The Vintage Computer Festival Zurich is dedicated to the revival and preservation of historic computers and technologies. It offers visitors the opportunity to travel back in time to the beginnings of computer technology and experience the development of computers up close. In the talk “Demoscene… Read more
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Museum Night at Musée Bolo
On 23 September 2023, the “Nuit des Musées” (Museum Night) will take place in Lausanne. The Musée Bolo will host a demo show from 6pm to 10pm: Fred vous montre comment les geeks ont exprimé leur côté artistique des années 80 à aujourd’hu / Fred… Read more
Demoscene newly added to Swiss Inventory of Living Traditions
The Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC) declared in its 22nd August 2023 media release that the Demoscene has been added to the national Inventory of Living Traditions, as one of only four new national traditions, under the title “Demoscene – Digital Creativity”. After its… Read more
ICE: From Underground to UNESCO Heritage
On Thursday 15 June after 6pm, Andre Kudra will give a presentation at the ICE Conference entitled “Demoscene: From Underground Digital Culture to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage” including a live Q&A. Andre is a long-time and active member of Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur. The ICE… Read more
MountainBytes 2023 – Swiss Demoparty Revival
After a six-year hiatus and a three-year phase of involuntary delays due to Covid, Switzerland finally has its demoparty back! Invoking the old Buenzli spirit, and reviving the Swiss demoscene, MountainBytes is taking place from February 24th to 26th in Cham, Switzerland. And we have… Read more
Preservation! Buenzli & Demodays paper ressources
Got Papers? has scanned flyers, posts and brochures from Buenzli and Demodays events from the years 2007 trough 2014. All scans were archived on scene.org. Have a look at the scans at https://gotpapers.scene.org/?p=3997. Thank you, Got Papers?, for preserving those awesome paper fragments from our… Read more
Demonights 16: 20 Years of Echtzeit
20 years ago “Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur” was founded (at that time still called “Bünzli Party Organizers”) – it’s time to celebrate it properly: On Saturday, November 26, 2022 there will be the big “Echtzeit” party (aka. Demonights 16) at Kino Lichtspiel in Bern with… Read more
PlayBern! 2-4 September 2022
Already for the third time, we have the pleasure of being invited to PlayBern! And on top of that, we can finally bring even more: our friends from and around the Cookie Collective! Instead of a Demonights as in previous years, we’ll try something new:… Read more
Echtzeit Graffathon 2022
Building on our unique “One-Effect-Compos” and Demonights, Echtzeit invites you to the first hackathon weekend: on August 20 and 21, the Graffathon event for newcomers and experienced people will take place in the Erupt Lounge at the main station of Bern. Regardless of previous knowledge… Read more
DA-Z: Cancellation of Echtzeit presentations
Important update for the planned event by Echtzeit, Cookie Collective and SceneSat at DA-Z 2021: We regret to inform you that we, Echtzeit and the Cookie Collective, cannot present the Demoscene and Shader exhibition. The festival administration was unfortunately unable to provide us with the… Read more