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
CoSin 2025 – Chaotic Event in Switzerland
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
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
Demoscene at the Vintage Computer Festival Zurich 2025
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
SRF Digital Podcast: The demo and cracker scene
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
Demonights 018: Vibrant Demoscene
No year could possibly end without an edition of the Demonights. So here we go again: Demonights 018 is going to take place on December 12th 2024, wrapping up the year nicely. We’ll talk about how we finally got the demoscene to be part of… Read more