Intel launched their website for a closed group demo competition with exclusive music by DJ Hell. The contestants are: ASD, Conspiracy, Farbrausch, MFX and Fairlight. The winning team will be announced December 1st and celebrated on December 7th at a party in Munich. For further information, visit the contest's website: http://intel-demoscene.de/

The OpenChaos Meeting at the Chaos Computer Club Cologne will feature the best demos from Breakpoint 2006.

Am Donnerstag, den 27. April 2006 werden in den Clubräumen des Chaos Computer Club Cologne die besten Beiträge aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen der Breakpoint 2006 vorgeführt.

Im Rahmen der Präsentation wird zusätzlich auf die Hintergründe der Demos und ihrer Macher eingegangen.

Weitere Informationen finden sich auf den Seiten des C4.

You belong to the scene and write realtime Demos with neat visual effects and music on descent hardware? Then you should head over to the Bitfilm website to contribute your Demo to the "Bitfilm Festival" and win fame and prices. The winner will receive a price money of 1500 Euros!

In 2006 Bitfilm uses a new voting process: the Internet community will decide about the Bitfilm Awards by a public voting process between June and September. For this reason they don't accept .exe-files. Technical difficulties would scare non-demosceners away. They recommend to use .kkapture by Farbrausch for the transformation.

Submission deadline is June 1, 2006. The Award Show will take place on September 7 in Hamburg, Germany.

It's possible to post contributions that were already released elsewhere. They only reject Demos that were presented at Bitfilm before. So please post your contributions if you want to take part immediately here: http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/demos.php?lang=eng

ZUENDER -Subkultur : Kunst aus Code

Featuring a profile of sTEELER and others.

KSTA.DE: Moderne Kunst nur aus Nullen und Einsen

The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger featured an introductionary artice on the demoscene, published today.

This Friday there will be a demo-screening as part of the Filmfest Dresden - International Festival for Animation and Short Films.

It will show a selection of some of the most interesting win32-demos released over the last five years.

The programme is called Passages 3: Programmed Fantasies in Realtime.

Location and time details:
Fr. 15.04. - 21:30 / Cinema 5
Filmtheater Metropolis/Waldschlösschenareal
Dresden, Germany

For more information check: http://www.filmfest-dresden.de/

Intro - MAGAZIN > MUSIK - Demoscene. - Rechenkünstler by Felix Knoke.

From March 10th to 16th supported by ATI and Intel, Digitale Kultur e.V. presents the Demoscene at CeBIT, the world's biggest computer exhibition in Hanover.

As co-exhibitor of ATI and with suapport from Intel, Digitale Kultur e.V. presents the worldwide network of approximately 15.000 computer artists, the so called "Demoscene", in hall 27.

In collaboration with Intel GmbH and ATI, Digitale Kultur gives interested visitors an understanding of the technical and artistic contact with computers. The focus of the presentation are mostly exhibits from the Digital Art and the Demoscene of the recent years.

Additionally Digitale Kultur aims to give a point of reference for Demosceners at CeBIT, "Aside of the pure meeting point, the exhibition booth has always been more. There has been active exchange between artists and audience.", Stefan Keßeler president of the association  summarizes his memories of last year's appearance.

Uwe Semtner, marketing director of ATI Europe, is impressed by the demoscene: "The Digitale Kultur booth shows clearly that demos demand a great deal of performance from nowadays' graphic cards and that our products meet these requirements."

Just recently Digitale Kultur started allowing for the international character of the Demoscene by welcoming international members. So this year at CeBIT, the new Belgium member Peter Smets actively supports the association at the booth.

If you still want to compete in the fmx digital arts festival make sure you upload your demo-submissions by Tuesday 2005/03/08.

Your demo may have participated in other festivals before. So make sure you submit your demo here:

http://www2.festival-gmbh.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=d_fmx05_flashup_form

What do you get? You can archieve international reputation and win one of several hardware prizes!

Virtual Museum opens subsidary in germany

Digitale Kultur e.V. in cooperation with NetCologne opens German mirror
for global "scene.org" network.

"scene.org" is the main virtual museum for the worldwide demoscene. The
demoscene concerns itself with creating computer generated short movies
that show the ultimate in graphic and sound performance capable on todays
hardware. The archive contains nearly all productions released in the last 15
years.

In cooperation with NetCologne, who is suppling the connectivity, Digitale
Kultur e.V. is now able to provide a German mirror for the currently 250
gigabyte size archive.

Originally only reachable via FTP protocol, the main server located in Holland
was updated over the years to a comfortable WWW site, allowing the users to
download the productions from their nearest mirror. Available among those
mirrors now is the copy located in the NetCologne datacenter in Cologne,
Germany.

"A German mirror is insofar important for the demoscene as after very
successful demoscene events the main server suffers from the amount of
access", says Timo Eismar from Digitale Kultur e.V.
Beside productions from the demoscene "scene.org" also contains a music
archive featuring many netlabels. "Free server such as these are essential for
the digital media and artworld", underlines Marc Wallowy, labelhead of Tokyo
Dawn Records, strengthening the importance of this server to the netlabelmovement:
"Without the gracious support of organisations like Digitale Kultur
e.V. or Scene.org the rising netlabel scene would never be possible".