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Everyone enjoys a game of table tennis, or ping pong. Whether it’s a spot of fun or a sporting occasion; most people when asked if they would like to play will reply positively. After they have played they will say that playing was fun and yet most people never play regularly.

What the Art of Ping Pong strives to do is to encourage people to play more table The Art of Ping Pong can transform tennis. The any standard table tennis table into an artwork is interactive gaming experience. printed by players and Gameplay is exactly as normal table tennis taken home as but players are encouraged to use the blank a souveneir - it canvas to create artwork. acts as a memory of the positive Motion of the table tennis ball is tracked + experience recorded and projected onto the table in real they had when time, players can see their artwork generate playing and reminds them during the course of a game. why they love playing and why they should play more.

Gameplay

Artwork

The generated image can be printed and kept by the players, not only as a piece of art, but a visual record and memory of a game and the experience.

Combining sport, technology and creativity in a blend of colour and style, the Art of Ping Pong records players’ interactivity, creating real time pieces of artwork that are projected onto the table.

How it works XBox Kinect Tracks motion of the ball

Projector

Displays the artwork onto the table during gameplay

Truss

Table

Tower to attach projector and tracking device at correct height above the table

Standard Table Tennis Table and equipment

Printer

Plinth

Secures laptop to run the custom application

Prints game artwork on business card sized stickers includes button to reset

Space requirements

4m

4m

6m (w)

 Low level lighting

(l)

Minimum play area for social gaming and equipment install

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Power

Players!

(h)

517

games played from 14 April - 3

June 2014

Platform 14 Connecting...

during

@ the Engine Shed, Bristol

378

exhibition visits 97 under 18 + 281 over 18 from 6 - 11 November 2012

@ Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland

 See it in action! vimeo.com/53467944

What people are saying

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”Awesome!

Best game of Ping Pong we’ve ever played!”

Class 3 Bell’s Brae ASN Dept

“Very interesting, extremely fun!”

Class C Anderson High School ASN Dept

”Ping pong rocks!”

Sally Kindberg artist and author

”What this work records, of

course, is not just a random pattern of shapes and colours, it is the

points of connection between one player and another.

What would otherwise be forgotten or barely noticed – the fleeting and intricate movement back and forth – is captured by the technology and memorialised.

To play is to become enthralled by this process.”

Malachy Tallack Northings

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The Artist

Jono Sandilands is a visual artist, graphic designer and printmaker who is exploring new technologies which enable a participatory experience for the viewer.

Contact

Jono Sandilands The Art of Ping Pong Spike Design, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX  hello@jonosandilands.com  07795417911

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The Art of Ping Pong

@ArtofPingPong