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Check out a cool party reportage
Alternative Party 2009 reportage by "zuulkuul" at YouTube. Thanks for sharing this! You can still add your pictures to our web 2.0 page.
Compo results at Pouet
Here are the results for all of the compos. Great amount of entries with a lot of variety this year. Congratulations to all the winners!
Thank you for great event
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.
Schedule
The party schedule is still under progress. Lots of program is still missing and modifications are made on a daily basis. Stay tuned! Mobile schedule can be found at http://m.altparty.org/.
Thursday, 22. October | |||
| Main stage | Nebula Club | Other | |
| 19:00 | Hima&Sali: Alternative Party 2009 Warmup Club Why wait until Friday when you can begin partying on Thursday? Music, friends, demoscene attitude and cyberpunk atmosphere. Free of charge. Everybody invited. Be there! |
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Friday, 23. October | |||
| Main stage | Nebula Club | Other | |
| 16:00 | Cyberpunk Business Seminar Buying eyeballs, designing your business and networking |
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| 17:00 | Demos on big screen A welcoming nice demo show |
Exhibition opens Experience the Art and technology exhibition! : DOORS OPEN |
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| 18:00 | Cyberpunk dinner Opening speech by Setok. Demoscene show by cyrus. |
Exhibition area: Shigeru Cinema Gaming: Tutorial sessions & free play Psychosis: Bilekuosi game presentation YLE Stand: Sample Corner Experiment with old analogue sound technology. |
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| 18:30 | Themepark 1984 Aleksanteri Kulvik's documentary of North Korea |
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| 20:10 | Opening ceremony & MK10/FTHR Productions Electronic Cabaree Dronescapes, soft glitchy-Tek, live photoshopping. Served with spices, with a hint of YLE. |
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| 21:05 | Byproduct LIVE Byproduct takes its roots from computer games and demos and combines them with the elements of contemporary electronic music. |
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| 22:00 | Speed dating (with DJ Thomas) Looking for meeting up with new people? Looking for the Mr/Mrs Right? |
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| 23:00 | Dope Stars Inc. LIVE Dark, but not hopeless. Brutalised, but nowhere near ready to give up the fight. |
Deadhead (short film) | |
| 23:30 | DJ Malakai Not afraid of mixing together 8-bit sounds with crazy Japanese industrial, breakbeat and techno |
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| 01:00 | Trio DStruction LIVE Electronic music symphonies using only Nintendo DS and Korg DS-10 as instruments. |
The Microkorgs LIVE Synthesizer band consisting of four professionals of the music industry |
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| 02:00 | Striptease competition | ||
Saturday, 24. October | |||
| Main stage | Nebula Club | Other | |
| 09:00 | Themed Video Competition deadline | ||
| 10:00 | Language course: Spanish A fun and and effective two-hour dip into the Spanish language and culture |
Exhibition opens Experience the Art and technology exhibition! Music Competitions deadline ALL music competitions Main stage / Exhibition area: Sarana The intuitive, meditative and progressive ambient dimension. |
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| 11:00 | Retro graphics competition deadline. Café Soihtu: Alternative Party ry meeting Welcome to discuss the future of Alternative Party! Exhibition area: Ernest Truely - Virtual performance art workshop A virtual perfromance art intervention in the social network site of Facebook. |
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| 12:00 | Wreck-a-movie trailer show | Sophie Wilson's scifi session Discussion session about connections between science fiction and reality |
Costume contest deadline. Exhibition area: Shigeru Cinema Gaming: Knockout Tournament Psychosis: The Lizard and the Snake Meet the Central Bearded Dragon and Great Plains Rat Snake. Cafe Stage: Man vs. Supercomputer Go Game |
| 13:00 | Timo Honkela: Cybernetic Intuition and Creativity (presentation) How are computers developing into intuitive, creative and socially connected systems? |
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| 14:00 | Cyberpunk costume contest | YLE Workshop: Demoscene documentary Welcome to discuss and decide how the demoscene should be documented! |
Cafe Stage: Brain Pool Tease your brain with new ideas! Brain pool begins. Cafe Stage: The Future of Supercomputing Olli-Pekka Lehto, CSC |
| 14:30 | Cafe Stage: Supercomputer presentation Robert Suu, Cray Inc. |
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| 15:00 | Themed video competition The required theme is Alternative future |
