Surveillance State

Surveillance, but make it playable.

This machine was built for surveillance.
Pocket-sized. Early 1960s.
Journalists, CIA, police. All covertly listening.

This is the Nagra SN as a playable art sculpture.

It runs Spy vs Spy.
Mutual suspicion, traps, counter-traps, and escalation without resolution. Each spy is just as ruthless and just as ridiculous as the other.  Doomed to keep killing each other endlessly.

Serious tech with cartoon rules.
Same game, different era.

This is "Surveillance State".

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22.5" x 26.5" x 5"
Laser cut acrylic, CNC-cut dibond, 19” industrial IPS screen, 2x20rpm DC motors, Raspberry Pi, Spy vs. Spy ROM, NES controller, 3D printed controller wall mount
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