BLOCKPARTY is assembling a solid lineup of demoscene and artscene-related folks to give presentations throughout the event, covering a wide range of subjects. One admission gets you into both NOTACON and BLOCKPARTY access, and Notacon will be hosting many speakers as well.
Three members of the criticalartware crew will demonstrate and explain the technical, aesthetic, psychedelic and social functionality of the Artware Development Environment Artware Environment, the tool they used to develop award-winning artware such as HyperYarn, CHASSIS, and HULL (which won first place in the 'Artware' category at blockparty 2008). The Artware Development Environment Artware Environment will be made available on CD-ROM and online after the demonstration.
Jason Scott invites you to check out the appearance of Criticalartware (and Jason as well) at the 2008 HOPE Conference in New York City.
Jake Elliott, jonCates and Tamas Kemenczy live in Chicago (birthplace of dirty new media) and work as cyberpsychedelic artware engineers in a variety of industries.
Ever wonder what goes into making a graphic novel? Curious about the specific challenges involved in the creation of a graphic novel about hacking and phreaking?
The graphic novel series, Wizzywig, has garnered a loyal underground following due to its respect and appreciation of the culture. The creator, Ed Piskor, will be on hand to discuss the process, and show off some art from the comics.
Ed also has designed and illustrated the cover of the Notacon Blockparty program!
Ed Piskor is a Pittsburgh based cartoonist, best known for his work on American Splendor with Harvey Pekar and his comic series Wizzywig. He's currently putting pen to paper on the third volume of the series.
Gargaj will be attending both the Breakpoint and Blockparty demoparties, happening within a week of each other, in two different continents
Gargaj is a founding member of renowned demogroup Conspiracy, helping member of Scene.org, organizer of Function, NVScene, various Norwegian parties, and maintainer of pretty much every second demoscene portal in existence.
Blue Tooth Chicken from Jeri Ellsworth on Vimeo.
The Fat Man, George Alistair Sanger, has been creating music and other audio for games since 1983. He is internationally recognized for having contributed to the atmosphere of over 250 games, including such sound-barrier-breaking greats as Loom, Wing Commander I and II, The 7th Guest I and II, NASCAR Racing, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, and ATF. He wrote the first General MIDI soundtrack for a game, the first direct-to-MIDI live recording of musicians, the first redbook soundtrack included with the game as a separate disk, the first music for a game that was considered a "work of art," and the first soundtrack that was considered a selling point for the game.
On a 380-acre ranch on the Guadalupe River, The Fat Man hosts the annual Texas Interactive Music Conference and BBQ (Project Bar-B-Q), the computer/music industry's most prestigious and influential conference.
Jeri Ellsworth is best known as the engineer behind the C64-DTV, a Commodore-64-in-a-Joystick that has sold over half a million units. She has founded a computer store chain, designed race cars, and is hard at work building a classic arcade in Oregon.
He's been helping us along the way, and now it's time to step up and recognize! Inspired Chaos of BLERX has been designing the democoding lounge for the past two Blockparties and will do so for this third year. Working with a rough canvas of generic hotel conference room, IC's lighting and arrangement designs have resulted in wondering hacking spaces, which have been a part of the creation of many of the entries of Blockparty's competitions. He also has designed the wild competition trophies given out at the prize ceremony, which has provided the proceedings with a touch of class it sorely needs.
IC is dreaming up the beautiful room that will be a part of Blockparty 3, and will be in attendance. He also recently became a member of Notacon's staff, and is helping Notacon with their work as well. An all-scenester, and our first artist in residence.
Inspired Chaos (Stephen Whittam) has been a part of the US demoscene for over a decade,
and has been in attendance for the vast majority of demoparties held on the continent,
including NAID, Pilgrimage, and Blockparty.