The competitive, international demoparty in Slovakia that connects important personalities of IT industry, digital art and game development.
Demobit is a three days celebration of computer subculture, that includes demo premieres, tributes to demoscene veterans and speakers while enjoying concerts, parties, and the atmosphere of the outstanding futuristic venue Binarium in Bratislava. After a very successful Demobit 2017 - Resurrection celebration last year, the next Demobit 2018 - Resonation is fast approaching and it will be just as exciting!
- Demobit is a historic Slovak demoscene event with more than 20 years tradition. It took place in Bratislava and Nitra. The first Demobit was organized in 1993.
- The first and second Demobit were organized by a group of enthusiastic students (Zden, Skywalker, Infi) at Bratislava high school.
- The third and the biggest Demobit party was held in Bratislava’s PKO with more than one thousand attendees (comparable to the biggest demoparty “Revision” in Germany nowadays) sponsored by the first Slovak computer and software companies.
Demobit is organized to bring the demoscene to Slovakia and to promote the local development and interaction of creative young individuals to explore and share ideas. We offer a platform for art, technology, creativity, education and fun with the right party vibe. With this atmosphere we create an environment where creative people interested in computer graphics and computers can meet, collaborate and enjoy themselves.
February 02TH
Arrival & Registration & Setup
Chip music - the primal scream of digital culture
February 03TH
February 04TH
You can reach Bratislava by plane (there are two airports - one in Vienna, one in Bratislava), by train (to the Bratislava Central Railway station or ŽST Petržalka Railway station), by bus (to the Bratislava Central Bus station "Mlynské nivy") or by car.
In any case of problems, call us!
Arrival Hot-lines: +421-905-400-542 ; +421-915-736-651
It provides digital companies and startups the right environment for their success.
Demobit party is organized in a beautiful venue of Binarium and its part is White Dragon Restaurant which is inspired by science fiction and contemporary pop culture.
Event and conference area has a seating capacity of up to 120 people; tasty food from various parts of the world; top espresso or filter, and high-quality Czech draft beer.
https://binarium.sk/events
You can either use Bratislava Public Transport (for journey planning see http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport) or reputable taxi services (install the iOS or Android applications HopinTaxi https://hopintaxi.com/ or Liftago https://www.liftago.com/) which are also quite popular in Bratislava.
Uber is also well supported in Bratislava and recommended to use.
All these mobile applications can allow you to make a price estimation for the given trip.
Bratislava has a very negative reputation of dishonest taxi drivers regularly participating in a robbery of the foreign tourists. Avoid them and prefer the reputable taxi services or Uber.
* From Bratislava airport
Using Bratislava Public Transport - probably the best combination is a bus 61 from the airport "Letisko" to "Račianske mýto" and then the bus 39 to the "Televízia". For detailed information see Journey Planner http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Letisko" to "Televízia". At the airport, there is a public transport ticket machine. The traveling time is about 45 minutes, so you need to buy a 60 minutes public transport ticket for 1.20 EUR.
The more comfortable alternative is to use Uber, HopinTaxi or Liftago.
Be Aware: Never take a random taxi at the airport if you are a foreigner and do not speak the Slovak language.
* From Vienna airport
Three different bus companies can help you to get you from Vienna Airport (Schwechat) to Bratislava:
1. Regiojet https://bustickets.studentagency.eu/
2. Blaguss https://www.flixbus.sk/
3. Slovak Lines https://www.slovaklines.sk/main-page.html
All buses leave the Vienna airport from the same one place in 20-30 minutes intervals. Expect 4-8 EUR/person. These buses take you to "Most SNP" or the central bus station "Autobusová stanica". If it is possible, prefer the bus station "Most SNP" that is closer to the Demobit place.
To get to the Demobit place from "Most SNP" use a combination of the bus 28/30/37 to get to "La Franconi", then take the bus 31/39 to the "Televízia". You need the 30-minutes ticket for 0.70 EUR.
For detailed information see Journey Planner
http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Most SNP" to "Televízia".
To get to the Demobit place from the central bus station "Autobusová stanica" use a combination of the trolley bus 208 to "Kolárovo námestie", then take the bus 31/39 to the "Televízia."
For detailed information see Journey Planner
http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Autobusová stanica" to "Televízia".
You can still take Uber or HopinTaxi/Liftago taxi that should cost about 5 EURO.
* From the Central Railway Station ("Hlavná stanica")
Take the bus 93 from The Central Railway Station to "Zochova" , then the bus 31/39 to "Televízia". You need the 30 minutes ticket for 0.90 EUR.
