Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur

Welcome to Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur. We are a non profit association supporting all things demoscene in Switzerland. The demoscene is a digital culture and community creating digital arts often represented by computer generated animations running in realtime (hence the name Echtzeit, which is German for realtime). Our association organizes festivals (so called demoparties) and meetups and runs channels for communication and collaboration. We team up with similar organization from all over the world.

We are the organization behind traditional demoscene events like Buenzli – Swiss Demoscene Festival or Demodays and Demonights. In 2021 we launched MountainBytes, an all new Swiss demoparty.

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MountainBytes 2026

Switzerlands biggest Demoparty is back in full swing! From February 27 to March 1st, we’ll celebrate the new demoscene year together at the Dreiklang in Steinhausen, announce the Meteoriks nominees for the best demos of the previous year, and then present our – your! –… Read more

Demonights 020: Retrospectives

Twenty Demonights? Are you serious? Who would have thought! Daylight has become little and it’s time to gather in the infamous hackerspace in Bern again: We’ll be looking back at 19 unique Demonights followed by a carefully curated showcase of what we think is the… Read more

Autonomy in a Box

“Hey, it seems that Dropbox-link you sent me expired, can you send me that one capture again?” “You can have a look at our project plan in this Google Doc!” “What do you think, should we use Survey Monkey or Microsoft Forms for the registration?”… Read more

GPN23 – Demoscene at Gulaschprogrammiernacht

For the second time, we’ve been joining the Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe. GPN is the second-biggest event in Germany organised by the Chaos Computer Club’s local organisation Entropia e.V., and features a plethora of talks, workshops and meetups about hacking, digital culture and netizen politics. Psykon… Read more