Demobit is a sentimental Slovak demoscene event with more than 20 years tradition taking place in Bratislava and Nitra. The demoscene represents an international computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos: small, self-contained computer programs that produce audio-visual presentations. The main goal of a demo is to show off programming, artistic, and musical skills.
Now, the first Demobit organizers and participants are 20 years older, full of nostalgic memories, have decided to bring Demobit to life and organized a special resurrected version of Demobit. We are also restoring all our forgotten friendships and contacts asking for their invaluable help.
The life of Demobit began in 1993. The first and second Demobit was organized by a group of enthusiastic students (Zden, Skywalker, Infi) at Bratislava highschool. The third and the biggest Demobit party was held in Bratislava's PKO with more than one thousand attendees sponsored by the first Slovak computer and software companies (e.g. ESET).
January 27TH
arrival & setup of visitors
15-30 minutes
1 hour
1 hour
1 hour
1 hour
1 hour
3 hours
January 28TH
January 29TH
3 hours
30 minutes
Doors close
You can reach Bratislava by plane (there are two airports - one in Vienna, one in Bratislava), by train (to the Bratislava Central Railway station or ŽST Petržalka Railway station), by bus (to the Bratislava Central Bus station "Mlynské nivy") or by car.
In any case of problems, call us!
Arrival Hot-lines: +421-905-400-542 ; +421-904-605-325 ; +421-915-736-651
You can either use Bratislava Public Transport (for journey planning see http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport) or reputable taxi services (install the iOS or Android applications HopinTaxi https://hopintaxi.com/ or Liftago https://www.liftago.com/) which are also quite popular in Bratislava.
Uber is also well supported in Bratislava and recommended to use.
All these mobile applications can allow you to make a price estimation for the given trip.
Bratislava has a very negative reputation of dishonest taxi drivers regularly participating in a robbery of the foreign tourists. Avoid them and prefer the reputable taxi services or Uber.
* From Bratislava airport
Using Bratislava Public Transport - probably the best combination is a bus 61 from the airport "Letisko" to "Račianske mýto" and then the bus 91 to the "Televízia". For detailed information see Journey Planner http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Letisko" to "Televízia". At the airport, there is a public transport ticket machine. The traveling time is about 45 minutes, so you need to buy a 60 minutes public transport ticket for 1.20 EUR.
The more comfortable alternative is to use Uber, HopinTaxi or Liftago.
Be Aware: Never take a random taxi at the airport if you are a foreigner and do not speak the Slovak language.
* From Vienna airport
Three different bus companies can help you to get you from Vienna Airport (Schwechat) to Bratislava:
1. Regiojet https://bustickets.studentagency.eu/
2. Blaguss https://www.flixbus.sk/
3. Slovak Lines https://www.slovaklines.sk/main-page.html
All buses leave the Vienna airport from the same one place in 20-30 minutes intervals. Expect 4-8 EUR/person. These buses take you to "Most SNP" or the central bus station "Autobusová stanica". If it is possible, prefer the bus station "Most SNP" that is closer to the Demobit place.
To get to the Demobit place from "Most SNP" use a combination of the bus 28/30/37 to get to "La Franconi", then take the bus 31/39 to the "Televízia". You need the 30-minutes ticket for 0.70 EUR.
For detailed information see Journey Planner
http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Most SNP" to "Televízia".
To get to the Demobit place from the central bus station "Autobusová stanica" use a combination of the trolley bus 208 to "Kolárovo námestie", then take the bus 31/39 to the "Televízia."
For detailed information see Journey Planner
http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Autobusová stanica" to "Televízia".
You can still take Uber or HopinTaxi/Liftago taxi that should cost about 5 EURO.
* From the Central Railway Station ("Hlavná stanica")
Take the bus 93 from The Central Railway Station to "Zochova" , then the bus 31/39 to "Televízia". You need the 30 minutes ticket for 0.70 EUR.
For detailed information see Journey Planner
http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Hlavná stanica" to "Televízia".
You can still take Uber or HopinTaxi/Liftago taxi that should cost about 5 EURO.
Be Aware: Never take a random taxi from the central station if you are a foreigner and do not speak the Slovak language.
* From the Petržalka Railway station ("ŽST Petržalka") - especially for arrivals from Vienna / Austria
Take the bus 80/93/93 from "ŽST Petržalka", then the bus 31/39 to "Televízia". You need the 30 minutes ticket for 0.70 EUR.
For detailed information see Journey Planner http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "ŽST Petržalka" to "Televízia".
You can still take Uber or HopinTaxi/Liftago taxi that should cost about 5 EURO.
