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

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.

As some of you might have heard before (Ojuice, personal message, or some other mailinglists), we've been doing heavy outreach action yesterday evening at the University of Arts in Zurich. We (that were Paralax/Speckdrumm, Robocop/Atlantis and me) were invited by the professors of the faculty of 'New Media' to present the idea of demos and the demoscene to the students under the idea of a regular
event called "Digitaler Salon". This event is more or less regularly taking place and always features some interesting presentation and whatever you can think of (beside a good supply of beer and snacks,  of course).

What we did
As requested we prepared a full featured demostration/presentation  of demos and the demoscene. Personally, I prepared a PowerPoint  presentation with a lot of photos/images and audio/video content (yes, it took me quite a while, but it's possible to do that with PowerPoint) :) Paralax has been talking about the history of the scene and explained expressions that are wellknown to all of us, but not to people that are not involved within the scene. Paralax additionally showed how to create a demo using a demo-
tool (coding is not what the students of an Art school are most interested in) - he presented his own tool of course. I continued by explaining "news and media" in the scene as well as giving and idea of what a demoparty is (thanks to Slengpung for all the photos ;-)). Robocop closed the presentation by having an unprepared speech about the Swiss demoparty "Buenzli" and generally about his passion for demos and the scene.

The Feedback
The feedback was awesome, people invited us for beer and wanted to know more details - and some of the even plan to come to Buenzli next August. In some smaller room right beside the presentation location, we set up some kind of demo-lounge with a C64 running various demos, an old 486 running Second Reality + a new PC having a couple of Windows-demos on the harddisk.

I have also been talking a lot to the professors and it seems that there will be some more outcome in this, maybe seminaries on demos  or generally realtime-arts. As another form of feedback those "artists" gave me some hints to revolutionize demomaking (not exactly, but they gave some hints on making demos looking more like traditional oldschool movies when it comes to the design/separation
of the screen content and so on).. :)

That's it for this small report that has just been written to show you that also the Swiss scene does outreaching ;-) Actually, from our side, the thing was running through our Buenzli-society. I will certainly  write a more detailed report on all this for the next issue of PAiN.

Best regards,
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The Chaos Computer Club Cologne will have a presentation by Digitale Kultur e.V. on the demoscene. The talk will mainly be about the Breakpoint releases and the 'making-of' for some of those productions them:
chaos computer club cologne | OpenChaos am 27.05.2004: Demoszene

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ATI Inc. and Breakpoint announce partnership for festival of independent computer artists

The Canadian manufacturer of innovative visual processor solutions ATI Technologies Inc. and the organization behind the Breakpoint digital festival today announced their partnership for the Breakpoint 2004 event.

Breakpoint takes place at Easter, in Bingen, which is near the river Rhein in central southern Gemany. For 4 days Breakpoint hosts more then 1000 independent digital artists from 33 countries. At the festival itself, the artists will submit self-made creations in several competitions. These creations (called demos) consist of music, graphics, and computer code. The art produced by combining these elements is judged by the Breakpoint audience, and those with the highest ratings will receive prizes at the end of the festival.

Simon Kissel, Main Organizer of Breakpoint, comments "ATI Inc. is a perfect partner for us, as they are not just offering us a platform for presentation, but also communicating directly with the artist community."

Central for ATI Inc. is the value of the highly creative output of this growing computer subculture: "ATI's main purpose is to provide perfect 3D hardware. The artists at Breakpoint show us how to combine the technical, the avant-garde, and the cutting edge - pushing limits with an artist's eye." - Uwe Semtner, Marketing Director of ATI Germany.

The so called "demoscene", who provide their works to Breakpoint is a worldwide non-commercial society of creative individuals involved in the making of what they have termed "Demos". "Demos" could be considered computer generated music clips done by programmers, graphic artists and musicians. These show what kind of graphic and sound effects can be done by pushing computer hardware to its full potential. Breakpoint is one of the demoscene's culminating events where the designers, programmers, and composers of these "demos" exhibit their skills.

Breakpoint: 09.04.2004 - 12.04.2004 - Milit�rdepot Bingen http://breakpoint.untergrund.net
http://www.demoscene.info

For more information: breakpoint04@untergrund.net
press contact:
Simon Kissel +49(0)6721-991177
Ekkehard Br�ggemann +49(0)170-7311245