Demozone


Demozone [1985] stands for 3 days long, open-air demoscene action. Plug in under the shining sun or sit inside our big, warm and covered "scener only" tent. Instead of most sceneparties, which are almost always indoors, you have much more freedom at DemoZone. Expect no uptight security, no 2-page list of rules to obey, but instead a huge, chillout computer fanatic atmosphere and every feature you might need. You can bring your own tent and strike down to camp or just sleep under the tables in the partytent like on any other demoparty, it's up to you.

Facilities

DemoZone will take place on the premises of CampZone, in a big "scener only" tent, one of the largest computer events in the country. One of the things this means is some high-quality features for an open-air event, amongst others:
High quality catering
Good possibilities for making your own food
A small on-site grocery store
An exceptional computer fanatic atmosphere
Clean showers
6 Euro discount on Walbi World Tickets
A large, warm and fluffy DemoZone party tent that hosts:
A cinema-quality big screen and PA
A cozy chillout area
Plenty computer tables for all attendants
Space to crash if you don't feel like bringing your own tent



Demozone ?

PC demos are made to show what the computer can do: They present refined 3D-graphics and vector effects with funky electronic music, where as much as possible is rendered in real-time. The demo scene is a subculture so obscure that their creative hijinks go completely over the head of most people: Assembly code? Real-time? Non-commercial? What? Demo’s cannot be hung on a wall, they cannot be touched. They are abstract and only visible on the screen. It is a visual expression of colors and form and motion as an art form.
At Demozone we and our design competitions together give you an impression of how advanced visual expression, music and animated objects have become today.


Why ?

The demoscene is a collective art form that exists on the boundaries of technology. For this reason you will never be able to find it in the mainstream media, even if the popularity of demoscene parties are attracting more than 4000 contestants. The vision is focused on design and creative expressions and not necessarily on reaching a wide audience. But with the rapid growth of digital graphics in games and cinema, the gap is getting smaller.
Many people are surprised by the quality of the demoscene. In the art scene, it is getting more recognition than the origins of this digital art itself. Long before the public knew what to do with the visual qualities of computers, the demoscene was already pushing it to the edge of its capabilities. In the 80’s it was much more of a technical challenge but these days, it is pure symbiosis between our senses: See, Hear, Feel
Demozone is offering the scene a stage to demonstrate their creativity long before it becomes mainstream. In our competitions we try to empower the audience, to help them realize their own visuals dream. Your limit is your imagination!

More about the demozone-history can be found on http://www.demozone.nl


Film Festival

Each year the entrys of demozone are displayed at Noorderlijk Film Festival.

The demoscene has been a special feature on the Noorderlijk Film Festival since 2003. Friesland is the province of which Leeuwarden is the capital, and distinguishes itself form the other Dutch regions by virtue of its own language and cultural heritage. This unique position within the Dutch state inspired the festival directors to create a special competition, dedicated to Digital Art Design.

All demozone entry's will be displayed on the festival beside the special demoscene seminar. The seminar display's the last development in the demoscene in a normal cinema. Last year the Farbrausch production >"FR-025: The Popular Demo" recieved so many complements it has been showed on the finals of the DAD festival.




The history of DemoZone

Holland a country long known for its relaxness and creativity has since two years a demoparty. Like nothing in life, comes for free, so also this demoparty named DemoZone. It started a little more than two years ago. At that time Patrick (solenoid) and Albert (VJ-AVS) already enjoyed demos for many years on Amiga’s (in the early day’s) and the PC. After years of creative activities their scene and party-life was going low-profile.Now once a month they download the entries from scene.org and experienced them in a special rebuild livingroom. So, it was on one of these Saturday nights with many nice demos on a three square meter screen, that Patrick proposed to contribute a creative part to the already existing CampZone. CampZone is the largest outdoor computer party of Western Europe. It has this unique atmosphere due to camping, loads of computers, fast network, good and clean facilities and enthusiastic people. This was early 2003. The CampZone organisation was very enthusiastic and brought us in contact with Ben Kamphuis of SBA (Stichting Beeldende Amateurkunst). This is an organisation, who helps promoting non-professional computer art in the Netherlands. He had similar plans, but was a few hands short to start it himself. After months of planning and organising DemoZone officially started at the end of July 2003. In a few months we managed to start a demo contest in four categories with many entries, had a fully darkened digital cinema room, a VIP truck with Heineken running from the tab. The CampZone officials were happy and the audience enthusiastic. All the reasons to make it a repeating event

Demozone 2004

The year 2004 had again a DemoZone. This year it was easier. We had the contacts, had made a scenario we could use again, and more help from CampZone. That year they helped us out with a bigger, totally darkened party place. Let us held a VJ-contest at the party night and could use all facilities like WEB servers, high speed network connections etc. We also had more help from our sponsors. So will ITC; The Home theatre shop of Holland provides us, for all the years to come, with the latest type of high definition projector. SBA contacts us with young computer artists, who need a platform to present their interesting projects to the outside world. In one year time our number of entries doubled, as did the audience. So you guess again….. we need a bigger tent/party place for another wild DemoZone.

DemoZone 2005

DemoZone 2005 is first of all a bigger tent, screen and sound system. And this year started well: Two enthusiastic members of the Dutch party scene: Rob (Tycoon) and Egbert (Skrebbel) joined the DemoZone team.

Check our results ( http://www.demozone.nl/index2.php?page=103 ) page for the downloadble files of demozone 2005
available are: 4K,64K,Demo,Wild

Demozone 2005 files on http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=609&when=2005
Demozone 2005 files on http://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=/parties/2005/demozone05/

Click here for all the streaming report from http://www.demoscene.tv/page.php?id=202&lang=uk&vsmaction=viewparty&id_party=487&year=2005
Click here for photo reports at http://www.slengpung.com/?eventid=384

Demozone 2005 made posible though the great support of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Provincie Flevoland .