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Tetris game
La Bastille is a very-large-scale integrated art installation created
by Technology House at
Brown University. The product of over five months
of planning, construction, and installation, La Bastille is the largest art
installation ever to appear in Rhode Island, partially visible from Narragansett
Bay and from Interstate 95.
When it was running, it was also the world`s largest fully-functional
Tetris game.
Containing eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve-story data network, a
personal computer running Linux, a radio-frequency video game controller, and over
10,000 Christmas lights, LaBastille transforms Brown`s fourteen-story Sciences Library
into a giant video display which allows bystanders to play a game of Tetris which
can be seen for several miles.
La Bastille opened at 8 pm on Friday, April 14, 2000 and ran through Saturday,
April 22. During that week, people and media organizations from near and far came
to watch and play. On May 27, hundreds of Brown alumni and students on campus for
commencement weekend watched and played Tetris on its last night. La Bastille was
put into storage the next day.
When we were in operation, anyone could come and play in person. We were at Brown
University and we played from just south of the Sciences Library.
Directions
and a map
are still available.
Sketch by Nik Lochmatow
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