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Article about demoscene culture?

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Does anyone know a good article about the demoscene culture?
added on the 2011-12-22 18:55:44 by Danguafer Danguafer
You mean an article about the drinking culture of finnish sceners?
And don't forget about the Polish!
added on the 2011-12-22 19:46:27 by kbi kbi
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As Jolyon Ralph says, "It's a completely underground thing that's completely harmless. No one gets hurt. Apart from Atari owners, of course."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/democoders_pr.html
added on the 2011-12-22 19:48:26 by Gargaj Gargaj

PC demoscene FAQ
http://tomaes.32x.de/text/faq.php

Rhizome Arts
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2010/may/17/the-demoscene-an-overview/

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

just in case Wired link fails in your domain
Demo or Die (mirror)
http://www.roysac.com/demo-or-die.asp

What is a demoparty?
http://atparty-demoscene.net/?page_id=70


**videos**

Part 5 of BBS: The Documentary: Artscene
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8435197985291572970&hl=en

talk by kb at GAMBIT
http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2011/11/video_what_can_the_demoscene_d.php

more ASCII-specific
http://www.roysac.com/videos.asp

Demoscene History lecture at ASM 05
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5716398326696022800&hl=en

Demographics: Behind the Scene
http://www.roysac.com/videos.asp#demoscenedoc

Finnish demoscene documentary series, Episode 1 (subtitles are there)
(can find others from here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Jz1bu2CcA



Doubtless I've missed a lot.
note the wikipedia article is useful for bibliography plundering, primarily interesting for that
That wired thing is Awesome!!!
Evidently polish are much harder boozers than finns indeed in general. I remember very well when finns were waking up and drinking some beer at some BP, poles were already busy with their hard stuff.
added on the 2011-12-22 22:36:20 by Serpent Serpent
Future of Demo Art (and the related thread on Pouët).
and dont forget to send your relatives to Inercia Demoparty 2000and5...
Quote:
That wired thing is Awesome!!!


random quote from that wired article:
Quote:
the Atari ST, has disappeared from the scene - a disappearance hastened, if you believe the coders, by the sheer superiority of Amiga demos

awesome, indeed.
added on the 2011-12-23 07:08:41 by zerkman zerkman
Some feeling stepped on? ;)
trust me, the Atari is more alive as a demo platform than the Apple I bet

(please, please someone prove me wrong . . . not to the detriment of Atari, but . . . damn you Steve Jobs, you shit in my dream)
the atari st disappeared to OUTLINE. please come to OUTLINE. we use Apple Is for the bonfire!
I would recommened some stuff, which is (unfortunately) available in German language only.

Dr. Daniel Botz wrote a whole book about the demoscene, called "Kunst, Code and Maschine: Die Ästhetik der Computer-Demoszene". It goes through all parts, history and present of the demoscene in a scientific point of view:

Website (includes table of content in English language, too): http://www.danielbotz.de/book_toc_eng.html
Interview with the author (German): http://www.bitfellas.org/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.2139

Anja Hartmann wrote a scientific thesis about "The role of fonts in demos". She had a closer look at five prods, which are Heaven Seven, Die Ewigkeit schmerzt, Rastro, Human Sources and Angelic. The thesis consists of 28 pages and is written in German language.

Download: ftp://ftp.4players.de/pub/pc/4sceners/Games/Typodemos.pdf
Interview with the author (German): http://www.bitfellas.org/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.1514
added on the 2011-12-23 22:07:09 by Bobic Bobic
Why hasn't anyone mentioned http://www.kameli.net/demoresearch2/?page_id=4 yet?
Thanks for the certainly excellent readings. I'm really interested in reading this German book by Daniel Botz, but I need to learn the language first. :P
added on the 2011-12-25 02:21:43 by Danguafer Danguafer

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