Alternative Party 2009

Three days filled with digital art, technology, business and science: developer of ARM Sophie Wilson, the crazy Commodore girl Jeri Ellsworth, cyberpunk rock by Dope Stars Inc, the amazing Super computer demo and other competitions, digital art and technology at the exhibition, mind-blowing visual effects and more. Party around the clock with your like-minded friends. Buy your tickets now.

This year we have a special Family day on Sunday 25th for scene to bring their kids along and to everyone try the old computers, play with the technology and see the event.

Check also See the Man Meets Machine video, the last year’s website with photos and results, the YouTube channel, the Alternative Party Shop and join the event on Facebook and Demoparty.net. And remember to leave your Feedback. We'd love to get it!

Man Meets Machine

While machines have become more and more a part of our lives, the Alternative Party does not believe progress will stop merely with slightly better keyboards. The first real cybernetic developments have now become reality. Electronic eyes that let a blind person see. Robotic limbs that allow a cripple to walk. There are games that you control with your thought. However, these are only the beginning and, whether we like it or not, the time for cybernetic enhancements is quickly approaching. A time when people will not think twice about upgrading their hearing, their strength, their life span or even their thoughts. When humans develop to the point where they not only construct the world around them, but construct themselves.

The Alternative Party 2009 is celebrating this meshing of electronics, genetics and humans, and to open the future of our species and our identity to debate. After all, we want to become a cybernoid.

- Kristoffer Lawson