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  • metoikos 4:36 pm on May 30, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    presentations, competitions, and more 

    There may be one or two additions, but our schedule is up!

    http://atparty-demoscene.net/schedule/

    Le lundi 13 mai 2013 11:21:13 UTC-4, val / metoikos a écrit : > > Hi folks! > > It’s nearly time for @party 2013. > > Our presenter schedule will be finalized shortly. This year’s topics > include electronic instrument design, the Gesture Recognition Toolkit, a 3D > printing pen, n-body methods, Gameduino, different approaches to data > visualization, discussion of IBM’s PCjr, and color correction or optical > illusions achieved with programmable lighting, among others. > > @party is a demoparty, an event where attendees collaborate as well as > enter their creations (some of which are created beforehand, some of which > are created at the party) in a variety of competitions. Demos are > realtime-rendered noninteractive demonstrations of coding, musical, and > artistic prowess. They are central to the demoscene, a computer art > subculture most active in Europe which emerged in the mid-1980s. People > participating in the demoscene include programmers, visual artists and > designers, animators, musicians, game developers, composers, electrical > engineers, and makers. > > Our competitions include freestyle, executable, and oldschool graphics and > music, overhead projector, games, demos, and wild (anything goes – bring > your machining, robotics, and electronics projects). > > Some of you may have heard about @party or the demoscene through events > run by CEMI Electronic Media Institute. > > First prize in our demo compo is a mathematical sculpture by Bathsheba > Grossman, who creates her work using computer-aided design techniques and > 3D printing in various metals. > > @party 2013 is sponsored by the MIT Game Lab and will take place in the > Stata Center at MIT from June 14-16, 2013. > Registration closes June 10th, 2013. Tickets are free to MIT students, > faculty, and staff. > > Please contact questions@atparty-demoscene.net with any inquiries, > > Best > Val Grimm aka Metoikos > @party lead organizer > atparty-demoscene.net

     

  • metoikos 3:21 pm on May 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    presentations, competitions, and more 

    Hi folks!

    It’s nearly time for @party 2013.

    Our presenter schedule will be finalized shortly. This year’s topics include electronic instrument design, the Gesture Recognition Toolkit, a 3D printing pen, n-body methods, Gameduino, different approaches to data visualization, discussion of IBM’s PCjr, and color correction or optical illusions achieved with programmable lighting, among others.

    @party is a demoparty, an event where attendees collaborate as well as enter their creations (some of which are created beforehand, some of which are created at the party) in a variety of competitions. Demos are realtime-rendered noninteractive demonstrations of coding, musical, and artistic prowess. They are central to the demoscene, a computer art subculture most active in Europe which emerged in the mid-1980s. People participating in the demoscene include programmers, visual artists and designers, animators, musicians, game developers, composers, electrical engineers, and makers.

    Our competitions include freestyle, executable, and oldschool graphics and music, overhead projector, games, demos, and wild (anything goes – bring your machining, robotics, and electronics projects).

    Some of you may have heard about @party or the demoscene through events run by CEMI Electronic Media Institute.

    First prize in our demo compo is a mathematical sculpture by Bathsheba Grossman, who creates her work using computer-aided design techniques and 3D printing in various metals.

    @party 2013 is sponsored by the MIT Game Lab and will take place in the Stata Center at MIT from June 14-16, 2013. Registration closes June 10th, 2013. Tickets are free to MIT students, faculty, and staff.

    Please contact questions@atparty-demoscene.net with any inquiries,

    Best Val Grimm aka Metoikos @party lead organizer atparty-demoscene.net

     

  • metoikos 5:10 pm on February 24, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    the demoscene lives! @party computer art party 2013 registration open 

    Hi folks,

    Registration for @party is open, for our fourth year running!

    Sign up here! http://atparty2013.eventbrite.com/

    Haven’t heard of the demoscene? Well, if you have friends in Europe, where it is more active, you may have. CEMI has also been hosting some demoscene-related events, and you may have heard about us through them.

