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Subject: New book about Hacker and Cracker Art
From: Lassi Tasajarvi <lassi@evenlakestudios.fi>
Date: Sun, September 5, 2004 11:00 am
To: info@evenlakestudios.fi
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Dear Media Art Colleagues,

I thought this might interest you. Feel free to forward this to anyone who
would find it useful. Thank you.

Best Regards,

Mr. Lassi Tasajarvi
Finland

:. www.evenlakestudios.fi
:. www.katastro.fi


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MEDIA RELEASE :: 05 September 2004
For Immediate Release

MULTIMEDIA ART CREATED BY HACKER AND CRACKER ARTISTS.

The First Book ever about the 'Demoscene' culture has been released.
Titled as "Demoscene: The Art of Real-Time". The book has 72 pages and is
published by Even Lake Studios & katastro.fi.

The demoscene is one of the most interesting phenomena to come out of
digital media culture. It's a culture created by the first generation of
kids who grew up with home computers and computer games in the 1980s.

Even before Internet use became widespread, thousands of audiovisual works
had been globally published and distributed by the demoscene culture. This
was done using modems and diskettes. At the same time, the cracking scene,
which has always been a close relative of the demoscene, systematically
cracked and distributed just about every computer game and program to come
on the market.

The demoscene spawned a group of people that have worked in or started
companies that played an important and pioneering role in the game, new
media, digital graphics and ICT-sector industries in many countries. The
demoscene was where many digital media artists, electronic music
composers, as well as visual club culture and virtual community activists
got their start.

In the 2000s, the demoscene is still an active and productive global
network and culture. This book is the first of its kind dealing with the
demoscene.

More information about the book can be found at:
http://www.evenlakestudios.com/books

Contact author/publisher:

Mr. Lassi Tasajarvi
email: lassi@_NOSPAM_evenlakestudios.fi
mobile: +358 40 7222 711