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
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
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
As most of you already know, Gargaj and Gloom handed over the production and editing work of the ZINE-podcast to a new team. And Echtzeit is happy to be on board! The podcast is now being produced by Shana, to continue bringing you monthly news,… Read more
A few days ago, our member André “kudrix” Kudra has been invited to Piksel21 in Bergen (Norway), to present the demoscene especially in the light of it’s UNESCO Cultural World Heritage anointment. André “took the opportunity to explain the festival participants more about our culture,… Read more
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
Now that party organising across Europe is finally picking up again, debates have sparked around the right level of measures, safety concepts and the vaccine in the demoscene, just like everywhere else. In order to support organisers with reliable numbers, we conducted a survey and… Read more
The Open Education Day took place on April, 24th (see our announcement). At the Open Education Day as created and presented by CH Open and PHBern you were able get access to know how and experience for working as a teacher in Switzerland and under… Read more
Great news from our partner project “Demoscene – Art of Coding”. The German UNESCO chapter replied to the application positively, announcing the demoscene as Immaterial Cultural Heritage. With this, Germany is the second country after Finland that recognizes not just the artistic, but also the… Read more
At the Open Education Day as created and presented by CH Open and PHBern you’ll get access to know how and experience if you’re working as a teacher in Switzerland and under the “Lehrplan 21”. With presentations, workshops and lightning talks about open source technologies,… Read more