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The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden

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632 points robin_reala | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 10:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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larodi ◴[31 Mar 25 14:19 UTC] No.43535357[source]▶
Would you agree the demoscene is slowly turning into generative-art-NFT-scene. I mean, lot of new effects get released a gif or genart snippets, and some are actually really good. Also #genaury been a think for several years now.

Not sure how this relates to the heritage status of older productions though.

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arexxbifs ◴[31 Mar 25 14:26 UTC] No.43535457[source]▶
It's not. Demoscene productions are released on the demoscene.
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larodi ◴[31 Mar 25 16:51 UTC] No.43537109[source]▶
hah, I sure do know where and when many of the legendary productions got released. besides - we (demogroup ancient pain) released two in 1996 and 1997. when were yours released to down-vote my actually very informed comment, for real?

the fx scene in 2025 is full throttle with a short-form single-effect pieces being released daily, and some of them are actually quite good. some people also release the code to them unlike what demoscene guys did back in the day, as it all was closed culture, albeit free.

my comment was really - if kids are incentivized to do genart for money, or to just share pieces of short-attention spam material, why do it for the classic fun of it of the demoscene?

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joemi ◴[31 Mar 25 22:05 UTC] No.43540473[source]▶
I think the genart scene and demoscene might be at best related, but I don't think the genart scene _is_ the modern demoscene, as you seem to be implying.

(That said, I'm assuming by "genart" you either mean modern AI-based generative art, or you mean all generative art in general. Either way, while somewhat/tangentially related to the demoscene, they are not direct analogs or descendants.)

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1. larodi ◴[01 Apr 25 07:27 UTC] No.43543840[source]▶
I mean art generated with code. How was the code generated is not implied here. And I don’t mean AI diffusion but code which results in gfx or animation.

Besides - demo scene was not only about performance, never was. Even though the hacker side of it is about it, the aesthetic is not.

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2. joemi ◴[01 Apr 25 16:34 UTC] No.43548778[source]▶
In that case, "art generated with code" is the overall umbrella which contains the demoscene, and the AI art scene, and many other scenes. So it's not what the demoscene is turning into, for the same reason you wouldn't say "trees are what apple trees are turning into".