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[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] Report: Graffathon 2026 – Coding becomes Art

The 2026 Bern Graffathon took place in a special atmosphere, namely in the premises of an art studio where primarily visual art is produced. «Coding goes Art» was the motto of this edition, which was very fitting for the location. The idea of bringing coding and art together in a new edition of the Bern Graffathon came up about a year ago and was enthusiastically supported by Echtzeit.

Once a good part of the 14 participants had arrived, we spent the day clarifying needs and offering technical solutions or support as they arose.

Tools available included a RaspberryPi, modern Linux laptops, a MIDI keyboard, and a graphics tablet. A curated library of books on topics such as generative art, graphics, mathematics, coding, street art, 8-bit retro culture, and more was available for all to use.

We invited people for a tour of the studio and showed the first floor and the artists who were working there in their small and larger studios, as well as their work to the interested Graffers. On the top floor, in the middle of the small urban garden, Moovie was able to set up his analogue camera to take a fun group photo.

The sunny terrace then provided a cosy spot for a relaxing lunch break. Refreshed and inspired by conversations, most people went back to their keyboards in the afternoon to continue working creatively.

In the afternoon, it was time to take a look at the exciting Xenium demoparty in Łódź, Poland, while working. A deadline was set for 7 p.m., but we were distracted from the final sprint by the welcome and delicious pizzas.

After all the demos were completed, there was a short review round and the audience favourites were determined by voting. Among them was an artist from the studio who looked at our demos from her perspective and was able to ask some unexpected questions to the hackers.

Unfortunately, the voting was not spared from glitches. Nevertheless, here are the final winners who were able to claim a sponsored prize:

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[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] GRADE in Paris: An event co-organised by Echtzeit, the Cookie Collective and DOC Paris

Research meets Art meets Free Knowledge meets Activism meets Institutions

Too often our different groups work in silos, follow completely different ways of working and still all have the same goal: make space for digital art and culture, generate visibility, respect, acceptance and resources. We could achieve so much more, if we would exchange more and invite each other into our words.

Given that, we’ve been excited about the request by the COST-Action GRADE (Grassroots of Digital Europe) whether we would like to organise one of their network meetings in 2026 with a strong community focus. After having had the pleasure of taking part in their network and several conferences, we found a lack of francophone exposure (honestly, similar to Echtzeit itself). And after our previous great experience working with the Cookie Collective, we knew exactly who our dream partner for this event would be!

Thanks to Baya’s (Azertype) contacts to the cultural centres and artist scene of Paris and his experience in event tech, we were able to provide a unique programme of frontal presentations, artistic installations, workshops and exchange opportunities between our different worlds.

The presentations included anything from the work of GRADE, Open Science, -Software and -Knowledge topics, Community organising until background information on current artistic projects by the Cookie Collective, for example different live coding platforms, XR (Extended Reality) and Hard- and Software Hacking.

Additionally visitors had tons of fun with the Incontrolab installations by Emilie Breslavetz and Leon Denise ( https://playful-machines.com/), Crashboard 2000 and Orbital, as well as a live act in the evening by Azertype with his amazing body-extension for live coding!

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[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] Report: Demoshow at chaos.jetzt #14 in Bern, August 8th, Chaostreff Bern

chaos.jetzt is the community platform for young hackers between 18 and 25 – so it was rather exciting to be invited to talk a little about the demoscene!

But... How would one go about presenting the demoscene to a younger audience without being either detached or cringe? It may come as a surprise to some of our Assembler-luminaries: evermore impressive high-end effects for evermore powerful PC-graphics cards tend to receive respectful nods instead of loud cheering these days.

In the shadow of Big Tech and accessible tutorials and communities, the past years have seen a resurgence of playing grounds like Neocities, cyberdecks and low-level programming languages particularly amongst young people.

To start of, a brilliant (and amusing) ressource to start building the talk was the archive of Atlantis Prophecy. This formed a bit of an excursion and illustration into the times when teenagers first made computing technologies their own, leading to a journey through the different platforms and technolgies arising thereafter, cummulating (for now) in the higher focus on creative style and self-restriction through sizecoding on the PC.

We showed demos that should not only present different platforms, but are also some fantastic inspiration for own experimentation, strive for perfection or also simply joy when exploring a platform:

• Area 5150 by CRTC + Hornet (2022) - https://demozoo.org/productions/311767/
• Eon by The Black Lotus (2019) - https://demozoo.org/productions/202831/
• A Statement on The Platform Wars by Moonbase Allstars (2019) - https://demozoo.org/productions/342318/
• Razor1911 by Razor 1911 (2026) - https://demozoo.org/productions/390060/

The presentation slides (in German) are available on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2026-08_Demoszene-Intro-chaosjetzt.pdf

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[ Amiga online magazines ] Born 50 years too late? An interview with Vasyl

All graphics and the picture © by Vasyl of Joker, Nah Kolor, TRSI. Introduction and questions by...

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 167. What's hot on the demo scene?

The demoscene is delivering hot, new tracker music and the parties are plentiful right now. DJ Daemon tells you what you need to know about the "AI demo-productions" debate, the new login feature for radio.ericade.net and how SceneSat is giving the scene a brand new feature: Shazam for your chiptunes.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon introduces a brand new track that competed in Evoke 2026.
00:35 Bacter and Jeenio and Saga musix - Upwards
04:07 ericade.radio - Flashback, tracks from the past - here is a medley of nice tunes
04:13 DJ Daemon presents the first medley of today. Some really nice tunes comes your way.
04:31 Trough - Wip 11
05:35 ericade.radio - Flashback, tracks from the past jingle 1
05:41 Clearwater - Rise and shine
06:41 Enacostione - missing you
08:07 ericade.radio - Flashback, tracks from the past jingle 2
08:12 s32k - Peachs castle midi
09:25 DJ Daemon wonders in which castle the princess is hidden and talks about the new cool waveforms of the songs on the website.
10:28 JustOrb - Pollen eller nektar
14:39 DJ Daemon explains the debate about AI in demo productions and the controversy.
15:40 Falcon - Cosmic outflow
20:06 DJ Daemon lets you in about a thing that might be coming to SceneSat soon - Shazam for chiptunes.
21:06 dr. Snuggles - It's a booty time
24:09 ericade.radio - Flashback, tracks from the past - here is another medley of nice tunes
24:15 DJ Daemon presents the second medley of today.
24:57 Amaryllis97226 - Rain (Remake)
26:12 C20g - The risky rescue
27:44 Lord Louvre - Wasp kg19 remix
29:17 Lord Louvre - In87 sundays
30:59 DJ Daemon brags about ericade.radio's new comment and login features.
31:58 C512w - The real one
34:17 DJ Daemon thinks we should talk more about the new cool tools that have come available recently.
35:07 C20g - Inside my world
39:07 DJ Daemon and Coreus are going to Revision 2027.
39:56 River - Cavern
42:19 DJ Daemon thanks Ziphoid for the guest status on SceneSat.
43:11 C20g - Inside my world
47:35 DJ Daemon notes that more "Voice of the demo scene" episodes coming up.
48:29 Zabutom - How not do a co-op
50:59 DJ Daemon tells you to tell us what you think about the station.
51:40 BenxarPaq - Merged feelings
54:04 DJ Daemon leads you into the good night with the last two tunes.
54:39 Cerreur - Crack 06
57:03 Slinx92 - Purple sky
01:00:41 ericade.radio - We love the demo scene.

Production notes:
The latest from the demo scene autumn 2025.

Tags: 2026, Host: DJ Daemon, Just playing the music