    At its most basic level, the demoscene is a community of electronic art creators and enthusiasts.

    People participating in the demoscene (also known as sceners) include animators, programmers, visual artists and designers, musicians, game developers, composers, electrical engineers, and makers.

    Historically, the demoscene has centered around demos, generally noninteractive demonstrations of coding, artistic, and musical prowess which run realtime on computers. Demos aren’t films or games, although people often take captures, because sometimes a particular video card, processor speed, or sound card is needed to watch specific productions, known as prods for short. Nowadays, demoparties include a variety of competitions, including film/animation, photography, game design, and wild (anything goes).

    Want to see some example of what happens at a demoparty?

    **Stop by our website, atparty-demoscene.net. **

    Last year our speakers included the sculptor Bathsheba Grossman, CEMI founder James Arthur, digital historian Ken Gagne, and interactive fiction luminary Zarf.

    To give you an idea of the range of entries folks bring to demoparties, here are a few:

    @party Invitation, a modern PC demo by Northern Dragons http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=54616

    Build your own fridgetainment system, by Darklite http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=57316

    Shoal, a modern PC 4K demo by Traction and Brainstorm http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=59076

    Payback, an ATM demo by Haujobb http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=55757

    Demon Blood, a Gameboy demo by Youth Uprising http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=59196

    Edge of Disgrace, a Commodre 64 demo by Booze Design http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51983

    OHP MEGA DEMO 9000, an overhead projector demo by Desire and TRSI http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=59384

    W4K3D, a modern PC 4K demo in 3D, by Northern Dragons http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=59401

    High School Love, a Ti-86 demo by adinpsz http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=54554

    Craft, a demo on homemade demoplatform based on a microcontroller by lft http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=50141

    Youscope, a demo on an oscilloscope by tvt http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=31592

    Field Trip, an animation by 1/2 Bit Cheese http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51144

    Excelence, an Excel demo by BraadWorsten Brigade http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=53021

    Hope this gives you a sense of the amazing stuff you can do.

    Come join us June 14-16 in the Stata Center at MIT.

    Sign up here! http://atparty2013.eventbrite.com/

    Best, Val

    @party, a program of Boston Cyberarts 2013 edition made possible by MIT Game Lab

    atparty-demoscene.net

     

  • metoikos 5:18 pm on October 2, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Jon Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis, speaking at MIT Oct 11 

    *Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:00 PM Lecture | 7:00 PM Concert Media Lab, 6th Floor Event Space (E14-674) http://whereis.mit.edu/* 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA Free and open to the public

     

  • metoikos 3:41 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Art of the Algorithms at Boston Cyberarts Gallery (free!) 

    What: free movie showing with Q&A with the director and emcee When: Wednesday, August 1, 7PM Where: The Boston Cyberarts Gallery, inside the Green St. Orange Line MBTA station building Sign up at: http://moleman2-bcg.eventbrite.com/

    The demoscene is an electronic art subculture which began in Europe in the late nineteen-eighties, whose participants include programmers, graphic artists, animators, musicians, electrical engineers, and more.

    Hungarian studio Flame Film recently completed a documentary intended to introduce people to the scene’s remarkable technical accomplishments and productive artistic community. You can view the trailer and the opening sequence below.

    @party is a local demoscene event, or demoparty, a collaborative electronic art festival where people meet and participate in a variety of competitions which allow them to demonstrate their technical and artistic skills. In addition to competing, attendees at demoparties socialize, network, learn from each other, and sometimes collaborate onsite on last minute entries.

    @party and the Boston Cyberarts Gallery are programs of Boston Cyberarts, a non-profit arts organization created to foster, develop and present a wide spectrum of media arts including electronic and digital experimental arts programming. They exhibit and promote the media and digital arts of Boston, New England and the world to audiences in the New England region and beyond and by doing so, helping to promote a sense of media and digital literacy, locally and regionally.

    Sign up at: http://moleman2-bcg.eventbrite.com/

     

  • metoikos 7:25 pm on June 8, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    last chance to register for @party 2012 

    Hi folks!

