Slopfest #83 · 2009 · Vienna

Infinite World, Low Resolution

A game offered an infinite world made of blocks. We offered a finite trade-fair hall made of boxes.

#83The only copy was taped to a Würstelstand. It rained.

Pixel-art game screenshot recreating the night: a cardboard-textured Stephansdom in a trade-fair hall, a blocky sign reading SLOPFEST #83

Museum status: On view by appointment. Appointments not available.

Venue: Messe Wien, hall A
Attendance: 27,600
Fun fact: 60,000 boxes, 1 cathedral, 1 new resident

What happened

Guests were given 60,000 cardboard boxes and one instruction: build. By midnight the hall held a Stephansdom, a rollercoaster with no working parts and a small house in which a committee member had lived since 7 p.m. Everything came down at 2 a.m. to make room for a dental equipment fair.

Elsewhere in 2009

The first public version of Minecraft is released, a game in which players build worlds out of blocks.

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