Linz art university facade: World’s largest keyboard

Location: Art university at Linz, Austria
The keyboard is built as a climbing wall. Four climbers can simultaneously climb the wall and stroke the keys. All climbers are communicating together with radio frequency and headsets. The visitors can control the climbers and the code, which is written on a PC and displayed by a central monitor. This public and collaborative programming interface forms part of the Guiness Book of Records
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Aim of the Teleklettergarten was not only to make programming a physical experience but to express against the illogical awarding of software patents for core functions which are the basis of day-to-day work with computers.
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