Demoscene Research

Doreen Hartman will lecture at the ISEARuhr2010 conference, in Dortmund, Germany, Monday 23rd August. The title of the lecture is Computer Demos and the Demoscene. Artistic Subcultural Innovation in Real-Time. It is part of the panel Coded Art. The location and time of the lecture is Volkshochschule Dortmund, room L110, at 13:40. Please follow this link for further information: http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/conference/conference-overview.

Added a working paper by Wasiak (2010). The paper describes the reception of home computers in Poland in the 1980s.

Hirvitalo, a contemporary art museum in Tampere, Finland, will host a demo-related exhibition in August. For more info, see the exhibition page (Finnish) on their site. Thanks to Manu for the tip!