Psychosis: Lizards and Snakes as Pets The Central Bearded Dragon eats. Meet the owner and discuss lizards and snakes. Cafe Stage: Human-based data processing (HDP) Connecting brains to form CPUs without electricity YLE Stand: Sample Corner Experiment with old analogue sound technology. |
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| 15:30 | Cafe Stage: Freejam TV When The Process is Open, a media project |
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| 16:00 | Oldskool music competition The music competition for true sceners with technical skills to abuse old hardware! |
Wildest wild competition deadline. Psychosis: Bilekuosi tournament Cafe Stage: Mikromuseo Tervetuloa vaalimaan mikrotietokonekulttuuria |
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| 16:30 | Cafe Stage: Miten vapautua sorrosta kyborgin identiteetin kautta Lyhyt oppimäärä naisille ja miehille |
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| 17:00 | Retro graphics competition Remember the Amiga days, when you only had a resolution of 320x200, with a maximum of 32 colours to use? |
Dynamic demo competition deadline. Supercomputer demo competition deadline. |
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| 17:30 | Cafe Stage: Meaningful money — how the web changes money. Kristoffer Lawson, Scred. |
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| 18:00 | Nuskool music competition High-tech, modern beats and melodies with superb sound quality! |
Alternative demo competition deadline. Cafe Stage: Digital media in a city Towards the Capital of Culture 2011 - Turku. |
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| 18:30 | Cafe Stage: Brainwave Music Demo | ||
| 19:00 | Sophie Wilson's special guest session Sophie Wilson will tell about her early days at Acorn Computers and show ARM demos. |
Realtime graphics competition deadline. | |
| 20:00 | Cafe Stage: Man sexual toy-PusyDeLux Jan Dvoracek |
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| 20:20 | Realtime graphics competition For an extra challenge, computers are not allowed in this contest! |
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| 21:00 | Jeri Ellsworth's special guest session A crazy session of hardware hacks |
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| 22:00 | Wildest wild competition You can enter with (almost) anything your heart desires! |
DJ Pasik Psychedelic sounds of Goa running strong and vibrant, combining both new and old sounds together |
Psychosis: Fingerpainting |
| 23:00 | Supercomputer demo competition Create a cool demo taking advantage of the amazing processing power |
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| 23:30 | Dynamic demo competition Demos that are different every time they are run |
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| 00:00 | Alternative demo competition Demos and intros of all sizes, whatever the platform, compete in the same competition |
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| 01:00 | 64mula LIVE Pure C64 sounds as the basis, trusting in the power of this classic machine - no effects used |
Healium LIVE The 303's essential to acid-techno are still squeaking |
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| 02:00 | Tero LIVE This scene veteran's original C64 beats light up the night with lovely SID sounds |
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| 03:00 | Ride Control DJs You take the ride, but they're in control. Consider yourself warned. |
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| 04:00 | Extra hour! Alternative Party donates everybody an extra hour. |
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Sunday, 25. October | |||
| Main stage | Nebula Club | Other | |
| 10:00 | Language course: Italian A fun and and effective two-hour dip into the Italian language and culture |
Exhibition opens Experience the Art and technology exhibition! Family Day Bring your family! Exhibition area: Computer junk workshop for kids Psychosis: The Lizard and the Snake Meet the Central Bearded Dragon and Great Plains Rat Snake. |
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| 11:00 | Demoscene.tv demoshow Impressive demos on the big screen, selected by Demoscene.tv |
Exhibition area: Ernest Truely - Virtual performance art workshop Continuation of Saturday's workshop session Cafe Stage: Kokeellinen digitaalinen lastenkulttuuri & Pikku kakkonen goes open source YLE Stand: Sample Corner Experiment with old analogue sound technology. |
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| 12:00 | Psychosis: Fingerpainting Cafe Stage: CyberPet |
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| 15:00 | End ceremony & prize giving All good things must come to an end. With prizes. Sorry, delayed. |
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| 16:00 | Cooldown VIP Sauna DOORS CLOSE |
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