News

This years event is now over. Alternative Party wants to thank all the visitors, speakers, artists, sceners, exhibitors, sponsors, partners and ALL of you for a warm and lovely event we got.

Listen to 103,1 MHz from Friday 17 to Sunday 16. 48 hours of pure demoscene content with live coverages, interviews and great music! In co-operation with Scenesat and Radio Hami. Available in Ruoholahti, Lauttasaari and Downtown Helsinki.

If you take photos at Alt Party, you can upload them to Flickr with tag altparty:event=2009 so they will appear at our Web 2.0 page. Also you can send photos from your mobile with email or MMS to our visitors' photos page.

In twitter you can tag your tweets with hashtag #altparty so they will appear also our web site.

Welcome to Alternative Party 2009. Advance ticket sales has ended. Tickets available at the door. See you soon!!!

Remember to buy your advance ticket today before the day changes. Andvance ticket sales ends and event starts tomorrow!

The prize list has been updated. We have some super cool new prizes, such as two Nokia N900 devices. You have still time to participate in the competitions. May the best win!

The opening ceremony of Alternative Party 2009 will consist of music and vj show by MK10/FTHR Productions: music by Tuomas Munck and VJing by Mr. Jädertpolm with some pre words to wellcome all by the founder organisers Setok and Ravel.

Buy your ticket now! Advance ticket sales of Netrunner and Edgerunner tickets available until Thursday 22nd October. Bank transfer payment option ends on Monday 19th October. Details on other ticket types here.

Remember to participate the big pro ALT competition and win a dinner!

Have an intresting place in mind? Got nothing to do for the evening? Go to glue a poster there and win a luxurious three course dinner with special guest of your choise. Read more!

Brain Pool is a place where you can present your idea, art or anything in a 30 minutes long session. The collection of brains will process your input and help you refining whatever you are doing! Read more.

This year's MSX table at ALT is going to be wilder than before. There will be plenty of MSX hardware to show and for example "Man meets machine" theme compatible interactive multimedia installation with MSX controlled robot & camera including video projection.

The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE awards 1500 € for the best demo or other type of entry in the YLE Material Challenge. Show your skills and make a broadcasting revolution!

Live music performances: 80's game music adapted to electronic dance music by Microkorgs. Contemporary electronic music by Byproduct. 303 acid techno sounds by Healium. C64 sounds by 64Mula. Trio DStruction playing only with Nintendo DS and Korg DS-10.

Themed Video Competition is a short film competition, with a mandatory theme. Make your own short film concerning the theme Alternative future, finalise it before the party or at the party and present it to all by participating in the competition!

A three course dinner will be served on Friday 23rd October at 18 - right before the opening show at 20. Begin your party weekend with your friends and the special guests!

You won't be walking around hungry or thirsty at Alternative Party. Food is available 24h a day.

There will be Nebula Club - a bar to provide you a place to sip a pint while watching compos from the screen. Bar is also full of it's own programme.

We are very happy to announce that cosy and lovely Cafe Soihtu will serve you at party area this year as before.

Schedule version 1.0 is now out. Main changes are that there will be still a lot of additions. The main themes are: musicshows on Friday, compos on Saturday and workshops for Sunday.

You Tube playlist of Demowall demos,  and list of demos at Pouet.

See also interviews of Nosfe at Iltasanomat and Grendel at M2HZ community tv.

Altparty and CSC in collaboration with Cray Inc. are proud to announce the unique Supercomputer Competition! What extra would YOU be able to do with this extra CPU or/and Graphic card?

All the participants will get change to attend a special tour to see the most powerful computer in Finland, a Cray XT4/XT5 system called Louhi at CSC. You will also have the opportunity to try the code and store your datasets on the supercomputer before the party! 

At Technology and Art Exhibition we'll see Multimedia Drawing Installation by Glittermouse and NE7.

Glittermouse is a visual artist who works across a range of different disciplines but is especially interested in the relationships between humans and environment and in questioning the boundaries between new and traditional media.

NE7 has been a musician in the demoscene since the mid 90's and is an active member of triad, scoopex, rebels and napalm.

The Installation will develope trought the event from Friday to be accomblished on Sunday. See examble of Glittermouse’s multimedia drawing installation.

3 more days to attend "Which one is your favourite AltParty ticket name" competiton. You may win ALT 2009 T-shirt or ticket to the event. Competition closes 14.8.2009. Give your best answers and stories to be the winner.

When the Sun sets and the darkness begins, the biggest demoscene show ever will fill the city with audio and light. During the night of Art (Friday 21st of August), demos will be beamed on the house of Kiasma in the middle of Helsinki, with tens of thousands of people watching. The unique show will consist of the most influential and best demos from different periods of time, for different platforms and from demo groups around the world.

Witness it yourself. First time ever. Free of charge. Be there!

ALT Demowall outside Kiasma (Mannerheiminaukio 1, Helsinki). 
Friday 21st of August 2009 at 21.00-01.30.
www.demowall.org

Take part of "Which one is your favourite AltParty ticket name" competiton and win ALT 2009 T-shirt or ticket to the event. Competition closes 14.8.2009. We already have some glorious answers but why not give yours.

You'll find Alt Zone, Cyberpunk seminar, the prize for most alternative demo and lot more in Assembly by ALT.

Which one is your favourite AltParty ticket name: Arasaka corporate, Alt Cunningham, Edgerunner's or Netrunner's ticket? Answer now and win

Is your mega corporation ready for the 21st Century? To combine work and fun, join the World's First Seminar on Cyberpunk in Business combined with a superb dinner, business networking opportunities, corporate VIP services and more!

Buy your tickets now. Early bird prices available before 1st of September so act soon and get the best prices! Choose whole experience, plain and cheaper entrance ticket or why not join us for a luxurious dinner.

The Italian Dope Stars Inc. will play on Friday night 23rd October. They are actually breaking from their European tour just to give a show at our event! More musical guests confirmed soon.

Demoscene Seminar 2009 will be held in Cable Factory so it will be easier to attend the seminar during the party. More info later.

Alternative Party 2009 demo competitions are now published. Take a look and create your own productions. For Alternative Demo Compo we have a prize of 3000 euros, in cash. More prizes coming.

A teaser video called 'Man Meets Machine' was released at Breakpoint'09 to promote Alt Party 2009. The video was shown a couple of times on the main screen. See the video here.

Are you interested in visibility and other business opportunities? Check the Business pages and order the brochure!