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Ville-Matias Heikkilä

    Ville-Matias Heikkilä

    An end of a decade is often regarded as an end of an era. Around the new year 2009-2010, I was thinking a lot about the future of demo art, which I have been involved with since the mid-nineties. The mental processes that led to this... more
    An end of a decade is often regarded as an end of an era. Around the new year 2009-2010, I was thinking a lot about the future of demo art, which I have been involved with since the mid-nineties. The mental processes that led to this essay were also inspired by various events of the 2010s, such as the last Breakpoint party ever, as well as Markku Reunanen's licenciate thesis on the demoscene.[1]
    One of the articles – that is, elfh/inward's text about the development of the Spectrum demoscene in Russia[2] – was also later partially republished on a new and promising “8-bit” website called 8bittoday.com[3]. Some of the... more
    One of the articles – that is, elfh/inward's text about the development of the Spectrum demoscene in Russia[2] – was also later partially republished on a new and promising “8-bit” website called 8bittoday.com[3]. Some of the articles have also been recently quoted in Finnish Ministry of Education study on the current state and future possibilities of new media art in Finland, which, among all, discusses the demoscene as a separate branch of new media art.[9] ... Another related thing that seized my attention in December was Rosa Menkman's summary of Anders “Goto80” ...
    Bytebeat on tietokonemusiikin ja kokeellisen ohjelmoinnin muoto, jossa musiikkikappale toteutetaan muutamien kymmenien merkkien pituisena ohjelmointikielen lausekkeena. Artikkeli tarkastelee bytebeat-ilmiön vaiheita ja pyrkii luomaan sen... more
    Bytebeat on tietokonemusiikin ja kokeellisen ohjelmoinnin muoto, jossa musiikkikappale toteutetaan muutamien kymmenien merkkien pituisena ohjelmointikielen lausekkeena. Artikkeli tarkastelee bytebeat-ilmiön vaiheita ja pyrkii luomaan sen kautta näkökulmaa siihen, kuinka tekninen kokeellisuus toimii demokulttuurissa.
    An end of a decade is often regarded as an end of an era. Around the new year 2009-2010, I was thinking a lot about the future of demo art, which I have been involved with since the mid-nineties. The mental processes that led to this... more
    An end of a decade is often regarded as an end of an era. Around the new year 2009-2010, I was thinking a lot about the future of demo art, which I have been involved with since the mid-nineties. The mental processes that led to this essay were also inspired by various events of the 2010s, such as the last Breakpoint party ever, as well as Markku Reunanen's licenciate thesis on the demoscene.[1]