Case 04/04. Tetris ↔ hacker
Тетрис ↔ хакер
Art
- Artist
- Chaos Computer Club; Alexey Pajitnov; the demoscene
- Work
- Blinkenlights; Tetris; demos
- Year
- 2001; 1984; since the 1980s
In 2001 the Chaos Computer Club turned a Berlin building into an 18 × 8 pixel screen for phone-controlled Pong. Tetris was written in Moscow in 1984 on a computer with no graphics.
Code
hacker culture
A hacker is first of all someone who figures out how a thing works and makes it do the unexpected. Since 2020 the demoscene is on Finland's national inventory of living heritage.
Action
Write your first line of code today.
Напишите сегодня свою первую строчку кода.
The label in the room
The same hash is printed at the foot of the label. If they match, nobody changed the text.
Hackers turn buildings into screens and graphics-free computers into Tetris. A hacker is first a maker who learns how things work. Write your first line of code today.
Хакеры превращают дома в экраны, а компьютеры без графики — в Тетрис. Хакер прежде всего создатель: он разбирается, как вещь устроена. Напишите сегодня свою первую строчку кода.
SHA-256 of the Russian label text 0910c14411719efa5e682a41edf6183393fb2daa14feb83312f5f86f3c117a82
In the room
A triptych panel; text-mode Tetris on an old monitor (our own unbranded version)
Rights