and instead of using a tennis court I used the familiar game of Pong.

We displayed the piece at Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festival in what was titled the Atari Lounge.  Doug Meyer crafted some 8-bit furniture out of styrofoam and Kevin Busta welded together this huge piece that went on the wall.  I didn’t have the opportunity to project the full piece onto the floor because although the ceilings were high enough we weren’t able to attach anything to them. 

I programmed the entire piece in Processing, and in order to input the Wiimote data into the computer used the DarwinRemoteOSC.