For detailed information see Journey Planner
http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Hlavná stanica" to "Televízia".
You can still take Uber or HopinTaxi/Liftago taxi that should cost about 5 EURO.
Be Aware: Never take a random taxi from the central station if you are a foreigner and do not speak the Slovak language.
* From the Petržalka Railway station ("ŽST Petržalka") - especially for arrivals from Vienna / Austria
Take the bus 80/93/93 from "ŽST Petržalka", then the bus 31/39 to "Televízia". You need the 30 minutes ticket for 0.70 EUR.
For detailed information see Journey Planner http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "ŽST Petržalka" to "Televízia".
You can still take Uber or HopinTaxi/Liftago taxi that should cost about 5 EURO.
Be Aware: Never take a random taxi from the railway station if you are a foreigner and do not speak the Slovak language.
* From the Central Bus station ("Autobusová stanica")
To get to the Demobit place from the central bus station "Autobusová stanica" use a combination of the trolley bus 212 to Kollárovo námestie, then take the bus 39 or 31 to the "Televízia."
For detailed information see Journey Planner
http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Autobusová stanica" to "Televízia".
You can still take Taxify, Uber or HopinTaxi/Liftago taxi that should cost about 5 EURO.
From anywhere
We know how much of effort, skills, battle, face full of sweat required creating a demoscene production. But after that, full of love and enthusiasm, you deliver your masterpiece to the compo team waiting for a big moment until it will appear on a big screen.
We have the ready budget of 3000 EUR for competition prizes and normally we reward every production up to 5th place. We appreciate real-time/wild competitions the most. Besides that, we have some goodies from our sponsors (Trezor wallets, Retrocomputing gadgets, Notch PLE licenses etc.).
We would like to appreciate your achievement by these pieces of modern art. The trophies are made by Slovak academic sculptor Filip Šicko and used materials are bronze and concrete.
The artistically most valuable release will be again selected by Special Artistic Commision consisted of members who commit their profession to art and design.
A work of renowned Slovak artist Erik Sille is full of impressive colors, shapes and energy genuinely depicted by inspiration in graffiti, street art, comic book, animated cinema, internet, computer games, tattoo, package design, an iconography of advertising and entertainment business.
Check a report of his exhibition in Kunstalle Bratislava http://www.kunsthallebratislava.sk/en/event/erik-sille-error
Whose collection of awards will be completed by his artwork?
Pavol Bálik – professional assistant at the Department of Visual Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
Erik Binder – Slovak painter and sculptor, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and in Prague
Ivana Šáteková – Slovak painter, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and puppetry set design Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava
Matt Swoboda alias Smash has been a PC democoder for nearly 20 years and has won numerous competitions and awards with the group Fairlight. After a career in game development, he moved into the live events world, producing visuals for major touring productions. He founded Notch in 2015 - developing software that makes real-time graphics creation accessible to artists and designers everywhere.
Going VR: Using virtual reality for live events, the music industry and the demoscene
VR is here. It's been massively overhyped and has problems, but it's also got a lot of potentials and hopefully isn’t going anywhere this time. Demos in VR could really make sense, just as they do for experiencing music. It's the only medium where you're "locked in" - you can't be distracted by the outside world.
What is Notch? How we made Notch VR capable? How Notch VR is used now? What VR means to the live events industry? What VR could mean for the demoscene?
Pandur, also known as Tom – long-time demoscener, Evoke demoparty organizer and real-time visual enthusiast, founder and developer of cables, a webgl visual programming environment
Introduction to cables.gl – learn how to work with 3d objects, images, animation, sound and video in cables and how to make a WebGL demo with it. Demo dissecting: Learn how some scenes and effects in "hold on" by holon were made.
As a researcher he has published texts about chip music and the demoscene at Ashgate and Rhizome. Currently he studies collective retro archiving together with associate professor Jörgen Skågeby, and writes books and papers about text graphics.
Goto80 runs the art blog TEXT-MODE and the research blog Chipflip.
Chip music - the primal scream of digital culture
Chip music can be described as the most digital music that we know. It's close to the guts of the machine and uses some of the most primitive digital functions. But as a genre, it has continuously changed since the term first appeared in the 1980's. This talk guides us through these changes from the early contexts of science and wars, to games and scene music, to the "new 8-bit punk" of the 2000's, and to today's ambiguous state of chip music. The talk is based on Goto80's master thesis on chip music.
"Things You Wouldn't Believe" - Expanding A 64k Intro Into Virtual Reality
As with any new generation of multimedia technology, the demoscene has finally arrived in the still turbulent, shape-shifting world of virtual reality: On the face of it, demos and VR sound like a great match - but are they? And if they are, what does it take to make a demo that is also a great VR experience?
