A.N.E.N.Y is an ongoing faculty pitch project at the ETC. This project was developed by Jonathan Walton and Heather Kelley and was inspired by a prior IDeATe course Jonathan taught alongside Robert Zacharias (Our Technical SME), on designing electro-mechanical games. Our project goal is to create a new and unique physical\/digital pinball game that considers the tradition of sexy\/sexist arcade machines and explores what “sexy” could look like in 2026.
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<\/figure>\nProject Description<\/em><\/mark> <\/sub><\/sup> Using a custom built electro-mechanical pinball cabinet the project leverages the machine’s inherent ability to evoke tangible emotions while investigating how modern technology can help to communicate complex narrative concepts. Background A.N.E.N.Y is an ongoing faculty pitch project at the ETC. This project was developed by Jonathan Walton and Heather Kelley and was inspired by a prior IDeATe course Jonathan taught alongside Robert Zacharias (Our Technical SME), on designing electro-mechanical games. Our project goal is to create a new and unique physical\/digital pinball game that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/aneny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/aneny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/aneny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/aneny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/aneny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/aneny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/aneny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/aneny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A.N.E.N.Y. is a high-concept installation that explores the industrialization of intimacy, examining how desire and affection are designed, managed, and exploited by productivity-driven systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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