“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
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Demonights 019 – Swiss Castles Day Edition
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
Make them* Scene! Call for Participation
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 – Full House, Full Compos!
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
Demoscene at belGRADE Conference
We are looking forward to a very special weekend and collaboration opportunity in Mid-March. Echtzeit has been part of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action called GRADE – Grassroot Movements of Digital Europe. One of the working groups is exploring women and… Read more
MountainBytes Demoparty – Valentine’s Will be Nerdy this Year!
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
Annual Proceedings 2024
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
Review of PROW:ESSE at the HackThePromise Festival 2024
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
Living Traditions in Switzerland: Demoscene and digital creativity
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
Exhibition PROW:ESSE – Gender Diversity in Digital Arts
We have been cooking this for a long time: we are over the moon to announce our exhibition PROW:ESSE, presenting the work of six highly talented demosceners in a completely new way. We are especially grateful to our production partner SCREENCOM, who provide us with… Read more