Be Aware: Never take a random taxi from the railway station if you are a foreigner and do not speak the Slovak language.
* From the Central Bus station ("Autobusová stanica")
To get to the Demobit place from the central bus station "Autobusová stanica" use a combination of the trolley bus 208, then take the bus 31/39 to the "Televízia."
For detailed information see Journey Planner
http://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport from "Autobusová stanica" to "Televízia".
You can still take Uber or HopinTaxi/Liftago taxi that should cost about 5 EURO.
From anywhere
Remote Entries & Jury Award Disclaimer:
You have to be present at the party to receive the statue of Asot Haas. It's 1 meter tall object and real peace of valuable contemporary art. Otherwise you have to claim the statue in Bratislava in reasonable time (1 year).
In addition to Demobit competitions, we have invited international demoscene speakers from USA/Europe responsible for producing the worlds best & award winning demos. Presentations will take approximately 30 minutes, exceptionally 1 hour.
Enjoy multiple live performances of our favourite bands and demo-sceners on Friday and Saturday night:During Friday & Saturday night, expect live concerts: Stroon & Stix, Goto80 & Zden, SIDrip Alliance, Lost Cluster
Filipe Cruz is a Portuguese MSc Informatics Engineer and a self-taught digital artist. Joined the demoscene in 1997 programming graphics, organizing diskmags and producing experimental music under his nickname ps. Became a scene.org staff member for a few years. Started Enough Records netlabel in 2001 which he still curates in 2016. Has given talks about the demoscene, remix culture and netaudio scene on several events. More at http://tpolm.org/~ps
Demoscene and Netaudio
A short introduction to the netaudio culture scene, it's roots on the demoscene, it's evolution through the years and it's current state.
One of the pioneers of Czech PC demoscene, founder of demogroup MovSD, diskmag Výheň, and demoparty Fiasko. Currently Associate Professor at CTU in Prague with experience abroad (Trinity College Dublin and Walt Disney Animation Studios) teaching Digital Image Processing and developing algorithms in cooperation with Adobe to help artists eliminate repetitive and time consuming tasks while still allowing them to use traditional techniques. http://dcgi.fel.cvut.cz/~sykorad
Helping Charming Hand-Drawn to Survive in Cruel CG
We search for new more expressive ways of creating digital art that enable to integrate freedom of drawing by hand. In this talk I'll present our recent advances in this direction including algorithms for efficient painting of hand-drawn animations, 3D reconstruction from hand-drawn images, and example-based stylization of 3D renderings.
Michal ‘kiero’ Wozniak is a Polish computer graphics experts with more than 15 years experience in programming demos, Mostly Amiga.
How to code Amiga demos, basics of Amiga programming
The scope of his presentation is basics of Amiga demo programming, how to make "high-end" Amiga demos, related tools, framework and a lot of optimization.
Expert in creative engineering, art and technology, worked in 3 different studios in Oxford (Sick Puppies, Special projects group and Razorworks) for Empire Interactive, a video games publisher and producer. My duties were: special effects programming, GUI design, prototyping technologies for use in games, porting between PC and XBOX360. I worked on 5 published titles and several unpublished prototypes. More information at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kostas-pataridis-6b973430
ASD demo and their meaning
Czech game coder (Arma 2, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Factorio). Started in 1987 on the ZX Spectrum, improving in x86 asm since 1995, joined the demoscene in 2007. Likes minimalism, typography and dancing.
SIDrip Alliance is a hungarian rock band which plays remixes of C64 SID tunes live. His famous Second Reality has 1st place at Function 2015 in wild demo/animation category. For more information see http://www.sidripalliance.com/
Slovak rock band. More information at https://www.facebook.com/lostclusters
Goto80 (Anders Carlsson) is a Swedish old media artist and researcher who works with music and text. His live shows are usally an explosion of genres, seamlessly mixing pop, acid, electro and punk together in his own particular 8-bit style. Catchy, noisy, funky and fearless.. More information at goto80.com
Stroon is one of the most interesting musicians from Slovak alternative music scene. His solo performances combine minimalistic approach both in electronic and acoustic manifestation. Straight mid-tempo beats as well as low tempo experiments are cloaked in synthscapes of his trademark sound. On top of that, sparkling sound of vibraphone radiates. Stroon presents his music with VJ Stix.
Stix's visualization is spanned on large landscape of media - performance art, sound art, game development, interactive installations, live visuals.
http://www.stroonmusic.net/
http://stix-visuals.tumblr.com/
Due to the limited capacity, the number of all tickets is strictly limited (200), please buy them as soon as possible.
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