    The last day to register for @party 2012 is this coming Monday, June 11th. Registration closes at midnight.

    Use discount code atp12-A2 to get $15 off your ticket!

    If you are a student of any age receiving need-based financial aid, or an artist living near or under the poverty line, please contact us at questions@atparty-demoscene.net to find out more about our scholarship program. We want to see you at the party!

    Best Val

    atparty-demoscene.net @party is a program of the nonprofit organization Boston Cyberarts, Inc.. We aim to promote the development of the demoscene in North America within the context of art, educational, and technological communities that share our goals, foster cross-pollination in the New England art and technology community, and encourage collaboration between current and future demosceners around the world.

     

  • metoikos 1:09 pm on May 27, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    speech synthesis, arcade machines, symmetry groups, and so on – @party semi-final presentation schedule 

    Hi folks,

    @party (atparty-demoscene.net) is a local demoscene event (June 15-17, 10 minute walk from South Station), or demoparty, a collaborative electronic art festival where people share their knowledge, participate in a variety of competitions which allow them to demonstrate their technical and artistic skills, socialize, network, and sometimes collaborate onsite on last minute entries. If you wish to attend and are living at or below the poverty line or a student receiving need-based financial aid, contact us about a reduced-price ticket.

    Saturday 1-1:30pm The Apple II lives! Kansasfest and beyond. Ken Gagne 1:30-2pm What is SceneSat? Ziphoid 2-2:30pm More Fun with Symmetry. Bathsheba Grossman 2:30-3pm So you want to build an arcade machine? Franky 3-3:30pm What is CEMMI? Adrienne Debigare 3:30-4pm So, what kinds of demos do you make on an Atari? Havoc 4-4:30pm Make That Thing Talk! Speech synthesis. Damarie 4:30-5pm Advanced Soundscapes with Boodler Owen Williams

    Sunday 11am From breadboard to circuitboard at Artisans’ Asylum. Drew Van Zandt

    Best Val

     

  • metoikos 6:46 pm on May 17, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Next Wednesday – Art of the Algorithms at Artisans’ Asylum 

     

  • metoikos 8:42 pm on April 23, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    what’s a demoscene? find out at Artisans’ Asylum this Friday! 

    Event time: THIS FRIDAY, April 27th, 7pm Event location: Artisans’ Asylum classroom http://demoscene-aa1.eventbrite.com/

    Are you an artist, programmer, musician, electrical engineer, animator, roboticist, game developer, or otherwise artistic or technically minded individual?

    Then you may be interested in the demoscene, an electronic art subculture.

    Although the scene has historically been centered around demos, or realtime rendered generally noninteractive demonstrations of musical, programming, and artistic prowess, for many years it has been open to all kinds of explorations of the symbosis of art and technology.

    At this event, we will give a short overview of the demoscene, show you some notable scene productions, screen a short documentary on the formation of the Russian demogroup Quite, and let you know a bit about the event we’ll be running in the Fort Point area of Boston this June.

    Come learn what the scene has to offer you . . .

    @party is a local demoparty, a collaborative electronic art festival where people meet and participate in a variety of competitions which allow them to demonstrate their technical and artistic skills. In addition to competing, attendees at demoparties socialize, network, learn from each other, and sometimes collaborate onsite on last minute entries.

    Artisan’s Asylum, Inc. is a non-profit community craft studio located near Union Square in Somerville, Massachusetts, which offers classes on a variety of topics, as well as access to a fully equipped and maintained manufacturing facility, including a metal shop, a woodworking shop, welding facilities, general assembly areas, 3-D printing facilties, and more, as well as storage and working space rental for members.

    If you have any questions, please contact questions @ atparty – demoscene . net

     

  • metoikos 12:11 am on February 6, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    @party collaborative computer art festival, June 2012 

    @party registration has opened! You can access it at http://atparty12.eventbrite.com

    To find out more, visit atparty-demoscene.net

     

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