Buenzli 19

It’s only three days left to Buenzli 19! All the team has entered the heavy preparation phase and we’ll leave to the party place on Thursday. We can imagine you’re planning your trip too, so make sure you check out our travelling guides. In case you still can’t find your way, of you get otherwise in trouble, call us on our hotline number: +41 52 202 4685 (available from Friday morning). Also, in case of questions, contact us here, on Facebook, Twitter, Pouet… we’ll gladly assist you.

 The weather forecast looks excellent for the Buenzli 19 weekend - sun, fun and demos. Keep yourself up to date about the weather at meteo24.ch.

Evoke might be one week after Buenzli this year, but this doesn’t stop us from giving you twice the fun for not quite twice the price: If you plan to go to Buenzli as well as Evoke, you should buy the infamous "Combined Ticket". For only 65 Euros (instead of 70) you’ll be able to enjoy the compos of Evoke and Buenzli back to back.

So, if you are man enough to try this, mention that you would like to buy a combined ticket at the Buenzli infodesk and have your cash ready. One week later, at the Evoke infodesk you show your Buenzli bracelet and the ticket and you’re in. That’s it!

If you were not yet planning to go to Buenzli and Evoke, isn’t this reason enough to think it over?!

For quite a long time, this has been a special feature of Buenzli and we’re back with it. The PCP.CH Jury Prize! The generous team at PCP.CH provides us with a fine ASUS EeePC 900AX (in stylish black) that will be given away to the best production of Buenzli 19 as defined by the independent jury.

How does it work? Every production released in a competition at Buenzli 19 is a candidate for the prize. That alone should be reason enough to release your production at Buenzli. The jury will be formed before the competition night, consisting of 7 - 9 people from all over Europe with differenty ideas and experience in demo-making. The jury speaker unveils the name of the PCP.CH Jury Prize winner live during the prizegiving.(Please note: remote entries are not eligible for the jury prize)

The prize was made possible with the PCP.CH PC Konfigurator.

The timetable for Buenzli #19 is now available! Three days full of action, animation and fun - make sure you don’t miss anything out while our doors are open. Have a look at the event schedule on our timetable & events page.

We are proud to present: Binvi - The Buenzli #19 Invitation Intro. Our friends from clrsrc have had a few sleepless nights while creating this 64k intro for us. Download it right away and enjoy the ambient music accompanied by visuals with style.

• Download Executable: http://www.buenz.li/files/bnz19/clrsrc-binvi.zip
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWysQGTMAiU
• Pouet Link: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55505

There’s no reason not to take part in our competition this year: We have received a vast amount of prizes from our sponsors and if the event is going well, we’ll also have a decent amount of money to give away as prizemoney to our competition winners. We’re also planning to have a jury prize again.

Be sure to check out our generous sponsors and pay their websites a visit. The whole event wouldn’t be possible without their highly appreciated help.

It’s now time to inform you about a major change in our competitions this year. We had a great success when we introduced the "4k procedural graphics competition" some years ago, and are happy to see this competition at all major demoparties now featuring kickass quality releases.

Buenzli is always striving for new ways entertaining both, the crowd and the artists. We are now going to open our competitions for entries made with PROCESSING, a powerful experimental framework for realtime artists - the definitive sketchbook for artists and coders. Our goal is to attract new masterminds to the demoscene. This brings easy access for everyone to the ‘big’ competitions.

So, what will change this year? The wild competition is where we want to see realtime and interactive software in any way. Go and film your installation. Do it live on stage. This is your playground! The demo competition allows non-interactive but realtime entries made with PROCESSING aswell. We are really looking forward to see traditional demos compete with unique entries made with PROCESSING. More information on our competition pages.

So go and fire up your favourite compiler, fire up PROCESSING and go and kick ass!