The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s Financial District has a new, distinctly unusual feature: What might look like just an enormous rectangular lighting fixture divided up like an Excel document is an artwork called “A:: Light.” The glowing grid, created in 1999 by French artist Pierre Huyghe, connects to handheld game controllers on a table below. Passersby who pick up the controllers, as building owner Brookfield Properties explains, soon discover that installation above “takes as its starting point the first commercially successful video game, Pong.”
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