Gargaj from Conspiracy will guide you on this small tour of how the
VR version of "Offscreen Colonies" - the first VR demoscene product - came to be and whether you should be following their footsteps.
(Conspiracy is award-winning Hungarian demogroup of multi-media artists, having been a renowned driving force behind the much-touted 64k intro category.)
Demoscener, graphics and web designer, organizer, initiator and gourmand. In the sphere of the audio-visual profession, he has worked over 19 years already. From the demoscene and animation, he moved to video-mapping and made over dozens of ‘notches’.
What is video mapping and how to get started with it - city facades like canvas, bending of reality by audiovisual experience (in Czech )
Řrřola will finish his second half of 256 bytes coding tricks.
Czech game coder (Arma 2, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Factorio). Started
in 1987 on the ZX Spectrum, improving in x86 asm since 1995, joined
the demoscene in 2007. Likes minimalism, typography and dancing.
Ronny - Hamburg based DJ & producer, mind of _rohformat, helping hand at AudioRealism, demoscener with Farbrausch & Still. He is known for the soundtrack of the most renowned demo - Debris by legendary demogroup Farbraush and cooperates with very talented experimental demogroup STILL. He is very active scener and newly experiments with analog synthesis.
Have you ever seen live improvised tracker music on a Commodore 64? This is what Goto80 will do for us, playing slow ambient electronica with the notorious defMON tracker. The tracker will be shown on the screen, so you can study his every move, and is combined with Zden's visuals.
Lesnik (real name Piotr Lesnikowski) is known from the 90s and early
2000s as the creator of chiptune / 8bit and demo music. Nowadays, as a
producer of electronic music combining genres such as drum and bass,
acid jazz and other electronic styles, he uses self-made soft synths
to create atmospheric, emotional moods. His love for photography,
classic movies and psychology helps to create humanistic, emotional
but still "danceable" songs. Website: lesnik.pragmahead.com
Audio-visual experience presenting nostalgic drum & bass with a lot of
dreamy melodies accompanied by moody visualization: one-hour visual
story about childhood, adolescence, and emotions (mostly original
footage recorded by Jacku, mixed live). You can sit and listen/watch
or dance like there's no tomorrow - you decide!
Visuals will be served by Jacku!
Due to the limited capacity, the number of all tickets is strictly limited (200), please buy them as soon as possible.
The following tickets are in sale:
The ticket includes:
Big thanks to all our visitors who came to support us :)
However, Demobit has gone through its specific development, it has always connected important personalities of the domestic and international scene. It has been historically a cradle for top coders, game developers, digital artists, graphicians, DJ and VJ artists.
The comeback happened again on 27th – 29th of January 2017, after almost 20 years! =>
https://www.flickr.com/photos/demobit/albums/with/72157679795748105
Nonetheless, many of them remember the ‘golden age’ of 90’s, since then the demoscene has moved forward, no doubts.
Demobit was the first event in the complete new premises of digital sanctuary - BINARIUM Tech Hub and its part is also the futurist restaurant White Dragon. The capacity for 200 people was full and the community came from Hungary, Norway, Finland, Poland, Portugal, Netherlands, Austria, Czechia, Spain.
See the results and prods:
http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=65&when=2017
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2017/demobit17/
Daniel ‘Redox’ Sykora – Helping Charming Hand-Drawn to Survive in Cruel CG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRAtBL13tM&t=226s
Kostas ‘Navis’ Pataridis - Now and Then: Life in the Big ASD Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GNVBuVHKso
Filipe ‘PS’ Cruz – Demoscene and Netaudio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgk-iR9bjxo&t=379s
Michal ‘Kiero’ Wozniak – Making ‘high-end’ Amiga Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr75DoARDMQ
Jan ‘Řrřola’ Kadlec – Magic of 256 Bytes x86 Intros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbWYBE9vjdk&t=1188s
The whole program on Demobit party channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoy8SV2TphP-XcN-2Tu981Q
We created a concept of the most artistic release selected by special jury consisted of the members who dedicate their profession to art & design - Artistic Jury Award. The first Artistic Jury consisted of:
Maria Rišková
– Director of Slovak Centre of Design
Maroš Brojo
– Artistic Director of International Animation Festival Fest Anča
Matej Fandl
– Interactive Graphic Programmer
Artistic Jury Award was received Filipe ‘PS’ Cruz for his poetic and interactive demo There is, in Cyberspace.
The statue was created by renowned artist Ašot Haas from the collection the Resonance of Sound.