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.
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
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.
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:
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
@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.
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.
You can now catch the full lineup of audio and visual artists at the quintessential 8-bit music festival in New York from May 19-21. Of special interest to the demoscene are Ctrix (.au, Syntax Party), 4mat (.uk, Ate Bit), and Ultrasyd (.fr, Brainstorm). Seriously, if you have any tolerance for loud chip music and you like to have fun, do not miss this.
Next weekend is the anniversary of NAID ’95, and gd is organizing an audio conference among people who were there. There’s a Facebook event with all of the details. If you’d like to participate and haven’t been invited to the Facebook event yet, please let him know. If you don’t use Facebook, he can send you the details the old fashioned way.
Also, @party and Boston8bit will be hosting a chiptune concert and demo show as part of the Boston CyberArts Festival, at the Atlantic Wharf on April 24th, from 3-6pm.
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