October 06, 2002
La Nuit Blanche, and the Chaos Computer Club
Last night was the first Nuit Blanche (Sleepless Night) festival in Paris, where the city put on art spectacles all over town and all night long. They flung open the splendid Hotel de Ville to the general public, piping in "Lounge Music" and giving out champagne. Around 2.30am, the Mayor, socialist Bertrand Delanoë, was stabbed in the stomach by an attacker. As he was taken to the hospital, he said "the night should continue".
After the stabber, the night surely belonged to the Germans that put on Blinkenlights in Berlin, who were invited to put up an even bigger screen on the BNF in Paris. The world's largest computer screen, a project called arcade:
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| La BNF. Oct 5. |
You can't fully appreciate it from stills, since it is a computer screen, not a mere image. You can play Tetris on it, or Pong [click for video]. Posted by amol at October 6, 2002 05:32 PM
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