Pinball Wizard (2014) by Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux, and Daniel Tankersley from a ten second opera Watch Video
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Description: On full tilt, the flippers of this hacked pinball game tap to the beat of Morse code, spelling out lyrics from the rock opera Tommy (1969).* Like The Who’s titular character, this Pinball Wizard generates an endless stream of gameplay independent from sensory input, devoid of awareness in its aleatory pursuit of new high scores. During the second half of the 20th century, pinball was banned in many states due to moral panic surrounding the uncertainty over whether pinball machines were a game
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