It’s about time! Welcome to another edition of the Demonights! It’s a special edition even. On the Swiss Castles Day (Oct 5, 2025), we’ll gather in the Castel Grande in Bellinzona for two hours straight of demos, old and new. Bienvenuti in Ticino! Integrated with… Read more
Still nothing planned for the upcoming extendable weekend? CoSin 2025 is coming up and will take place over 4 days this time: May 29 to June 1, 2025, again at the magnificent Villa Ritter in Biel/Bienne. The event is: A meeting, teaching, learning, contact, entertainment… Read more
TL;DR: Grant Call for Case Studies – Women and Minorities in Creative Computing! Apply Now! Header image “Wardrobe Change” by NuSan, 4kb Executable Graphic – CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 “Well yes, but if you make it with a computer, it’s not a true artistic creation, is it?”… Read more
MountainBytes 2025 is over, and after a bit of recovery we can officially say: we couldn’t be happier! We were excited to welcome 120 demosceners from Switzerland and all over the world to our event – some even from as far as Hongkong! What an… Read more
For the third time in its current iteration, and for the 26th time in a long Swiss tradition, the Swiss demoscene and its international friends come together to celebrate MountainBytes, the biggest participative digital art festival in Switzerland! For three days, we are looking at… Read more
The last year was characterized by an above-average number of activities of our association. Many thanks to everyone who actively helped or supported us in any other way! The annual proceedings report is being published in German and English, to also give international donors and… Read more
The Vintage Computer Festival Zurich is committed to the preservation and revival of historical computers and technologies and brings past eras of computer technology to life. Visitors can take a fascinating journey back in time to the beginnings of the computer world and experience the… Read more
The SRF Digital Podcast has produced a great episode about the cracking and demo scene in Switzerland (but of course not only). Reto Widmer from SRF Digital spoke with Shana Marinitsch, Gleb Albert and Andry Joos (all members of Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur) as well… Read more
Our exhibition PROW:ESSE – Gender Diversity in Digital Arts & Craft celebrated its premiere at the HackThePromise Festival 2024 in Basel. We have now published a comprehensive review and description of the exhibition and show what effect the portraits of the six demosceners had and… Read more
In September 2024, the list of living traditions was supplemented with the new dossiers from the August 2023 update. As part of Demoscene – Art of Coding, “Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur” drove the development of the dossier. We are very pleased that the demoscene now… Read more