Sigflup has made her “Demo Or Bust” net radio series available for download. There are six shows included, featuring software/FM synthesis, raytracing, NES, parties, and interviews with various sceners in North America. 127Mb, 9 hours total.
For those who feared another December blizzard, rejoice! The original New York 8-bit music festival, which has since spawned Europe and Japan editions, returns to Eyebeam artspace in Manhattan for three days in the late spring, May 19th-21st. It will feature the usual onslaught of music performances, along with VJs, workshops, and presentations. Lineup is forthcoming.
PixelJam is North America’s newest demoparty, following the tradition started with Blockparty at Notacon. With the departure of Blockparty (moving to the west coast and later in 2011), they want a fresh approach to having a demoparty in conjunction with the Notacon event.
PixelJam will feature a total of 9 compos ranging from music to animation to traditional demos. Notacon itself has pledged over $1,500 in total prize money, with more prizes to be announced as they secure sponsorship deals. They are also dedicating 2,500 square feet of conference space to a coding lounge and projection space.
More news coming soon…
The text mode demo competition is back for a 13th round! Invtro comes courtesy Northern Dragons & Bawlz, the current compo masters. Submission deadline is December 12, 2010.
Invite here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56288
Compo here: http://tmdc.scene.org/
Metoikos connected with the folks at Foulab, a Montréal hackerspace, and there will be a fast democompo (onsite entries only) and demoshow on November 27.
The event starts at 10:00. Entries will be due approximately two hours before the demoshow, which is at 19:00. Voting will start around 23:00.
Update: SceneBox has moved back two weeks, new dates shown.
SceneBox is a series of talks, workshops and freestyle hack days for demosceners, mod-trackers, webgeeks and 1337 h@x0rz who want to explore emerging technologies together in ways that will help them accomplish their technical and artistic goals. SceneBox is a Bocoup / @party collaboration.
Join us Friday, September 17th, starting at 6:30 PM, at The Bocoup Loft (http://loft.bocoup.com/), an open source hackerspace in Boston. Admission is free! Then, come back on Saturday the 4th for Hackday, bring your hardware and software, and show off some cool stuff on their big screen. There will be lots of JavaScript/HTML5 coders around, so if you’re interested in web stuff, don’t miss it.
Congratulations to The Finn/DC5 on the arrival of his son, Desmond! (as mentioned in the @party demo scroller 
We wish the best for the new mother and father.
I have to keep an eye on the @party Facebook page more often. I just noticed this little present:
Big thanks to NA-scene transplant Forcer/Hellcore^Mosaic!
If you attended @party 2010, we want your feedback. We hope to hold another @party next year, and your response will help us determine what’s most important to partygoers.
We are also accepting donations to help make next year’s party possible.
The first @party is over (one week ago, actually)! 44 people filled the quaint little hostel in eastern Mass., along with a bus full of Singapore-MIT students on Saturday night. All the compo prizes were handmade — trophies for the winners and cookies and fudge for 2nd and 3rd place. Remote entries were counted in votes but not eligible for prizes (sorry guys . There were four live music acts, a presentation on NES video effect mixing, and a screening of the Get Lamp documentary.
Compo results: http://pouet.net/results.php?which=1528&when=10
Demo/wild compo releases with reviews:
http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=1528&when=2010
Some more downloads (e.g. music):
http://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fparties%2F2010%2Fatparty10/
Videos from the live streams of the competitions and performances:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/party-20101
More footage of the performances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb6UZGpgXvM
Trixter’s photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/99362042@N00/sets/72157624309167974/
Luis’ photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/luis2048/sets/72157624183876969/
IC’s photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/IspdChaos/Party2010
Jason’s photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/sets/72157624205824557/
Some of these photos and more will be posted to Slengpung in the near future.
Thanks to everyone who came and helped us out – it took many volunteers to make this successful. If you have any more post-party links, let us know! We will be conducting an @party survey soon, and gauging interest in an @party DVD which will help us balance our budget. Keep an eye on our official website: http://www.atparty-demoscene.net. We hope to do this again next year!