Another US date has been added for the Hungarian documentary film Demoscene: The Art of Algorithms (aka Moleman 2). Visitors to the massive gamer con, Penny Arcade Expo, east coast edition (PAX East) can see it on Saturday night. T-zero, Micksam7, and Phoenix will be at the screening to chat about demoscene stuff after the film, and to help plug Boston-area events such as @party.

Where: Arachnid Theatre, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
When: Saturday, April 7th, 2012 – 10:30pm – 12:30am

east.paxsite.com

The second edition of PixelJam will again take place as part of Notacon, at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Cleveland. Competitions and rules have been posted on their website. Most compos will take remote entries. PixelJam is teaming up with criticalartware to present two new compos: glitch/artware, and “newGame++” (a sort of meta-compo). There will be a regular video game compo as well. Demo and music competitions will accommodate all platforms, old and new. A large and distinct PixelJam lounge space is available all weekend, with a 1080p projector and high end audio. Registration can be done through Notacon, as signing up for one event lets you participate in the other.

pixelj.am – event website

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The third edition of @party moves this year, to Space with a Soul ideaLounge in the city of Boston. Registration is now open! The party website has information on travel, lodging, and all sorts of other things in the area. They are also on the lookout for volunteers and sponsors.

@party will be holding two promotional events at Artisans Asylum in Somerville MA: a presentation and demo show on April 27th, and a screening of “Moleman 2: Art of the Algorithms” (a Hungarian documentary film on the demoscene) on May 23rd.

atparty12.eventbrite.com – Registration
atparty-demoscene.net – @party website

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The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and Boston Cyberarts are issuing a call for media art for display on the new Marquee outside the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. This 80-foot-tall Marquee offers more than 3,000 square feet of display area on 7 screens, providing full-motion video. They are looking for ten 30-second videos, animations or computer generated work (*coughdemoscough* -phx), using the entire Marquee in colorful and creative ways.

Proposals should be submitted by January 3rd, 2012. Before most of you get too excited, note that this is limited to artists and groups residing in the (U.S.) state of Massachusetts only.

For more info, visit: http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/bca_portal_projects_bcec.php

The second 1-day demoparty in Montreal co-sponsored by @party was successful, attracting around 30 attendees, possibly the largest Montreal scene gathering since Coma 2001. Even NAID ’95-96 organizers Mr. Khan and MEd stopped by! Again there was a fast demo (multi-platform) compo, and here are the results (it’s a safe bet that there was a “potato” theme :) :

1. Poutine by Quebarium
2. Tubercule by Madbrain
2. Voxel patate frite by Joachim and Dr Dub
4. Fuck potatoes I like bananas by The Muffin Group
5. @patat by Unkelben
6. Aek un patate by Northern Dragons
6. Potatotopia by yesso
8. Potato flue by XyNo

Some releases can be found at http://pouet.net/party.php?which=1547&when=2011.

René Walling provided the prizes, a Nintendo 64 (which went to Québarium, the 1st place winners), a Sun Sparc (which went to Madbrain tied for 2nd place), and a variety of SCSI hard drives and CD-ROM drives, which went to other winners.

PsychNerd of SceneSat provided coverage on their website: http://scenesat.com/relive.

(Thanks to Metoikos for information via “@party news thread” on Pouet).

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Rarr! The annual Text Mode Demo Competition returns, and Bawlz has released the invitation intro.. in textmode, of course. Download it here. As usual, the competition starts on 11/11 and ends on 12/12. Exercise those ASCII characters at:

tmdc.scene.org

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CMUCC is organizing a new party/show at their home base in Pittsburgh, Demosplash. In addition to some small competitions, a major part of Demosplash is getting together to enjoy, on authentic hardware, many of the great demos that have been released throughout the history of the demoscene. Think of it as a demo-watching party!

Date: Oct. 21 & 22, 2011
Location: Gates Hillman Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

www.demosplash.org

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kb in Boston – October 8-15, 2011

News by phoenix on September 26th, 2011

@party organizing is supporting a set of presentations in Boston by kb, aka Tammo Hinrichs, who is visiting from Hamburg the 2nd week of October. kb, a long-standing musician and coder for Farbrausch, was responsible for, among dozens of other things: the soundtrack to “fr-08: .the .product”, the V2 software synth (the first of its kind for 4k and 64k intros), and audio/video setup for the Breakpoint demoparties in Germany.

The deadline to register to attend @party ’11 (Harvard, MA, June 17th-19th) is June 6th. All attendees must register, so if you want to be there, hit the site below by this Monday! The deadline for remote competition entries is one week later, June 13th.

Meanwhile, a couple of live performances have been announced:

Disasterpeace

Disasterpeace is originally from New York City, but currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts where he completed a degree in Music Synthesis at Berklee College of Music. He is working as a freelance composer/sound designer for Video Games.

The Attic Bits

Arkbit and the Attic Bat are The Attic Bits, two chiptune artists from New Hampshire. Drawing on such diverse influences as J Dilla and Sigur Ros, the duo uses a unique combination of electronics to create 8-bit dance and ambient music.

http://atparty-demoscene.net/details.html#reg

Updates

  • The registration deadline is now June 10th.
  • Mozilla Labs has been added as a sponsor.
  • Two browser demo compos have been added.
  • A seminar on WebGL has been added.
  • A third performance from Ulysses Campbell has been added.
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    Nuance has released the official invitation demo for @party 2011. It can be found on Pouet and FTP. It was presented at Revision 2011 where it placed 4th in the PC demo compo. If you lack a suitable Windows machine, we will post a video capture here by next week.

    P.S. This would be a good time as any to register for @party if you’re interested in going. :)

    Update: “Live” compo video here.

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