Demoscene Research

Added another demoscene article, Demoscene Computer Artists and Community by Hastik and Steinmetz, published in the Proceedings of CERC 2012.

In case you missed Mindcandy 2: Amiga Demos, here’s good news for you. Since the DVD was sold out they decided to release it freely as a DVD image. Find more on the release here and the download here.

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!