Altparty 2008 news

Alternative Party 2008 is over

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:24:00 +0200

Thank you for everyone! The 10th anniversary party is now over. Check out our YouTube videos if you miss it all too much and wait till the picture gallery will get some more pics on next week. See you all in next year and hopefully before.

Competition deadlines have been moved to 16:00

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:49:00 +0300

Competition deadlines have been moved from 13:00 to 16:00 so you still have some more time to make your entries ready!

Costume Contest deadline is 13:30.

Kosmoplovci is coming to the Northern Europe first time ever

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:18:00 +0300

Serbian artist and demoscene group Kosmoplovci is going to perform at Alternative Party 2008. They will perform Saturday 25th October with their project called KDES.

KDES is a live audiovisual performance platform emerging from Kosmoplovci group. Each KDES performance is unique and non repeating experience, a modern symphony of sound and vision.

KDES project have a history of 6 years. It has been performed in Serbia, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovenia. So this is a unique situation to see Kosmoplovchi with their performance methods this part of Europe!

Advance ticket sales ends on Monday

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:33:00 +0300

Advance ticket sales ends on Monday 20.10. for all other ticket types than the Normal ticket and First Class ticket. Also, after Monday 20.10. bank transfers are not accepted, due to the delay. Credit card and other payments are accepted until the end of the event. Buy your tickets now!

Demoscene seminar program published

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:24:00 +0300

The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Alternative Party is organizing a two day demoscene seminar on Thursday 23.10. at 14-20 and Friday 24.10. at 14-19. The program has now been published. Do also join us at the Alternative Party warmup club on Thursday 23.10. at 20-.

Be the next Gutenberg!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:13:00 +0300

1st Revolution: In the 15th Century Gutenberg invented the printing press, which made a revolution in publishing.

2nd Revolution: In the Victorian age the newspaper of today was born - and they still look a lot like then.

3rd Revolution: You are about to make the third revolution at Alternative Party 2008: What will the biggest Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat be when looked through the eyes of a Demoscene artist?

Check the HS.fi Material Challenge and participate!

Steampunk Costume Contest

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:46:00 +0300

Dress yourself for the theme of Steampunk and attend to Alternative Party's Steampunk Costume Contest and become Lord or Lady of Steampunk. If you aren't yet familiar with Steampunk check our Steampunk page Dawn of Alternative Party 2008.

Enjoy the party with a pint or two!

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:27:00 +0300

During Alternative Party, you won't be hungry or thirsty. Café Soihtu provides you with 24h/day service of a wide sortiment of coffee, tea, soft drinks, sandwitches, salads, and much more. But there is more! We have our very own Valuemotive Bar located inside the party place. The bar serves you with drinks for every taste, until early morning every day. » Read more

The Conductor of the First class

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:43:00 +0300

The First Class lounge Host for Alternative Party 2008 has been confirmed. Relaxed athmosphere with some refreshment is guaranteed at the V.I.P. area. If you want to join the sponsors, artists and other V.I.P. persons, there are some First Class Tickets still available at our tickets shop. Join the First Class and enjoy the ultimate steam experience.

Alternative Party 2008 invitation intro released

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:21:00 +0300

Alternative Party 2008 invitation by Byterapers was released at Assembly 2008. This OpenGL ES 2.0 demonstration uses the Ardites' Treed3D engine which now features M3G fileformat support, shaders and LUA scripting. The demo was developed for Texas Instruments OMAP3 platform, but should run on most OpenGL ES 2.0 platforms. Meet the developers and see the demo running on real hardware at Alternative Party! » watch now!

Buy your advance tickets now!

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:58:00 +0300

The ultra cheap advance ticket sales ended on 1.9.! You can still get your tickets for the normal advance price.

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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:53:00 +0300

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Brad Templeton as special guest

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:17:00 +0300

The chairman of EFF Brad Templeton is the Special Guest of Alternative Party 2008 and will be appearing on the stage on Saturday to host a special session on the light and dark sides of computing.

Front 242 - first time to Finland!

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:34:00 +0300

The Belgian masters of EBM - Front 242 - is the main music artist of Alternative Party 2008! They will give a full concert on Friday 24th October. » read more and see the message!

Royal Society - full steam ahead!

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:36:00 +0300

Rumours grow stronger: the Royal Society of people interested in Demoscene, Culture, Art and Technology will meet at Alternative Party. Direct your steamed wheels and analytical engines towards the Cable Factory! [ALT]

Timetraveller visits Icons 2008!

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:23:00 +0300

Setok from the Future appeared at Icons 2008, distributing a red, cold substance. Audience shocked! Multi-steam engine in development?

Demos, computers, art and people

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:52:00 +0300

The Alternative Party 2008 is a demoscene party and festival of digital culture which gathers together creative programmers, visualists, musicians, designers, researchers and passionate enthusiasts. The aim of this year's party is to showcase the very birth of computers: the Victorian era with steam, Charles Babbage and calculating machines. So put on your finest and join in the fun. [ALT]

Setok invents programming

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:30:00 +0300

The telegraph logs have been buzzing after the successful meeting between Mr Charles Babbage and Kristoffer "Setok" Lawson. Kristoffer later decided to purchase two Analytical Engines for Scred Ltd and in the process of setting up these computing machines he designed an abstract language called 'A' which is able to control the logic of the engines for problem solving. More on this later. [ALT]

Steampunk and digital culture

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:24:00 +0300

The demoscene party and festival of digital culture Alternative Party 2008 gathers together creative promoters of digital culture like programmers, visualists, musicians, designers, researchers and passionate enthusiasts. The theme of this year's Alternative Party is steampunk. Steampunk shows what the world could be if there had been computers in the victorian era and the world would have been steam powered. [ALT]