Chaos Computer Club e.V.
«Arcade»

Following up on the original «Blinkenlights» installation in Berlin, «Arcade» marks a new step in interactive light installations in public space. In the context of the Nuit Blanche art festival in Paris, the team transformed the Tower T2 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France into a huge computer screen. With a matrix of 20 x 26 windows (resulting in 520 directly addressable pixels) and a size of 3370m2, the «Arcade» installation is positioned to be world's biggest computer screen ever. [...] «Arcade» promotes a new series of classic computer games to run on the building, allowing everybody to play games on the building with his mobile phone. Among others, the all-time favorite pixel puzzle game Tetris can be played using nothing but a mobile phone. With its newly designed light control technology, the Blinkenlights team was able to smoothly dim the brightness of each pixel. This allowed for sophisticated, large-scale animations glowing into the Paris night life.

(source: CCC, Project Arcade, http://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/index.en.html)