Demoscene Research

Bent “Gloom” Stamnes has put together an interesting blog entry on the statistics of the demoscene during 1991-2011. Check it out here: http://blog.subsquare.com/state-of-the-demoscene-in-numbers

After a long wait, the demo video collection MindCandy 3 is finally released, and will start shipping on Nov 25. Included are both a Blu-Ray disc and a DVD. The price in Europe is about 20 euros.

Botz 2011 now in the bibliography. Go and order it, if you haven’t already!

After a long wait we were happy to hear that Daniel Botz’s PhD thesis Kunst, Code un Maschine: Die Ästhetik der Computer-Demoszene is now available for purchase. Check it out here: http://www.amazon.de/Kunst-Code-Maschine-%C3%84sthetik-Computer-Demoszene/dp/3837617491/. Will obviously appear in the bibliography as soon as we get our hands on it. Congratulations!

Critical Studies in Peer Production, a new online open access journal, is calling for articles for a special issue on the topic Expanding the frontiers of hacking. Bio-punks, open hardware and hackerspaces. Please note that the deadline for the abstracts is 10 July.

Thanks to Anders Carlsson for pointing this out: visualizations based on the Commodore 64 Scene Database.

Vilja Rydman’s recent master’s thesis on nerds might be of interest to some of you (Finnish language): https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/26224

I wrote a bunch of scripts to visualize the Pouet.net database of demoscene productions. While there is a great number of limitations and pitfalls in them, this sort of graphs haven’t been presented anywhere so far. Check them out here!

Added Paul A. Taylor’s book Hackers (1999) to related material.

Added In Medias Res to online material. A great number of old C64/Amiga scener interviews.