Pinball Performance

Playing pinball is as much a game as it is a performance. People come to watch, they offer advice, they ooh and ahh when you hit the rare pins. We made a project that amplifies these moments.

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Pinball performance centers around an untouched classic Gottlieb 1974 electromechanical pinball cabinet called TopCard. Many of these beautiful old mechanical games are unused, sitting in warehouses or in disrepair. We want to encourage a new use for vintage pinball machines- as art pieces.

Pinball Performance - everyone is watching

Pinball Performance - Gottlieb: Top Card

We installed sensors inside this vintage machine so that we can use all the pins, plungers and flipper-hits to trigger custom sounds and artful animations on monitors positioned around the machine.

Pinball Performance - Sensors installed inside the machine triggered custom sounds and animations

As you play the pinball machine, art and sound begin to surround you. Each pin you hit builds ever more intense animations. Colors change, new art emerges, all matching the intensity of your gameplay. This art system turns you into a virtuoso performer, creating art for the crowd around you.

Pinball performance debuted at Panorama Music Festival, Randalls Island, NY - and has traveled to the HP conference in Boston MA, with more destinations in the works.

Pinball Performance - The generative system turns each game into a unique art performance

Team

Zander Brimijoin - Creative Director
Pedro Piccinini - Design
Miyeon Kim - Design Intern
Daniel Scheibel - Technology Director
Adrià Navarro López - Creative Coder
Eric Hagan - Physical Computing
Shan Jin - Technology Intern
Lisa Walters - Senior Producer

Created for The Lab @ Panorama Festival

presented by The Verge
powered by HP
curated by the Meta Agency

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